#77: Make A Cork Board From CA Wine Corks.
I’ve been wanting to make a cork board for ages… The do-it-yourself, cork-by-cork kind that takes a rainy Saturday to do. Today, I guess the rain gods heard me, or so it seemed. 20 minutes into Saturday farmers market mode, they opened up the skies right on the Ferry Building and pummeled the tents and ash-colored pavement all around me with dampening, disheartening precipitation. Discouraged by the rain and lack of sunny faces, I wrapped up…
#75: Hang Ten At The Santa Cruz Surf Museum.
In my next life –– the one after world traveler –– I want to be a pro surfer. The beach bum, tiki shack, wine drinking, totally rad kind who makes a living surfing by day and selling sand dollars by night. Looking outside now at the rainy day outside, I’m reminded exactly why I sand and flip-flops make for the perfect second life. Last weekend, Brittany, Paul (one of my new favorite couples) and I went to Santa Cruz, a…
#74: Six Degrees Of Separation In SF.
After four hours of networking, hob-knobbing and mingling at the Social Media Club of San Francisco’s biggest event of the year, “Social Media and the News” last night, I discovered a stark reality about social networking: The proximity of interacting online and offline in social media is a lot closer than we think. About six degrees of separation closer. By some way of introduction, friend-of-a-friend connection, or chain of six total steps, we were all somehow “Six Degrees of Separation” from…
#73: Late-Night Roadtrip To Wine Country.
Last night, two friends, Brittany and Paul, and I took an impromptu, last-minute road trip to wine country to drop off a friend of theirs visiting one of the wineries. What we found was a confluence of the observable and the intangible in one fantastic wine experience. Three and a half hours, some new wine friends, 1 delicious truffle bar, 1 fire pit, 8 glasses of shared wine and countless poisonous jellyfish later, we discovered the…