Mon 01.23.12 - This morning 7:41am GMT (11:41pm PST last night) was the exact New Moon that brings in the Lunar / Chinese New Year as celebrated by billions of folk worldwide. Lovely photos of celebrations over at The Atlantic's In Focus.
Happy Year of the Water Dragon to you and yours!
Sat 01.21.12 - Today Erika, Scruffy, and I drove my brother's truck from the Los Angeles area up to Pleasanton, California, to Vicky and Ed Wilson's for a short visit and to pick up some furniture. It was a short trip, enlivened greatly by Erika using my mobile to check into the most fun and/or bizarre venues on Foursquare.
The above photo was my favorite from the weekend, taken with walking Scruffy in Buttonwillow with my Nokia N8.
Wed 01.18.12 - Today was the day that many websites, large & small, blacked out and linked folks to information on protesting the current bills before the US Senate on SOPA/PIPA.
The most cohesive messages today were from Google, Wikipedia, and the EFF. If you haven't been following the debate, go read those links.
The best cartoons of the day were from The Oatmeal and Ed Stein.
Sun 01.15.12 - I am 13 days behind in blogging the photos from my holiday to London & Edinburgh. It was a vacation in every sense, including a vacation from my blog. Oops.
I took over 500 photos, but will in the next few days post the best and the brightest of the lot here along with some text for each day.
Please excuse me while I now succumb to jet lag and fall asleep at least two or three hours before my normal bedtime.
Photo of my Mom watching the surf and Scruffy watching the road taken this afternoon on the edge of Dog Beach with my Nokia N8.
Photos taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N8.
Photos taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N8.
Photos by Ms. Jen with her Nokia N8.
Mon 01.02.12 - It must be a warm winter as a camellia bush in Bayswater is already in full bloom.
Today I had the opportunity to go with Alison Austin and Andy Budd to the Grayson Perry 'The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman' exhibition at the British Museum and then to the Teddy Bear Tea afterwards in the 3rd story cafe.
The exhibition was wonderful, humorous, thoughtful, and many layered; go see it. I have a new favorite artist thanks to Alison!
Best part of writing this blog post is discovering that Grayson Perry's teddy bear, Alan Measles, has a blog.
Sun 01.01.12 - New Year's Day 2012 was a day of bringing in the social new year with several lovely friends: I had dim sum lunch at the Imperial China in SoHo with FJ van Wingerde, then FJ took me to Maison Bertaux for tea and cake where Helen Keegan met up with us for a good conversation and more tea, then I took a bit of a convoluted train trip (due to signal problems) to Blackheath to have dinner with the newlyweds Cami and Alan. It was a truly lovely day.