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January 2024

Castro Theater at night in the rain
Welcome to Night Vale World-readable
2024-01-13
Going to the Castro Theater to see this year's Welcome to Night Vale live show
Sun rising at Seabright Beach after the solstice
2024-01-27 17:43:11
Finding interesting works I would have otherwise missed on the Hugo Award shortlist
Tags: books

February 2024

Outside the Winchester Mystery House
Mystery House World-readable
2024-02-18
Visiting the Winchester Mystery House in suburban San Jose
Tags: san-jose
Conservatory of Flowers
Year of the Dragon World-readable
2024-02-24
Ringing in the lunar new year in Chinatown; also the Conservatory of Flowers
Embarcadero Center 1, 2, and 3
Celebration World-readable
2024-02-28
Madonna's Celebration tour in San Francisco

March 2024

San Francisco Soma skyline from the end of Pier 14
The New Normal World-readable
2024-03-06 20:42:19
Four years after the pandemic started
Tags: covid-19
Canyon Express at Heavenly with Lake Tahoe
Heavenly World-readable
2024-03-16
A heavenly early-spring day-trip skiing; and an unfortunate ski bag mix-up
Seabright Beach on a bright spring-like day
Seabright World-readable
2024-03-21 21:10:42
My nearest beach
Big Trees & Pacific diesel locomotive at the Beach Boardwalk
Big Trees and Pacific World-readable
2024-03-30
Riding a train from the Beach Boardwalk to the Big Trees; and also a bonus roller coaster at the Beach Boardwalk

April 2024

Rain looking out the window at SJC
Petersen World-readable
2024-04-04
A last-minute trip to Los Angeles, featuring a car museum packed with movie cars; the perfect place to represent America's love affair with the automobile
Jack Warner's hardbound scripts
Backlot World-readable
2024-04-05
Visiting the Warner Bros lot in Burbank for a movie studio tour
Julian and Calvin with the Hollywood Sign
Observatory World-readable
2024-04-05
An afternoon at the Griffith Observatory
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood Forever World-readable
2024-04-06
Wrapping up two days in Los Angeles
The beginning of the partial solar eclipse
Eclipse World-readable
2024-04-08
Watching this spring's eclipse from Santa Cruz
Tags: eclipse
The Bay Bridge and the Soma Skyline
2024-04-14
Taking a train and a ferry to get to Coit Tower, then climbing all the way to the top
Ride Into History World-readable
2024-04-20
BART's legacy fleet rides into history, carrying trains crowded with fellow transit fans
Tags: bart
Julian and Kiesa in a Waymo concept car
Computer History World-readable
2024-04-27
A family outing to see the Computer History Museum in Mountain View

May 2024

Landscaped path in Presidio Tunnel Tops
Tunnel Tops World-readable
2024-05-18
A new park at the edge of the Presidio
Walking down Main to start Bay to Breakers
Bay to Breakers World-readable
2024-05-19
From the Bay to the Breakers, San Francisco will be (I don't know how to finish this joke and I'm not sure it's even funny)
SS Jeremiah O'Brien at Pier 35
Jeremiah O'Brien World-readable
2024-05-25
Visiting a liberty ship museum ship in San Francisco

June 2024

Waiting for the Santa Cruz Pride parade
Santa Cruz Pride World-readable
2024-06-02
Watching Santa Cruz's pride parade on Pacific Ave
Third Eye Blind on the marquee at Shoreline Amphitheatre
Shoreline World-readable
2024-06-15
Third Eye Blind at Shoreline
Tags: music

July 2024

Fourth of July in Dolores Park
Harbor Queen World-readable
2024-07-04
Observing the Fourth of July with ice cream and a fireworks cruise
Kayak off the coast in Santa Cruz
Harbor World-readable
2024-07-05
Paddling in Monterey Bay from Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor
Tanforan Memorial in San Bruno
The Art of Noise World-readable
2024-07-06
An art exhibition at SFMOMA mixing graphic design, psychedelic rock, industrial design, and engineering
Julian crosses a stream on a log
Mendocino World-readable
2024-07-13
Camping at Van Damme State Park and visiting the town of Mendocino
Walking along the Mendocino Headlands
Rail Bikes World-readable
2024-07-14
Walking along the Mendocino Headlands, and biking on train tracks
Boardwalk through the pygmy forest
Pygmy Forest World-readable
2024-07-15
A forest of tiny trees, wrapping up our time camping at Van Damme State Park on the Mendocino Coast
BARTmobile birthday cupcake
BARTmobile World-readable
2024-07-27
Celebrating BARTmobile's birthday
Tags: bart

August 2024

Waymo pulls up on Van Ness
Robotaxi World-readable
2024-08-03
Riding a Waymo robotaxi in San Francisco
United 787-8 at SFO (N20904)
Worldcon 2024 World-readable
2024-08-07
Flying across the Atlantic to visit Glasgow for Worldcon
757-200 wing descending over the Scottish countryside
Central Belt World-readable
2024-08-08
Landing in Edinburgh and traveling across Scotland's Central Belt to Glasgow for Worldcon
Archive copy of the Hugo Award from Glasgow 2024
2024-08-09
Day two at Worldcon in Glasgow: panels and art and dealers and an organ concert and autographs and ramen and a nerd disco
SEC main concourse
Saturday at Worldcon World-readable
2024-08-10
Saturday at Worldcon in Glasgow: autographs and breakfast and women in military sf and birthing pods
Queue entering the SEC
Hugo Awards World-readable
2024-08-11
Autographs, audio, economics, robots, lunch, wilderness, and Emily Tesh wins the Hugo Award for Some Desperate Glory
At Exhibition Centre heading to the SEC
Riverside Museum World-readable
2024-08-12
The last day at Worldcon in Glasgow; plus a tall ship and a transport museum and a distillery tour
Glasgow Cathedral
City of the Dead World-readable
2024-08-13
Glasgow Cathedral, and the Necropolis, and an abandoned train platform under Glasgow Central, and modern art, and vegan haggis
Dumbarton (in Scotland)
Dumbarton Castle World-readable
2024-08-14
Seeing the original Dumbarton in Scotland; also a cruise on Loch Lomond, and biking along the loch
Rainy New Lanark Road
New Lanark World-readable
2024-08-15
Scotland's industrial history, with a side of imperialism
Glasgow Central main station concourse
Pendolino World-readable
2024-08-16
Taking the train down the West Coast Main Line, and meeting up with old colleagues in London
South Western Railway class 159 DMU at Waterloo
Imberbus World-readable
2024-08-17
Riding vintage Routemaster buses through an artillery training range on the Salisbury Plain to the involuntarily-abandoned village of Imber; also a side quest to an electropop show
Dishoom King's Cross
Down into Down Street World-readable
2024-08-18
Making the most of my last day in London: the Vagina Museum, the Young V&A, and touring the disused Down Street station on the Piccadilly Line
Tags: london
Camden Town Station
Crossrail World-readable
2024-08-19
Flying home from London
Tags: london

September 2024

Bike hanging in the rack on a Capitol Corridor train
Treasure Island World-readable
2024-09-02
Crossing the Bay Bridge on bike (and bus), and riding an exciting new electric train
Caltrain gallery car pulls into Milbrae
Green Day World-readable
2024-09-20
A cultural artifact of my generation
Caltrain EMU #308 at San Jose Diridon
Electric service World-readable
2024-09-22
A new Caltrain train, and an old MUNI streetcar
Entering the apple orchard
Apple Tasting World-readable
2024-09-28
It's fall again so we went picking apples
Waiting for Lord of the Lost at The Independent
Blood and Glitter World-readable
2024-09-28
Seeing a metal band from Eurovision live on stage
Tags: music