2 Posts in one month?

Yes! Donna and I are getting out and doing a lot more recently. We are getting more time to explore the city and the spring is here so fairs and festivals pop up like mushrooms overnight. We tried to hit many of them. While we were at one of the festivals we heard a visitor talking on her cell and she said, "there are festivals everywhere, I'm at one now!" We thought that was funny. Okay on with the pictures!

Jenna pointed out this misspelling of our street when she was out here and I finally took a picture of it.

We get into the Legion of Honor as well as the DeYoung with our pass and they let you take pictures at both of hem. Here is the Security guard on a self proclaimed break.

I really like taking closeups of carvings and sculptures as you will see.

A real Human Skull! Ohhhhh Coool!

I thought this would make a good desktop background. I change mine at work every few days.

I like Mirrors

Jeff and Laural went to the Legion of Honor with us. He likes to ham it up for the camera.

Donna on CalTrain for the first time heading to the Maker Fair

A Maker showing his make to us. This one used RF chips to select Web Pages. A chip is placed on the conveyor belt and the web pages changes. He hopes this idea can be used to make children's toys or make it easier for older people with memory problems to make phone calls or choose TV channels in a very tactile way.

This make is a little steel ball with a motor in it. It rolled around in this sand all day and made cool patterns.

Lots of cool electricity things at the maker fair

Bike tire LEDs. Very popular at Burning Man I hear.

This is a Jeep covered in Legos. Kids could attach more to the Jeep. Legos are very popular with makers.

Some maker fair attendees.

This is my ride to work at 8:50ish am

This is me walking home from work at 5am one morning. We had some long nights but those should be in the past for now.

Donna and I love breakfast

The cute flower at our breakfast table

We went to The Little Chihuahua

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Here is some street art in the Haight

One of the famous Hemp Clinics in the Haight. They may be closing soon. The State and the Feds can't seem to agree with each other and it makes things unclear.

The Flower Conservancy in Golden Gate Park

More

We got to go to an Indy 4 Premier up here and they had a nice luncheon with props from the movie. Here is The Arc from Indy 4 and Indy 1

My friend and co-working Julio with his wife Gena.

A woman waiting for the bus

Politics everywhere. There is going to be a big vote on rent control in the city. Right now rent control is in full effect in older buildings. They can only raise the rent by 2% a year.

Breakfast in The Mission District

We went to the Carnival Festival in The Mission. San Francisco has many fine policemen and woman. I think they do a fantastic job of keeping things sane but allowing the fun to happen.

Hair!

More of San Francisco's finest with some Carnival dancers in the background.

A street vendor

Mission Folks enjoying the parade

Mission folk not watching the parade

People in San Francisco can party hard. This was at 10am.

Waiting to be in the parade

I liked the sign here

Carnival is a good time to bring out your fanciest clothing

another vendor at the parade

Oh there was a great line up of lowriders in the parade. I was lucky enough to shoot them with some great street art in the background.

Not really a low rider but cool

another

Gather around the water cooler er Port a Potty rather

Here are some pictures of our fine Public Transit
Peeps heading to the festival on Bart

Bart

Bart Station

Hipsters ride Bart

This was taken at the Muni Bus Yard. I wish they would let me in to run around in there for an hour. It's a really cool place. I took this through a security fence.

Well that is for now but I have much more coming. I will probably update much more over the summer.

Jon and Donna

May so soon?

Hey all,

Hi again. Work has been busy. I hit my one year mark in San Francisco on April 9th. Donna will hit her one year mark next week. We have been doing as much as we can in between working weekends. We have recently attended the De Young Museum and purchased a year pass, we went to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Japan Town, we went to Ocean Beach for a picnic sushi lunch, we have been to many restaurants and we also downloaded an audio tour of the Barbary Coast and walked the first 3rd of it while we listened to it. Oh and I got to go play poker for the first time in about a year.

We will be attending the Indy 4 Premier and then a nice banquet here shortly. We are looking forward to that very much. We will also be attending the Maker Fair tomorrow. It will give us a chance to ride CalTrain for the first time. Oh and I also picked up a new camera. I am loving it. It's an Canon 5D. You may notice some of my pictures now have blurred backgrounds. Being able to control your aperture really helps you take better pictures. Speaking of pictures.....

A shot from the De Young

Another

A shot of Donna at Grubstake

Donna at another diner

Green

A guy had his pet bird at the park

A very brave gopher at Golden Gate Park

More at the De Young

More at the De Young

A mirror exhibit at the De Young

Walking the Barbary Coast Trail

We listened to the audio tour we downloaded

Quite an expression

Taps at a Seafood place we went to in Northbeach

One of the many beggars in the city

2 kids eating shaved ice at the Cherry Blossom Festival

Seagulls

Corndogs!!

Very San Francisco

2 Fancy Lads at the Cherry Blossom Festival

A not very fancy lad

Hey look at me! I'm very cool!

Youths playing a collectible card game

Felted slippers being sold at the fair

A guy playing or money on the Embarcadarro
I took this with my new camera and used Adobe Lightroom to make it black and white

That's it for now. Hope you like the pictures.

Jon and Donna

Living a carfree life

I didn't misspell that. We sold our last car the other day. We now rely on public transit and Zipcar.com. We are saving the monthly parking fee which is good and it's just easier.

I have been working a lot. We are down to the last few weeks on the game and things are coming together. It is getting very exciting. Here are some press links with videos so you can get an idea of what I am working on.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/30996.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29964.html

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21832.html

We were lucky enough to have a visitor a couple of week ago. Our friend Darrin came out and we had a great time running around town. Timing was great because WonderCon was going on so we were able to go to that. They like the Lucas employees so they let us in for free along with guests.

I have not taken as many pictures recently but here are the highlights.

Charles (our character TD) holds action figures based on our game at WonderCon

A comic book fan inspects his prize at WonderCon

Darrin and Donna enjoying the sites at WonderCon

A shot from the back of the F Line

A cool mirror that we saw when we ate breakfast at a fancy hotel here

Matt T ordering a burrito from the Taco Truck caterer that we get every Thursday Night at work

Donna warming her hands on a tea pot at the Sushi place Becca and Josh got us a gift certificate from for Christmas (thanks Bex and Josh)

A man on the Muni train

Hope you like em!

Jon and Donna