Kokochi

Murder of Crows

At the Hemlock. With visiting Ms. Jen (Black Phoebe) who has a Nokia like mine (see the pic of its tiny glow?) and promptly moblogged! Great to hang out personally! And she has a flash! I WANT!

Uncle Dav is fun!

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Izumi (my sister-in-law), Tyler, and Julia leave for Tokyo tomorrow for 1-2 months so the kids can be immersed in Japanese. Last year, Tyler got to spend time in a Japanese kindergarten which improved his Japanese amazingly. In addition, he came back really liking Japan (he was born there, but had become more or less Americanized). Ian will miss them dearly, but this will be good for the kids. I plan to have some good 'ol catch up time with my bro ;)

To see them off, Dav and I visited for dinner. It's so much fun to be around kid energy. The kids were all over Dav - pillow fights, being carried around, and jumping competitions. As Dav said, "I couldn't believe how excited they were. Julia is usually shy, but she was hyperventilating..."

It was entirely C-U-T-E to watch!

Tokyo in our office

Ever since I started at Six Apart, international conference calls have been a part of my job. The craziest was when the company was still small and there weren't a zillion projects, so we'd do "global" calls to cover all offices at once. This would include the U.S., Japan, and Europe. The only decent time for everyone ended up being 10pm 'til midnight for us here. I much preferred that to our poor European colleagues who had to call in at 7am. The calls have always been essential for communication. But now we have a magnificent video system so we can see each other. Sound is great, and talks are more productive. Now only if these got cheap enough so I could do this with my parents...

Another working cat

Remember that working cat at the Market Street furniture store? Found another at a shop on Haight Street. And this cat is a cute relative of Kats and Waka.

p.s. notice how I've been using "cute" a lot? I'm still "ew"-ed out about the dead bodies post.

Cute

IM conversation with Dav as we discuss him picking me up from work.

Context: Waka and Kats get fed a spoonful of their favorite wetfood around evening everyday, which is usually after 6pm or so. Before that, they are most likely napping in my closet.

[16:49] dav: gotta get ready

[16:50] Kokochi: just feed the cats

[16:54] dav: ha, they were both comatose

[16:55] Kokochi: ?

[16:55] dav: i had to wake them up. they're like "uuuhhhh huh, wha? foo food? oh food!"

[16:55] Kokochi: oh, maybe cuz it's a bit earlier today than normal

[16:56] dav: had to wave the food bowls under their noses in your closet

Action!

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Some movie action scene filmed in Potrero Hill. A block away from our house. Scene is a stupid looking hummer jumping over the hill. Anyone driving a hummer is a twirp in my opinion. I imagine this scene is for a not-needed movie.

Happy Bunny sign book

I've been feeling rather squeamish having the previous post's pics up...so I grabbed Ginevra's popular sign book from her desk to get something cute and fuzzy on Kokochi. The bunny is rather twisted itself, but hey, at least it's a bunny!

The Universe Within

A bit gory, but absolutely amazing. The Universe Within exhibit. Couldn't take many pics since I had to be very very discreet...Sorry if this grosses you out.

[UPDATE]

Ugh. Not only is my site showing up when people google this exhibition - ew ew ew - but check this out. I am disgusted. Ugh.

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via my creative brother, Ian.

Never seen before...

OK. I know this is silly, but to me this is new and thus neat: the underbelly of a car. At a garage so JavaFu can get fixed.