The lame Mtn View street fairs are on the asphalted streets. But yeah, brickwork aside, that's exactly what it looks like.
- Andrew C
Andrew, I was thinking maybe they were using that lame excuse for a community center. I remember it having brick, but maybe not. Why are all the street fairs in the bay area the same anyway? Is there one company running them?
- Cristo
The picture of mt baker and the guy on the UW shirt make me think some lame seattle street fair. I don't recognize the location though.
- Joe Beda
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We have the Fillmore street fair tomorrow. I'm so excited. I like to walk down and get a polish hot dog and listen to the fake Grateful Dead music. The artisans are very impressive in that they manage to create so much useless crap and stay in business long enough to afford a booth year after year. Actually, I wish they would stop the street fairs, and just put a polish hot dog stand there year round.
- Cristo
By estimating the shadow positions vs the time posted (assuming j1m took the photo just before he posted it), we should be able to estimate latitude. =)
- Andrew C
@onor, obv., yes, that would be cheating
- j1m
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Napa: Art Show & Wine Reception? Is it wrong to use Google? I'd recognize those cheesy art and wine festival wares from a mile away....
- Bill Strathearn
Not napa. And oc google is fair!
- j1m
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Leavenworth, Washington. Village Art in the Park.
- Bill Strathearn
+1 Bill, so this is how you did it. This was always my best idea of how it would go, because who has a street fair without having web coverage about it?
- j1m
It helps that the photo from the website looks almost exactly like your photo. In 10 years or fewer, I would be able to enter your photo as "query" into some search engine and get the villageartinthepark.org site as the top result.
- Bill Strathearn
Are you hoping with enough totally context-free landscape shots that someone will recognize one of them? Or that we'll apply some sort of advanced botanical recognition skillz? Maybe Gary's got something up his sleeve.
- ⓞnor
Very good. This shot is from Wedge Mountain, looking southwest toward The Enchantments. How did you figure it out?
- j1m
It was easy once I figured out which art and wine events were scheduled in Washington state this weekend. I added some links in the previous photo post from the fair.
- Bill Strathearn
I mean, that pic makes you look like you are on some other planet...
- ana
Maybe it's like in Emerald City in Oz, where you have to don green spectacles to enter the city, and also it's all filmed in hyper-saturated Technicolor. A deliberate homage telling us that he's near Seattle?
- ⓞnor
Not Aspen. They were closer in the other thread (I'm still in pretty much the same place). I'm not sure if these are too hard, or if the problem is just that Gary is offline.
- j1m
"Ever since the digital revolution started changing our relationship with information, the printed word – one of the most successful technologies in history – has been on the back foot."
- j1m
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"What once seemed at least debatable has now become irrefutable: If it's not online, it's invisible. While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain books are now fully and freely available to anyone with a browser, the vast majority of the scholarship published in book form over the last 80 years is today largely overlooked by students, who limit their research to what can be discovered on the Internet."
- j1m
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- j1m
"Yet, about a year ago, Microsoft promised something new, with the launch of its multi-touch computing table, Surface. No keyboard, no mouse—just a table with a screen. Developers quickly realized that designing for Surface is more than an exercise in coding—serious consideration has to be given to constructing a coherent user interface for a device that completely forgoes the standard mode of input that has been in use for almost half a century."
- j1m
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And when I say "for almost half a century" I mean....since 18 years ago when Windows 3.0 was released, I guess? Or at very very most, since 25 years ago when Apple released he first widely successful consumer PC with a mouse? I guess that's kinda half.
- j1m
“We were really helped by the fact that it hadn’t appeared in a place we would regard as a reliable source,” he said. “I would have had a really hard time with it if it had.”
- j1m
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(about Twitter) "Imagine if the influencers who get their first reports of news through the horribly skewed bullshit lens of Drudge were liberated from that. It could potentially be a new world. "
- j1m
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Despite my political leanings not matching his, I do check his site often because he finds a lot of mainstream news that I'm not finding here on other social networks.
- Louis Gray
I frequently check Drudge just because it's a fast, easy way to see some top news headlines without clutter.
- Rochelle
I always get drudge and dredge confused, which one is bottom feeding all the filth off the bottom of bodies of water again?
- Geoff Schultz
Do you think it's possible to discover where this is without having visited the place? (Because I don't live in California, I am not very familiar with 94301).
- Gary Burd
I think I made it too hard. I just spent 10 minutes searching for a picture of it on the internet, and can't find one. It's the skylight above the couch in the back room of this cafe: http://www.coupacafe.com/ourstor...
- j1m
Writing by hand. Why? Because my iPhone is always on me. Pen and paper is sooooo yesterday ;)
- Michael Forian
Typing on a smart phone ... that lacks a keyboard. Couldn't resist the Pre pimping.
- Brandon Mendelson
Def writing by hand. And that says a lot since I use an iPhone.
- mikepk
I write on both, but I must be a dinosaur because there is something that feels good about using a nice fountain pen to write or draw on a small paper notebook. Of course, with the improved camera on the new iPhone, I can then just take a snap shot of my note and it's also in my iPhone, or ready to be posted to my Posterous blog, Flickr, etc.
- Rob McNair-Huff
It really depends on what I'm writing. A one-liner like a text-message is pretty easy on a phone keyboard, but taking notes (for example) would be way easier with a pen/paper or a standard-size laptop/desktop keyboard. Especially if there are diagrams or math involved, then pen/paper beats all other alternatives hands-down.
- Aaron D'Souza
writing by hand. Im down right snappy on the iPhone in landscape . Which reminds me Landscape shoudl work in EVERY PROGRAM that requires input. Im talking at you tweetdeck.
- Geoff Schultz
Writing by hand - it has definitely become much harder after years of PDA and smartphone usage.
- Patrick Jordan
Writing by hand is much, much easier. I could write all night and all day. My thumbs ache by the end of a twitter post trying to use my blackberry. Of course, I can't read a word of my own handwriting -- it's completely useless to me, or anyone else for that matter. So, typing on smart phone is harder, but at least I know what the heck I wrote.
- Chris Munro
I thought of this because I was reading an old short story, in which people were, you know, writing letters to each other and not expecting a response right away, and I thought, it must be *so* *tiring* to write out words by dragging a pen across a sheet of paper.
- j1m
On smartphone - but if they ever put that amazing Swype stuff on a phone, its game over.
- Zach Landes
There are more expensive ones out there (made by Etymotic, Shure, and others) but the ER-6i work great for me.
- Tudor Bosman
My suggestion is dont ask Alex Scoble, you will get a 3 hour power point presentation about it.
- Geoff Schultz
I like the ones from Griffin, they're quite inexpensive but work very well.
- Ruchira S. Datta
+1 for the Etymotic ER-6i. I've had them for the last 3 years, and the sound quality and noise-isolation is excellent.
- Aaron D'Souza
I can wear my ER-6i constantly on all but the longest plane trips -- they start to feel slightly uncomfortable after about 8 hours of uninterrupted wearing.
- Tudor Bosman
+1 for the ER-6i, even though I'm an ER-4S user.
- Piaw Na
Love my shure ones with the orange earplug-like things. Can't remember the model, though.
- Joel Webber
I got some cheapish (around $80) panasonic noise-cancelling ones. Highly recommended for travel..
- Nick Lothian
+1 for the ER6i Etymotics. They are $80 or less on Amazon. Highly recommended.
- Alex Scoble
Ironically, after almost a week without them, I found them a few hours after posting this. But you all are so in love with the ER6i, I'm tempted to get them as a 2nd pair.
- j1m
How did your sonys last long enough to lose? The insulation on the wires for mine were apparently water-soluble or something. I 'fixed' them with liquid electrical tape, but yuck. So glad the next pair I got weren't made to disintegrate in weeks.
- Andrew C
I've had them for about 5 years, I think. There must have been a period of high-quality manufacture :)
- j1m
"Years ago, Jim Crawford of New Morning Farm noticed that rhubarb had fallen out of favor. His Pennsylvania neighbors were letting the tart perennial languish in their gardens. But Crawford has seen a resurgence in demand for rhubarb, often fueled by nostalgia."
- j1m
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rhubarb takes two years from seed which probably cuts down on people growing it in their personal gardens.
- Karl Rosaen
But, but, once you grow it it's like a weed, it just produces and produces
- j1m
Rhubarb's tartness is a wonderful thing. Fueled by nostalgia? Yeah, nostalgia for things that taste great! I think it lost favor because for a while people only appreciated "sweet."
- Daniel Dulitz
21 years later, he's still at it. (That's Eva Marie Saint.)
- j1m
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Also in To Catch a Thief there's a similar shot of him keeping Brigitte Auber from falling, but I can't find a picture of it on the internet (google image search--). Pretty much the same angle as this one, but Cary is frame left.
- j1m
(All this reminds me of that period around 1990 when absolutely every single movie that was made featured a tractor+trailer falling off a cliff. iirc usually it would hang there for a while, with its rearmost wheels just barely caught on the guard rail, while the main characters had exciting adventures on it.)
- j1m
"The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake (1960) Night Rescue (1961) The Unidentified Flying Man of Mammoth Falls (1962) The Secret of the Old Cannon (1963) The Great Gas Bag Race (1964) The Big Egg (1964) The Voice in the Chimney (1964) Big Chief Rainmaker (1965)"
- j1m
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And then I ordered all 4 of these books, and they've arrived.
- j1m