Timbuk2 Hearts Monkeycat and Monkeywobble

Monkeywobble takes fabulous pics. Timbuk2 agrees. They discovered his pics on Flickr and now are featuring them on their website!



That's our cat Monkey on the right :) The photo on the left is of some awesome bunny competitor in the annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel race from a few years ago. Nice job MW.

I'm Maker Famous!

Maker Faire starts today in San Mateo and someone just pointed me to this pic, which features yours truly in the upper left learning to crochet at last year's faire:



Craft is a sister pub to Make magazine and least year I learned about hyperbolic crochet and amigurumi. Who knew crochet could be so scientific and cute at the same time! Check out Craftzine's take on the Maker Faire and my pic in context here.

Tour of California 2008

I spent Sunday and Monday checking out the best cycling in North America. (That's Dave Zabriskie in the stars and stripes up there during the prologue time trial in Palo Alto on Sunday.) We're blessed in the Bay Area for hosting the first half of the Tour of California before it moves south to sunnier places. The prologue is always on Sunday and Stage 1 on President's Day so I get to spend the long weekend being a groupie.

I love the Tour of California not only because it signals the beginning of cycling season, but because it lets you get up close and personal with international stars. The best thing about being a cycling fan is that the riders are generally so nice. They seem to really appreciate the fans and are sometimes a little in awe that anyone actually follows their sport here in the US. This weekend we talked to Chris Horner, Tommy Danielson and Tyler Hamilton (SA asked him point blank if he was going to race and he sadly shook his head). Bobby Julich even thanked us for coming out to the race when we randomly saw him on the corner of University and Alma hours after the prologue was over.

Tommy D. was nice enough to pose for me:

You can check out the rest of my pics from the Tour in my Flickr set here.

Thanks for coming out, guys.

Pillow Fight 2008, the Aftermath

Oh, the carnage!

I had no idea that so many people still had feather pillows! (And were willing to sacrifice them). In case you didn't stick around to see what it looked like after, here's a pic (and no, that's not snow):



And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, check out www.pillowfight.info. There were hundreds, maybe thousands of folks out last night at Justin Herman Plaza on the Embarcadero and the feather evidence was spread for blocks and blocks.

For a slide show of the photos already posted by others, check out the Flickr stream.

And fun was had by all. See you next year.

Raiders: The Adaptation

The SF Indie Film Festival is showing a movie that has been called the "greatest fan film of all time"--Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation--this Saturday and Sunday. As The Indy Experience summarizes:

In 1982, three kids from Mississippi set out to create a shot-for-shot remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark and ended up making history. Twenty-one years later, their fan film creation has become an underground hit receiving attention from media elites such as CNN, Vanity Fair and even a nod from Steven Spielberg himself.

Check out the Wired, Vanity Fair (PDF) articles and the original Harry Knowles post from 2003. More info at TheRaider.net.

Info and tickets to the showing this weekend are here.

Here's the trailer:

Sparta Internet meme gone too far

Seriously folks, you can't get enough on the Web that you have to bring it into Safeway?

Heard outside Moscone Center/Macworld

News reporter asking random Macworld geek, "So, who's the hottest anime girl, in your opinion?" Score one for hard-hitting news.

Blogged from the island that is the MSFT blogger lounge at Macworld. Thanks gavin