…except for the platform it’s on.
Thank you for pretending to be Elmo's pet dinosaur, Snuffy. You're the best! ❤️ #HappyBirthdaySnuffy pic.twitter.com/eJZdP8AoVo
— Elmo (@elmo) August 19, 2025
Missing my dad (and feeling extra old) on what would have been his 100th birthday.
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.
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.
I seem to be into site maintenance lately.
I’m doing a big project at Groceteria to redesign the store location lists to make them more responsive/device-friendly and also to integrate them more fully into the site search. I’ve also done a lot of theme work there to bring the main site and the message board more in sync.
As for this site, I lost all my tags and categories last year when I had the major database crash, I ended up having to restore the site one table at a time and the tag/category tables just would not work. I decided at the time not to care, but now I’m fixing it (manually) along with years of broken links, some of which date back to when I first migrated the site into WordPress almost 20 years ago. There are almost 3700 posts on the site, going back to 1996, so it may take a bit. (No, I’m not sure why I’m bothering with this site either, but here we are…)
Last photo op with Irma before departing San Francisco for good. If I look bleary it’s because the ex and I had stayed up all night watching our moving pod to make sure it didn’t get broken into before the truck came for it. We were lucky. The worst thing that happened was someone peeing on it. Ah, the old neighborhood.
Dinner at Rocco’s later with Dan, Jamie, and Eugene.
Twenty years? Really? Damn…
