Intricate Plot

2009-11-21T09:43:00.000-08:00

Music:Vinyl Listened to Simon and Garfunkel, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme, this morning.

2002-11-29T13:54:00.000-08:00

I'm just relaxing around the house this afternoon - no malls for me today. Yesterday we had a simple Thanksgiving feast at home. Just the five of us for a change, no visitors. The turkey was smaller than usual, but one of the best we ever cooked. We had a great stuffing (bread cubes, onions, garlic, celery, apple, portobello mushrooms), mashed potatoes, corn, peas, yams, cranberry sauce, gravy

2002-11-27T10:35:00.000-08:00

wKen treats us to A Blogger's Prayer today. He mentions many venial sins that anyone with a weblog could commit. However, I would consider his use of words like "blogland" and "meatspace" to be a mortal sin, requiring some serious penance.

2002-11-26T15:45:00.000-08:00

With the passage of HR5469, many small webcasters will soon be back on the "air". SomaFM, one of my favorite broadcaster says "We're on the way back!" They have 13 streams up now and are planning their grand reopening on 11.30.02. Check them out if you like delicious downbeat grooves and aurally stimulating ambient techno.

2002-11-25T11:08:00.000-08:00

My wife and I have been discussing whether or not to take our 7 year old daughter to the new Harry Potter movie. We have read the book, and watched the first movie on DVD. My daughter loves the stories, but is slightly scared by the Lord Voldemort scenes in The Sorceror's Stone. She also had some uneasy moments this past Halloween, getting scared of skulls, scary masks, and other gruesome visuals

2002-11-23T23:34:00.000-08:00

Male vs Female Groupies Brett Anderson, aka Donna A, from The Donnas, tells us the difference - "Male groupies aren't like female groupies," Ms. Anderson said. "Before a show, girl groupies take three hours to get ready. Instead of taking a shower, our fans are getting drunk." These girls aren't just funny, they rock. They have a new album, Spend the Night, out on Atlantic Records and are now

2002-11-23T16:18:00.000-08:00

One Final Big Game Memory I didn't know about this one. I found it in a The Daily Cal "rah-rah" article written by one of their former writers. Mike Silver is now a senior writer for Sports Illustrated and this is his memory: "Let me tell you about one other act of defiance, this one coming up on its 10-year anniversary. As Cal was getting spanked in the 1992 Big Game at Memorial, Stanford fans

2002-11-23T16:06:00.000-08:00

The 2002 BIG GAME is history. And so is Stanford...crushed by 23 points by the California Golden Bears. After 7 years of misery, Cal regains the Axe after obliterating Stanford 30-7.

2002-11-23T11:32:00.000-08:00

Do you know your classical composers? My results: You scored 7 out of a possible 11 Fortissimo Impressive - you can tell your Traviata from a trattoria, and probably know where the music you hear on adverts comes from, but disdain to buy classic ads collections. I didn't really think getting 7 out of 11 was very good. I bet Lynn can do better. I didn't even try the expert quiz.

2002-11-23T11:24:00.000-08:00

California is favored over Stanford today. The latest line shows Cal by 10 1/2.

2002-11-22T22:55:00.000-08:00

I finally got around to reading the interview with Ellen Feiss, the infamous Apple Switch girl. Everybody who has been commenting favorably on it is right, it was a funny interview. She seems to be "keeping it real".

2002-11-22T15:18:00.000-08:00

"The Play" Video I seem to be getting a lot of referrals from Google today with people looking for the video of "The Play", the incredible ending to the 1982 Cal-Stanford Big Game. Here's the link for you new visitors. You can find audio and video at Cyberbears.

2002-11-22T13:20:00.000-08:00

What is this intriguing entry on Apple's Mac OS X Feature Comparison Chart? In the section titled "Other features" (near the bottom) there is a line that says "Amd support", indicating that it IS supported on Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar, and not on previous operating systems versions. Is this confirmation of the Apple-AMD rumors that have been scurrying around the net ;->? (pointer from As the Apple

2002-11-22T10:26:00.000-08:00

If it ends up raining in the South Bay today, you can blame it on my wife and me. She washed her car last night and I turned the sprinklers on, watering the lawn this morning.

2002-11-22T09:09:00.000-08:00

"Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé" Who cares? I am in agreement with Mike Steinberger, who says "stay away from that Beaujolais Nouveau, sucker". There are so many good wines on the market, that you should not waste your time on this manufactured hype. Try one of these wines from the Beaujolais region for Thanksgiving, instead of a young, substandard, un-aged grape juice. One of my favorite

2002-11-22T08:33:00.000-08:00

Some mornings the opt-in mailings in my mailbox are better than others. This morning I received an email from Pirelli informing me I could go look at their 2003 Calendar. Warning: Several of the pictures include partial or full nudity so they're NSW (not safe for work). Act accordingly. The calendar this year is beautiful as always, with photographs by Bruce Weber, who has done everything from

2002-11-20T12:00:00.000-08:00

Personal Cal-Stanford Big Game Trivia Cal beat Stanford in the 1993 Big Game. The final score was 45-17. Cal went on to the Alamo Bowl, where they beat Iowa, 37-3. The Big Game was on Saturday (of course), November 20, 1993. I happened to be getting married that afternoon, so attending that Big Game was out of the question. My friend Richard, an active member of the Cal Alumni Association,

2002-11-19T16:46:00.000-08:00

moreCrayons - A bigger box of crayons for the web Still using the 216 browser safe colors for your web page? I don't know about you, but I always have my monitors set for millions of colors. This website includes a weblog with pointers to even more color palettes and color pickers.

2002-11-19T15:19:00.000-08:00

More Cal-Stanford Big Game Trivia "On Nov. 20, 1982, Cal used a five-lateral kick return to stun Stanford, but it's what you don't know about The Play that might surprise you" - Six Things You Don't Know About THE PLAY Here's a great collection of facts most people do not know about The Play from the 1982 Big Game. I have a copy of the prank issue of the Daily Californian that came out the

2002-11-19T13:17:00.000-08:00

I was reading Boing Boing this morning and found a link to the The International Children's Digital Library. According to Wired News, the library is scheduled to open tomorrow, but it seems to be up and running today. I went to check out the site and was disappointed with what I found. There appears to be many books from different cultures, the Wired article says over 200 books in 15 languages,

2002-11-18T15:42:00.000-08:00

It's a bit hard to believe that it has been 20 years since I was sitting in Memorial Stadium, along with thousands of other Cal Bear fans, watching the most exciting ending to an NCAA football game in history. On Saturday November 23rd, Cal meets Stanford and the rivalry continues. Cyberbears has a page with links to the week's schedule, as well as video clips from "The Play".

2002-11-18T10:42:00.000-08:00

I had an iChat with my cousin Stéphane this morning. He is a software engineer and has been working in California on a foreign worker visa. (He's French). During the summer he and his wife went to France to visit his mother (my mom's sister) in Haute-Savoie. On the trip back to San Francisco, the INS stopped him in New York, saying that his papers were not in order. It seems that his employer had

2002-11-17T23:37:00.000-08:00

It is irritating when watching a movie to have the camera pull back from a scene leaving a microphone visible at the top of the screen. I usually try to ignore little inconsistencies like that, but some people enjoy collecting movie mistakes. As I post this, sharp eyed movie watchers have spotted 38 mistakes or continuity errors in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Another of my favorite

2002-11-17T23:01:00.000-08:00

Lynn at Poet and Peasant says her site is banned in China. I checked my contribution to the blogging world, and found that I am not banned. Hmmph! You would think that a name like Intricate Plot would scare them. Testing complete for http://intricateplot.blogspot.com. Result: Reported as accessible in China

2002-11-16T23:54:00.000-08:00

"We're on a mission to build the biggest and most comprehensive electronic music database. Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, all cross-referenced. It's getting closer every day." - Discogs I found this while looking for some information for a post I am preparing for Blogcritics. It looks like a great resource for house, trip-hop, trance and all other forms of