Saturday, August 22, 2009


SharonHahnD

  1. Canvas is rarely art. It is now interior design. from Tweetie
  2. I don't understand why my sister is so sweet to me when I never do anything for her? I am the luckiest sister in the world! from web
  3. Joyful 點心/点心 (dim sum) note: While Singapore is 新加坡, many call it 星洲, "Star Island" or "Star Continent". Magical Merlion muses, Shangri-La. from web
  4. RT twitseeker@purelypaige found and followed @SharonHahnD using http://twitseeker.com ! about 10 hours ago from API from web
  5. Unexpected chain of events. Chilling with coffee and budino di riso, watching the cutest black Lab puppy lounging, Emporio Rulli, Larkspur from Tweetie
  6. Ponyo not Kiki's Delivery Service but I had plenty of reasons to be touched. Dazzled by District 9. Best moment: robot's chest doors open from Tweetie
  7. Awoke with the same dream. A nimble figure next to a large dining table. I've never met him. There are words, but I can't hear anything. from Tweetie
  8. You know there's iPhone saturation when an Oakland MacArthur BART station street vendor shows off his iWash bikini-clad window washer girl. from web
  9. RT @MeteorBlog @SharonHahnD and then you feel all right, because now you're a meteorite. http://bit.ly/rzOSy from web
  10. Solar-powered paramotor (powered paraglider), eco-boat, eco-phone, eco-coffeemaker. Rechargeable battery recycling, of course, by eco-WALL-E from Tweetie
  11. Dear Perseid meteors, enjoy your short blazing descent. Once (if) you land on Earth, you'll spend your eternity buried in sand or mud. from web
  12. Eeek. Apricots turn out mealy. A super quick fix? Cut into halves, into a saucepan. Sugar+fruit vinegar, low heat, serve with ice cream. Mmm from web
  13. Until you can ask doctors (the way you do with your designers) "how much is that going to cost me?" expect lunacy regarding medical fees. from web
  14. At times I wish I were a gossip. Unless people are not human (me excluded ;) ethics, loyalty, conflict-of-interest, etc., are all relative. from web
  15. Tipping point alert: People still losing jobs but stock market going up steadily, short term correction in Asia, housing market stabilizing from web
  16. Of course, daytime Sharon is happy to be holding 2 half-priced Bread Garden baguettes, seated on Domingo street tennis court bleacher. from Tweetie
  17. Awoke during authentic hours, to Leonard Cohen moaning "..your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder.." Vowed never to day-tweet. from Tweetie
  18. USTA Girls' 18 National Championships at the Berkeley Tennis Club and Claremont Resort & Spa. Top athletes, great buzz, fun matches. from Tweetie
  19. Heated debate: Which Supreme Court Justice is the "smartest"? Breyer, Scalia, Alito, Ginsburg, Thomas, Roberts, Stevens, Kennedy, Sotomayor from web
  20. I have kitchen gadgets that cost $$$$ dollars, yet what do I end up using every time I make myself a caffe latte? Ikea's $1.99 milk frother. from web
  21. Do see the documentary The Cove if you can handle bloody massacre. Why don't they understand dolphins are sentient, intelligent beings? from Tweetie
  22. It's true, Ralda. Being surrounded by the New York Times people (spouse, friends) is a liability, not an asset, as an independent artist. from Tweetie
  23. Steinbeck flashback: Makeshift communities adapting to recession, outdoor homeless encampments, tent cities, on the rise http://bit.ly/xvh9Q from web
  24. A bonus idea for your weekend tea. Manju,まんじゅう. Maybe in the shape of a cute rabbit? http://bit.ly/WkCGL from web
  25. Fake "hard-boiled egg"sesame cake anyone? White chocolate shell, sponge cake white, black sesame paste yolk http://bit.ly/11JNe4 from web
  26. The question isn't, "what are we going to do." The question is, "what aren't we going to do?" ... Come on. Live a little! (Ferris Bueller) from web
  27. Latest Korean, Japanese, Taiwanese movies online? Free streaming video links. Romantic comedies, historical dramas.. http://www.mysoju.com from web
  28. Ever wondered what soup kitchen food looked like? 1st day of volunteering. Surprising # of respectable looking diners. http://bit.ly/30OVTV from web

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

  1. Yes, pure EV sports car, 160 MPH, fast charging long range high density (low volume) EIG battery, high speed cross-country LA to NY, 2010
  2. Forget Daimler, Tesla w/ Evonik. The sexy electric sports car everyone is waiting for is coming from Asia. It's the battery pack, stupid.
  3. #ElectricVehicle high-speed sports car cross-country from Los Angeles to New York? Why am I not in it?? Uh-oh, onset of cabin fever...
  4. From dad: Will film EV hi-speed cross-country, LA-NY, project TK, sports car body from South Africa, battery EIG Korea, launching next year
  5. I can feel my EQ drop about 50 points whenever I visit Facebook. Not that I mind it so much. Just watched #TheReader. Now, this feels better
  6. Truly beautiful site that should be more well-known, "Old Photos of Japan" 1860s - 1930s 明治 大正 昭和 Works like an archive. http://bit.ly/hmgap
  7. Traditional fantasy girls with an eye-catching modern trend: Emphasis on BIG HAIR. Yes, it's been there all along. http://bit.ly/ULLGq
  8. Blue dawn Bay Tour flight / She roots for the family / Stubborn iris bud
  9. 80's music videos are not extinct! Big hair, dry ice smoke, slow (awkward) swaying hips, closed eyes, with tacos at La Oaxaquena, Mission.
  10. In an attempt to have a quick snack, I microwaved... chicken liver. Yes it exploded. (Still edible) Roast chicken is doing fine in the oven.
  11. Sometimes, something simply takes your breath away. - @ grimy heart of Oakland
  12. Still want to be an airline pilot? Be prepared to live in a parking lot trailer colony. #StrangeCommunities. LA Times http://bit.ly/3XK0FX
  13. Happily conjuring up aesthetically masterful shapes of holes formed by forgotten words in a writer's mind. Jack Vance the non-genre writer?
  14. Watching shirts flutter, Le Tour de France, Versus HD. It's always puzzled me: With so much aerodynamic drag, why don't they wear bodysuits?
  15. Bartender made me a drink, "Sharon's Happiness," with peaches, lemon juice, Miller's gin, cayenne pepper. Hmm. Surely not invented for me??
  16. 生まれてきてよかった。
  17. Her laughs are contagious. I believe she's truly happy. Things she believes in, she can touch. Dirt piles, warm grease, gleaming surfaces
  18. Got fired by Alexandra. Job was "sous-chef" to the cleaning lady. Think she's telling me to go mind my own business.. y ahora, ¿qué hacemos?
  19. Observing my cleaning lady, Alexandra, very carefully, wondering how she can do in 3 minutes what I can't seem to be able to do in 3 hours.
  20. Fell asleep in the bathtub. Again. Wrinkly fingers and toes. With no waterproof book or waterproof iPhone it's still a place hard to leave.
  21. A nice talk with my sweet mom. Plotting a trip to Kyoto.
  22. Architecture envy: Koolhaas-designed Seattle Public Library (central location), a glass building, cool on a hot day. http://bit.ly/WRziC
  23. Rainy Oregon coast. A cozy corner window table. "Great breakfast and seafood served all day." About to read the Sunday Times on the iPhone.
  24. Resent the seeming inevitability of being defined by moments of personal history I don't choose to be defined by. #GroundhogDayIntroRituals
  25. Washington State car ferry mystery (2 pasrs): Seattle-Bainbridge fare $14.45 (Ad Veh U20') + $6.70 (1 adult) Bremerton-Seattle $14.45 +$0
  26. Feeling discombobulated. Where are we, what are we doing? Wishing I could google for answers. Trying this for now: Cross Country Kitties.
  27. I love being a dork at times... um, I was off by one day. NOT gonna try tomorrow (12:34:56 7/8/9) :) yay - back to 5 bars AT&T 3G.
  28. Yes! 12:34:56 7/8/9
  29. Imbibing phantom. Loving it.
  30. One big stride for taikonauts? It's just one small step in a can, one giant leap for gentlemankind. Toilet humor, sorry http://bit.ly/17VzgS
  31. Our wishes are the harbingers of the capabilities that lie within us. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe http://bit.ly/Ltsul I wish for a clean pot
  32. Yay, what I had hoped for: Now Twitter is showing the latest tweets of your "followers" and people you are "following"! http://bit.ly/h6vEA
  33. @GoPetFriendly Thanks! I checked out your site. Had no idea W Hotel Seattle allowed pets. I called; $100 nonrefundable cleaning fee +$25/day
  34. Planning a road trip to Seattle. Pet-friendly (um, kitties) hotel recs? Downtown is ideal, but it doesn't need to be. http://bit.ly/150rWj


Sunday, July 19, 2009

(a bonus edition: Laksa Hahn Darlin, a.k.a. KingLaksa)



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KingLaksa

  1. My brother Mole learns to operate a forklift at a logging mill. The O'Brien Police gave him the green light, he claims. http://bit.ly/2cWaKX
  2. Have you ever seen a wolf poo.. okay, I can say it, (deep breath)..a wolf pooping in public? Wolves these days, tsk tsk. http://bit.ly/JG5Vj
  3. Not quite Apollo 11. (July 16th is coming up!) Just another Douglas A-4E Skyhawk and Aero Spacelines 377MG Mini Guppy http://bit.ly/a8JdJ
  4. Bound For Glory. A kitty (moi, KingLaksa) aboard a freight train (seriously!) sans guitar. Mole following close behind. http://bit.ly/19p8Td
  5. Melt alert! A MOTORBOAT splashed by. A seagull flew by. I'd say it's a LITTLE unnatural for cats to be chilling on Bainbridge car ferry.
  6. Too lazy to use Motion X GPS. For KingLaksa coordinates, google Cross Country Kitties. Be sure to leave comments, guys. Codeword Matodai...
  7. Someday I'll make my Cross Country Kitty music video on YouTube and you won't yell at me for shedding http://bit.ly/150rWj you will anyway:(
  8. I'm conducting counter-ratatouille operations. Mom may have nearly fainted in Istanbul (imam bayildi!) but I'm definitely a karniyarik boy..
  9. Pet Airways pawssengers? Indignity! No way I'm boarding the airplane cooped up with these idiots. Can I be the pawilot? http://bit.ly/YkT7Y
  10. Countdown LRO... Uncle Yeats had the right idea. I'm the nearest kin of the moon. I will make the moon spin round like a top, if I have to.
  11. Mommy says, given enough time and patience, I can become a purring lapcat. She may be right! In the meantime, here's Maker Faire CatClawBot!
  12. Mr. insecure rain cloud sculpts nasty babies like me, quite a handful, but crocs & sharks don't faze Mr. stork, unruffled like Mole wink wink
  13. Friday night, we're jammin', jammin', jammin' See? I'm Stevie Wonder http://tinyurl.com/m5blpw Hey, harmonica man I can play all night.. zzz
  14. How could a dining room Sputnik chandelier be MY birthday present?? October 4th is more than four months away. (Wrong style for the house!!)
  15. Mommy is already partied out. Time for her to make me a makkurokurosuke or two. Paint a mini Koosh ball? It would look like you know who.
  16. stream of cattishness RUN CLIMB door frame pull ears straight back SLIDE.. MOM STILL GLUED TO STUPID LAPTOP must beat up Mole for attention
  17. You named me Laksa because it sounded like Laika? Excuse me, I'm not a girl, I don't bark... All right, yes I was a stray. YES I'M STRESSED.
  18. Watching "Tremors" on Encore Mystery channel. I could kill those giant graboid worm creatures in, like, 10 seconds. Stop rolling your eyes!
  19. MoleTheStupid, I mean @MoleTheWise, I repeat. *Sigh*. Salamanders are not insects. Dolphins are not fish. And you are a cat, not a cougar!
  20. @MoletheWise is denigrating the Cross Country Kitties blog. Mom has nothing to do with it. My brother has brought me nothing but trouble.
  21. Back into the bathroom sink to sulk. They were just eggs, okay? Sheesh, they were lousy EMPTY shells, okay? I'll MAKE YOU new Prague eggs...
  22. Driving around, saw a street cat. Our eyes met. It opened a burger box, and bit into the bun. There was no meat left in it. It looked away.
  23. I am not on Mars. Where am I? http://tinyurl.com/dlyxxj
  24. (RT deleted FB pic) A fan of @BarackObama sent me a HOPE poster of MOLE. Dear fan, what about moi, KINGLAKSA??? http://tinyurl.com/dfmonl
  25. A Portuguese Water Dog becomes the First Dog in April. He will be black, like my brother Mole. 葡萄牙水犬 in Chinese http://tinyurl.com/b6qjka
  26. Mom let me out of the house! Yippee! Um, it took me 0.01 seconds to turn 180 degrees to get back in. Who knew there was a faucet out there??
  27. Facebook 讓您和親朋好友保持聯繫, 隨時分享生活中的每一刻? Laksa Mole"找不到你要瀏覽的頁面。你可能點選了一個過期的網址或是打錯了網址。有一些網址是有大小寫分別的。" Wow. you can cram a lot more words in Chinese!...
  28. Didn't get to say goodbye to my 2500+ pals on Facebook. "Laksa Mole" seems to have been deleted. Pix still there.. http://tinyurl.com/9pu6oq
  29. Rabbit at Rest? So it can be served to me without me chasing it? Oh- you mean the author of Rabbit Angstrom novels, John Updike, passed on.
  30. Happy Chinese New Year! Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, pig? Hello? The rat made it and I didn't?
  31. Cardboard apple crate cat condominium! 1st floor-Granny Smith, 2nd flr-Jonagold, 3rd flr-Fuji, basement is certified organic. Laksa in PH.
  32. Finally. Someone credited http://www.crosscountrykitt... for pic on icanhascheezeburger. (Thieves..) http://tinyurl.com/a3bxgx
  33. Why is everyone talking about having balls tonight? Okay, I'd like two balls, please.
  34. What do you mean, angry at nothing. This is my job. http://tinyurl.com/84wobp
  35. Now that this tiny patch of sun is gone, Mole, you can have this spot. Here, I said you can have it, dummy. Now, get off that heat vent.
  36. Someone stole my photo and put it up on icanhascheezeburger. http://tinyurl.com/a3bxgx Well, me da source, guys. How'bout a better caption?
  37. I wonder why I never get to go into the mall. I would like a pair of boots.
  38. Mole is meditating now. Is that yoga? He says it's better than sitting around doing nothing. http://tinyurl.com/8jzlvf
  39. New year's resolutions. 1) Humans shall not witness clumsy head-bonking during abortive fly-catching missions. 2) Guppy is not a water fly.
  40. My pet peeve? Lapdogs! Yours, too? Yes, yes... go ahead and ban lapdogs in cars. Have you heard of any anti-lapcat bills? I rest my case.
  41. Dreaming of Pablo Picasso's Figures on a Beach. I think I need another figure to complete the picture. http://tinyurl.com/74spp7
  42. Left me shivering in the car for THREE hours and came back smiling? If it's called The Curious Case of Benjamin Kitten, I might understand.
  43. 12 days of Christmas. Please skip drummers, pipers, lords, ladies, maids and golden rings... the rest, yum.
  44. Divots on Molé? What divots. I don't see any divots. Mole, did you pull out your own hair? This stuff on my paw? What stuff? Oh, it's, um...
  45. My trophy? You mean, that mule deer buck with jumbo horns? I caught the beast with one single paw swipe. Yup. http://tinyurl.com/46zu9s
  46. @sharonhahnD ... read ... my ... muzzlepuffs ... if you get a puppy, I'll make sure to make his life a pure puppy hell. HELL! Capiche?
  47. My brother's secret mission, not ordered by President-elect Barack Obama. It's a blue-collar job, you see. http://tinyurl.com/6zddgl
  48. To operate your seat belt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight... Huh? You guys don't do this?? http://tinyurl.com/644r86
  49. I am happy today. That's why I bit you, Mole. http://tinyurl.com/5qpsr8
  50. Locked in the bathroom again. Sulking in the sink.
  51. I think my brother is fat. http://tinyurl.com/594vxz




Wednesday, July 1, 2009

  1. hibernating
  2. Weekend social life as cocktail choices: 1) 1 full glass of spouse 2) 1/2 cup spouse 1/2 cup buddy 3) 1/64 friend 1/64 friend 1/64 fr...
  3. Food is cheap and plentiful today at Berkeley Safeway. Corn 25c each, Foster Farms young chicken 79c/lb. "Parts of giblets may be missing."
  4. Last night's cocktail: 1 oz joy 1oz gloom 1oz phantom flavor 1oz reassurance; much interference ahead, but I've never been surer in my life.
  5. Elmwood feels like the Village tonight. Waited 30 min before getting a Mediterranee table. Festive Friday outing, yet something is missing..
  6. Guessing I permanently altered my emotional baseline. I'd say to around 5.5. Not too high, not too low, yet decidedly on the high side.
  7. Assembling Ikea beech veneer "upstairs" furniture shouldn't be this much fun. Unable to graduate to better quality master bedroom TV stand.
  8. Kids will be texting multilingually, 한국어 日本語 國語, oh give them 10 yrs http://bit.ly/twcIh Why not look for jobs in Asia http://www.jobsdb.com
  9. Mortgage loan signing today. Don't hate me because I locked in a while back at 4.875% APR 30 year fixed 3/4 points. Has it gone up since?
  10. Fantasy: Sunny skies, a drive down lovely California coast with top down in my red roadster. Reality: Humming Merry Maid. (Apron? Pie?)
  11. @carr2n See if you keep thinking in algorithms during your red-eye back. I wish I could allow myself to be as kooky as you. You never know-.
  12. I can laugh. I am actually happy. I'm freezing this moment for posterity.
  13. Honey bee invasion in the sun room upstairs. Kitties trying their best to be brave hunters. They may get stung.. I think it's about to rain
  14. Craving kaya jam. Beat eggs. Add whipped sugar & coconut milk, beat again. Cook, stir, stir, stir until color turns from cream to caramel.
  15. Oscar Wilde: All great ideas are dangerous. Yes, I do have a few GREAT ideas. In my head they shall stay. Not torching perfectly good eggs.
  16. Marcus Brauchli @mbrauchli executive editor of The Washington Post former managing editor of The Wall Street Journal (reluctantly) twitters
  17. Everyone is a different cocktail each day. Hung over from 1/4 oz cheer, 1/2 oz grouchiness, 1 oz optimism, needed a ton of zest and surprise
  18. "Do not work on scaffold, erection in progress!" "請勿於竹棚上工作 (搭建進行中)" http://tinyurl.com/m5zkls Save Chinglish - China's disappearing culture
  19. The cleanest, laziest way to poach eggs: Crack 1 egg into a ramekin, poke the yolk, top it with 2 tablespoons of water, microwave for 40 sec
  20. There, you made poached egg in 1 min. You don't have to throw out the egg water, if you'd like. Add 1/2 teaspoon shiitake-infused soy sauce.
  21. What's so wrong with praising people behind their backs and being blunt with them face to face? It will liberate you. From being a monkey.
  22. #photo 121 http://tinyurl.com/lm48hq Birth/Death certificates: Don't take a number, go directly to the vital statistics window to your right
  23. Oakland airport runway sign - my comfort blanket.
  24. Cellphone cash stored in SIM cards a thriving industry in South Korea. "Mobile T-money" is cute to boot! http://tinyurl.com/pljnme #economy
  25. Pomegranate vodka. Still hoping it isn't flavored vodka but vodka distilled from pomegranate pomace. Cocktail time http://tinyurl.com/plzwe6
  26. Thought about driving down Highway 1, south of Half Moon Bay. Alas, olallieberries not ripe yet. U-Pick starts 6/20, instructions 8314698804
  27. What is our modern version of the ape-man's bone in 2001: A Space Odyssey? I don't know, but it takes a community http://tinyurl.com/osp9cq
  28. "Will Trade For Food" Bartering (and friendships) on the rise. 物 (material) 物 (material) 交 (exchange) 換 (exchange) http://tinyurl.com/kvshuu
  29. Bravo, Kay. Her little piano concert for an audience of one has motivated me Decided to practice in my UNLIVED living room. ExTrEMEly rusty
  30. Will be Kay's "victim with ears" this afternoon. "..I need sympathetic ears to get performance nerves under control." Bach, Schubert, Chopin
  31. Mission Organize Closet. 10% accomplished. (How does so much dust get in??) ...colored wigs, hoop skirts, hanky tanks, pilot jackets...
  32. #TiananmenPoem: 六月( June) /Heaps of letters cannot be delivered to the hands of the dead http://tinyurl.com/cmlj6c China has come a LONG way


Tuesday, June 2, 2009

  1. Wishing I were invisible. I don't wish to influence people's everyday decisions. I'd just disappear for a year or two.. Mali, here I come..?
  2. Rapid depressurization: time of useful consciousness <1>
  3. Badda Bing! For the life of me, I can't think of a single thing I could do with live preview, safe search turned off. Really, I give up :)
  4. East German photography treasure trove in a basement. Manfred Beier always carried at least 1 camera w/him http://tinyurl.com/n8mh59 Spiegel
  5. Happiness starts at home, http://tinyurl.com/m4xzjl Live and let live. 共 (common) 存 (exist) 共 (common) 生 (live) http://tinyurl.com/n9xvnu
  6. Pixar balloon house, airship, dogfighting pups, uplifting yet don't soar. Colorful odd bird, cross your heart, fly me away to Paradise Falls
  7. Ferry travel destination option #3: Shanghai 上海-> Jeju 제주-> Nagasaki 長崎-> Fukuoka 福岡-> (3 hrs by Beetle Hydrofoil) Busan 부산 total 700+ miles
  8. Can you be Facebook friends if you can't read their names? Hi, кครђเรђ tђคккคг, ҳ̸ αภgєl MoήIҳ̸, רועי קאשי, 오스왈드김, أنــا العـــنقر يـــز يه
  9. Someone says I am one of the "super-sophisticated, RSS-subscribing, radar-reading people," and not old-school Forrester or Gartner. As if!
  10. Is there a time limit on story arcs? No development without a conflict, no crisis on the near horizon. Happy to be bored for the time being.
  11. A fine drive to and from downtown SF in my red convertible, now with a new clutch. Jerky at first, back to normal. Pho ga at Turtle Tower.
  12. @Helpfulcorp, I enjoyed your sunny Wal-Mart undercover story even more than a dark long-ago Harpers article (undercover maid) by Ehrenreich
  13. Dreaming at Art Deco Collection on Market. Bar, consoles, secretaries, sconces, lamps, mirrors, Zenith radio, modernist glass by Riecke...
  14. Saks. "Designer pre-sale" in progress. Brunello Cucinelli, Piazza Sempione, Akris, Clu, See by Chloe, Rag & Bone, Organic, Modern Amusement
  15. Even engineering companies are laying off workers. As a failed EE "double E" major, I am not quite qualified to comment on these matters.
  16. Who says you can't have herring for breakfast? Yum. Seriously, this can be your beauty secret. That, and diluted red berry vinegar juice.
  17. Five stages of joy? Denial elation gratitude anxiety acceptance? Then you hope you don't crash down back to earth. Maybe grief isn't so bad.
  18. @johnjoe Serendipity Books? Open Mon-Fri 9-5. An enchanting, chaotic antiquarian store. Passageways, mezzanine, dust, a piece of heaven.
  19. Arinell Pizza. Neapolitan regular with pepperoni and bell pepper (confetti cubes of red, yellow, orange and green!!?) $4.00. The best.
  20. Serendipity Books smells like my grandfather's study. Random: "the 'E' car ran..turned left at Larkin, right at Vallejo, to miss the hill."
  21. Beautiful out, decided to walk a bit. Passing Green Motors. It'd be nice to have urban central zones, cute electric cars zipping around..
  22. Lovely day, dropped my Miata off at General Transmissions to repair its clutch, 1187 San Pablo. Excited about taking AC bus. #72, I think?
  23. 心心相印 "Vulcan mind meld" 心 (heart) 心 (heart) 相 (mutual) 印 (stamp). Here are all the things I want to say to you. http://tinyurl.com/of7yky
  24. Believe in anti-sprawl law, urban growth boundary, "iron curtain" of development around urban centers, streetcars, bikes, NO MORE freeways..
  25. "Serial bankruptcy"? "Strategic debt management"?!? I feel no pity for Patty Barreiro's predicament. She is what's wrong with this country.
  26. Rainy Memorial Day plan B? "Cow yuck" thrice-cooked pork belly pot roast 扣肉 "steamed bacon w/ salted plum greens" http://tinyurl.com/qh3vjo
  27. Do you have a favorite Singapore Sling recipe? What's the "genuine" version? If I like your cocktail I'll blog it. http://tinyurl.com/rdkkv9
  28. Towed red Miata home to think it thru. Should I sell it? I don't NEED this car. It looks new and I love it. Manual 1993(!) only 85155 miles.
  29. Caltrans tow truck deposited me Market & W Macarthur. Free service! Waiting for AAA. Which auto repair shop in Oakland should I take Miata?
  30. An orange (Caltrans?) tow truck is here. "CA EXEMPT" #1084637 Bye, Mr. Carman! Thank you. Yes, clutch is dead, orange vest man (Tracy).
  31. Miata gave up. Never seen it rev up so high, like a Harley. Not budging. Not an inch. California Highway Patrolman John Carman is calling..
  32. Police car license # 1148078. (Forgot to ask his name, nice cop!) says he'll push Miata if I get it going, put it in neutral. Fun fun fun
  33. Thinking Miata transmission is finally shot. Stranded on 580. Ah, a kindly cop is walking over. Stay tuned.
  34. Note to self: ask dad about his frequent trips in the 80's to Bergen, Norway, and details of his oceanographic research vessel project.
  35. Dinner inspiration: "It's principle to get used to be pot stewed. It's paste edible oil to boil over 100°C. The food must be attention to.."
  36. @maggilista Indeed! Speaking of princes, yours is as dapper as ever. A delightful lunch it was. Adore your cartoon habitat. Enjoy Costa Rica
  37. In 2020, everyone on this globe will simply go by "JT". James Thomas, Jin Tao, Jung Trio, Junpei Todoroki, Jacques Torres... Juegos Tontos:)
  38. Overheard at the Berkeley Rose Garden, (my first bike ride there)"..nice, but I still love my pathetic rose more." http://tinyurl.com/oczd9s
  39. @johnjoe I doubt that the kind of photographer I had in mind was available that day. Perhaps I'll get a decent camera yet, learn to shoot.
  40. (I sorely needed a good photographer for these lovely ladies.) CBC luncheon, Claremont Court, Berkeley, California http://tinyurl.com/r7fk56
  41. 축하 저녁은 오가네갈비. 맛있다. 소주는 "처음처럼." Congratulations, Hugh. Thank you for a tasty dinner. http://bit.ly/RHdIT
  42. @neraff .. Ah ha! I smoked YOU out. Good luck, Ms. President, and let's hope it'll be a good year. Here's to many Berkeley moments. Cheers.
  43. Dreamed of someone else's dream. Le signifiant et le signifié.. Max Klinger, a glove, ice-skating rink, vivid etchings, SF Legion of Honor.
  44. #BlueDay http://tinyurl.com/dcoven. Almost forgot to wish you a good one. Ogled Fabergé eggs, Lalique, no photos allowed SF Legion of Honor
  45. 星際迷航 Star Trek 星 (star) 際 (boundary) 迷 (bewitch) 航 (sail) Between where we were and where we are. So logical. http://tinyurl.com/oaho6f
  46. Never seen such a happy bunch of bankers in my life. Wells Fargo Elmwood, Berkeley, everyone laughing, enjoying working with free ice cream.
  47. What's bugging me: a Saint-Saëns piece, I can't Shazam myself.. do-mi-so-do(high) so-mi(soaring) and repeat. Which piece is it? Twitterers?
  48. @maggilista, thanks! That's hardly likely, though. I know at least one person who's better than I am :) Thought of you the other day re:Swat
  49. That was one glorious luncheon. (Phew, success!) And thank you @mrichtel (no "regular" twitter account?) for wowing the ladies with stories.
  50. Nation: a relatively big group of people organized for mutual protection and profit under a government. Gang: a group of criminals organi...
  51. The GREAT debate for the luncheon: TO USE OR NOT TO USE coffee/tea sets. Caterer wanted carafes at each table. Fresh served from pots it is.