#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…
#71: Halloween At The Cal Academy Of Sciences.
The California Academy of Sciences is NOT usually the place you’d expect to find: Earthquakes and tremors. A massive aquarium. Wall-to-wall exotic fish tanks. A human brain you could actually touch if you so desired. (yes, really) A tastefully done drag queen contest. Crazy costumes: two being a rain cloud and bag of jelly beans. Steaming hot pork buns –– lightly baked to perfection –– in the shape of stars and constellations. Star gazing on the…
#70: Carve A Pumpkin, West Coast Style.
It seemed like a brilliant idea at the time to carve a pumpkin and then leave it somewhere unexpected for the world to see. Little did we know it would make us Starbucks-famous. It was Halloween time. Brittany and I were in festive, holiday spirits, sipping our hot Americanos and piping foam lattes. And the Palo Alto Farmers Market was inspiring enough with children’s costumes, pumpkin-infused everything and endless sightings of Starbucks cups. Swapping glances as we walked…
