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My second cousin, Karim Sadjadpour, an analyst on Iran, is giving a talk on Iran right here in San Francisco at the World Affairs Council of Northern California. Thursday, July 13 2006 Registration 5:30 PM, Program 6:00 PM, Members – FREE, Nonmembers – $15, Student nonmembers – $5 World Affairs Council Auditorium, 2nd floor, 312 Sutter St., San Francisco

Apparently, I’m not good enough for Wikipedia anymore. Round 1 (Concluded : April 14, 2005) Round 2 (Concluded : August 6, 2005)

My review of Once In A Lifetime is in today’s San Francisco Chronicle. While most soccer fans are enjoying the World Cup, probably only the aficionados among them will remember when Brazilian superstar Pelé took his place as part of a short-lived soccer team in the United States. “Once in a Lifetime: The Incredible Story of the New York Cosmos” tells how that team, made up of all-stars, the likes of which have never been seen since on an American…

Veljo and I walked around Telegraph and around campus this afternoon. Seeing Cody’s in its dying days is quite sad — many of the bookshelves, particularly in the back of the store are totally empty. It looks like they’re going to turn that space into two retail locations. They also had a slide show of some of the early days of Cody’s playing on a computer there — before it was Cody’s it was a Shell station. Who knew? Also…

The so-called Principality of Sealand, seven miles off the coast of Felixstowe and Harwich, was evacuated at lunchtime yesterdayafter a generator caught fire. Thames Coastguard, Harwich RNLI lifeboat, Felixstowe Coastguard rescue teams, firefighting tug Brightwell, the RAF rescue helicopter from Wattisham and 15 Suffolk based firefighters from the National Maritime Incident Response Group (MIRG) were all called into action to tackle the blaze. One man, believed to be a security guard, was airlifted from the scene and taken to Ipswich…

I just read the latest by the Frugal Traveler, signed up for CouchSurfing, and finally descended on the site of Adam Katz, an Oaklander who is currently making his way from Zanzibar back to San Francisco. He’s currently living in Dahab, Egypt, on the Gulf of Aquaba. Damn, I need to get out there. Way out there. ALSO SEE: Thoughts on Wanderlust; December 12, 2005

Every so often you get in a funk with your own music collection and want to listen to something a bit different. After being exposed to Soma FM, courtesy of my co-worker, Curt Poff (who gave me a Soma FM sticker), I finally tuned in. I’ve been loving their Indie Pop Rocks! feed, which is exactly the kind of music I love, but it’s fresh and new every day. I’m sold.

NYT : If the major characters in the migration drama unfolding in Chiapas could be captured in a collage, it would include a burly, white-haired farmer named Eusebio Ortega Contreras, who did not hide that most of the workers who picked mangos in his fields for $6 a day were underage, undocumented Guatemalans. Indians from Chiapas used to do these jobs, Mr. Ortega said. But in the past five years, they have been migrating to the United States. And lately,…

Wikipedia, Bière de Chimay: As with all other Trappist breweries, the beer is only sold in order to financially support the monastery and some other good causes. The brewery business pays rent for use of the property within the abbey, which is used to support the monastic community. All of the profits from the sale of the beer is distributed to charities and for community development around the region.

I have been informed by the powers at 901 Mission St. that my review of Once In A Lifetime will run in the Datebook section of The San Francisco Chronicle on June 26. On a semi-related note, I’m still trying to watch the World Cup on my Mac.