Dear writers who call attention to their intentional or unintentional puns; please stop. When you end a statement with “(no pun intended)” you are either being lazy or dishonest.

If your pun was truly unintentional, instead of saying “(no pun intended)”, please re-word it so that there is no pun.

If your pun was intended, instead of saying “(pun intended)”, simply let it be—allowing the astute reader the satisfaction of their discovery.

Yuki and I went for a walk around San Francisco last weekend and came upon a bunch of public art, most of which was done by Shepard Fairey, famous for the André the Giant “Obey” art.

I really like the treatment on these pieces—with the ripped layers revealing gorgeous pattern work.

He is also know for the Obama “Hope” posters.

Two other displays that we came across: an abstract advertisement for SPORE and the Apple Store’s window display which prominently featured our friends at the Retronyms’s Recorder App. Recorder has been in the top 10 paid apps and the #1 business app since launch. Congrats guys!

Bay Area heirloom tomatoes purchased at the ferry building farmers market in San Francisco this past Saturday. Yuki and I ate delicious caprese salad for three nights in a row! Other produce purchased included fresh basil which we used to make fresh pesto sauce, some strange onions with their heads still on, and in-season currants (just barely visible on the left, above the whole tomatoes).

Someone has been tagging “Lotek” in the Mission recently.

Gv: 18th between mission and valencia?
AA: That’s the one! There’s also one on a mannequin on mission near 20th… on the neck!

We don’t think that it is anyone we know, just a coincidence.

In the documentary, the interviewed Aborigines were adamant that they originated in Australia, but the amateur anthropologist in me can’t help but see many similarities between them and the Bushmen of Southern Africa. Well, anyways, I wouldn’t be the first person to point out that the Bushmen relationship to Tsodilo Hills mirrors that of the Aborigine relationship to Ayers Rock, or that both cultures ceremoniously enter into a trance state of consciousness.

Note that this image doesn’t really match Well’s findings, but it was the most aesthetically pleasing migration map that I found. One difference is that Wells’s research points to European populations being able to trace their ancestry back to Africa via Central Asia and not directly from the Middle East and Africa as this map depicts. Many Asians, Native Americans, and Indians can also trace their paternal heritage to this same Central Asian ancestry. “If Africa was the cradle of mankind, then Central Asia was its nursery”, said Wells.

You can read a more complete summary on the National Geographic website.

I’m writing this post as a sort of mission statement and I’m going to try to give a brief outline of how I foresee the site developing from here.

For now the blog is held within my site’s 1999 technology, but ideally my site will eventually be held within web 2.0 technology; I have no timeline for this. Additionally it is my intention to have posts that are “serious” articles as well as casual posts. Some of the topics or sections that I am hoping to populate are:

• Design – Game Design, General Design Principles
• SF Mocha – reviews of cafés and, in particular, mochas in the SF Bay Area
• Philosophy – Zen, Integral, Technology, Consciousness
• Worth Watching – reviews or lists of media that is worth taking the time to watch (or hear or read or play… or should they be their own sections?)
• Miscellaneous

To begin I will just be using the wordpress categories and metadata to differentiate the content, but once enough content is amassed I would like to have archive pages for each of these categories and a way of differentiating a random thought from a serious article.

I would also like to invite you to chime in and leave comments or engage in debate with me and the other readers, even on old posts, even on this one.

P.S.
One last note to clear any potential confusion:
There are posts on here that are older than this post. I have been taking some posts that I made on a social networking site as well as some writings and that I had laying around and entering them as blog posts with appropriate or approximate dates.