Rebel Prince

I’ve been fiddling around with SignMaker (link via Michael at Boulevard St Michel). If I can’t be outside in the gorgeous weather having fun, I might as well try and have some fun indoors.

California Interstate 280 is the major freeway closest to my parents’ house in Daly City. My final quarter at Stanford, I didn’t live on campus, so I commuted every day, driving on the very scenic 280, which runs alongside San Andreas Lake and Crystal Springs Reservoir.

Speaking of the scenic Bay Area, there’s an amazing collection of photos at the California Coastal Records Project. In a few photos you can make out my old high school in the Sunset district of San Francisco (shown in the central photo on this page as a few of the buildings and open space taking up a few blocks slightly right of center). This photo, which includes Ocean Beach at the bottom, makes the school look steps away from the Pacific, but it’s a long walk. Trust me.

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Thom is in the Times! Last week he was contacted by a reporter doing a piece on dudecheckthisout.com, “a new free service that allows users to collect and share links with just a few clicks,” and the article appears in today’s edition in the Technology section (“Online Diary,” under “Try This Link, Dude”). An excerpt follows, which I’ve annotated with the corresponding links to Thom’s pages (those weren’t provided in the online version of the article):

Thom Watson, a technology manager in Washington, is an experienced blogger who longed for a better way to keep track of notable sites. “I keep my blog mostly for personal thoughts,” he said. “I wanted a really easy way to collect links by topic and comment on them.”

Mr. Watson now maintains three MyBlog pages, on general topics, modern architecture, and the Toyota Prius. Better yet, the service sends him suggestions on sites of potential interest based on similarities between his postings and those on other MyBlogs. There’s even a social-networking aspect that links users based on their contact lists.

Cool! By the way, as Thom pointed out to me this morning, his “Sputnik” page, which covers retro, mid-20th-century design, is described in the piece as being on “modern architecture.” So okay, maybe “modern” when cast against the long march of history, yes. But not solely architecture.

Hm, I think I’ll go out and find a print copy of the Times right now. Shall I start a scrapbook?

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