May 24 2008

Carnaval Festival 2008, San Francisco

The Carnaval Festival—a street fair—ran from May 24th 2008 to May 25th. These photographs are from the 24th.

If you’re looking for photographs from the parade, they’re here: Photographs from San Francisco’s 2008 Carnaval Parade


May 17 2008

Asian Heritage Street Celebration 2008, San Francisco

I took these photos in San Francisco during the Asian Heritage Street Celebration on May 17th, 2008.


Apr 20 2008

Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival 2008, San Francisco, Grand Parade

The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival 2008 took place regionally over a period of weeks. These are photographs from the Grand Parade in downtown San Francisco on April 20, 2008.


Apr 19 2008

Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival 2008, San Francisco, Japantown

The Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival 2008 took place regionally over a period of weeks. These are photographs from April 19th, 2008, in San Francisco’s Japantown.


Mar 24 2008

More detailed map of Apollo 11 landing site versus baseball diamond

The official NASA history site covering Apollo 11 includes this map of the Apollo 11 landing site superimposed on a baseball diamond to provide scale, but unaccountably leaves out a number of things.

I’ve done what I can to remedy this:

(Click thumbnail to enlarge.)


Jan 7 2008

Proposal for T-shirt text

I like my coffee the way I like my feminists: steaming and in my face.

(I hearby put the above sentence under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. If anyone ends up doing anything fun with it, please send me a link…)

ADDENDUM: Tory Hoke created these visualizations:
Feminist Coffee (from Victoria Hoke’s blog The Tory Party .)

Essay question: two phrasings. How do the meanings differ?


Oct 13 2007

San Francisco Noe Valley Harvest Festival 2007

San Francisco’s third annual Noe Valley Harvest Festival was on October 13th, 2007.


Oct 11 2007

San Francisco Zombie Flash Mob October 2007

A zombie flash mob convened in downtown San Francisco on October 11th, 2007.


Sep 30 2007

San Francisco Folsom Street Fair 2007

The 24th annual Folsom Street Fair was on September 30th, 2007.


Sep 29 2007

San Francisco LoveFest Parade 2007

September 29th, 2007 saw San Francisco’s second LoveFest Parade. (Arguably San Francisco’s fourth “Love Parade” celebration– but license issues dictated a change of name. Hence, San Francisco had “Love Parades” in 2004 and 2005, but “LoveFest” parades in 2006 and 2007.)