Fire haze

The haze from the County Fire can be seen over San Francisco. It's like a dim sunshine, and the sunsets are yellowish. Spooky.

Free way to the beach

Beach or the freeway? You decide.

No ifs, ands, or butts!

It's funny, but still an actual formal sign, on the Sausalito - San Francisco ferry. Gotta love California.

Zzzzz...

Been a busy day and I'm a tad tired but now I'm on the ferry to check on the house. Sarah's in Seattle.

Native to California

Monterey pines have such archaic look. Almost unreal. This one is by the Aquatic park in SF.

Farming the Plaza

Saturday's edition of Ferry Plaza Farmers Market. Sarah always finds the meat she's looking for here, if you know what I mean.

Beautiful home

Got the opportunity to climb the Corona Heights today with a few friends. San Francisco is such a breathtakingly beautiful city. It never ceases to amaze me.

Once bitten, twice wise

Waiting for Jason & Jill at Veganburg on Haight street.

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Away with the old

I don't know what's going on here but every facelift makes Oakland prettier, something that's badly needed in some parts of the city.

Dad's Day's Dog

When we arrived at Richard's house we were greeted by this lovely pooch. Dad's got himself a doggie? Unfortunately not. It's his neighbor's. But apparently the little Wiener's visiting on a daily basis so we could say Richard's got a part time dog. That's well enough.

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Let's make lemonade!

Gotta love our juicy lemon tree. The fruits are ready to be picked :-)

Busy weekend

North Beach Festival's underway this weekend. We won't be going however as we're planning to spend the precious last days of the week at our house in Sausalito. Oh, and it's Father's Day tomorrow. Richard will be forced to endure our assault :-)

Da Truth!

After Jay and Paul made their respective responses on the false allegations that some techtubers ask for money before they make a coverage of a specific product, Kyle of Bitwit made a rap of it. Enjoy!
 

Slowly emerging

This "iconic" block in North Beach was ravaged by a blaze in March. They try to save as much as possible of the exterior by putting a scaffold on the walls. You may remember the bar "Rogue" where locals could gather to watch all the Giants' games. They had a very nice patio on the back. It's gone now. Totally gone. Sad.

Thanks for what?

I wonder if the scribbler really means this or if it's just irony. The heart makes it tough to decide. Either way, Mr. Trump won't find too many shoulders to lean on here in the Bay Area, that's for sure.

Sunday sun party

As you all know we are partly staying in Oakland this summer as the remodelling takes place with our house in Sausalito. Today we're having a party with friends just for the sake of... partying. We're Californians after all :-)

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Anti glare keyboard anyone?

Linus does now and then find the absolutely adequate remarks while reviewing or previewing hardware on LTT. While Computex 2018 is starting to shut down for this time around, he's throwing some pragmatic question marks at ASUS's all-screen notebook prototype.

What lies beneath

Even Lake Merritt gets its share of "shape-up" in time for the The Warriors Championship parade on Tuesday.

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Union street savory

At the Union Street Festival last weekend I had this halloumi burger. It was the thickest halloumi chunk I ever saw and I had problems with getting my chomps around it. But it was a good one.

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Nearly done

Our neighbors' remodeling of their house is almost finished. I can't decide if I totally adore their skewed crib or hate it. Sarah is totally mute. I know what that means...

Trail starts here...

While Sarah's working on a job in Las Vegas I'm about to explore the Red Rock Canyon National Observational Area. All by myself. Awesome. We're driving back to SF after lunch though. An 8-hour drive.

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Happy Memorial Day

We're wishing you all a happy Memorial Day.

Per & Sarah

Good Saturday morning in Santa Rosa, CA

It's Memorial Holiday weekend and we've stayed the night at Riley's and Kristen's place in Santa Rosa. Gotta love the silver palm tree in their garden :-)

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Back in black

Good morning ya'll. Elric has been sick for quite some time as you know, but now he's back in black. It's good to see him happy and full of energy again. Check out this impromptu Q&A with Kyle and Paul :-)

Ferry trivia

On the Sausalito ferry there's a little corner on the upper deck that seems to have been forgotten in time. Looks like a snapshot of the eighties.

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Festival season

It's festival season and Union street festival is around the corner. Jake's brother is going to perform and we've got some nice discounts. Just contact me or Sarah if you want to join us :-)

Time to get up, baby

Good Sunday morning, Paris.

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An icecream, maybe?

Gorgeous summer day in the City of Romance.

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AF 1063

Somewhere over Sweden on the Friday evening flight to Paris.

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Paul's faceware

I've enjoyed Paul Heimlich's videos for a few years now. He's great. Why? Because despite all the tech hardware he's throwing our way with competence and enthusiasm he also got that soft teddybear-y vibe about him. This is him (and his wife) having fun for the sake of April Fools' Day where they put this "other side" of Paul in full swing.

Happy Easter

A Happy Easter everyone. Jake keeps chucking drone footage our way. This one is over Haight Ashbury and the Panhandle with downtown SF in the background.

Hard tubes

Some bromance right here: Jay helps Josh to bend a hard tube "for the first time". Enjoy!

Get off of my tail!

We're all doomed. Especially if we bully them with hockey sticks.

Cheers!

Beer in the loop? Probably not a good idea. But what if? Watch Jay do what no one else wants to do.

All Hearts' Day

Happy Groundhog Day

Sunshine or overcast. Spring is here, right?

Happy MLK Day!

Jake sent me a nice drone photo of our beautiful City. This is how The City looks in wintertime.

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Happy New Year!

It's been a gorgeous last day of 2017 in Paris. Springlike and mild. Happy New Year everyone from both of us. We love you all!

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Point & shoot

Hey, over here honey!

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Spring on New Year's Eve

Now this is exactly what you want on New Year's Eve when it's 59 degrees (15 Celsius) in Paris. Sitting at a café outdoor. Getting a whiff of Spring...

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"Romantic view" in a romantic city

Sarah's a bit peeved because of the cranes obstructing the view from our hotel. And because of me telling you about it. Welcome to my blog, btw ;-)

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Good Yule!

Merry X-mas! Jay went Santa at the Micro Center. Sweet.

Tank God for Fractal Design

Back in early September Kyle built a PC in a fast going yacht. This time around he's got help from Jay. On a tank. Yep, that's right. They're building a high end PC on top of a TANK.

'Tis the season

The happy holidays approach...

Photos: Awkward Family Photos

Sunday flight

The flight from Paris today was a bit messy. Sundays are the worst.

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Jason's here!

Jason's here! And he's just as happy to see Philippe as I am to see Jason. Great fun! :-)

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Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm in it for the turkey...

Photo: Awkward Family Photos

A new world record

Did you know that a blowtorch and vaseline are essential to extreme overclocking? Watch Jay and Vince have a go on the Kingpin.

Salesforce Tower has wings

SF Gate published a cool pic of our new behemoth Salesforce Tower today. There's apparently some force emanating from it. Check the article out HERE.

Trickin' the Hall of Weenies

Happy Halloween! No decorations on our house this year as neither me nor wifey is in the US. But we're still celebrating it the good ol American way. Love from both of us to all of you.

Fire, smoke and ashes

Being far away from our California home it feels terrible to see all the apocalyptical photos being streamed on the Bay Area news channels. North Bay is on fire. Parts of Santa Rosa are ashes. Man, the weather gods and Mother Nature aren't happy with us this very year. Natural disasters seem to be the order of the day...

Photo: California Highway Patrol

Coffee any good?

Coffee Lake is here. The embargo is off and Jay takes an initial look at the new i7-8700K cpu.

On review bombing

So your favorite game or the game you're investigating prior to a purchase is suddenly dropping in user review score on Steam? Or maybe you didn't notice the drop because... this was the first time you were looking into the game and decided to skip this one because of the bad review score?

Steam is implementing a review bombing graph which enables the customer to see when exceptionally good or bad reviews have been posted.This as a response to the Pewdiepie controversy where Campo Santo issued an DMCA takedown notice against his Firewatch videos. Apparently a lot of Pewdiepie fans went mad and review bombed tons of bad scores on Steam, and by that lowered the overall score of Firewatch. With the new graph, customers can see if bad scores have been posted in a short period of time and make their own opinion on why this is. If a game gets bad (or even good) reviews in a short period of time, something can be fishy. In this way Steam adds a layer of "caution" for the customer to consider before pushing - or refraining from - that lovely purchase button.

Celebrating a secret mining operation

In case you missed Kyle's hilarious fail the other day. Here's Steve's response to why Kyle popped the bottle. Secrets... secrets...

Just for the fun [pain] of it

Kyle just released a silly video on building a high end PC in a yacht on the choppy ocean waters of SoCal. For a pc hardware enthusiast this is pure torture.

SFO

Leaving for Copenhagen today at 5.35 pm. Sarah already left for Hong Kong at 1.30 pm and I have 4 hours to kill. Well I ventured outside the terminal building but guess what, it was almost empty. It is CRAZEEE HOT! No one with their sanity intact wants to be outside. Not even a sun lover like me. Sorry SF, I'm leaving you for a fall-like Europe...

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Good night, Bay Area

The sun is going down over Cleveland Heights in Oakland this freakishly hot Friday. And tomorrow is forecast to be even hotter... We're spending the night here in our rental instead of our house in Sausalito as we had to leave the car back home. Now we simply just Uber our way to SFO tomorrow. Convenient!

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104 degrees [EDIT: 106 degrees]

104 degrees (40 C) in San Francisco today September 1st. We're melting away even at the Bay shoreline...

[EDIT: actually 106 (41 C) according to NWS. All-time record]

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Ice cream to beat the heat

Bay Area is extremely hot at the moment. And in Sausalito Lappert's Ice Cream is doing great!

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All those photos

Smile, you're in Sausalito!

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