It's rather gratifying to see how much Laura and I were glowing in March, just after buying an engagement ring! We're still super-happy today, 2-1/2 months after the wedding! (Thanks to Holly, my mother-in-law for this great picture.)
Author Archives: Raymond Yee
To be funny and fair
About a week ago, I listened to the amazingly funny clip from Jon Stewart about Karl Rove and Valerie Plame. I don't know whether the clip is factually accurate -- but it sure made me laugh. I'm tempted to think now that in political discourse, it may be as important to be funny and entertaining as it is to be logically exacting and scrupulously fair. Oh to be funny and fair!
SF Chronicle headline on “Spare the Air” day
It was nice not to have to pay for the ride in on BART in my first "Spare the Air" Day. See Bay Area gets a free ride / Spare the Air Day incentive to get people out of cars to reduce pollution for more information.
Are these “real women”?
I saw this display all over the Powell Street BART station. It's hardly news that Dove would use scantily clad women to advertise its products. What I find more surprising is that these women are held to be exemplars of "real women" (as opposed to supermodels). OK, they aren't skin-on-bones type supermodels, but I would hardly think of these bodies as those of the typical consumer of Dove producs.
See for yourself. Dove:
Firming the thighs of a size 2 supermodel is no challenge. Real Women have real bodies with real curves. And Dove wants to celebrate those curves.
Join these six real women who were asked to be in our ad campaign for NEW Dove® Firming. Get to know more about them and their experiences with the campaign. Help by telling more women to stand tall and celebrate their curves.
Freakonomics sounds like an interesting read
Freakonomics is an extremly popular book at the moment. Has any of my readers read it yet? I have a hold on the book at the Berkeley Public Library, but there are 82 people ahead of me when I put the hold!
reading the quote about Lucille Isaiah, Laura, and myself in Tele-care article
reading the quote about Lucille Isaiah, Laura, and myself in Tele-care article
Originally uploaded by Raymond Yee.
East Bay: Lunch brings Tele-Care volunteers and clients face to face:
Raymond Yee, a volunteer caller for five years, brought his new wife Laura Shefler to meet Lucille Isaiah of Alameda, whom he calls on Saturdays to check on her well-being.
"I sweet-talk your husband," Isaiah told Shefler. "Don't worry, I won't steal him away."
“Legal Hanbook for Photographers”
My own copy of Legal Handbook for Photographers: The Rights and Liabilities of Making Images arrived in the main today. I found it so useful and so packed with materials that I decided to buy it. There are a lot of tricky issues to work out in taking and distributing pictures.
It seems that Half Price Books is coming to downtown Berkeley
As we were walking by the corner of Addison Street and Berkeley Square this morning, Laura and I spotted a sign for a new Half Price Books going up. How exciting -- another bookstore on a street that is becoming quite literary, as Laura noted.
Relief!
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Laura and I share the relief of Lloyd and many others that a BART settlement was reached, thus averting a strike. Living in Albany, we have some more options than many. I could have taken the bus, driven to campus, dug out my bike from my old place, or even walked. But it was nice to return to the BART station this morning, the station to which I had said an uncertain good-bye the day before.
time to go see “March of the Penguins”?
The SF Chronicle review confirmed for me that "March of the Penguins" would be a fun one to see.