tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-105215972024-03-12T17:18:45.579-07:00Michael's PicturesDocumenting the life of Michael and his family.No Scrollinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841005356480026613noreply@blogger.comBlogger2207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521597.post-64116435602853867682018-05-26T11:32:00.000-07:002018-05-26T13:33:22.523-07:00Bacon of the Month: Balinese Long Pepper BaconThe final bacon! This bacon is made for Zingerman's, with a wet cure featuring Balinese long pepper. What's that? It's like black pepper, but not. It's an artisanal spice, but had no one told me it was there, I'm not sure I would have realized it wasn't regular black pepper. But it has a more complex set of flavors, with a lingering tingling that you don't get with regular black pepper. And the bacon itself? It's really nice! I might invite my favorites from the club back for a side-by-side tasting. That would likely mean the Nueske's, Ozark Trails, and the Long Pepper. (That would also mean 2¾ pounds of bacon, though.)<br />
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<br />No Scrollinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06841005356480026613noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10521597.post-9084927528912893952018-05-12T15:12:00.000-07:002018-05-26T13:16:31.866-07:00cold and windy beach partyAt long last, Anders had his birthday party. Last year, we had a beautiful warm party on the beach in Pacifica. This year, we had a cold and windy party at Ocean Beach. The kids still loved it.<br />
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As camping goes, it was very easy. The Pine Tent BBQ & Brew is right next to the campground, so on Friday we took the easy route and got a pizza and wings. And some of the families tried dinner at the Cascade Bar & Grill, which the Costanoa restaurant.<br />
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Some of the SFS crew rented cabins or other accommodations, but a good chunk of us pitched tents in Ohlone Garden.<br />
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For the second year running, the camping trip fell on the same weekend as our wedding anniversary. Sigrid and I snuck away for a champagne moment on the lawn at the lodge—the spot where we got married. We celebrated at about the same time we were pronounced married eleven years ago.<br />
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Saturday s'mores.<br />
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Sigrid and I went to watch the sunset on Saturday night, but didn't take into account that when we've watched the sunset at Costanoa before, it's been in the fall. In May from our usual spot, the sun sets behind a stand of trees. It was still pretty, though.<br />
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I've started this new venture, <a href="http://www.kblfirm.com/">Kwun Bhansali Lazarus LLP</a>, with Asim Bhansali and Kate Lazarus.<br />
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That means that after 9+ years of counsel at Keker, Van Nest & Peters (formerly Keker & Van Nest), and a previous 3+ years as an associate there, I had one of my few experiences of having a clean desk.<br />
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For my birthday itself, we had roast chicken and vegetables...<br />
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...with cupcakes from Roseann afterward.<br />
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A lot has happened in ten years!<br />
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We also spent a bunch of time in the Tinkering Studio, which has a great vending machine...<br />
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...that sells electronic components and tool kits.<br />
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The Tinkering Studio also has a wall of trophies, featuring disassembled toys.<br />
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The Easter Bunny rewarded them for their efforts.<br />
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We packed 2+ pallets of apples into smaller boxes. Here Sigrid is, celebrating the bottom of the first pallet of apples.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_wEjs5a_0NWTWneBo3-30OqjQGEB_YFzHslnhE5-h6flag4H2PDRs8pXy5KtWJac89IyVvUNcBjLXGR3kquC8k-4GrgBmFykwi1B_pvbBY9kY3c-iVCelCmFCB5LUdWdMcyi9Vg/s1600/IMG_20180401_100852.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_wEjs5a_0NWTWneBo3-30OqjQGEB_YFzHslnhE5-h6flag4H2PDRs8pXy5KtWJac89IyVvUNcBjLXGR3kquC8k-4GrgBmFykwi1B_pvbBY9kY3c-iVCelCmFCB5LUdWdMcyi9Vg/s640/IMG_20180401_100852.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
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Soren tried to escape this pic, but you can see his head peeking out from behind some boxes.<br />
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It was a small crew today (instead of the 80 volunteers they expected, we for some reason only had about twenty of us), but we managed to box up 12,600 pounds of apples in our two hour shift. You work up an appetite when you're surrounded by apples for two hours, so we went to Little Chihuahua for an early lunch.<br />
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My contribution, in honor of Michigan playing in the Final Four later today.<br />
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Here is one of the several pieces they performed.<br />
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Voilà!<br />
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Step one was taking down the old fence.<br />
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The new posts went in next<br />
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The old fence had used pressure-treated wood for the posts, because they went straight into the footings. The new design has metal brackets in the footings, so that the posts are above grade. This is the improvement I mentioned above, which hopefully will extend the life of the fence.<br />
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Here is the nearly completed fence. The change in grade between the two yards is addressed using 2 x 12 pressure-treated wood along the bottom of the fence.<br />
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The other notable design difference is that the fence is symmetrical, so we and our neighbor see the same pattern of overlapping boards (a "picture frame board-on-board" design).<br />
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One notion I've been trying to work with Anders on is that for a problem like this, figuring out the answer is only part of the solution—you also need to be able to explain your reasoning. Anders quickly figured out that there are "matching" minutes for 5s and 6s. That is, just as there is a 1:05, there is a 1:06. Then we explored the 5 o'clock and 6 o'clock hours, where every minute has a 5 in one, and every minute has a 6 in the other. Finally, we talked about the minutes from :50 to :59, where every minute has a 5, but only one (:56) has a six.<br />
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After all of that, we figured out the answer (there are 99 more minutes with at least one 5 than with at least one 6)—in fact, we figured it out three times, using slightly different techniques (two of which are on the left page below). Finally, we worked out a way to express the solution (right page). Once we had hashed that out, Anders wrote up the answer himself.<br />
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The Hotel Max is super hip, with retro games like Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.<br />
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It's also right next to the United States District Court.<br />
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We arrived a bit before 4, and our room (which we had just reserved online) wasn't quite ready. We went down the street to a coffee shop. Let me tell you, Seattle hipsterism makes San Francisco look staid.<br />
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We were three blocks away from Seattle's Pacific Place Din Tai Fung...<br />
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...so the boys (and Sigrid) tried xiao long bao for the first time...<br />
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...and some kimchi dumplings...<br />
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...plus orange juice with sprite...<br />
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...and some red bean buns to close dinner out.<br />
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Soren had two corn dogs for breakfast...<br />
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...while I went for the fried chicken hearts and gizzards.<br />
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After a more normal breakfast start, Anders joined Team Corn Dog.<br />
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Next, we went to the Space Needle. Sigrid is thinking that maybe we're done with tall towers with long lines. She and I went up the Eiffel Tower on our honeymoon; we went with the boys, Miran and Haraboji up the N Seoul Tower in 2016; and now the Space Needle. Whether it's because it came after the others or because it's under a lot of construction right now as they add a glass floor, we were underwhelmed...<br />
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...but we did get this fantastic souvenir pic. (For the record, I told everyone to make a funny face, but Soren seems to be the only one who did.)<br />
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After all the crazed travel and last minute arrangements on Saturday, we needed some downtime, so after lunch we went back to the hotel room, where Anders did some homework. He looked a lot like I suspect I do when I'm working from my hotel room while traveling.<br />
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While Anders was working on his homework, Soren and I went down to the lobby and played games...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_3ma83LJ0TCWA1N4v81A4aq3fk-4zPgciBetMUeliprv4DFqz6AzX8hWKgPjUq_mMK2G_4s3IZZEwHYVdx61cNBIjUtcCI9am7ptuObK9JxFNjcUARngQORMUQJgOkhvD3t6YQ/s1600/IMG_20180218_164504.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv_3ma83LJ0TCWA1N4v81A4aq3fk-4zPgciBetMUeliprv4DFqz6AzX8hWKgPjUq_mMK2G_4s3IZZEwHYVdx61cNBIjUtcCI9am7ptuObK9JxFNjcUARngQORMUQJgOkhvD3t6YQ/s640/IMG_20180218_164504.jpg" width="640" /></a><br />
...checked out the lobby art...<br />
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...and enjoyed the afternoon happy hour (well, I did).<br />
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We originally tried to come up with a cool dinner plan, but eventually decided that was too ambitious. Instead, we ended up going to an Il Fornaio, of all places. (There's an Il Fornaio in SF, and another in San Jose.)<br />
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Soren had a nutella crumpet and a fancy hot chocolate.<br />
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After that, we went to a candy shop to buy some gum, so that we could go visit the gum wall. What's the gum wall? Well...<br />
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Soren's addition to the wall...<br />
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...and mine.<br />
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We spent a bit more time in the Pike Place Market, including visiting this nice viewpoint.<br />
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Then, we went to the Pacific Science Center. We got there around noon, and at first I thought it was just like visiting the Exploratorium, except that we didn't have a membership here, so had to pay to get in. But we had a great time, and stayed for over four hours!<br />
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Naked mole rats. They had a big habitrail-style burrow, but they seemed to like to hang out together all squished up.<br />
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There was a tropical butterfly room, but Soren didn't want to wait in line to get in, so I had to content myself with this pic that I took through a window.<br />
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After the science museum, we still had some time to kill before heading to the airport, so we went back to the Hotel Max (where we had our bags stowed). Soren worked played with the Jenga blocks...<br />
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...and I enjoyed another happy hour.<br />
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And then, it was back to the airport...<br />
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...and, finally, to Kelowna.<br />
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