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I like this:

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Since it’s much more convenient to post quick links and pictures with the tumblr bookmarklet, I now have a tumblr blog too.

Yes, my internet presence is scattered away from here, on twitter, facebook, delicious, flickr, yelp and elsewhere, like so many leaves in the wind. Fortunately, my identity lays intact nevertheless!

Next month I will travel to the most cities and countries in the shortest time period in my life. Most of it will be for work, but I’m also looking forward to spending a brief vacation period in Barcelona and Paris. I wanted to be able to picture the time-line of the madness chrono-grapha-mologically, so I whipped up a Google Map of my whirlwind of upcoming trips.

I am already both excited about the journey and missing home at the same time!

I have never seen a post/discussion that captured the pop culture of growing up in the Denver area so well as this one on boingboing.

As a creatively-thrown-together Santa. (Note the bib beard and stocking hat.) I guess even then I liked to throw together costumes from random items around the house.

This is half of my submission to ze frank’s Color Wars.

Last night, we met up with some friends for farewell cocktails and dinner. When we learned that the two restaurants that we wanted to go to had a wait of more than an hour, we decided to walk to a different area, about 15-20 blocks away.

Just as we started to head in that direction, a limo with its front windows down turned into the crosswalk in front of us. I half-jokingly asked the guys in the front, “Are you guys for hire?” assuming they’d just laugh. Instead their response was, “Sure, where are you going?” and so I asked how much it would cost to go to lower Haight. They told us we could pay whatever we wanted since they were just killing time, waiting to pick up someone who wasn’t ready yet.

So the four of us hopped in the back and we ended up going down to the Indian restaurant in style! All of this reminded me yet again that it never hurts to ask and that life will only give you the answers/adventures to the questions you ask of it.

While home for Thanksgiving, I went through a few boxes of stuff from my childhood. One of the best finds was a diary I wrote in when I was 11 years old. Every page dutifully started out with the words “Dear Diary,” and most of it consisted of me rambling on about boys, whether one liked me, how cute one was, how one talked to me after lunch, how I wished another would ask me to “go with him,” etc.

The best non-boy related part was the list I’d made of things I wanted to be when I grew up:

1) An interior designer
2) A fashion designer
3) An artist
4) A photographist
5) An animal trainer

Since my profession is UI Design and I enjoy creating art and taking pictures, I haven’t been too off-base from my childhood goals. Now if only I can find out how to figure in the animal training, I’ll be set!

• the excellent public transportation system
• the diversity in food and people
• the plantlife and ubiquitous tropical flowers
• the art scene and the museums
• the SFShenanigans antics
• bike rides and walks in Golden Gate park and Glen Park canyon
• the quantity of creative and interesting freaks
• the amount of things to do
• the incredible views from so many places in the city
• the Victorian architecture
• the murals in the Mission
• the friends i’ve made and reconnected with
• out of town excursions to the wine country and other beautiful surrounding areas
• shopping for funky costumes on Haight
• the proximity to the ocean & hot springs
• free concerts at Stern Grove