I Am A Hutterite, Mary Ann Kirby Publishers Weekly: This sweeping prairie memoir, self-published in Canada in 2007, rapidly garnered both commercial and literary applause. Recounting […]
Author: Sam
Sergeant William Fraass Get A Real Job
Yesterday afternoon I was riding home from work, as I do most days when it’s not raining. As I was making my way into Sausalito […]
Mets and Madoff
Tropical Cyclone Yasi
Poor Queensland: some of the worst floods ever recorded and now Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi – a category four – is about to pummel the […]
Sausalito Excursion
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 […]
A Day In San Francisco
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 […]
CFTC Still Losing Its Mind…
Milk Mouth
Byron Wien Announces The Ten Surprises for 2011
Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory Partners, today issued his list of The Ten Surprises for 2011. This is the 26th year Byron has […]
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?
Mill Valley Rains
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 […]
