Arrival at WordCamp 2007
July 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Casey, Matt, and I are all at WordCamp 2007 this weekend in San Francisco, CA.
For the moment I’m most excited about hearing John C. Dvorak speak in person. I’ve been paying attention to what he says about tech since 1997 on ZDTV when I was first getting interested in technology. Now I tune in weekly to hear him on TWiT.
This is also my first time in San Francisco, so I’m hoping to get a chance to check out a bunch of the city too.
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San Diego Zoo
November 16, 2004 | 1 Comment
The San Diego Zoo has definitely earned it’s reputation as one of the best zoos in the entire world. Zach and I spent last Friday wandering around the zoo and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. Some of the animals were a little disappointing, like the giant pandas, who receive all kinds of hype, but aren’t really all that interesting to watch. Some of the other animals pleasantly surprised us though. The polar bear exhibit was quite good. The observation room was half under water and half above water. One polar bear in particular was extremely playful. We must have stood and watched that bear play with a large plastic toy (it looked like a 3 foot gray Tylenol pill) for 20 minutes. He swam and dove and tossed that toy all over the place. The entire crowd thought he was great. The tiger was another great exhibit because one of the tigers decided to pace directly in front of the observation window. We watched him for quite a while as well.
The zoo is enormous, and it was quite a challenge to find the best path through the zoo with a minimum of back-tracking. Unlike most zoos, the San Diego zoo is not set up so that you can just walk in a circle around and see everything.
So, if you ever find yourself in the San Diego area, reserve a day to treat yourself to the San Diego Zoo (and if you have time, take another day to check out the park that the zoo is in, Balboa Park - it’s got tons of museums and a botanical garden.) Oh, and don’t forget to check out the pictures from the zoo in our image gallery!
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