Author: Sam

Bay Area Fried Chicken Guide

Thanks to Francis Tran for forwarding me this link to KQED’s Bay Area Fried Chicken Guide.  Fried Chicken is something that’s always close to my […]

Briones Bomber

KT and I ventured out to Martinez the other day to sample some of the trails at Briones Regional Park, an area of MTB-friendly trails […]

Tomales Point

With our significant others out of town for the long weekend, Jarrid and I ventured to Point Reyes National Seashore yesterday to hike the roughly […]

Commodities and Speculators

An interesting read… “Hard evidence, though, of strong correlations between traders’ positions and price movement is elusive.” Even if there was correlation, I want to […]

Methland

From Publishers Weekly Using what he calls a “live-in reporting strategy,” Reding’s chronicle of a small-town crystal meth epidemic-about “the death of a way of […]

Quiet Before The Storm?

Earlier this week the SNB stopped accepting Irish debt, now Portugese…  Are we in a bit of a quiet lull before the perfect storm?

Early Kirkwood Snow

A vid from when Kevin and I hit some of the early snow at Kirkwood a few weeks back. Kevin has a new helmet camera […]

Happy New Year!

There is one story from our New Year’s Day 2011 I do want to remember.  Connie and Javi got pulled over on the way home […]

Golden Gate Sunrise

With the ferry running on holiday schedule today for New Year’s Eve – holiday schedule means it doesn’t run to the Financial District – I […]

God Is Not One

God Is Not One, Stephen Prothero Expressing his astonishment, Prothero arrives late at the party that has been celebrating for years the diversity and plurality […]

My Father’s Paradise

My Father’s Paradise, Ariel Sabar For almost 3,000 years, a tiny Jewish enclave existed in what is now the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq.  […]