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Me and seven of my most intrepid friends went camping this weekend at Big Trees. Our stuff got tossed around by a bear cub that we dubbed Floyd — he put minor slashes in my tent and broke one of the poles while we were away hiking around Lake Alpine on Saturday. An inconvenience to be sure, but everything turned out ok. In other news, here’s what I’m reading these days: Taco truck sales divide Salinas Latinos (SJ Merc, June…

Me and some friends are headed to the Sierras to go camping this weekend. Then I’m back working in Oakland early this next week, then I’m off to Europe (mostly Estonia) July 5-31.

Wired News: by Cyrus Farivar June 26, 2007 There’s an old saying: “Everything’s bigger in Texas.” That now applies to supercomputers as well. Sun Microsystems announced today that its hardware will power the largest supercomputer ever built, weighing in with 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of memory, 1.7 petabytes of disk space, and 504 teraflops of performance. The computer, which has been dubbed “Ranger,” will be hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, Austin. It…

Today: Teotihuacan. No rain. Pyramids are huge and literally awesome. Walked around Zona Rosa and Insurgentes. Had some cafe con leche at a place called Gabi’s on the corner of Napoles and Liverpool and played cards. Tomorrow: Museums and then a lucha libre match downtown. (Yes!) Wednesday: Markets, drinks with Franc, and dinner with Ruben et al. Thursday: More museums, walking around, last minute shopping and a baseball game. Friday: I’m home.

I can’t think of a better breakfast than a guajolota, a tamal, drenched in salsa verde, encased in a fluffy torta roll for convenience and mobility. The price? About eighty cents. (Eight pesos.) As I sit in this cybercafe, it’s happily settling in my stomach. My flight, although it was delayed and the passport line at the Mexico City airport was quite long, went off without a hitch. Ruben, our host, and Martin met me at the airport. We hopped…

I’m in Mexico City until Friday. See you then!

Wow, now I’ll never get anything done ever again. Still, who wants to play?

I’m in Santa Monica all weekend. Will be in Oaktown by midday on Monday. Also, Highway 46 is one of the scariest stretches of road I’ve ever driven at night. It’s a two lane highway that’s really dark at night, and super far from everything.

Todd Lappin managed to find some really neat snapshots of the Bay Bridge under construction from a local electrician who moonlights as a photog. I’m a union electrician (Local 6 San Francisco). I’m the guy on the job who will climb anything, anywhere, so I usually get really good jobs. A lot of guys are afraid to climb tower cranes and hang off walls, but I have no fears as of yet (except roaches). I started taking pictures at work…

Becky and I just got back from a week-long trip to New York. Here are a few highlights: