The Couch Potato

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On the field for the pre-game ceremony. Immediately after this shot was taken, Tim Lincecum started giving up bombs. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Curt’s posterous

Yellow crooked neck squash. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Curt’s posterous

Another fucking coffee shop. Sent from my iPhone Posted via email from Curt’s posterous

Our friends came over to make tamales.

We just got back from Pebble Beach – down in Monterey – where we watched Tag Ridings play in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. We had a great weekend, ate some great food and enjoyed some spectacular scenery. We’re home safe and sound, but completely exhausted. Tag’s an old family friend who is back on [...]

Went to Tahoe last weekend. We rented a ski house in Truckee large enough to sleep eight. We wound up with nine. It was a bit of a hassle getting up there because it was snowing like crazy on the Friday we drove up. And anyone who has made that trip down I-80 over Donner [...]

As I do almost every weekday, I took casual carpool from Oakland to San Francisco. As always, I got picked up by some random stranger, along with another casual carpooler. The usual etiquette dictates the driver play mostly talk radio (NPR preferred) or reasonably mellow tunes. Sure, folks bend the rules sometimes. So you wind [...]

Last week was Macworld Expo, which is always – without fail – the wildest week of the year. There was Steve Jobs’ keynote address on Tuesday. I spent pretty much that entire day chained to my computer, updating our live update article. Then stories started rolling in fast and furious throughout the day. Tuesday ended [...]

A very merry holiday season, indeed. Had a very relaxing Christmas at home. No family obligations, so Ann and I did our own thing. We ate delicious fresh crab and shrimp on Christmas Eve, keeping with my family tradition. And we opened a few presents. Then on Christmas morning we opened the remaining gifts and [...]