Fitting Room
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/05/10/fitting-room/
I pressed Uncle John into service as a groomsman. Here we are at the fitting room of the Nordstroms at Ala Moana, after he arrived from camping in the California desert.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/05/10/fitting-room/
I pressed Uncle John into service as a groomsman. Here we are at the fitting room of the Nordstroms at Ala Moana, after he arrived from camping in the California desert.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/05/09/enter-here/
Door to the Marriage License Office, in Honoulu, HI
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/05/01/osama-bin-laden-is-dead/
Osama bin Laden is Dead
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/27/h4xx0r3d/
Within ten minutes, Maggie has defeated the automatic feeder.
Maggie likes to try and wake me up early for breakfast. Spraying her with the water bottle hasn’t dissuaded her, so now I put her out on the porch. I have read that an automatic feeder could distract her attention: instead of bugging me she’ll watch vigilantly over the feeder. And since we’ll be out of town for two weeks in May it would be a worthwhile investment.
Alas, this PetSafe Electronic Pet Feeder didn’t last ten minutes before she was able to break in and get the kibble. I’m proud of her. But I’m looking forward to finding a feeder that will keep her entertained without bothering me in the morning.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/21/fantastico/
Fantastico
Ask Yourself Three Questions
1. Do I want to make a difference in the lives of others?
2. Do I want a job with flexible hours so I can take care of my family?
3. Do I want to be my own boss?
If you answer “yes”–fantastic! Call now! (650) 630-2519
Mine eyes detected Spanish spam! The word jefe caught my eye . . .
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/20/evening-caltrain-sf/
Passenger's wait to board the 9:40pm train at Caltrain's San Francisco 4th and King terminus.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/19/avalon-creekside-tree/
When a Tree falls in the Apartment Complex, does it damage your porch? (Ours was spared.)
The scene last August at the Avalon at Creekside Apartment Complex. Nobody was hurt, as far as I know.
When we returned from Thanksgiving Holiday in November, we learned that Avalonbay Communities was evicting us over a billing error on their part. I have been thinking to make a YouTube video to explain that ridiculous affair.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/18/holdem/
Playing Hold'em at a friend's house.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/16/view-from-twin-peaks/
A view from Twin Peaks
We found ourselves in the city with time on our hands, but no money. Mei had not been to Twin Peaks. I fixed that.
I was mucking with Gimp. The fog looks like smog.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/11/image-10000/
The 10,000th image captured on my Canon SD630.
I applied techniques covered in the Gimp Selective Colorization Tutorial. The green in the foreground is as captured by the camera, but the rest was run through Colors > Auto > Equalize and then I tweaked the curves a bit to get more dramatic colors on the sky.
The original thing that caught my eye, of course, being the workmen updating the sign.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/05/extra-crazy/
Tea Party? No, these guys make those guys look reasonable . . .
I was on my way home and saw these guys outside the Mountain View Post Office. I looked at the Obama-with-a-Hitler-moustache and figured the Tea Party had set up shop. I snapped a picture, and then this guy asked if I was worried about the solar flares.
Solar flares? Tea Party people don’t worry about solar flares . . . I smiled and approached: these guys were doing performance art! I told them solar flares are good for cooking.
“Obama isn’t doing anything to stop the solar flares,” he began to explain.
I saw the name LaRouche and realized these guys weren’t parodying the Tea Party: they were actually way further down the rabbit hole of crazy. “Well, he likes solar power,” I punted.
As the guy began to explain that we should be performing nuclear fusion ourselves I edged away. I am an impressionable young man with a sufficiently unconventional belief system: I don’t want to catch their crazy!
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/04/02/india-cricket-world-cup/
Fans in Mountain View Celebrate India's World Cup Victory
As I was walking home from the cafe I encountered a growing crowd of shouting, chanting, singing folks waving Indian flags. I googled “Indian Holidays” on my smart phone, then thought to google “India cricket” and it turns out India has just beaten Sri Lanka to win the World Cup.
In my Sophomore year of college I was paired with a roommate from India. Tarun was a very serious EE major who left the room for only three things: 1) classes, 2) meals and 3) the India-Pakistan cricket match. He was a nice guy but since he was always studying in the room he wasn’t an ideal roommate.
Indian ex-pats I meet tend to be really serious, smart, hard-working people, so it is nice to see a crowd of folks reveling in a collective emotional experience. This is a great moment for anyone who has moved so far from home to make their life.
See Also: Indian Spinning Wheel.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/03/22/report-from-tokyo-japan/
As reported by a colleague in Japan:
An experience at the supermarket
Yesterday, at the cash register of my local supermarket, I was asked by the cashier if I would purchase only one of the two packs of noodles I had intended to purchase. The unspoken implication was, in that way, someone else could have noodles too. Now, from the point-of-view of the supermarket’s profit, it makes no difference whether those two packs were sold to me as an individual, or sold separately. Yen is yen. But as an example of a society sharing its burden (even in this small way), it spoke volumes. I had my hand gently slapped, and was humbled.
I recall a story I heard on the radio, from I think it was Denmark, where a lady needed a medical procedure and was informed that there would be a two-month wait for the service. She explained this to her son, a Doctor, who offered to pull some strings to get her in sooner, and she shamed him because the right thing to do is follow the rules like everyone else: fairness before favoritism.
This sort of thinking in anathema in much of the world, but it is a way of thinking that I really like. I guess its because as a child I was indoctrinated with Socialist ideology at the water fountain, where we were taught to queue and each take an equal share.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/03/17/st-patricks-day-spread/
Coworkers have dropped off various snacks at the cafe area I set up in front of my desk, including delicious home made baby cupcakes.
Link: https://dannyman.toldme.com/2011/03/05/brooklyn-rooftops/
Taken from the roof of a friend's fancy condo at a party in June, 2010.
At the party we explained that we would soon be moving back to California, but could end up back on the East Coast in a few years. The host said he’d put us down as “Bi-Coastal Curious.”
« Newer Stuff . . . Older Stuff »
Site Archive
Danny Howard is 100% responsible for the content on this site, except some of it is stolen. (Sorry about that.)
Intellectual property on this web site is reserved for re-use under the terms of the Creative Commons license. Derivative works may be created for non-commercial purposes, with proper attribution.
You can contact me via e-mail: dannyman@toldme.com
Most of //dannyman.toldme.com/ is powered by WordPress.
If you're hip to RSS and whatnot, you can subscribe to this site.
Mastodon