SAGE: The winners

Benicia High School to the right. Monterrey Trail High School to the left

First Post from iPad

Here is my first post from my new iPad. I have to edit in HTML mode. Blogger is the same way.

At Diana's apartment. MichaelD just sabred his first bottle of Veuve Cliquot. Newb shot Champagne everywhere. We forgive him.

At the SFMOMO Modernism show with cousin Diana. The silk hats are here in droves. And the art is simply the cat's pajamas.

Lunch at Kokkari with GregR. Cocktails at Carnelian Room with PetterK. Now at winebarsf.com. Did do some work: http://bit.ly/1haboQ

On way to Berkeley Center for New Media talk "Adventures in Art at the Edge of the Law" by Mark Hosler, Artist. BCNM always has good talks

Waiting for my turn in the dentist chair. It's only a checkup. Yet another way to lose an afternoon.

Back from artist talk with Jan Wurm at California Modern Gallery. Over 50 works spanning decades. Good stuff.

On the terrace at La Mar on the Embarcadero with Linda Marie - she's adapting to life after John's funeral.

At South Park Cafe after Rudolf's enlightening SFMOMA Accession Committee meeting. So many things to work on and think about...

On way to my first SFMOMA MediaArts Accession Committee meeting with Rudolf Frieling.

Breakfast with daughter Alix. Lunch with the Doyles at Plant. Coffee with Connie. Dinner at BigFour with Diana & Fran. Social butterfly day

The view from my roof tonight. http://bit.ly/NWekr

Waiting for next talk by Luther Tie at Art.Lab in the Mission. Proposed fountain in LA interchange controlled by real time accident data.

At Lori's Diner near Union Square after theater suppper.

At the Curran Theater with Alix. "August: Osage County" about to start.

Bought a new pair of jeans. A waist size smaller than before. They fit. How many times does that happen in a life time?

Back from my swim. Eating my quota of fiber and reading the news. Wondering what the day will bring...

At http://winebarsf.com drinking a glass of Gigondas. Delish. Greg says it's the busiest Monday in months. Summer is out. Autumn is in.

Swim this morning was very chilly. The summer-folk are disappearing. No more sharing lanes for nine months. Yay!

All day on the 'puter. Given all the nasties that were knocked off the to-do list, it was a great day.

Back at http://theplantcafe on the Embarcadero waiting for Petter and Ane.

Back from lunch at http://theplantcafe.com on the Embarcadero with Matthew Fuchs of http://paideiacomputing.com - the speech recognizers.

Nice, productive day. Watching beautiful sunset over San Francisco bay. Ate in moderation and enjoyed a full workout. Life is good.

At Varnish talking to critically acclaimed author and professional cynic Craig Clevenger. http://twitpic.com/dt35h

At the ZipCar event in the Minna Gallery. Boisterous and lively crowd. I'm probably the oldest person here. http://twitpic.com/dt0jy

On my way out for errands on this lovely warm day in SF

Coding in 3D. There's nothing quite like it for warming the blood. Yay Hypercosm!

Operating Systems - Big and Small

If you don't  like Microsoft, you'll like this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32269698/ns/business-motley_fool/

If you don't like Apple, you'll like this:

http://calacanis.com/2009/08/08/the-case-against-apple-in-five-parts/

And if you do like Google, you'll like this:

http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=23140&channel=web&section=

All three are big articles about big companies doing big things.

Now look at this blog:

http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/

Small articles about small people doing small things.

Linus Torvalds is the founder and leader of Linux. Linux is what is putting the mainframe out out of business. Linux is the operating system used by the web site you are reading this on. Linux is the operating system used to write this post.

I cannot really say or even imagine where this is all heading, but I am reminded of the title of a book famous in the 1970's:

Small is Beautiful

Waiting for my turn with Bill Sario - best Puerto Rican barber in San Francisco. http://twitpic.com/dg7uf