Category Archives: Life

September 29

San Francisco at Night

A view of the Bay Bridge Lights

September 28

“Danny and Annie” from StoryCorps

True love should be as committed and sacrificial as this. What if this video was required as pre-marriage counseling for every young couple in the world? We think it could do some serious good. Pass it on.

September 22

Sunset in San Francisco

Sunset on another wonderful weekend in San Francisco.

September 15

San Francisco Street View: Butter

“Deep in the health-conscious heart of San Francisco stands a monument to the inner fat kid we abandoned to go live in the Bay called Butter.” Vice Magazine nailed why I love my favorite neighborhood hangout and find myself there at every opportunity. Last night I hung out there with my favorite girls. Butter is part […]

September 13

Voyager Captures Sounds of Interstellar Space

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft captured these sounds of interstellar space. Voyager 1’s plasma wave instrument detected the vibrations of dense interstellar plasma, or ionized gas, from October to November 2012 and April to May 2013. The graphic shows the frequency of the waves, which indicate the density of the plasma. Colors indicate the intensity of […]

September 12

The Unofficial Goldman Sachs Guide To Being A Man

  via Business Insider. We’ve all seen and perhaps grown tired of guides and lists that are rife with tedious clichés and full of humdrum regurgitated meme wisdom. For that very reason, @GSElevator — in collaboration with John Carney (@Carney) of CNBC.com — presents a fresh, and hopefully thoughtful, look at what it means to be a man today. Stop […]

September 11

The Falling Man

  via Esquire. Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day. Follow Tom Junod on […]

September 10

Soulmate

  “San Francisco has only one drawback – ’tis hard to leave.” – Rudyard Kipling

September 04

How to Write Hugely Successful Young Adult Novels

Originally posted on Knowingly Undersold:
So, you want to rake in that sweet YA coin, do you? Chronologically, it’s the last age group where you can guarantee some level of readership, so it makes sense. Once you leave this demo everyone is distracted by going to college, getting hammered, taking pregnancy tests, and gaining weight/losing…

August 31

Video Commentary on our Society

Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts, a man far ahead of his time.