Buxton: Jobs revived Apple with people already employed there, such as Jonathan Ives. The culture needed changing, not the people. Gerken et al present method called Concept Maps to elicit developer’s mental model of API. A related resource: apiusability.org Missed Wrangler (creating data transformation scripts interactively), but saw Jeff Heer’s BayCHI talk on it. Good …
Category Archives: Food
Yesterday in History
May 8, 1886: Pain relief or the pause that refreshes? A pharmacist in Atlanta invents Coca-Cola. (Thanks, Rich!)
Cars; Willow Glen
I saw Cars over the weekend with Jon. Cars, of course, is based on a true story: the life, death, and rebirth of Route 66. It was astonishingly accurate in its renditions of roads, road signs, and maps. Pixar definitely had some roadgeeks advising them. In addition, Pixar got the author of one of the …
Visiting Mars and Cuba… in San Jose
Two Saturdays ago Brian, Will, and I went to the Tech Museum of Innovation to check it out. None of us had been there for years, so we wanted to see what it was like now. Well, sadly, we all found that it was mainly focused on kids and that we had outgrown it. So …
More restaurants to try
Courtesy of San Francisco magazine and Check, Please: Old Mandarin Islamic Restaurant in the Sunset district of San Francisco (Muslim Chinese) Naomi Sushi in Menlo Park Woodward's Garden in San Francisco (Californian/French), named after the amusement park which used to be on the same site Los Cubanos in San Jose (Cuban)
Hamburger + Krispy Kreme = ???
I consider myself pretty open-minded when it comes to food. But this makes even my stomach turn. The Gateway Grizzlies minor league baseball team have teamed up with Krispy Kreme Doughnuts create “Baseball’s Best Burger“: a bacon cheeseburger with a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut for the bun. Yeah. (via Ned Batchelder via Planet Python)
More food
After visiting SFMOMA, Norman brought me to a Thai restaurant called Osha on 2nd Street for lunch. The food was great, but we were so hungry we overate, so much so that neither of us ate dinner at all [photo]. The next day, Sophie, Mike and I went to Chef Woo in west San Jose …
Restaurants to try out
There a few restaurants that have been featured on Check, Please! Bay Area on KQED Channel 9 that I want to try out. Ninna in Oakland: Mediterranean/Thai fusion. Sounds weird, but all three reviewers thoroughly enjoyed it. Piperade in San Francisco: Basque Bissap Baobab in San Francisco: Senegalese Aziza in San Francisco: California-inspired Morrocan (or …
Asia trip reactions: Food
Not surprisingly, we got some great food touring Asia. A few meals stand out in my mind. In Tokyo, we ate at a teppanyaki restaurant, complete with our own chef [photos]. The beef, with a lot of marbling, was tender and flavorful, but also quite greasy — you can’t eat as much of that beef …
The Shangri-La Diet
Seth Roberts, a UC Berkeley professor in psychology, has an unusual theory on Lose Weight Exercise gain: whenever you eat a food that is flavorful and familiar, your body demands that you bank as many of those calories as possible. What if you could keep your thermostat low by sending fewer flavor signals? He eventually …