Here is a video of me skydiving for the first time on my 30th birthday. This is a highly recommended experience.

 

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I had been hired to mentor and tutor a 14 year old boy by his divorced mom, an interior designer and Burner.  After a few months, things had only gone OK w/A.  While he was doing better in school, he was still principally concerned with WoW.  I changed gears…working as business and technology consulting for […]

Walking to Mama Buzz from the WC, I first saw a skinny man, elderly and black, wearing faded blue overalls spattered with white.  Though I am friends with hundreds of artists and have been to countless art shows over the past 10 years, this homeless guy has to be my favorite Oakland artist.  This was […]

Living in the midst of build out is no fun.  Hazardous and dirty, it’s a physically and psychologically grueling challenge (and great fun besides).  Imagine:  you and nine other people dragging all your crap to an empty warehouse.  There’s no bathroom, kitchen, hardly any windows and just a few lights and electrical outlets.  You have […]

Looking for jobs on CL, I remember vividly the day I chose to no longer be anyone’s employee.  I had worked in landscaping and as a handyman/laborer in the summertime when out of school.  I had also worked on and off as a technology contractor since 1997. So I was familiar with the idea of […]

On a whim I began an apprenticeship at a hair salon in San Francisco. I was impressed by the job in the sense that I saw how one could make good money doing something creative and fun on a flexible schedule. There was a staff of 15 – it’s a well-known and high […]

Amendment I: Congress shall make no law…
prohibiting or abridging the freedom…
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble…
and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The word was circulating around campus – there was going to be a huge protest in Seattle, a multi-front demonstration against the WTO. I was studying […]