Monday morning at the ‘Y’

 I rose a bit earlier than usual today, and headed over to the Page Mill Road YMCA in Palo Alto, scene of my Monday and Friday workouts - Wednesdays I’m often in San Francisco for physical rehab with trainer Heidi Engel, and I use the gym at UCSF’s Millberry Center. The Page Mill Y is [...]

Farmer’s Market, Sunday morning

Linda and I interrupted our weekend project - cleaning and refinishing the patio furniture - to peruse Menlo Park’s Farmer’s Market this morning. Lots of local farmers showed up with healthy, fresh and local organic produce - everything from greens and herbs to heirloom tomatoes to flowers and locally grown and pressed olive oil. We [...]

Anathem

Have to admit, since Anathem arrived on my Kindle I have spent a lot of time with my nose glued to its e-ink screen: on the treadmill at the gym, commuting on Caltrain, a prelude to ‘chemo-naps,’ over lunch and just about any other free moment. The Kindle has freed me, with my hemiparetic left [...]

The one-person work flow

Admittedly, gulker.com is a small operation: we have one ‘employee,’ sometimes two, sorta, kinda. So, we don’t have the kinds of coordination problems as do bigger enterprises with dozens, or hundreds or thousands of workers. Meetings are easy to schedule - outside of my gym and physical rehab time, I’m wide open, usually.
Nevertheless, I need [...]

Chrome envy

We’re still waiting for Google to offer Mac (and Linux) versions of Chrome so we can run them natively on our 2 favorite computers. We’ve been using the Windows beta under VM on the Mac, and are, so far, impressed. Chrome is - dare I say it - Mac-like in its UI, and the vaunted [...]

Reflecting after a morning walk

A sprinkler on our front lawn made an interesting display as it caught the morning light. I snapped the picture on the way back from my usual Tuesday 1.4 mile walk (this time solo - Scott is traveling). After navigating some downtown chores, I settled in to read Linda’s blog and her warm memorial for [...]

Monday catchup

Hard to believe I haven’t sat down to blog since last Wednesday: I didn’t even do a final roundup of the ‘Going Green’ conference (but my takeaway was that water and biofuels are going to be big). I’ve got lots of excuses - a ton of ‘paperwork’ related to current circumstances, our (admittedly self-afflicted) schedule, [...]

New ‘green’ ride, Tony?

AlwaysOn founder Tony Perkins appears to be negotiating for one of Commuter Cars Corporation’s Tango electric cars before the start of this morning’s Going Green conference. Low mileage, slightly used, very clean demo models…

Arising under The Golden Gate

The Golden Gate Bridge loomed over my walking path around Fort Baker’s parade ground this morning. The marine layer was in, the air was brisk and the walk was fun. Breakfast, croissants, quiche and Peet’s coffee, was very good..

The software of life

Genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter, speaking at the 2008 Going Green conference, discussed the efforts of his firm, Synthetic Genomics to invent organisms that can solve dozens of problems that face our growing world. By digitizing DNA, and inventing numerous techniques for manipulating organisms to accept their designer DNA, his firm seeks to invent synthetic [...]

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