Living With Brian on Bernal

Bernal is on the left, Brian is the man in the shorts. 

The Commute

We have been getting settled. I'm going to do another Photosynth of 57 Bradford when we get things even more settled. I've had  a crazy week, going out after work more nights than not, and haven't spent enough time at home. This week all of that will change.

The Commute has been an interesting feature of this week. On Saturday (the Move) I sprained my ankle moving some boxes at Brians. So, due to my ankle sprain, I had to take all public transportation from my house to my work and back. This resulted in a 2hr 35min trip each way and was a total round trip cost of $17.75- the good thing is that the bus picks me up right in front of the house- the bad news is that the way I went resulted in 3 different forms of public transit and each change over costs mucho tiempo.

When I rode my bike to the train station (20mins from my house to the far main one), rode the Caltrain to Mtn. View, and then rode my bike to my work (about 25-30 minutes). This resulted in a 1hr 45min trip this morning and is going to be a total round trip cost of $8.00 for the Caltrain. So, I've got a cheaper, healthier commute that is about 15minutes longer than the SC drive in the evening and about 45min longer in the morning (a difference that's equal to the biking time). All in all, I think that this is a better commute and I can honestly say that I am a much happier brighter person upon arrival. 

Adonis Seems to Be Cool

Palin Can Read!

Link-

Please check this out, Ms. Palin was pretty much reading from notecards all night.

57 Bradford St.; San Francisco, CA 94110

That's my new address, jot it down if you'd like.

Here is a Photosynth if you want to view a virtual tour of the place. 

Omnivore's are Sexy

"So feeding ruminants corn came to make certain economic sense- I say "certain" because that statement depends on the particular method of accounting our economy applies to such questions, one that tends to hide the high cost of cheap food produced from corn. The ninety-nine-cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost-to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc., costs which are never charged directly to the consumer but, indirectly and invisibly, to the taxpayer (in the form of subsidies), the health care system (in the form of food-borne illnesses and obesity [a portion of which is also picked up by the taxpayer]), and the environment (in the form of pollution), not to mention the welfare of the workers in the feedlot and the slaughterhouse and the welfare of the animals themselves. If not for this sort of blind-man's accounting, grass would make a lot more sense than it now does."

Obama may be a smoker but...

Read this:

"McCain would be the oldest president to begin a first term in office. By the end of a second term, Jan. 20, 2017, he would have a 24.44 percent chance of dying, compared with 5.76 percent for Obama, the firm estimates."

Like I was saying before, this is something to think about. Also, I don't think this study took into account just how difficult the presidency is on a person, so I figure it to be more than 24.44%. 

In other good news, Intrade.com is showing Obama gaining the lead again- whew! Link.

More Evidence (Palin's dumb too!)

From Wikipedia:

In 1982, Palin enrolled at Hawaii Pacific College but left after her first semester. From there she transferred to North Idaho College, where she spent two semesters as a general studies major. From the community college she then transferred to the much larger University of Idaho for two semesters.^[11][12] During this time Palin won the Miss Wasilla Pageant beauty contest,^[13][14]then finished third (second runner-up) in the Miss Alaska pageant,^[15][16] at which she won a college scholarship and the "Miss Congeniality" award.^[17] She then left the University of Idaho and attended Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska for one term. The next year she returned to the University of Idaho where she spent three semesters completing her Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism, graduating in 1987.^[11][12]

From what I can read here, that's 5 institution changes, in 6 years, for a 4 year communications degree? Woah. Also you can read her first set of un-prompted/rehersed questions here. 

Michael Pollan Quote (back to Omnivore)

"After I stepped back outside into the fresh air, grateful to escape the humidity and ammonia, I waited by the chicken door to see if any of the birds would exercise that option and stroll down the little ramp to their grassy yard, which had been mowed recently. And waited. I finally had to conclude that Rosie the organic free-range chicken doesn't really grok the whole free-range conceit. The space that has been provided to her for that purpose is, I realized, not unlike the typical American front lawn it resembles- it's a kind of ritual space, intended not so much for the use of the local residents as a symbolic offering to the larger community. Seldom if ever stepped upon, the chicken-house lawn is scrupulously maintained nevertheless, to honor an ideal nobody wants to admit has by now become something of a joke, an empty pastoral conceit. "

More than a little disconcerting, but not unexpected. Sigh...

The Evidence is Stacking Up

In favor of the idea that Palin is a religious fanatical nut. Read Me!

I really think this lady believes that the Earth was formed 6000 years ago by a big guy in the sky with a beard and that humanity started with two people screwing in a garden with a talking snake...seriously...are you conservatives out there going to vote for some like this to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office?