SF Skyline shown with permission by photographer Lane Hartwell 

Archive for May, 2007


Moxie Gradjimitated

Moxie graduated from Puppy Kindergarten tonight! We got her diploma and everything. I highly recommend Perfect Paws if you live in the Bay Area, for puppy or any type of behavioral training.

It’ll be sad to see her move out, but it’s important for her to get a job and find her own way.

Kim Cogan Ownz My Eyes

Caught the Kim Cogan show at SF’s White Walls Gallery. He’s that rare cross over that appeals to grimey low-brow street artists as much as he would to Pac Heights blue bloods. The show runs until June 2nd.
What society maven or gutter punk wouldn’t want his oil paintings on their walls? That San Francisco Sunset [...]

Vote Dogster!

Dogster is nominated for a Next Web award. The social category is pretty crowded, but I’ll be honest, I’d love to beat the MySpaces of the world.
Can you spare your vote brothers and sisters for Dogster?

Bachelor Party Confidential

Old old friend David Boyer just published his second book, Bachelor Party Confidential.
Check out the site. The photos, videos and excepts are pretty raucous. Or read the Gawker write-up from the release party in New York.
Here’s an excerpt from a ‘dancer’:
Basically, you’re chasing the money; you negotiate the fee, and part of it is gauging, [...]

Microsoft Releases a Far Better Web Product?

It’s been a long time since I heard someone speculate what may come after html/javascript or flash in terms of content display of distributed internet-based communication.
I never expected the first speculation I heard would be for a Microsoft product. Silverlight apparently is to be taken quite seriously. Apparently it makes Adobe’s much ballyhooed Apollo tools [...]

Methuselah Tree

Greg is going to summit the 14,252′ White Mountain this summer and said he was going to go looking for the Methuselah Tree.
I had never heard of the Methuselah Tree and was amazed to learn the oldest living organism on the planet is right here in California.
The Methuselah Tree is a bristlecone pine that [...]