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Continue reading →: COBA August 2003 Meeting
The August 2003 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area was held today at the Orange Room at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. The three presentations covered the Hasselblad H1 Medium Format camera with the Kodak Pro Digital Back 645H and software for processing and organzing one’s digital…
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Continue reading →: The Encylopedia of Poo
Pretty much everything that moves on the planet produces it, but few have the ability to talk about it in such colorful terms as the man behind Track15.com, Dardy Chang. Yes, I’m talking about poo, cacas, merde, shit, or all those words that are used to describe the fecal matter…
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Continue reading →: Ahn in San Francisco
Ahn was in the Bay Area this weekend, and I met her and her friend in the City on Friday evening. They had never driven in San Francisco before, so it took us awhile to finally see each other. We originally planned to meet at Union Square, but I ended…
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Continue reading →: Angel Island
On Sunday, I took the Blue and Gold Fleet ferry to Angel Island State Park. From 1910 to 1943, Angel Island served as the “Guardian of the Western Gate.” It handled the flow of immigrants to America’s western shores, and it also served as an ideal detention facility for Chinese…
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Continue reading →: Eric's Going Away Party
Eric’s leaving in a week to attend graduate school in Colorado. On Saturday, he and his roommates, Paula and Joey, held a going-away party for him. Paula’s leaving too to teach English in France; I’m envious of her, as I’d love to be able to live in France for an…
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Continue reading →: MLB Showdown
Here’s a comic-book recap of my time at the MLB Showdown Regional Tournament, held at Matchplay in the San Antonio Shopping Mall in Mountain View. The regionals have been happening all across America, and next week they are playing in my hometown of San Diego! I had a lot of…
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Continue reading →: San Francisco
This entry is coming a little late, but on Saturday, Rae and I travelled to the City to check out an art exhibition at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with Susan. Prior, we were wandering along Mission Street, eating lunch at the park and taking photographs of churches,…
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Continue reading →: July 2003 COBA Meeting
We had a nice turnout for the July meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area. Uwe Steinmueller of Digital Outback Photo presented techniques for making black and white photographs using color digital SLR cameras. He and his wife have an exhibition going on at the Gallery House in…
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Continue reading →: Baseball in Oakland
Last night, I went to see the Oakland Athletics take on the Seattle Mariners at the Oakland Coliseum with Edna, Erik, and Rae. It was the first time that I went to a sporting event at the famed Coliseum. Rae and I drove to Union City and took the Bart…
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Continue reading →: Farallon
Cynthia’s parents are in town, and on Monday night, they took Edna, Erik, Cynthia, Christopher, and I out to dinner at Farallon Restaurant in San Francisco (450 Post Street). Mark Franz is the owner and Executive Chef at Farallon, which specializes in coastal cuisine. Farallon opened its doors in June,…






