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  Vietnamese Vegetable Pancake

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 10:04pm CEST by Emily Chang

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  Petite Dark Chocolate Doughnuts

  Posted: August 30th, 2010, 4:48am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Max has been on a vegan cooking marathon, creating a new recipe daily (YES, I know I’m lucky). Today, he decided to make petite vegan doughnuts. Ahhhh, they’re the best vegan doughnuts I’ve ever had.

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  Green Stuff

  Posted: August 29th, 2010, 8:04am CEST by Emily Chang

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  082710

  Posted: August 28th, 2010, 7:35am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  After yesterday’s deluge of web work (first meeting with MW, then FV, then JM), we headed out this afternoon for short relax: a vegan diner meal at St. Francis Fountain, impressively established in 1918. We opted for our own constructed breakfast combo, including “the vegan thing” (potatoes, guac, salsa, vegan jack), side of vegan sausages, dry sourdough toast finished with vegan blueberry pancakes and oh-so-good black coffee.

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  082610

  Posted: August 27th, 2010, 8:06am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Spent a large portion of today in here before and after meetings.

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  082510

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 7:18am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  It’s good to be vegan. Delicious meal of Max’s Quinoa, Cucumber, Tomato and Lime Salad over romaine lettuce and sweet white corn.

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  082410

  Posted: August 26th, 2010, 4:09am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Full moon after a rare 100 degree day in SF.

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  Stuck on BART

  Posted: August 25th, 2010, 8:26am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  
  Some kind of train issue has us sitting still for 20 minutes at the 16th Street BART station. Then the train slowly goes backwards and forwards to fix a rail issue. Passed the time taking hipstamatic iPhone photos rather than becoming exasperated like the woman in front of us.

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  HKIA Sensor

  Posted: August 24th, 2010, 8:21am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Pulled  this security sticker from Hong Kong Airport off my luggage last night only to discover a sensor underneath. Googled to find one cached document citing: “in addition, Hong Kong International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world, has improved its baggage tracking infrastructureusing RFID in order to increase customer satisfaction. The baggage tracking system was deployed by Matrics Inc.”

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  082110

  Posted: August 22nd, 2010, 6:28am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Gracias Madre

  Posted: August 21st, 2010, 6:19am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Experience is the best teacher

  Posted: August 20th, 2010, 8:23am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Spotted in Mission near 22nd (click image to enlarge). Just saw this one the other day.

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  Udupi Palace

  Posted: August 20th, 2010, 8:07am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Creperie Saint Germain

  Posted: August 20th, 2010, 6:10am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  SF foodies, there’s a new lunch-time foodstand serving crepes on 2nd and Howard St – Creperie Saint Germain! Too bad they don’t have vegan crepes. We saw the cart the other day and thought it was just being stored at the parking lot. Cool to see they can get a license to operate a foodstand in the lot. Hope more of these show up in SoMA.

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  081810

  Posted: August 19th, 2010, 7:13am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Max’s chic pea spread and radishes on sesame crackers.

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  081710

  Posted: August 18th, 2010, 7:08am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Max’s vegan red and white cauliflower bake. Delicious.

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  Mint Plaza 081610

  Posted: August 17th, 2010, 6:43am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Surfing Legian, Bali 080510

  Posted: August 5th, 2010, 10:07am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Surfing Legian, Bali 080410

  Posted: August 5th, 2010, 9:53am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Around Legian, Bali 080410

  Posted: August 5th, 2010, 9:38am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Surfing Legian, Bali 080310

  Posted: August 4th, 2010, 9:23am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Surfing Legian, Bali 080210

  Posted: August 3rd, 2010, 9:10am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Legian, Bali 080210

  Posted: August 3rd, 2010, 9:03am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Arrived in Legian, Bali 080110

  Posted: August 2nd, 2010, 8:44am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Family and friends left Bali this afternoon and Max and I made our way north by taxi from Uluwatu to the Legian area. The taxis are extremely cheap here, with the meter starting under $1 USD. We drove for roughly 30 minutes, sat through traffic and the whole fare was about $4 USD. We had originally planned to stay in Padang at a surf camp, but decided that Legian would be a better spot for consistent surf, much easier to get around, and we would have access/control over our own food. Rather than waiting for transportation, we could just walk to the beach with our boards and surf. It’s already been an amazing ten days in Hong Kong and Bali, but now begins the third leg of our trip: five days of surf!

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  Relaxing at the Istana, Uluwatu, Bali 073110-080110

  Posted: August 1st, 2010, 8:26am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  The day after the wedding family and friends came over to the Istana from neighboring villas to relax, swim and have some BBQ. It was fun to catch up with Eric’s buddies from college, who overlapped with Max and my time at W&M and who we haven’t seen in fifteen years. Despite the passage of time, they were just as I remembered: smart, friendly, diverse. Had some good talks about surfing with Aaron, since it’s his new found passion as well. It was also great to spend some time with my cousin Josh and his gf, Heather, who I hadn’t seen since Grandma’s funeral, as well as reconnect with Tim, finally meet Cindy and Mike’s wife, Aniza. Yesterday at the wedding was the first time I met my 12 year old cousin, Jessica, Uncle Jimmy’s daughter. She’s a gorgeous and precocious, sweet girl. They live in Bali and I hope she visits the US soon so we can spend some time together.

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  Eric and Sharon’s Bali Wedding 073010

  Posted: July 31st, 2010, 9:52am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Tonight

  Posted: June 6th, 2010, 6:29am CEST by Emily Chang

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  View from our office/Ideacodes of downtown SF and the Moscone conference center two days before WWDC.

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  Spring

  Posted: May 30th, 2010, 7:56am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Finally, Spring has arrived in SF. Below, Yerba Buena Gardens on a warm Saturday and the walkway to SFMOMA.

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  Giant Map Pin at Google I/O

  Posted: May 20th, 2010, 10:11am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Mobile Digital Workstation

  Posted: May 12th, 2010, 11:45am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Current work setup in hotel.

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  TiltShift Waikiki

  Posted: May 7th, 2010, 10:13am CEST by Emily Chang

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  Jackhammer Street Stencil

  Posted: April 26th, 2010, 6:29am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Saw both of these today while walking about on a warm Sunday in SF.  The one on the left is down the street in SoMA near 111 Minna, and the reverse black stencil was near Ritual Roasters on 1026 Valencia Street, SF.

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  Banksy in Chinatown, SF

  Posted: April 24th, 2010, 4:14am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Spotted this afternoon in Chinatown, SF. Thrilled to see one of his pieces in person. Up close, the stencil details are incredible. Banksy’s film, Exit through the Gift Shop, opened in cities on April 16 and is showing at the Embarcadero here in SF. Look forward to seeing it this week. It’s funny that they had to put up a sign in Chinese letting the SF cops know “it’s not graffiti” so they wouldn’t sandblast it. The irony of course is that it is graffiti – just officially sanctioned graffiti.

  Updated 4/25: Thanks to Steve Rhodes for pointing me to this set by Warholian of all 6 Banksy pieces spotted in SF so far.

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  The iPad Arrives

  Posted: April 4th, 2010, 3:17am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  
  As I’m sure you know, tech and geek news has been buzzing for weeks about the arrival of the iPad and today was the day for pre-orders to arrive by UPS and for in-store purchasing. We went by the Apple Store on Stockton Street here in SF this afternoon and saw Jonathan Ive as he was about to cross the street. There was still a line out front, but it moved really quickly. There were tons of people in the store and upstairs they were already giving demos and classes about the iPad. Now I’m home and about to plug it in and sync up the apps I downloaded last night. So excited to use the interface and test some apps. More to come on that…

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  Gorgeous Day in SF

  Posted: February 14th, 2010, 1:37am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  After a month and a half of rain and overcast skies, it looks like the sun is back for the next week in SF. Refreshing.

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  Thinking 020810

  Posted: February 9th, 2010, 7:48am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Time Machine 020507

  Posted: February 7th, 2010, 9:21am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  While backing up 1,274,742 items to Apple’s time capsule via time machine, I thought of the original The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and re-found this quote:

  Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.

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  Working 020210

  Posted: February 4th, 2010, 7:32am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Sunday Print Inspiration

  Posted: January 25th, 2010, 4:00am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Having a mellow Sunday with lots of new design magazines and some homemade broccoli and roasted red pepper soup.

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  Today’s Palette

  Posted: January 17th, 2010, 7:54am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  SOMA Magazine

  Posted: January 16th, 2010, 7:58am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  SOMA Magazine has always been one of my favorite culture magazines.  It was a pleasure to meet and chat with Ali Ghanbarian, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of SOMA Magazine. His interests and point of view towards independent art and culture really mesh with mine.

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  Street, Yellow Line

  Posted: November 21st, 2009, 9:24am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Frank Stella’s Adelante

  Posted: November 2nd, 2009, 10:59am CET by Emily Chang

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  Adelante (1964) by Frank Stella
  painting | metallic powder in polymer emulsion on canvas

  Saw this again in person on Saturday at SFMOMA. One of my favorite paintings. The lines are made from the negative spacing between the polymer. Gorgeous in its subtlety.

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  Art Food

  Posted: November 1st, 2009, 5:33am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  MUNI Minimalism

  Posted: October 27th, 2009, 4:07am CET by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  Macro Macaroons

  Posted: October 25th, 2009, 4:21am CET by Emily Chang

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  Flower Tea

  Posted: October 22nd, 2009, 12:14pm CEST by Emily Chang

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  Unipo at SFMoMA

  Posted: October 20th, 2009, 5:42am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Posing in front of the freight elevator just as it opened.

  Contemplating Matthew Barney’s Drawing Restraint 14.

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  Pano: Maiden Lane SF

  Posted: October 17th, 2009, 11:01am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  The Moment Before the Music

  Posted: October 5th, 2009, 10:26am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  My parents flew in from the east coast and we went to see Michael Tilson Thomas conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 at Davies Symphony Hall as part of the Mahler 2009 Festival. This is the moment as the symphony warmed up just before MTT entered the stage.

  Click for a larger view. Taken with the iPhone Pano app.

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  Tiltshift SoMA

  Posted: September 22nd, 2009, 9:04am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  View left towards the bay from the 11th floor view at Ideacodes. Tiltshifted with TiltShift Generator for iPhone.

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  Orange in the City

  Posted: September 6th, 2009, 5:50am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

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  OneLessDesk

  Posted: August 27th, 2009, 10:16am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  I’m so excited to have bought the OneLessDesk just now, in red!  I posted the OneLessDesk by Heckler Design in PicoCool a while back and it’s often crept up in my mind (side note, look for the PicoCool logo at the bottom of their page. That was a nice surprise :).  When we first moved to SF, we bought two used DWR stainless steel Quovis work tables from our building landlord at an amazing price.  We’ve always used them as desks at Ideacodes and loved them. But over the years, especially with the increase in monitor size (30″ display), I’ve started to realize just how close the screen is and how there’s just not enough depth to accommodate the screen and my keyboard.  Since it’s a work table on wheels, it’s also a bit too high for a keyboard.  Enter the OneLessDesk, with it’s sleek minimalism, and free-standing keyboard table.  Since I’m also obsessive about hiding cords, I also love the built-in, vented cord shelf in the back of the desk.  When we’re not working (yeah, that happens occasionally), we can slide the table underneath the other to save space. The Quovis tables will now become a big conference table.  Can’t wait for the new desks to arrive.

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  SFMOMA Exhibit: Pipeline, Featuring Jeff Clark Surfboards

  Posted: August 16th, 2009, 10:47am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  On Saturday, Max and I went to see Pipeline: Art, Surfing, and the Ocean Environment, an exhibit at the SFMOMA Artists Gallery at Fort Mason showing July 16 – August 28, 2009.

  The ocean environment and the influence of surf culture on Bay Area art are explored in works by Jo Ann Biagini, Leo Bersamina, Charlie Callahan, Terry Hoff, Reuben Margolin, Serena Mitnik-Miller, Adrienne Keahi Pao, Charles Valoroso, and others.

  Also featured are surfboards by Jeff Clark and surf photography by Frank Quirarte and Doug Acton.

  For me, the main draw was to see surfboards by Jeff Clark, the pioneering Northern California big wave surfer that discovered Mavericks, one of the largest big wave breaks on the planet. He also surfed it alone for 15 years before convincing others to join him.  “Part hydro-dynamic science, part sculpture and painting, and part good old American tinkering, Clark’s approach to shaping is also interesting for its parallels to art-making.” On view were shortboards, longboards and guns. I loved seeing the big wave guns, as well as the red patterned longboard and striped “Mexican rug” board.

  Stop by the gallery at Fort Mason next Saturday, Aug 22 at 1 pm to hear Jeff Clark and the surf photographers Doug Acton and Frank Quirarte talk about the famous break and what it’s really like from those that have been there for over a decade.  Also read Jeff’’s post to learn what happened with Mavericks Surf Ventures and the contest. I got a chance to see the incredible contest a couple years ago when he was still contest director. I hope we all get another chance to support him instead of the corporation that’s taken over his rightfully-earned position.

  Click below to see more photos.

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  080709 Linda Mar

  Posted: August 8th, 2009, 10:29am CEST by Emily Chang

  Tags:  Living  

  Went down to Linda Mar today with Max and it was truly the first chill day surfing in NorCal: no lessons, no time pressure, just the two of us with our Mitsu boards and an uncrowded break (just a few beginners and a guy teaching two kids how to surf).  The water seemed really warm today and at one point I was actually hot and dunked my head in the water to cool off! Caught a few great waves, and one really excellent wave where I popped up, felt the force of the wave and stood back on my board. Caught the longest ride I’ve had at LM. Stoked.