(e:matthew) and I spent most of yesterday in the park. We walked from Buena Vista park down Haight street to the golden gate park to the ocean and all the way back.

How did graffitti get in the electric or phone box or whatever this is.


Here is the city view from twin peaks.


This is where (e:twisted) often visits estrip.


This flower in the park smelled so sweet. I want to know what it is.


A pretty twisted branch.


Another pic of flowers at golden gate park. The viewfinder in my camera makes purple look blue so I thought it was not taking pictures of purple/pink things properly but it is. Just that they show up blue in the viewfinder.




(e:matthew) taking pictures

Missing Image ;(

Missing Image ;(

This pine cone was so large and heavy. It is hard to tell in the pic.


This tree trunk over water was almost the death of me. I ran across it and then got scared and sat down as it was high up over water. Then I had to shimmy the rest of the way.


When we got to the beach we ate yummy food.




A cubby hole in the woods. I thought (e:terry) would like it.


Next to Buena Vista Park is this house that resembles ours accept for theirs is smaller but has a grander entrance.

Here are some of the pics from San Francisco in no particular order.

Okay, this one was before the trip. I finally cut off my hair. I feel free. There was a video of the process but unlike the old days of the smaller audience I think it is no longer appropriate.




there was this magazine on the plane with furniture in Nice, France that make syour whole house into a rock garden. I want it so bad.




(e:matthew) really did not like flying. The two hours of severe turbulence didn't help. I was liek the plane was going to rip apart. My neck hurt from the stress of thinking I was gonna die plus the jarring motion of it whipping around. We didn't even have service or sound for like 2 hours.




People bring their dogs and cats on planes in their backpacks nowadays. As an alergy sufferere this makes me mad.


I thought Dave Doyle would like this. I know he likes messed up signs.


This one too.




On Saturday (e:hodown) arrived


Here is the goldengate bridge


These boat houses cost more than double the cost of the mansion.







Alcatraz from telegraph hill.


Yummy Seafood














Lots of no dumping signs with junk in the grates.




At the conference today I was scared that an earthquake would crash down the part I was in.







A delorian maybe?


I love Aroma Tea Shop at 302 6th avenue






(e:hodown) already opened up a restaurant here.


Lombard street is twisty


Do you think the workers really get the $1 surcharge per plate? No where else had one.


From North of the bridge





This is the Palace of Fine Arts. I felt at home being a master of fine arts.


(e:twisted) had lots of yummy snacks for us.




this pic of (e:matthew) is for (e:terry)

Well day one took us through the CSS you'd learn in intro to web design. Hopefully, something more exciting will be on the plate for tommorow. This woman in front of me asked the man next to her what a 'div' is.

It's nice to find out most of the choices (e:enknot) and I have made are also backed by other industry professionals.

The food was tasty. I even got my own personal size chocolate cake. Somehow a pigeon got into the conference. I fed it some cookies.




These dolls are so damn freaky.

"You don't want to develop a javascript framework. That hard work has already been solved by the really smart people."

This has become a ruby in rails promtion event. which is fine with me. The speaker just went off how hard php is to maintain because it's all speghetti code. The way he talked about it, it seemed like the only php code he saw was code that hobby programmers wrote for php3.

Woman1: this is crazy. It used to be an event that promoted microsoft. Didn't he see how many peole raised their hand for .net

woman2: well, I am going to try ruby if it's the future.

woman1: I don' think microsoft will support it. All our servers are microsoft, and it's too expensive to switch.

hahaha