on sunday, april 29th, at 3:42am, a tanker truck carrying 8600 gallons of gasoline crashed and exploded, causing the collapse of the 580 freeway overpass onto I-880. the accident occurred in oakland bordering emeryville near the entrance of the bay bridge toll plaza to san francisco. the truck d...  read more

i went to the flickr birthday party at the yerba buena center of the arts in san francisco. flickr turned the terrific *threes*! met lots of great cool flickr peeps and took a bunch of lame-o pictures. everyone there had super serious cameras i felt like such a lightweight amongst the sea of *rea...  read more

today i was really excited because i was going to get my brand new camera, my canon g7. this was going to replace my ancient canon s10 that i got years ago.  so i couldn't wait to take it with me on my walk  to the bay. i took a few pix and decided to upload them to flickr. also, i ...  read more

today i took the bart to the city to try get a rare glimpse of the grande dame of cruise vessels, the queen mary two. when i got to the ferry building and look down the embarcadero, and i was amazed at the enormity of the ship. even from this distance i was able to catch a peak of the top of th...  read more