Flexcar, City Carshare, Zipcar and the winter blues

After being here for nearly 14 years, I still can’t believe how wet it can get during wintertime in Northern California. It’s been raining for three days, plus two weekend days off and on, and it doesn’t seem like it’s going to end. And we have a motorcycle and a bicycle–no car.
Not to [...]

Aronofsky and The Fountain

Don’t be fooled by the tagline “What if you could live forever?”–it’s a sappy catch into a transcendent movie. Aronofsky is known for Pi which, I felt, didn’t live up to the hype. The Fountain probes into a multi-layered vision of past-future-present in the life of a man (Hugh Jackman) and his love [...]

Shooting at your work site

So today there was a shooting at one of my work sites (I have three different ones, but this one is in the southeaset corner of SF in Bayview/Hunters Point). Fortunately, I don’t work there on Tuesdays, but apparently the guy entered the building after firing shots outside. The library is located on [...]

Linux in education

Okay, this is the re-new thing, using Linux. I tried this years ago, then again a year ago, and I’m, gulp, possibly going to try it again. According to Ed Moltzen’s article, Linux is back and raring for a slice of the education pie of profit…or not.  Linux is free, right? Unless it’s [...]