Archive for May, 2006
Living on the edge…
31 May 2006…of the bubble. When you’re trying to have children, every major life decision is impacted by the future existence of those hypothetical children. Planning a big vacation a year out? It’s not realistic if you might be hugely pregnant by then. Thinking about buying a new car or adding on to [...]
Chocolate and Chalk Art
30 May 2006Who knew they could go together so well… We went out to Berkeley on Saturday with a friend and her two boys to see the 10th annual Chocolate and Chalk Art Festival. Artists of all ages and all skill levels were invited to chalk out their visions on the streets of Solano Avenue, [...]
Scenic System Software
25 May 2006Today I got my hands on Windows Vista Beta 2, which is the predecessor to Windows XP, and it’s pretty freakin’ sweet.
I couldn’t possibly do it justice by trying to describe it here. Check out the Vista site and prepare to be overwhelmed. I will say that they’ve taken some of the really [...]
RIF: Reading is Fundamental
24 May 2006I have loved reading ever since I was a little girl. I would get lost in the words and worlds of my stories until all hours of the night and morning. I would go through entire weeks and months falling asleep with the light on and not because I was afraid of the dark. Some [...]
Le parc de chien
18 May 2006I don’t speak French, but I thought the translation for Dog Park had a nice ring to it. Much nicer then the German translation (Der Hundepark). I deal with a half dozen different languages in my job, and German always sounds so guttural. Since I probably have some German in my background and have a [...]
One cryptex to rule them all!
16 May 2006Oh wait…wrong movie. And there are 10,000 of them out there. Over a hundred of which (as of this morning) were already for sale on eBay. Hardly any surprise there…
For those of you unfamiliar with the cryptex quest it was “The Da Vinci Code Quest” on Google. It played out over [...]
Vegas baby!
10 May 2006We’re off to Vegas in the morning! It’s a combination trip - 3-year anniversary, father-in-laws birthday, and Mother’s Day. The in-laws live about 20 minutes outside of downtown, but we’re only staying one night with them. The other two nights we’ll stay at “THE hotel at Mandalay Bay”. It’s supposed to [...]