June, 2010
Category Archives: living in the USA
SFGMC: Rutter’s Magnificat
Performed in June, 2010, by the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus and the San Francisco Girls Chorus Alumnae, accompanied by the Community Women’s Orchestra.
Sorry for the shaky camera work, but the sound quality is surprisingly good on this little Flip cam.
Balcony Garden
All edible: nasturtiums, two kinds of sage, tomatoes (gift from @bubbva), parsley, bell pepper, serrano pepper, rosemary, thyme basil and (in front) variegated pineapple mint from Jeffrey and John – and it really does smell like pineapple! Will have to experiment making some tropical drinks with that. Let’s see, I have cachaça and mango juice…
How Do You Measure Snow?
We’re having a big snowstorm in Colorado today, so I have been discussing with some local colleagues on Twitter how to measure accumulations. I haven’t lived around snow much (til I moved to Colorado last year), so I haven’t done this much before.
@vdotw advised “Measure [with a ruler] at a flat spot, like an outside table.”
Well, okay, we have lots of outside tables at Sun’s Broomfield campus, but they all seem to have accumulated different amounts of snow:
This one (shown at far left in the photo above) had about 5 inches:
This one looked more promising:
And, in fact:
Thirteen inches! (That’s a fourteen-inch ruler.)
So what am I supposed to do here? Take an average?
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At the Chocolate Shop
In San Francisco.
It’s little things like this that remind me why I love this country.