June 2025 – Otherstream

Diners restored

1 June 2025 San Francisco 0 Comments

Kelly's

Doing some work on the site (as I mentioned) and I’m restoring a few old posts that never made the transition to WordPress. Today, I bring you Diners, Dives, and Dumps, a short-lived collaboration between my friend Sarah and I in 1997-1999. Sadly, not a single one of these exists in its original form today:

Sunday dinner at Art’s Soul Kitchen (16 November 1997, San Francisco)
Ye Olde Pizza Joint (12 September 1998, Hayward)
Tad’s Steak House (8 August 1999, San Francisco)
Jack London Would’ve Eaten Here… (15 March 1999, Oakland)

You’re welcome! Enjoy the low-res images.

Redecorating

2 June 2025 Site 0 Comments

Did some re-theming tonight connected with all the maintenance and other tweaks. I’ve been needing to do that since the big database crash last year too.

I think it looks much better than It has over the past year, but I really kind of miss the individuality and design aesthetic of the web a couple of decades back. I was doing “dark mode” before it was cool. That said, focusing on content rather than design has its charms as well.