[ [ 1530263625, [ "Taken: Friday June 29, 2018 09:13:45", "IMG_20180629_091345.jpg", "I'm back from Europe and getting used to California again. This is some development along route one. It looks like the original idea was chopped in half.", "This page is 'Everyday Tourism', and idea that's gradually been forming, to live normal life with the curiousity and willingness to try new things that one has on vacation." ] ], [ 1530263745, [ "Taken: Friday June 29, 2018 09:15:45", "IMG_20180629_091545.jpg", "Yellow grass of California." ] ], [ 1530385859, [ "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 19:10:59", "IMG_20180630_191059.jpg", "SF neighborhood with an intense ping flowering plant." ] ], [ 1530388655, [ "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 19:57:35", "IMG_20180630_195735.jpg", "I feel like a caveman looking into the future - there's clearly meaning to the organization of the site, and processes taking place for some purpose, but I have no idea what it is." ] ], [ 1530389069, [ "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 20:04:29", "IMG_20180630_200429.jpg", "As the sun went down, three connected apartments in the building across the way lit up and flashed purple like a dance club." ] ], [ 1530389204, [ "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 20:06:44", "IMG_20180630_200642.jpg", "The new Salesforce tower. The dancer comes out at night - a six story dancing silhouette https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdAafk_WJyA . Homeless are camped at the foot of all of these buildings. It's like Blade Runner, but the culture of free enterprise and capitalism from the movie is missing - the city controls the right to sell food, and no free zones where people cram themselves in." ] ], [ 1530389285, [ "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 20:08:05", "IMG_20180630_200805.jpg", "Looking east across the bay bridge", "kill" ] ], [ 1530391814, [ "A couple with a protest sign seen at Stanford. This style of message is not effective at changing my mind on anything. I guess 'rallying the troops' was historically a useful strategy, for winner take all battles. But exterminating the other side seems impossible at this point, so it would be better to try to persuade.", "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 13:50:14", "IMG_20180630_135014.jpg" ] ], [ 1530394087, [ "Drones really are pretty scary. I don't think we've seen anything yet, either.", "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 14:28:07", "IMG_20180630_142807.jpg" ] ], [ 1530413448, [ "The construction site looks like an amazon fulfilment center - I've never seen a one with its own warehouse out in the open like this before.", "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 19:50:48", "IMG_20180630_195048.jpg" ] ], [ 1530414396, [ "Very blade runner. Down below the homeless love on the ground levels.", "Taken: Saturday June 30, 2018 20:06:36", "IMG_20180630_200636.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1530456355, [ "Taken: Sunday July 01, 2018 14:45:55", "IMG_20180701_144554_1.jpg", "Barrel Hitch Bay https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/Barrel_Hitch_Bay was a makerspace I was part of. It was a new kind of space to hang out in - not someone's house, not a restaurant - just space, for doing stuff in. It was wonderful. It felt like those scenes in heist movies where the team assembles in a warehouse and starts buying tools to prepare - it's subversive to have that much freedom. I'm a big fan of this kind of space now and want to visit it in any city I live in. Nearby there are all kinds of small businesses and people making their own places to live, advertising on craigslist, not needing permission from anyone." ] ], [ 1530470446, [ "San Mateo and her sister city, Toyonara, Japan.", "Taken: Sunday July 01, 2018 11:40:46", "IMG_20180701_114046.jpg" ] ], [ 1530562619, [ "Taken: Monday July 02, 2018 20:16:59", "IMG_20180702_201659.jpg", "Thistle growing by the train tracks" ] ], [ 1530588413, [ "A cargo container with a manhole-style opening, surrounded by intense ground cover.", "Taken: Monday July 02, 2018 20:26:53", "IMG_20180702_202653.jpg" ] ], [ 1530648781, [ "Taken: Tuesday July 03, 2018 20:13:01", "IMG_20180703_201301.jpg", "One of the tallest buildings in downtown San Mateo is for 'Draper University', which was started by a locally active businessman, Tim Draper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Draper . \n\nHe's sponsored things like a ballot initiative to split California into three small states. He also bought 30k bitcoins which were siezed by the DOJ in 2014, for about 600 usd each (total 19m). Those bitcoins went up to over 500m in value within a few years. He also invested in Theranos, which didn't go so well. \n\nThis picture was taken at the entrance to the university, which has a strong Scientology feel, with a blown out 3d hologram of Draper speaking with almost a halo over his head, next to an electronic billboard which cycles through famous visionaries and their quotes." ] ], [ 1530648960, [ "Taken: Tuesday July 03, 2018 20:16:00", "IMG_20180703_201600.jpg", "The Bank Of America in San Mateo inhabits an amazingly decorated building. It may be torn down soon to build apartments." ] ], [ 1530673898, [ "San Mateo downtown", "Taken: Tuesday July 03, 2018 20:11:38", "IMG_20180703_201138.jpg" ] ], [ 1530675010, [ "Taken: Tuesday July 03, 2018 20:30:10", "IMG_20180703_203010.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1530748415, [ "Blackberries in Golden Gate Park", "Taken: Wednesday July 04, 2018 16:53:35", "IMG_20180704_165335.jpg" ] ], [ 1530757518, [ "Taken: Wednesday July 04, 2018 19:25:18", "IMG_20180704_192518.jpg", "There's lots of crying wolf of uncertain validity around here. A similar warning is about carcinogens, which nearly every building has. Has anyone studied how much cover these ignored warnings provide for substances which are more certainly bad?" ] ], [ 1530761960, [ "SF doesn't look so bad sometimes!", "Taken: Wednesday July 04, 2018 20:39:20", "IMG_20180704_203920.jpg" ] ], [ 1530846654, [ "Over at the maker space, 'Manly' plates, and a humvee. Every time I leave the warehouse I feel like flicking a cigarette out of my car window into a trail of gasoline, and speeding away as an explosion destroys all evidence. The sense of not being watched is scarily rare.", "Taken: Thursday July 05, 2018 20:10:54", "IMG_20180705_201054_1.jpg" ] ], [ 1530849167, [ "Sunset in the light industrial zone", "Taken: Thursday July 05, 2018 20:52:47", "IMG_20180705_205247.jpg" ] ], [ 1531003852, [ "\"If you see a white USA in the street near an intersection, with an arrow aiming at the sidewalk, and an X on the sidewalk... check to see if there are other USA markings and X markings for the other corners.\n\nIf there are, that intersection will very probably soon have stop signs.\n\nWhite is the only color identifier that is recognized for proposed excavation - a white USA means \"Underground Service Alert\".\n\nPrior to excavating, you must raise a ticket with the local coordinating authority, and wait until you're cleared to dig.\n\nVarious utilities will mark the spot with different colored spray paint, documenting their review of the spot with respect to their particular lines/pipes/etc.\"\n\nSo, they've adopted marking the spot physically as the most secure way of certifying that all inspections have been done.", "Taken: Saturday July 07, 2018 15:50:52", "IMG_20180707_155052.jpg" ] ], [ 1531106335, [ "Taken: Sunday July 08, 2018 20:18:55", "IMG_20180708_201855.jpg" ] ], [ 1531108015, [ "Taken: Sunday July 08, 2018 20:46:55", "IMG_20180708_204655.jpg" ] ], [ 1531362991, [ "Sailing is fun. It's like that story of a man who was promised as much land as he could square off by walking in a day. I spent most of my life getting as far out as I could, building the first side. Now every step takes into account the area, not the distance.", "Taken: Wednesday July 11, 2018 19:36:31", "IMG_20180711_193631.jpg" ] ], [ 1531427335, [ "Taken: Thursday July 12, 2018 20:28:55", "IMG_20180712_202855.jpg", "Construction pit near Fieldwork" ] ], [ 1531452551, [ "Taken: Thursday July 12, 2018 20:29:11", "IMG_20180712_202911.jpg", "Crackle glazed earth" ] ], [ 1531530434, [ "A conference for work.", "Taken: Friday July 13, 2018 18:07:14", "IMG_20180713_180714.jpg" ] ], [ 1531595754, [ "This symbol and its shadow", "Taken: Saturday July 14, 2018 12:15:54", "IMG_20180714_121554.jpg" ] ], [ 1531599245, [ "Taken: Saturday July 14, 2018 13:14:05", "IMG_20180714_131405.jpg", "Tesla parking and charging lot" ] ], [ 1531599941, [ "No compromise was made to the value of not having flourescent scribblings everywhere. I look forward to when we get slightly better autonomous robots that can go out and clean all this up. It'd also be great if they could pick up all the subtle litter.", "Taken: Saturday July 14, 2018 13:25:41", "IMG_20180714_132541.jpg" ] ], [ 1531878920, [ "Taken: Tuesday July 17, 2018 18:55:20", "IMG_20180717_185520.jpg", "Something seems a bit off about this insurance ad." ] ], [ 1531970015, [ "We were on a 24 footer today. It's quite different than a 44 foot yacht. You get splashed a lot, there's no time to do anything but monitor the sail, and you have to watch out for the boom. You trade effort and time for the chance to join a team and get out for a day. It doesn't take much for the sense of a team to form. \n\nThis shot is of a guy whose mast broke in the middle of the race. Things could have gone much worse. We didn't notice until the other boats started circling, abandoning the race; after that everyone buzzed by to make sure they were all okay, and then just headed back in.", "Broken mast!", "Taken: Wednesday July 18, 2018 20:13:35", "IMG_20180718_201335.jpg" ] ], [ 1532113154, [ "Taken: Friday July 20, 2018 18:59:14", "IMG_20180720_185914.jpg", "The world rugby 7s championship was held in SF. I like the cyborg-man on the segway with head-mounted cam. There was a 2' remote-control van that would zoom around the field to help out the refs; sort of like the robots from star wars." ] ], [ 1532113188, [ "Taken: Friday July 20, 2018 18:59:48", "IMG_20180720_185948.jpg", "The bouncing ball and interaction of the crowd was at least as interesting as the game. I'd like to see a whole stadium play a game, equally mixed between those who want the ball to go into the field, and those who want it to stay in the stands." ] ], [ 1532127664, [ "Lots of people take Limebike the half mile to and from the station. This could become a permanent way life changes around here! All those walking rambles that take up so much of youthful thought, and appear so often in novels, could be transformed into cool smooth rides.", "Taken: Friday July 20, 2018 16:01:04", "IMG_20180720_160104.jpg" ] ], [ 1532136724, [ "Nearly every fan here is physically affected by their participation. Insanely massive thighs, limping, beaten down faces, shoulders, and ears, beer bellies. But it feels good. Lots of denisovoan genes in attendance, too. This whole large family wore silly hats.", "Taken: Friday July 20, 2018 18:32:04", "IMG_20180720_183204.jpg" ] ], [ 1532151393, [ "Cell-phone style elevator buttons. I can't believe the way old skyscrapers have forty buttons on the panel and nobody noticed how bad a UI that was.", "Taken: Friday July 20, 2018 22:36:33", "IMG_20180720_223633.jpg" ] ], [ 1532210793, [ "Square miles of basically unused flat land just a few minutes away from google and facebook headquarters. The deer are basically tame. \n\nI always think that there could be mutually beneficial deals where environmentalists agree to accept development of this land into high-density housing, in return for permanent preservation of 3x as much land, 100 miles away. The deer don't care where they live, and that trade helps both sides, but you never even see a mention of it. Everyone is locked into either 'develop nothing' or 'develop everything' mode.", "Taken: Saturday July 21, 2018 15:06:33", "IMG_20180721_150633.jpg" ] ], [ 1532219334, [ "Ceremonial Grove and Urn in Filoli gardens. These gardens and mansions are great and all but seem lifeless without real residents raisong kids, courting, training dogs, holding midnight ceremonies, dedicating statues and plaques. Everything now feels so transient. Nobody even thinks it's reasonable to try to start a group which would last five hundred years; \n\nLong term projects like creating a new dog breed aren't even tried. Is it that it would be too cruel to do today? So we just live off the suffering of the past.", "Also, the road leading here is called Ca\u00f1ada. \u00d1 is a pretty good letter and I'm glad to have it in English. But we need to use it in more places. Maybe rename the band E\u00f1a? The Grand Ca\u00f1on?", "Taken: Saturday July 21, 2018 17:28:54", "IMG_20180721_172854.jpg" ] ], [ 1532276340, [ "Taken: Sunday July 22, 2018 16:19:00", "IMG_20180722_161900_1.jpg", "This grass is my early memory of California" ] ], [ 1532295166, [ "Playing go with the nephews", "Taken: Sunday July 22, 2018 14:32:46", "IMG_20180722_143246.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1532547007, [ "Taken: Wednesday July 25, 2018 19:30:07", "IMG_20180725_193007.jpg", "Sailing" ] ], [ 1532547013, [ "Taken: Wednesday July 25, 2018 19:30:13", "IMG_20180725_193013.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1532790073, [ "Taken: Saturday July 28, 2018 15:01:13", "IMG_20180728_150113.jpg", "I've been playing the game Bee Swarm Simulator ( https://www.roblox.com/games/1537690962/Bee-Swarm-Simulator ) a lot lately, and so see bees everywhere." ] ], [ 1532808971, [ "Lord of the Rings bouncy castle at a town festival, listening to a teenage rock band. This kind of community event feels pretty dead, celebrating just food. There was no ceremonial or religious aspect.", "Taken: Saturday July 28, 2018 13:16:11", "IMG_20180728_131611.jpg" ] ], [ 1532879430, [ "Taken: Sunday July 29, 2018 15:50:30", "IMG_20180729_155030.jpg", "More bee symbolism." ] ], [ 1532908820, [ "Wrong Way", "Taken: Sunday July 29, 2018 17:00:20", "IMG_20180729_170020.jpg" ] ], [ 1532921142, [ "I'm taking over a bit of space in the empty alley next to my window.", "Taken: Sunday July 29, 2018 20:25:42", "IMG_20180729_202542.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1533174758, [ "New bee is a variant romanization of a Chinese swear word. The plate in the window looks like it's from Macau.", "Taken: Wednesday August 01, 2018 18:52:38", "IMG_20180801_185238.jpg" ] ], [ 1533434319, [ "Limebike guy - I said hi, & love your work. I wonder how often he gets that. I would never invest in limebike as a VC, but they are doing great things. It would be ironic if instead of all auto-drive electric cars, in 10 years most of SF was electric-scooter/bike only. Amazingly low pollution, no traffic / parking problems, feel of wind in your hair, extreme mobility.", "Taken: Saturday August 04, 2018 18:58:39", "IMG_20180804_185839.jpg" ] ], [ 1533496747, [ "\"Climate Best by Government Test!\"", "Taken: Sunday August 05, 2018 12:19:07", "IMG_20180805_121907.jpg" ] ], [ 1533496995, [ "Gotta love the symbolism and graceful breaking of symmetry with the head turned to the left.", "Taken: Sunday August 05, 2018 12:23:15", "IMG_20180805_122315.jpg" ] ], [ 1533756842, [ "Taken: Wednesday August 08, 2018 19:34:02", "IMG_20180808_193402.jpg", "I've been running over on Seal Point. Strava is a pretty great app - emergent, real-world races, plus progression metrics and tracking of heart rate, energy, VO2max etc. Plus social connection. Nearly the ideal way to form tribes - also high cost to participate so you have skin in the game, which keeps it real." ] ], [ 1533783387, [ "Taken: Wednesday August 08, 2018 19:56:27", "IMG_20180808_195627.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1533954589, [ "Expect Delays", "Taken: Friday August 10, 2018 19:29:49", "IMG_20180810_192949.jpg" ] ], [ 1533957068, [ "Amazing performance by a Roblox intern - you just need a rug and some paint, and a ceremony is born.", "Taken: Friday August 10, 2018 20:11:08", "IMG_20180810_201108.jpg" ] ], [ 1534211245, [ "Near work, in the convention center, a line of forty or more BMWs in alternating colors has appeared. ", "Taken: Monday August 13, 2018 18:47:25", "IMG_20180813_184725.jpg" ] ], [ 1534211586, [ "Not even wearing a seatbelt!", "Taken: Monday August 13, 2018 18:53:06", "IMG_20180813_185306.jpg" ] ], [ 1534213899, [ "The trail goes south further than I can run. There is a plan to completely connect it all the way around the bay.", "Taken: Monday August 13, 2018 19:31:39", "IMG_20180813_193139.jpg" ] ], [ 1534215023, [ "What makes these weeds so beautiful? Their shape represents the one which survived so many local variations - kind of a beauty in the flexibility it needs to have survived this long.", "Taken: Monday August 13, 2018 19:50:23", "IMG_20180813_195023.jpg" ] ], [ 1534475012, [ "Looking north from seal point towards the coyote point marina. Planes coming to SFO fly right over here.\n\nA lot of the guys involved in sailing are also pilots. What unites them in this interest? Is it that they just like complex transportation mechanisms? Or is it a fascination with being in large, empty, blue spaces? Or they may just like the wind!", "Taken: Thursday August 16, 2018 20:03:32", "IMG_20180816_200332.jpg" ] ], [ 1534706207, [ "Nearby the marina in redwood city there is this old water tank, with lots of legal live-aboard boats behind it. There don't seem to be many, and it's not that crowded, but it makes me wonder who regulates this. Why don't they make it legal to do as much as anybody wants? i.e. if you can pay for the slip/dock/spot from the land owners, you are legal to live there (assuming it's a safe building, etc.). i.e. why do we do more regulation of this than just \"is it safe\"? But it's just a small thing handled by the city council and general legal freedoms aren't enough to keep it available. Having your own boat and cruising to live in whatever jurisdiction offers the best services would be a nice way to vote with your feet. Auto-drive boats have been a thing for a while, too, at least on the open seas!", "I wonder about lakes that freeze in the winter - are you just allowed to have a boat you live on, and have what is effectively a permanent address most of the year? Will the post office deliver mail to a boat frozen into a lake, just off shore?", "Taken: Sunday August 19, 2018 12:16:47", "IMG_20180819_121647.jpg" ] ], [ 1534906948, [ "Taken: Tuesday August 21, 2018 20:02:28", "IMG_20180821_200228.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1534990630, [ "The Bay Trail is pretty nice. I have a friend who kept mentioning running every time we met, and eventually got me to install Strava. I could see his runs every day. \n\nEventually that got me to try to go for a run - not really sure why. And now I've been going for a few weeks. It's leveraging some well-known motivating factors for addiction - \"recovery\" and \"progress\". Technology can't do anything for recovery, but it can certainly make progress have a lot more distinct gradations that trigger your sense of accomplishment. Plus there's the social element. And even something as simple as having an overhead map of where you've been is attractive. It also detects \"segments\" you've run and ranks you against yourself, your past times, and other people that day, week, month, year, by age, gender, etc. Just like a Roblox game! I don't know how long I'll do it but progress is still happening.", "Taken: Wednesday August 22, 2018 19:17:10", "IMG_20180822_191710.jpg" ] ], [ 1535284369, [ "Taken: Sunday August 26, 2018 11:52:49", "IMG_20180826_115249.jpg", "Some kind of huge plant down an industrial road, by the Redwood City Yacht Club" ] ], [ 1535309606, [ "Train stopsigns are not octogoal! It looks like a clipped coin.", "Taken: Sunday August 26, 2018 11:53:26", "IMG_20180826_115326.jpg" ] ], [ 1535322333, [ "Jellyfish and sail reflection", "Taken: Sunday August 26, 2018 15:25:33", "IMG_20180826_152533.jpg" ] ], [ 1535422250, [ "Interesting visual design on a crane", "Taken: Monday August 27, 2018 19:10:50", "IMG_20180827_191050.jpg" ] ], [ 1535483019, [ "Auto drive car testing in Burlingame!", "Taken: Tuesday August 28, 2018 12:03:39", "IMG_20180828_120339.jpg" ] ], [ 1535560420, [ "Lots of space for a very few parking spots and one applepicker.", "Taken: Wednesday August 29, 2018 09:33:40", "IMG_20180829_093336-PANO.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1535591449, [ "Every line has a name. I took a 4 day course in sailing 101, which was worthwhile.", "Taken: Wednesday August 29, 2018 18:10:49", "IMG_20180829_181049.jpg" ] ], [ 1535595455, [ "Sailboat race.", "Taken: Wednesday August 29, 2018 19:17:35", "IMG_20180829_191735.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1535764532, [ "Kite surfing! Like something out of a low gravity future space habitat.", "Taken: Friday August 31, 2018 18:15:32", "IMG_20180831_181532.jpg" ] ], [ 1535835862, [ "Interesting personalized grill colors. I don't think there are any flags with multiple shades of blue in them! So what could it be?", "Taken: Saturday September 01, 2018 14:04:22", "IMG_20180901_140422.jpg" ] ], [ 1535847284, [ "Went to a meetup that served medieval food. I also talked to the guy behind seasteading, Patri Friedman.", "Taken: Saturday September 01, 2018 17:14:44", "IMG_20180901_171444.jpg" ] ], [ 1536139127, [ "Taken: Wednesday September 05, 2018 09:18:47", "IMG_20180905_091847.jpg", "low-density parking lot" ] ], [ 1536448499, [ "Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/ meetup in Berkeley", "Taken: Saturday September 08, 2018 16:14:59", "IMG_20180908_161459.jpg" ] ], [ 1536456496, [ "Cute little food delivery robot on the street! How is everybody not taking pictures of this thing?", "Taken: Saturday September 08, 2018 18:28:16", "IMG_20180908_182816.jpg" ] ], [ 1536953098, [ "Taken: Friday September 14, 2018 19:24:58", "IMG_20180914_192458.jpg", "San Mateo Sunset" ] ], [ 1537296915, [ "Firehouse memorial", "Taken: Tuesday September 18, 2018 18:55:15", "IMG_20180918_185515.jpg" ] ], [ 1537322111, [ "kill", "Taken: Tuesday September 18, 2018 18:55:11", "IMG_20180918_185511.jpg" ] ], [ 1537651983, [ "Reefs of the air", "Taken: Saturday September 22, 2018 14:33:03", "IMG_20180922_143303.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1537656539, [ "Video game cartoon leaves!", "Taken: Saturday September 22, 2018 15:48:59", "IMG_20180922_154859.jpg" ] ], [ 1537733194, [ "Suspiciously close to 65536?", "Taken: Sunday September 23, 2018 13:06:34", "IMG_20180923_130634.jpg" ] ], [ 1537817358, [ "Taking down a tree with a backhoe.\n\nI read a book that talked about how humans are natural regulators - even little kids will attempt to enforce the \"right way\" to do things they've observed, taking into account competence and in or out group status of the person they're watching. So it was really surprising to see a construction guy just smashing a tree with no permit or plan. What I take from this is that the urge to stop people from doing things not specifically allowed is so strong, and so hard to block once it gets going, that we have set up the general concept of freedom to protect it.", "Taken: Monday September 24, 2018 12:29:18", "IMG_20180924_122918.jpg" ] ], [ 1537829633, [ "Our office has a \"strawberry tree\" (Arbutus Unedo) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_unedo growing by the parking garage. It tasted like a huge wild strawberry. Really soft and pretty good.", "Taken: Monday September 24, 2018 15:53:53", "IMG_20180924_155353.jpg" ] ], [ 1537932167, [ "I wonder if guys in England decorated their carriages with gaudy pictures of dragons? Or how common custom modifications to saddles and pommels were. Cars seem to be one of the most decorated public things out there.", "Car decoration.", "Taken: Tuesday September 25, 2018 20:22:47", "IMG_20180925_202247.jpg" ] ], [ 1537954940, [ "Lots of incoherent yelling was coming from the upper floors.", "Taken: Wednesday September 26, 2018 09:42:20", "IMG_20180926_094220.jpg" ] ], [ 1537980145, [ "kill", "Taken: Wednesday September 26, 2018 09:42:25", "IMG_20180926_094225.jpg" ] ], [ 1538151058, [ "Pull sticker on the door clearly optimized for pushing. Overall, very bad interface design in this place.", "Taken: Friday September 28, 2018 09:10:58", "IMG_20180928_091058.jpg" ] ], [ 1538151439, [ "Downtown San Mateo. No riding! But it looks so fun.", "Taken: Friday September 28, 2018 09:17:19", "IMG_20180928_091719.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1538152021, [ "Taken: Friday September 28, 2018 09:27:01", "IMG_20180928_092701.jpg", "Green building" ] ], [ 1538221253, [ "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 11:40:53", "IMG_20180929_114053.jpg", "Cultural offerings near Pokeatery, downtown San Mateo" ] ], [ 1538221819, [ "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 11:50:19", "IMG_20180929_115019.jpg", "Samurai Car" ] ], [ 1538233023, [ "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 14:57:03", "IMG_20180929_145703.jpg", "I took a trip up to Marin to see a friend temporarily back from Singapore" ] ], [ 1538241497, [ "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 17:18:17", "IMG_20180929_171817.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1538243763, [ "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 17:56:03", "IMG_20180929_175603.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1538243787, [ "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 17:56:27", "IMG_20180929_175627.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1538263435, [ "And God said, \"This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature with you, for everlasting generations: I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth . . . and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh. Genesis", "The verse labels in the Bible were always mysterious to me. Do they remain the same across languages? Where do they come from, and why do we preserve then or even grant them their status?", "Looking at it now, they really interrupt the flow of the text. Is this the \"Peter principle\" of tools - they get worse until they're just barely usable, and then fossilize?", "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 16:23:55", "IMG_20180929_162355.jpg" ] ], [ 1538266794, [ "Alex and Yan's son is 99th percentile for height.", "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 17:19:54", "IMG_20180929_171954_1.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1538267738, [ "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 17:35:38", "IMG_20180929_173538.jpg" ] ], [ 1538269915, [ "My heart leaps up when I behold\nA rainbow in the sky:\nSo was it when my life began;\nSo is it now I am a man;\nSo be it when I shall grow old,\nOr let me die!\nThe Child is father of the Man;\nAnd I could wish my days to be\nBound each to each by natural piety.", "Taken: Saturday September 29, 2018 18:11:55", "IMG_20180929_181155.jpg" ] ], [ 1538300711, [ "Taken: Sunday September 30, 2018 09:45:11", "IMG_20180930_094511_1.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1538318455, [ "\"nonfatal\" - physically, maybe!", "Taken: Sunday September 30, 2018 07:40:55", "IMG_20180930_074055.jpg" ] ], [ 1538318878, [ "No Barking", "Taken: Sunday September 30, 2018 07:47:58", "IMG_20180930_074758.jpg" ] ], [ 1538325914, [ "A bobcat running off with a mouse he just caught!", "Taken: Sunday September 30, 2018 09:45:14", "IMG_20180930_094514_1.jpg" ] ], [ 1538537972, [ "Taken: Tuesday October 02, 2018 20:39:32", "VID_20181002_203932.mp4", "Station-keeping robot, downtown San Mateo" ] ], [ 1538616584, [ "Nearing the end of the sailing season.", "Taken: Wednesday October 03, 2018 18:29:44", "IMG_20181003_182944.jpg" ] ], [ 1538617555, [ "An R Crumb style face painted on a buoy in SF bay", "Taken: Wednesday October 03, 2018 18:45:55", "IMG_20181003_184554-EFFECTS.jpg" ] ], [ 1538672317, [ "West Nile sprayers are active around San Mateo.", "Taken: Thursday October 04, 2018 09:58:37", "IMG_20181004_095837.jpg" ] ], [ 1538842835, [ "Taken: Saturday October 06, 2018 09:20:35", "IMG_20181006_092035.jpg", "Grafitti" ] ], [ 1538850729, [ "Taken: Saturday October 06, 2018 18:32:09", "IMG_20181006_183209.jpg", "The way this building looks like a cruise ship gets me every time." ] ], [ 1538876327, [ "I learned how to play 'contact' when I was twelve years old, from TJ. We'd spend a lot of time in the back of the car together going to and from church. You play like this: during the trip, you can pick one and only one car as your car, to be yours, 'when you grow up'. If there is competition for a car, whoever declares 'contact' first gets it. So you can settle with something reasonable first, or hold out til the end. It's like the secretary problem in that you don't want to pick too early; if you reach the end with nothing, you're out of luck. This is the car Victor won - waiting til the parking lot worked!", "Taken: Saturday October 06, 2018 18:38:47", "IMG_20181006_183847.jpg" ] ], [ 1539136481, [ "This is a pretty regressive sign! Of course it's true, but it really gets a rise out of me, the way it implies that I am responsible for someone else's wrongdoing. Of course, it's better to not get robbed than to be right.", "Taken: Tuesday October 09, 2018 18:54:41", "IMG_20181009_185441.jpg" ] ], [ 1539371688, [ "The Pulgas Water Temple", "Taken: Friday October 12, 2018 12:14:48", "IMG_20181012_121448.jpg" ] ], [ 1539388704, [ "What's the deal with golf courses taking up huge swathes of good urban land? I wonder if they pay less property tax per area than housing. They usually stay hidden away from the road; but on aerial and map views they stand out. Every house in the picture is worth 1-2m.", "Taken: Friday October 12, 2018 16:58:24", "IMG_20181012_165824.jpg" ] ], [ 1539436982, [ "Taken: Saturday October 13, 2018 13:23:02", "IMG_20181013_132302.jpg", "I went down to the Cotsen open, an annual go tournament in LA." ] ], [ 1539446918, [ "Lining up for registration. The crowd spoke a variety of languages and there seemed to be good, but sparse, relations across language lines. It'll be interesting to see the way the youngest generation goes. Lots of kids had two identities, with a different name for each one.", "Taken: Saturday October 13, 2018 09:08:38", "IMG_20181013_090838.jpg" ] ], [ 1539450446, [ "Taken: Saturday October 13, 2018 10:07:26", "IMG_20181013_100726.jpg", "They handed out go problems" ] ], [ 1539451927, [ "Taken: Saturday October 13, 2018 10:32:07", "IMG_20181013_103207.jpg", "The event took place at the Korean Cultural Center - Hangul has always interested me." ] ], [ 1539463726, [ "The Cotsen open offers massages while you play.", "Taken: Saturday October 13, 2018 13:48:46", "IMG_20181013_134846.jpg" ] ], [ 1539535085, [ "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 16:38:05", "IMG_20181014_163805.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1539535179, [ "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 16:39:39", "IMG_20181014_163939.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1539539871, [ "IMG_20181014_105751-ANIMATION.gif", "An animation of one of my games" ] ], [ 1539547804, [ "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 20:10:04", "IMG_20181014_201004.jpg", "Won 2nd place in my division" ] ], [ 1539553320, [ "My final game - receiving four handicap stones against a 5d.", "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 14:42:00", "IMG_20181014_144200.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1539557795, [ "This is Andy Liu, one of the first American go players to pass professional certification, and the subject of the movie \"The Surrounding Game\". The creators of the movie came to the Beijing go club in around 2012 and got lots of footage which didn't end up being used.", "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 15:56:35", "IMG_20181014_155635.jpg" ] ], [ 1539558139, [ "This is the open section room - the top twenty boards, with a top prize of 1k usd. Outside there were another sixty boards - a total of 187 players.", "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 16:02:19", "IMG_20181014_160219.jpg" ] ], [ 1539560551, [ "We rode bird scooters around searching for geocaches.", "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 16:42:31", "IMG_20181014_164231.jpg" ] ], [ 1539567047, [ "Our Airbnb had a wall of Rubik's cubes!", "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 18:30:47", "IMG_20181014_183047.jpg" ] ], [ 1539571792, [ "Rich and rotten is a good name for a store. Zephyr theater. Joe Rogan.", "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 19:49:52", "IMG_20181014_194952.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1539578731, [ "Those shadows are actually etched into the concrete of the wall. We did some analysis of games with leela.", "Taken: Sunday October 14, 2018 21:45:31", "IMG_20181014_214531.jpg" ] ], [ 1539596178, [ "Taken: Monday October 15, 2018 09:36:18", "IMG_20181015_093618.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1539917077, [ "The scale is so precise but was blown away immediately by the -100 rated strawberry nigori.", "Taken: Thursday October 18, 2018 19:44:37", "IMG_20181018_194437.jpg" ] ], [ 1540064199, [ "Taken: Saturday October 20, 2018 12:36:39", "IMG_20181020_133639.jpg", "An aerial photo of forests with a snow sea - a weekend trip in Colorado." ] ], [ 1540065445, [ "Colorado seems pretty great. Compared to SF, everyone looks really healthy, in happy couples with big dogs.", "Taken: Saturday October 20, 2018 12:57:25", "IMG_20181020_135725.jpg" ] ], [ 1540065622, [ "Strange fruiting stalk growing from the forest floor ", "Taken: Saturday October 20, 2018 13:00:22", "IMG_20181020_140022.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1540139375, [ "We rented a cabin which had a nice swing looking up at this old tree. Below was a horseshoe pit. Subtle signs of bears and fire season were everywhere. The forest was amazing, open, with fresh fallen slow in the shade, lots of hidden things to see as you spend more time looking.", "Taken: Sunday October 21, 2018 09:29:35", "IMG_20181021_102935.jpg" ] ], [ 1540141047, [ "Blackhawk Colorado is interesting. We drove in at night, and didn't see the setup told the next day driving out. There are lots of dead cars, and houses right next to the road. I got a strong sense that living out there was the dream of most of the residents, and they worked years to support their custom-built cabins and domes. You also get the feeling there are a lot of people who \"got out\" and never looked back.", "Taken: Sunday October 21, 2018 09:57:27", "IMG_20181021_105727.jpg" ] ], [ 1540142746, [ "This is the first time I've seen birches since memorizing the poem! https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44260/birches", "Taken: Sunday October 21, 2018 10:25:46", "IMG_20181021_112546.jpg" ] ], [ 1540588050, [ "There is a movement to shift our primary color to grey! Although everyone here now has really bought into the red thing.", "Roblox party", "Taken: Friday October 26, 2018 14:07:30", "IMG_20181026_140730.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1540753825, [ "Taken: Sunday October 28, 2018 12:10:25", "IMG_20181028_121025.jpg", "going for a walk by the stanford dish" ] ], [ 1540753949, [ "The placement of cones got more and more ridiculous as we climbed up towards the dish; at first they blocked off downed trees, and we debated who put them there and why. The debate naturally resolved itself when they started to appear, half-hidden behind logs, like wild game, and roosting in the crooks of old trees. ", "Taken: Sunday October 28, 2018 12:12:29", "IMG_20181028_121229.jpg" ] ], [ 1540755551, [ "Tree split in half.", "Taken: Sunday October 28, 2018 12:39:11", "IMG_20181028_123911.jpg" ] ], [ 1540756871, [ "Fire danger today: extreme", "Taken: Sunday October 28, 2018 13:01:11", "IMG_20181028_130111.jpg" ] ], [ 1540967074, [ "The go-kart place went out of business and is being remade into a housing supply store.", "Taken: Tuesday October 30, 2018 23:24:34", "IMG_20181030_232434_1.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1541014694, [ "Roblox company Halloween costume contest", "Taken: Wednesday October 31, 2018 12:38:14", "IMG_20181031_123814.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1541789189, [ "We have had a few weeks of smoky days.", "Taken: Friday November 09, 2018 10:46:29", "IMG_20181109_104629.jpg" ] ], [ 1541813466, [ "The logo done in yarn, and one of our great developers.", "Roblox", "Taken: Friday November 09, 2018 17:31:06", "IMG_20181109_173106.jpg" ] ], [ 1541889883, [ "Some goings on at the train station. A crowd of a hundred or so people is standing around watching - it turned out to be a baseless bomb threat.", "Taken: Saturday November 10, 2018 14:44:43", "IMG_20181110_144443.jpg" ] ], [ 1542171812, [ "We're being monitored at the self-check-out in Target", "Taken: Tuesday November 13, 2018 21:03:32", "IMG_20181113_210332.jpg" ] ], [ 1542417210, [ "Smoke continues.", "Taken: Friday November 16, 2018 17:13:30", "IMG_20181116_171329.jpg" ] ], [ 1542839935, [ "Clear skies are coming again!", "Taken: Wednesday November 21, 2018 14:38:55", "IMG_20181121_143855.jpg" ] ], [ 1542859401, [ "Interesting symbol seen on a backpack at the airport, on the way to Las Vegas.", "Taken: Wednesday November 21, 2018 20:03:21", "IMG_20181121_200321.jpg" ] ], [ 1542861481, [ "A whiteboard with a background image of our old dog Tito, rabbit-killer, with guinea pigs in the background.", "Taken: Wednesday November 21, 2018 20:38:01", "IMG_20181121_203801.jpg" ] ], [ 1542923288, [ "Bernie, a pug. In the background: a toy called ozbot which follows hand drawn lines, reading the pattern for codes telling it to speed up or turn.", "Taken: Thursday November 22, 2018 13:48:08", "IMG_20181122_134808.jpg" ] ], [ 1542923350, [ "Yoga swing in the living room.", "Taken: Thursday November 22, 2018 13:49:10", "IMG_20181122_134910.jpg" ] ], [ 1542993846, [ "I really like this kind of observational toy. Setting up a physics-bases simulation, and observing the way it settles out, removing the unstable state.", "Taken: Friday November 23, 2018 09:24:06", "IMG_20181123_092406.jpg" ] ], [ 1543004319, [ "Yoga swing in the living room - best innovation ever!", "Taken: Friday November 23, 2018 12:18:39", "IMG_20181123_121839.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1543005165, [ "Shining a blacklight on to this rock reveals trace imperfections.", "Taken: Friday November 23, 2018 12:32:45", "IMG_20181123_123245.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1543009420, [ "Cast out into blind space, plants thrive or wither where they land. The environment is pretty low energy. Compared to the plants, a human is energetically dense.", "Taken: Friday November 23, 2018 13:43:40", "IMG_20181123_134340.jpg" ] ], [ 1543011194, [ "kill", "Taken: Friday November 23, 2018 14:13:14", "IMG_20181123_141314.jpg" ] ], [ 1543011471, [ "This environment is interesting because you have to read signs created over millions of years. Erosion, geology etc. And changing systems too like the genetics of the plants, and their relationships. Weather patterns and periodic droughts.", "Taken: Friday November 23, 2018 14:17:51", "IMG_20181123_141751.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1543012364, [ "Climbers at red rock", "Taken: Friday November 23, 2018 14:32:44", "IMG_20181123_143244.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1543339595, [ "Wraps at the parking lot.", "Taken: Tuesday November 27, 2018 09:26:35", "IMG_20181127_092635.jpg" ] ], [ 1543512526, [ "It finally rained! ", "Taken: Thursday November 29, 2018 09:28:46", "IMG_20181129_092846.jpg" ] ], [ 1543648903, [ "A boat at the Tonga room.", "Taken: Friday November 30, 2018 23:21:43", "IMG_20181130_232143.jpg" ] ], [ 1543697021, [ "I ate this every day back in dongzhimen", "Taken: Saturday December 01, 2018 12:43:41", "IMG_20181201_124341.jpg" ] ], [ 1543891574, [ "A telepresence robot.", "Taken: Monday December 03, 2018 18:46:14", "IMG_20181203_184614_1.jpg" ] ], [ 1543988371, [ "Starshower!", "Taken: Tuesday December 04, 2018 21:39:31", "IMG_20181204_213931.jpg" ] ], [ 1544368921, [ "Taken: Sunday December 09, 2018 14:22:01", "IMG_20181209_142201.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1544393029, [ "The owner is visible, approaching us from the upper left. Despite the customization, he's left the huge warning airbag warning sticker on the back of the sun visor.", "Taken: Sunday December 09, 2018 14:03:49", "IMG_20181209_140349.jpg" ] ], [ 1544670937, [ "\"Back A Yard\", a Caribbean restaurant in East Palo Alto, is pretty great.", "The preparation for the next big trip to Asia has started!", "Taken: Wednesday December 12, 2018 19:15:37", "IMG_20181212_191537.jpg" ] ], [ 1544898899, [ "I met the guy who maintains this succulent garden - a nice stop-and-chat. He plans to add some more Joshua Trees.", "Today is the day I depart. Waking up and clearing my mind from everyday work life is like coming up from a submarine. There is so much more to look and explore in the world than just one focus. I knew this way of being existed, but couldn't maintain contact with it during \"normal\" life.", "Taken: Saturday December 15, 2018 10:34:59", "IMG_20181215_103459.jpg" ] ], [ 1544899129, [ "Lascivious insurance ad, downtown San Mateo.", "Taken: Saturday December 15, 2018 10:38:49", "IMG_20181215_103849.jpg" ] ], [ 1544900379, [ "About 100 people lined up for the 11am opening of the \"Atlas Skateboard Store\"", "Everyone is in the same age group. What selected them? old enough to have money to buy fashion goods, but still young enough to care?", "Taken: Saturday December 15, 2018 10:59:39", "IMG_20181215_105939.jpg" ] ], [ 1544930127, [ "IMG_20181215_191527.png", "This is the next trip - 3 weeks. I haven't been to China or Japan in about two years." ] ], [ 1546929649, [ "Taken: Monday January 07, 2019 22:40:49", "IMG_20190107_224048.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1547007676, [ "Taken: Tuesday January 08, 2019 20:21:16", "IMG_20190108_202116.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1547144182, [ "Taken: Thursday January 10, 2019 10:16:22", "IMG_20190110_101622.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1547160435, [ "Taken: Thursday January 10, 2019 14:47:15", "20190111_140423-COLLAGE.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1547421327, [ "Taken: Sunday January 13, 2019 15:15:27", "IMG_20190113_151527.jpg", "kill" ] ], [ 1547422166, [ "Taken: Sunday January 13, 2019 15:29:26", "IMG_20190113_152926.jpg", "kill" ] ] ]