Category: Etcetera

“Congress Created Dust Bowl” is a sign by the side of the road along Interstate 5 in the California Central valley. According to KQED, the sign was created in 2008 by former farmer Russ Waymire from the group Families Protecting the Valley. The sign is discussed in “The New Dust Bowl” from Mother Jones in […]

Still here.

It’s the start of a new year, and like everyone else I’m trying to get back into the swing of things. For the past couple of weeks during my time off from work, I’ve been coding up a redesign of Hebcal.com based on the Bootstrap front-end framework. It’s great fun to learn something new and […]

Ariella and Avital gave me a set of Slang Flashcards last night. Here’s the marketing pitch: “Do you want to be able to communicate with America’s youth? Does your proper English make you feel stuffy? Then you’ll be thrilled to see this set of 60 double-sided laminated slang flashcards. Combining the staid style of student […]

It rained yesterday. I wimped out on biking. But I did ride in this morning. Absolutely beautiful weather today.

Tomorrow is Bike to Work Day. I hope it doesn’t rain.

I’m still here.

I voted early, but I didn’t use one of those creepy touchscreen voting machines. I got a paper ballot instead. Yes, I know that California isn’t using the Diebold machines (my county is using AVC Edge). But I still think we need a better electronic voting system. I am biased towards David Chaum’s Votegrity system, […]

There are a bunch of initiatives on the ballot for the upcoming California and Santa Clara County election. Here is my slate: 1A – yes 59 – yes 60 – no 60a – no 61 – yes 62 – no 63 – yes 64 – no 65 – no 66 – yes 67 – yes […]

I rode my bike to work today for the first time in 4 years. It felt pretty good. I really love that Italian steel frame. After staring at the Santa Clara Valley Bikeways Map for several hours, I decided to take Middlefield Road for most of the way, and then hop on the VTA Light […]