2017
I'm going to jump on the bandwagon early to send good tidings to one of the...
smartest, most driven and most passionate people I know. Happy birthday, Bonk! Our beleaguered world needs more folks like you.🎈
Make America Kittens Again
Adorable Tomasina, available for adoption at the SFSPCA. / America, lend me your ear. / This has got to stop. We've fallen prey to the greatest con…
Bonk seen lunching with the Lab Zero team last Friday!...
(Photo credit to the amazing Michael Jelks: https: / www.instagram.com/bicyclelad
Chef-Ray Plosscowe and Genevieve dancing...
Click for video:Chef-Ray Plosscowe and Genevieve dancing al fresco at lunchtime to Blind Lemon Pledge!Chef-Ray Plosscowe and Genevieve dancing al…
Another Cat's Corner, another Sara/Fiamma moment. This time: accidental...
inverted twinsies.
I'm always looking for...
From Jun 28, 2017, 9:00 PM to Jun 29, 2017, 12:00 AMI'm always looking for an excuse to wear a tuxedo!
I designed and built a giant wooden Connect-4 board as a gift for our...
daughter's promotion to middle school.
How I Quit Email (and You Can Too)
CC0 Public Domain / Today, email turns 44 years old. / If that doesn't already sound odd, consider this: We upgrade our smartphones and laptops every…
To cap off a great weekend celebrating with sushi, kava kava, gifts and...
family time, Carroll and I had dinner at Bix Restaurant followed by dancing to The Cosmo Alleycats. My friends Melodie Lee and Joaquin Cunanan…
Check out my daughter's haunting vocal on this Bruno Mars...
Click for video:Check out my daughter's haunting vocal on this Bruno Mars cover we recorded tonight, "When I Was Your Man"Check out my daughter's…
#WFH today, partly from my back deck. I was visited by a green hummingbird...
(who was too quick for me and thereby not featured in this photo). According to spirit-animals.com, hummingbirds are a "messenger of hope and…
Perhaps Trump's biggest disservice to this country is that he's distracting...
us from what's really wrong with our government: pay to play politics.
In Explaining Why He Sacked Comey, Trump Borrows From Mein Kampf
Be forewarned: I'm going to compare Trump to Hitler, again. Before accusing me of violating Godwin's Law, please understand that his "law" refers to…
Zomg, our daughter made seven-layer cookies this weekend. Best ones I've...
ever tasted (and trust me I've tasted many).
In both reality and in metaphor there is no better way for me to celebrate...
our wedding anniversary than to experience the #superbloom from the ridge of the Tam Watershed with my wife of 13 years.
An Unlikely Cure for Procrastination
“It always seems impossible until it's done.” —Nelson Mandela / We all have tasks that—for whatever reason—we just don’t want to do. / They might be…
When you find your daughter's April Fools' Day joke a week lateWhen you find...
When you find your daughter's April Fools' Day joke a week late
Here's something good about San Francisco (and our beleaguered country):...
): listening to local legend and ace of bass Pam Brandon singing the national anthem at her own citizenship ceremony.
The Quest for Better Tests
Over the past twenty years, I’ve written my fair share of unit tests, mostly just covering the happy path and sending in some bogus inputs to test…
I made up a drink tonight: The Angry Vegan-American Coffee
1c unsweetened almond milk / 2 shots of espresso / 4oz bourbon / Shake over ice, garnish with whipped cream, a cinnamon stick and a sprinkling of…
Good on You, Good Eggs
Ordering is a piece of cake using Good Eggs' responsive web site or iOS app / Even the most saintly among us have experienced schadenfreude, the act…
Not my best wave, but the best one ever caught on video (h/t...
Click for video:Not my best wave, but the best one ever caught on video (h/t Carroll)Not my best wave, but the best one ever caught on video (h/t…
I Made my Wife a Bot for Valentine's Day
This morning I rolled out Tink, a simple interactive chatbot I wrote for my wife as a gift for Valentine's Day. / Every few days, Tink will text my…
SpotifyChrisB's iTunes, a playlist by Chris Bucchere on...
Spotifyhttps: / open.spotify.com/user/1241621489/playlist/6lZT3dNpKIgwiMo7Sqtyqy
Fall down 69 times, get up 70. Happy birthday to a model father, always...
ready with a witty aphorism for every situation. But more importantly always there for us—in every situation! Sending love. 70 more!
SpotifyRob Dehlinger's Teen Years, a playlist by Chris Bucchere on...
Spotifyhttps: / open.spotify.com/user/1241621489/playlist/0vl9caV48NRFwrjGy20K6f
Rainy Day Meatball Pizza
Whaddya supposed to do when it won't stop rainin? Make meatballs, then make meatball pizza, obviously.
2016
Madeline got some firsthand experience with democracy today by helping send...
272 letters to members of the electoral college asking them to reconsider their votes for Trump. There's still time to launch your own letter-writing…
Larry Lessig has pulled together a legal defense team for electors who are...
considering voting with their conscience but worried about legal consequences.
I've been conflicted for a long time about whether to affect change from...
within the broken Democratic Party or from the outside, but now I've decided that Heidi is right. If we stand a chance of defeating the darkness that…
Wishing my father-in-law Rick Leeds a happy 75th birthday...
in the grand Sicilian tradition: a tray of raw meatballs for his next batch of sauce
There's one thing upon which my many writing mentors have unanimously...
agreed: Never (ever, ever) use a Hitler/Nazi/Third Reich metaphor. Now I understand why they told me this. They wanted me—and everyone—to wait for…
Last summer we acquired (for free via NextDoor) a beautiful...
Click for video:Last summer we acquired (for free via NextDoor) a beautiful Cable Company of Chicago "Kingsbury" upright piano with a serial number…
Here's something #notabouttrump: behold tonight's amazing sunset!Here's...
Here's something #notabouttrump: behold tonight's amazing sunset!
