Kevin's LJ

Maker Faire

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:17:32 GMT

Went to the Maker Faire today with serious trooper and 37-week-pregnant reeniecooks.

We manned the table for a little while with Jason, Nick (Gerakines), and Krissy (I think I saw Jonathan ever so briefly too). We were a good team...I mentioned to someone, "Oh, and you should hear the LJ Radio stream of our voice posts!" and Jason had it playing on a laptop a few seconds later :-)

Could there be a more incongruously perfect confluence of LiveJournal users than the Faire's fire-breathing-robot-adoring geeks and sew-darn-cute crafters? It's as if the organizers looked at LJ's userbase and thought, "Let's create a thing that appeals to all of them, minus the writers who are too anti-social to leave their homes." (I kid!) I remember first seeing a Bizarre Bazaar (the crafters' show within the show) flyer pinned on reeniecooks's board in her office at home and thinking, "Hmmm, I hope Marina doesn't try to make me tag along to this." But then for some odd rubbernecking reason, I checked the site out and realized what the whole thing and figured it was perfect. A few emails with the marketing folks later, and LJ and TypePad had a table there. The Sixaphone was perfect. I had a few more fun ideas for other demos. I hope we do more of these.

Btw, is it me or could matthew be one of the Myth Busters' brothers?

Long drive, high prices

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:58:56 GMT

Best site I've found lately, especially nice with a 400-mile this evening.

http://www.sanfrangasprices.com/

Delfina review

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 00:00:45 GMT

Quick follow-up on this post...

reeniecooks and I went to Delfina last night for her birthday.

It was awesome. Thanks to lisa's find of this review, we knew to order the ribollita. Actually, we ordered it once (it's an antipasta), then ordered it *again* it was so good. The salt cod mantecato with fennel seed flatbread was also really, really good. We shared a bitter greens salad with amazing parmesan shaved over the top. I had the pork shoulder and Marina had the quail for our main courses. Then I had a cheese with black truffle and Marina had the profiteroles for dessert. Then they rolled us out of there on a forklift.

Would go again, and again.

P.S. The parking gods knew it was Marina's birthday -- space out front in the toughest parking neighborhood south of Russian Hill. Josh Charles, of Dead Poet's Society and Sports Night, was eating there too...I can recognize pretty random celebs!

Dinner recommendations

Sat, 01 Apr 2006 02:27:42 GMT

For lisa's benefit, since she owes henry big time...ask her why.

Starting close to her new 'hood (Mission Dolores, basically)...
Delfina
Bar Tartine
Limon
Medjool

Then some favorites further afield...
Boulevard
Kokkari
Chez Papa

reeniecooks is getting a Delfina dinner for her impending birthday!

Concourse at SF Design Center?

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:53:42 GMT

Anyone out there been to the Concourse at the SF Design Center for a concert?

We're going to a show there tomorrow night and I'm wondering if there are any seats for this pregnant woman that I know.

Update: Sucky venue. Belle & Sebastian could play inside a shipping container and still sound great, and I'd still pay to be there, but still...it doesn't feel good to pay $30/ticket for a concert inside an oversized shipping container, where I can't sit down.

Meet-ups

Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:13:14 GMT

The (in)famous brad, lisa, and daveman692 of the LiveJournal staff are doing meetups in the next week! Some other staff and I are also planning on going to the Thursday one in SF. matthew will be at the Seattle one too. Stop by and say hi.

Thursday 3/9:
Brickhouse Cafe 7pm
426 Brannan Street, San Francisco, 94107
Phone: (415) 369-0222

Friday 3/10:
Jillian's Billiards Club
731 Westlake Avenue N, Seattle, WA 98109
Phone: (206) 223-0300

Monday 3/13:
McMenamins Tavern & Pool
1716 N.W. 23rd, Portland, OR 97210
Phone: (503) 227-0929

Burritophile

Thu, 26 Jan 2006 19:02:57 GMT

I just discovered Burritophile. This is the kind of thing that makes me feel good to be in the business that I'm in. I don't know or care what they're using for the site/blog. I'm just glad it's there.

"Lazy Monday" or Color Me Mine

Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:11:00 GMT

The West Coast response to SNL's "Chronic of Narnia" rap...funny stuff, especially for us SoCal kids.

(Featuring actor Mark Feuerstein and my Zeal.com colleague Adam Stein...nice work Adam!)

http://narniarapbattle.com/

I'm a Caricature

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:53:39 GMT

Check me out...bizarrely and creepily familiar.

The guys at Oddcast made it for me from a mobile phone camera headshot...menatrott and a few others have ones too.

Happy holidays!

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 02:32:05 GMT

It's my first LiveJournal holiday season! Heading to LA for the long weekend...hope all you LJ friends and colleagues have a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, etc.

The (Teen) Year in Review

Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:29:37 GMT

Know thy users...

The top 10 teen trends this year, according to Ypulse, a good teen trend blog that I read.

Guinness

Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:52:39 GMT

Like this ad campaign:

I want one!

Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:36:42 GMT

I just rode crucially's new Segway and it's freakin' cool...so fun! I couldn't wipe the grin off my face while scooting around the office.

Dogs are cute, part of an ongoing series

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:13:21 GMT

Catching up on some accumulated shots...

Babar practicing his cute look, along with our jack-o-lanterns.

Jamie's new "Retrieverdoodle"...like an animate stuffed animal.

Poor cone-head Stella, post surgery.

Holy bat Shelby!

"Six Apart does their customers right"

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:45:05 GMT

http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php

Classy. Proud to have that kind of leadership where I work.

Late adopter

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:22:34 GMT

I'm the second-to-last person in San Francisco to get one, and man do I love my black 4GB iPod nano! reeniecooks is the last person...that may not stand for long. Only half full and I could listen continuously for over a day :-)

Lizzy Hates Emo, Gives Emos More Reason to Be Sad

Fri, 21 Oct 2005 06:23:21 GMT

http://www.fchornet.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/10/19/4356d290699ca

Stirring editorial.

(Do you like my Onion-style headline?)

From my "Dogs are Cute" series

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 21:23:26 GMT

Finally uploaded a bunch of photos from the phone...


Standoff	Standoff, II

A cute Shelby	Shelby getting dressed

Stella's ears

Fleet Week SF - Blue Angels this weekend

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:59:32 GMT

For all my San Franciscan friends who have lived here less than 2 years, you're in for a treat this weekend. Well, it'll be a treat if you like seeing a pretty damn unique show and don't mind the terrifying sound and can ignore the militaristic propaganda subtext.

The Blue Angels will be doing their traditional Fleet Week show this weekend, at 3pm on both Sat. and Sun. They didn't do the show last year, so I'm excited they're back. It's really an awesome sight to see the jets in formation with the city as their backdrop. I think it's beautiful.


Blue Angels - Golden Gate Bridge	Blue Angels - Bay

Here are some great locations for viewing them:

- Any portion of Russian Hill or Pac Heights or the Cow Hollow/Marina area as long as you have a view of the bay

- Alta Plaza Park (Pac Heights)

- Dolores Park (Mission-Dolores)

- A tall building with an unobstructed view to the north.

Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:17:54 GMT

Blog gang sign:

My LJ friends' map

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 18:24:24 GMT

http://rezendi.zigamorph.net/friendsmap.htm?userName=kevink

Fun. Thanks to rezendi for the cool hack.

Eight million

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 22:04:47 GMT

Though I've only been working with the LiveJournal team since March 14th, 2005, I feel pretty proud that we just signed up our eight-millionth account. That's a cool milestone. As I say with all of LJ's big accomplishments, I had virtually nothing to do with it; the LJ team had a lot to do with it; and the users (especially the Support/Abuse volunteers) had everything to do with it.

Trivia -- we ended my first day here with 6,440,056 accounts.

Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:46:03 GMT

CNN interviews menatrott: </span>

My favorite quote from Being able to record your life is something that I can imagine everyone [doing]. [Everyone will] have terabyte after terabyte of all these instances of their lives. And certain information is going to be available to certain groups and other will be available only to like family and other stuff will be available only to you. So in 10 years, I can fully imagine every moment of my life is documented. And the privacy will be there to prevent it from being used in a malicious way. But that I think is the biggest thing. We're going into a recording of life.

I completely agree. That's the most compelling need out there; it's a deep-seated human need. I also think LiveJournal does this really well and has the potential to do it better. Take
reeniecooks: she's documenting everything we cook and eat, every night. It's an awesome record that we really value and will value even more in the future.
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Forbes: LJ is best of the web

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:43:26 GMT

http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/review.jhtml?id=7778&partner=rss

Always nice to hear, even if it's Forbes...

National Geographic on LJ's social structure

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 20:18:35 GMT

Well, it's really National Geographic recapping a study published in the Nat'l Academies of Science:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0802_050802_friendster.html

The kinda-obvious conclusion: LJ friends tend to be geographically clustered, so big-world Internet is really a small-world place.