Usually when I sit down to write a musing I have some idea of what I’ll talk about, but I don’t usually end up talking about it in the way that I originally thought I might. This week I have nothing in mind, really, mostly because my mind is a pile of tired mush from [...]

20 February 2007 Saratoga at Markeroni I did the Saratoga walking tour last Tuesday, which very cleverly takes you up a long but not particularly steep hill, down a very steep hill, and then back on a gentle downhill incline. Yay for clever walking tour designers! I parked in the public parking lot just as [...]

It is sometimes possible for a motorcyclist to get very, very wet over a period of, say, five minutes. Just sayin’.

Last Saturday I arrived at the Clamper dedication a little early, so I sat next to my motorcycle and contemplated the nature of the universe for a while (like, for example, how it could possibly be 75 degrees Fahrenheit in February.) I caught a glimpse of myself in the side cover, splintered into different reflections, [...]

Stop light number 1: the young man on a sports bike vrooms past me to lane-split, then when the lights change he can’t get the right gear and holds up the traffic he’s just lane-split past. Stop light number 2: the young man on a sports bike does a stoppie. His rear tire goes way [...]

In the last couple of weeks there have been news items about body parts that caused a bit of a hoo-ha. For a start, a theatre putting on The Vagina Monologues changed their sign to The Hoo-Ha Monologues in response to a complaint–because heaven forbid that we refer to our body parts by their correct [...]

I was supposed to be leading a ride for the Wind Dancers today. I showed up at the duly appointed time of 09:00, waited the duly appointed half hour (actually, about 40 minutes) and then left at the unduly appointed moment when I realized that nobody else was going to show up. My only company [...]

15 February 2007 A week or so back Mary said that she had a need to be in the Oakland Museum of California on the 15th, for a lecture on amphibians, and invited along anyone who wanted to come. Thus it was that with some to-ing and fro-ing of emails, I joined her and Joe [...]

I was going to post one of my pictures from last year’s trip to Nevada, because there was an awful lot of sky there. But then I was looking for historical markers in San Jose; the day started with a beautiful blue sky and then suddenly turned gunpowder gray. I spotted the contrast with the [...]