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Concert re-cap

Bjork Concert was FLIPPIN Great… Met folks at the 21st Amendment for a couple of beers and then headed down to Pier 30 for the Concert. For those of you who haven’t been out here – Pier 30 is right out on the bay smack dab between the bay bridge and the new ball park.. Gorgeous… Warm summer night (till the sun went down then it got chilly)… Hung out with friends and had a few more beers. The crazy lady came on right after the sun went down and she was phenomenal… Her music is beautiful and creepy and she is a fascinating woman – really quirky but really fun… Anyway – if you can see her definitely check it out.. if not here is a teaser of the pictures from the show:

Bjork Concert on Pier 30

Bjork

I’m stoked… We’re going to see Bjork tonight. As is, it seems, the rest of San Francisco… Should be fun and silly! 🙂

Friday Five – Travel

1. What’s the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?
Most recent trip was at the beginning of July to New York – New York City and Fire Island specifically. Most recent trip out of the country wwas over the holidays – Kevin and I took two weeks and went to Paris, Cologne, Berlin, and Amsterdam. Was WONDERFUL (though REALLY Damn Cold)

2. What’s the most bizarre/unusual thing that’s ever happened to you while traveling?
Lord.. Probably the strangest on a trop to Europe right after College. My buddy Marshall and I were traveling around Europe on a Eurail pass and were woken up in the middle of the night on a train from Berlin to Budapest to a conductor speaking a language we didn’t understand. We both though our german had gotten really bad but, as it turns out, he was Czech and was telling us our tickets were no good in the Czech Republic. He was a facinating man and did his best to explain without speaking a word of english or german that we needed to get off the train in Prague and transfer to get out of the Czech Republic before going into Slovakia. He gave us a ‘magic ticket’ which, once we found someone who spoke German, we discovered got us to Vienna for free.. TOTALLY confusing but a fun little adventure anyway..

3. If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?
I’ve ALWAYS wanted to go exploring the mountains and forrests of South America. In particular I would love to see Peru, Brazil, and Argentina. I would LOVE to take off a year and vanish down there..

4. Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?
When in Europe where the rail system works and I have plenty of time I prefer the Train. In the US when I have plenty of time I prefer Car. Both because I LOVE having time to see the countryside. When I only have a week for vacation Plane is the only option..

5. What’s the next place on your list to visit?
TOTALLY depends on when Kevin gets more vacation time stored up.. Probably will be around the holidays so we’re going somewhere warm where we can sit on the beach and drink Margaritas… Mexico probably.

Art / Photography

Went to an Art / Photography show tonight at Kevin’s office. Gensler has started an artists series where they show art from various artists in their office space four times a year and on the first day of each showing they have a reception with the artist that is open to the public. This month’s display was from Madeleine Isom and it was outstanding. She was showing black and white photography of very geometric architectural structures. She had a number of outstanding ones from around San Francisco and she had a few that were of the World Trade Center. Most were of small segments of the actual buildings and were very simple and geometric.. Very nice…

If Kevin will let me I’ll post information about the next show…

(I just noticed that she has most if not all of the images that she was showing on her web site above… check ’em out)

Blog sillyness

I added one more bit on here today… Have to see if anyone can figure out what it was… 😉

Geek / Blog Tool

Surfing around this morning bloggy pointed me at a tool called phntoolbar that looks REALLY useful. Among other things it will let you debug your layout by outlining the HTML elements on your site so you can see where the bounds of one element stop and another start. I’ve had a hell of a time getting some of my elements to function the way I’ve wanted them to so this will come in really handy… Looks like this is confined to Mozilla (and not even Camino) which is kind of a drag… But still – better than nothing.. May get me to check things out on browsers other than Safari..

Anyway… Just in case anyone cares..