Photo Blog: Shelf Road Trail, Ojai
On the Sunday after Christmas, we (Tom, Steve, Sims and I, accompanied by Jefferson, S&S’s chocolate lab) hiked the lovely Shelf Road Trail in Ojai. Below, some iPhone photos from our walk:
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Topa Topa
Sundown, Christmas Day
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Tits
You can purchase this, and similarly imaginative Seb Lester prints, here. You can also follow him on Twitter, where he’s @seblester.
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Interesting Entrees?
For the past two months, I’ve been following a near-Vegan, near-gluten-free diet for two reasons: 1) to improve my general health and minimize chances of further disease and 2) to lose weight. Only time will tell if I achieve goal number 1, although my already-low cholesterol had dropped another three points by my physical last…
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Ethics is Not for Wimps
I’m a longtime fan of Michael Josephson. He’s the founder of the Josephson Institute of Ethics, and provides the “Character Counts” segments to which I listen on KNX radio here in Los Angeles. (He’s also the uncle of a close friend of mine, but I didn’t know that until long after I became a devoted…
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Twitter’s New RT Feature
As my mom likes to say, “there are pros and cons on both sides” to Twitter’s new RT function (at this writing, still being rolled out in Beta). Here are what I perceive them to be at this point. First, the good. It makes the process of retweeting much easier. Just click a button. No…
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To List, or Not to List
Everyone’s all atwitter (forgive the pun) over the service’s new Lists feature. It is, if you will, a glamorized, organized version of the site’s ubiquitous “Follow Friday” meme, in which users recommend people for other users to follow. Some seem to regard the Lists function with a combination of fear and contempt: that it will…
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Hiccup
This is my friend Cliff’s pug, Hiccup. I want to hug him.
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First (Crisis) Epiphany Manifesto
The brilliant poster, designed by LeAnne Wagner, for a Bard College program held earlier this year. It examined ‘the manifesto as a context in contemporary art.”
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Context Is Everything
The five generally agreed-upon human tastes are bitter, salty, sour, sweet and umami. I propose a sixth: Context. Dodger Dogs don’t taste the same at home as they do at Dodger Stadium, even if it’s the same dog, bun and relish. Guinness tastes different at the brewery than it does from the tap at your…
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Gee – Oh! – Location
Twitter is on the verge of implementing a new feature: the ability to automatically append your location (via latitude and longitude) to your tweets. This feature will be affirmatively opt-in. In other words, the default is that the functionality will be turned OFF, and you must request it to be turned on in your settings….
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Smoke-Filled Sunset
The haze from the Station Fire north of Los Angeles causes the sun to cast an orange glow as it sets. Taken in Sherman Oaks, CA on September 1.
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A Partial List of NFL Sponsors
A quick search of the NFL site and of the web has yielded this list of those having sponsorship deals with the NFL. This is by no means a complete list, nor does it take into account the endorsement deals of individual players or teams. Bridgestone Coors Gatorade General Motors IHOP JC Penney Mars Snackfood…
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Twitter’s @Replies Change, Reconsidered
Until fairly recently, if you followed a Twitter account, you were fed every tweet that account made, whether it was a general/broadcast comment, or a response to another tweet (even if you didn’t follow the other person). Many of us, especially in the earlier days of our Twitter membership, used this as a way to…
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Thank you (really)
The joy of having a mailing list with a few hundred recipients is that when I send out news, I get responses. Sometimes, a few hundred of them. That happened most recently when I sent out my “good news to share” missive explaining that I am cancer-free after my surgery. The only problem is that…
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Reflecting
It’s been fascinating and heart-warming to engage with so many people in the middle of the year. I’m used to it at holiday time, this sharing of news and good cheer, but not in July-August. I’m actually having trouble keeping up with all the emails. It’s been fascinating to HAVE to sit back and accept…
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Good News
Dr. Friedman’s office called and asked to move up my post-op to this afternoon. So Tom raced home from work and accompanied me to what turned out to be a very good meeting. The good doctor very happily reported that the cancer was entirely contained within my now-departed uterus. Everything else they sampled turned up…
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Watch Out, Usain Bolt
I walked two laps around Fashion Square today. Oh, all right, with a wee rest in between. But still.
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Home
We arrived home from the hospital a bit ago. Surgery went as well as could be expected. They didn’t have to take my aortic lymph nodes, and the flash freeze of my now-departed pelvic lymph nodes showed no cancer. The full pathology report will come back next week, but we have every reason to be…
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Waiting
We arrived at the hospital at 5:30am as instructed, and are currently in the surgery waiting room. They won’t take me to be prepped until about 6am. I’m finaly feeling a bit nervous – not so much for the surgey itself, bit for what comes immediately after. My stomach is rumbling, an astounding feat considering…
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12 hours, my ass
With apologies for the scatological pun… As a requirement of my surgery, my intestines must be empty. This involves a liquid diet for today and tomorrow. And just to be sure, two 10-ounce bottles of Magensium Citrate. Dr. Friedman suggested that I take the first bottle at bedtime on Saturday night, “as it takes about…
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Post Pre-Op
Had my pre-op with Dr. Friedman yesterday. Naturally, my first question was whether I could bring my laptop/iPhone to the hospital with me. (Yes – as long as Tom is watching it while I’m in surgery/recovery.) He and a nurse-practitioner examined me. He seemed cheerful and optimistic about the surgery. He remains confident that he’ll…
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Florida
The doctors sprung me for our long-planned trip to Florid (read: WDW), from whence I currently post. Not much more news to share until after my pre-op on Tuesday morning…
