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my daughter erica must get credit for this, since i first heard the word from her about two years ago. "nice domain name...", i thought to myself. here are a few links to other things i've done:

http://srqearthdance.com - my largest party

http://burningman.com - the worlds largest party

http://cadanoche.com - my personal site

http://hesperian.org - a site i did pro bono, because i was always impressed with their book, and my dad helped them out too, years ago.

http://catamaranconstruction.com - my boatbuilding business

here we go...

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onto the plane... and what do you know, we're going to san francisco via philadelphia! i never do read those priceline tickets very carefully. i like to be surprised.

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kara's place in oakland

she drove me all over town, all over the state in fact. how cool is that? - i fed her and her car.

at this point we break for an evening and more with tal greenberg who shall remain unphotographed during this experience. i can tell you he's looking really good with his new goatee, but law school isn't turning him into a bundle of warm fuzzys either.

the next day we had the best fish tacos in oakland

you'll know you are there when you see the wall...

and here passed several sweet hours at my sister jennifers house in Lagunitas, which i unfortunately failed to document, but then again, i hardly accomplished that for any part of the trip. it's time for a new camera. and the persons pictured on this page are not responsible for the abjectly bad photography. and neither is the camera...

next, we met up with various talented alumni at the senegalese place on mission and 19th.

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rafael reynolds, ed freeman, and jen granick

alan stonebraker

alan henderson!

allen hopper!!

justin bloom

ed's hair

and all of us, save the photographer, at the end of that stop. we then went on to the foreign cinema for drinks etc. that is michelle egan fourth from the left and alan hendersons significant other on his right.

from there i went to ingrids birthday party (didn't manage to get a picture of ingrid, but here is marianne...

holding a balloon sculpture, of a flower, which she exchanged for this one...

okay, enough partying... here we have arrived at the beach in mendocino just before sunset on our way to rafael and kerry's house after numerous errands and fetchings of this and that...

seaweed

the beach-

and kara found in thought...

the next morning having breakfast and mimosas after a dinner for eleven and famous people till the wee hours

amy, ty, and kara.

kerry toasting destiny

yours truly on the porch at rafael and kerrys

about to say goodbye to justin, sara, ed, and rafael who headed off to see mary goterud up in humbolt county

and here they are in her house

and mary herself, who shortly afterward came down to sarasota

rafael conducting

to get to mary's in the winter, one has to take a ferry...

here is the ferry...

meanwhile, kara, myself and ty headed back to berkeley just in time to drop ty off at his house, pick up ingrid, and make it into line to see aerialicious (domain still available as of this writing)

they were incredible...

and then came the pony ride

wherein, you really wanted to see her on the pony but she danced with it instead.

and then we went to brads house to cook him some miso soup because he was suffering from the effects of the night at ingrids party compounded by some viruses tagging along for the ride. the next morning my valiant cohort drove me to the airport at the satanic hour of 6am. i am happy to report i was gifted with an entire empty row for the price of a single seat on priceline airways and managed to sleep all the way to charlotte.