Found this useful tutorial on how Firefox users can print Flickr photos via the Shutterfly service (using a Greasemonkey script). Thanks Quasistoic!
http://www.quasistoic.org/ts/archives/2005/06/22/flickr-shutterfly/
Archive for July, 2005
It’s been 16 years since I last attended a baseball game; coincidentally, that too was the SF Giants. Since then, I’ve gleaned nothing more about the sport, and as a result the baseball game I attended yesterday was as much a mystery to me as that I attended in 1989. I did enjoy the garlic fries, salted pretzel, Italian sausage on sourdough roll and popcorn that I partook of (animal!). In fact, it seemed that the baseball game was more of a socialising event than a sporting event, with lots of chatting and drinking and food being consumed by all (I just had to join in).
But anyway, small world phenomenon struck again (if you are my regular reader, then you’ll remember the last occurence at the Flickr event). The guy in front of me asks if heard an Irish accent, and reveals that he is a frequent visitor to Doolin (about 10 miles from my home home) as well as Galway. Freaky.
Then today, while walking up to the University of San Francisco, I hear my name being called out behind me, and who is it but a former student of mine who is now working in the City here. Freaky again!
3rd prize singles - World Press Photo
Joe O’Shaughnessy from the Connacht Tribune has won a World Press Photo prize for his picture of Strange Fruit at the Galway Arts Festival last year. Strange Fruit are a visual and physical theatre company from Australia who perform on flexible, four-meter-high poles. It was a spectacular (and free!) performance given beside the Spanish Arch. I must dig out some more photos I have of the event…
I was at the Junko Mizuno “Pure Trance” manga book signing at the Super 7 Store in Japantown this afternoon.
There was a sizeable crowd in line with their copies of “Pure Trance” in hand. Mizuno-san evolved the manga from art she had created for techno album covers. A few pictures are available from my Flickr set.
So after the MetaFilter event, a bunch of us headed on to the Flickr meetup at the Crossroads cafe. A nice relaxed venue for a meetup, and I can attest to their great hot chocolates and tasty meatloaf with onion marmalade baps!
Met lots of Flickr enthusiasts too, and I’ve made a list of who I met as a reminder to my future selves: striatic, missmobtown, High Fidelity, Kodama, Courtney, Jason, Eddy, Nicole, Kai, Eddie and Nadia. Also met one of the founders, Stewart (co-founder Caterina was also at the meetup). Again, I didn’t really realise who Stewart was, but I remember we were talking about pulling the worst faces for photographs, and I was explaining how my buddy amp turned this into this.
Had a brief but interesting discussion with Ryan King from Technorati about microformats (which is related to my research work on SIOC), and also chatted with Will Luo from Applied Minds about RDF stores. Illustrating the small world phenomenon (in tech circles at least), I met Scott Beale from Laughing Squid who was talking about an employee they had from Galway, who turned out to be none other than someone I knew, John McDonnell!
Edit: There are some photos from the event at the Flickr tags for sflickr and sflickr0707.
I went along to the MetaFilter event at the House of Shields last night. I must admit to being a newbie to the world of MetaFilter, but I had read about them in this month’s Web Designer magazine during my flight here - there was an article on “Creating a Web Community” that mentioned the Ask MetaFilter support area - and I found out that they have similar size userbase to our own boards.ie, so I thought I’d pop along and do some learning.
As it happened, I was sitting right beside MetaFilter creator Matt Haughey towards the end of the event (without knowing who he was), to whom I innocently (or ignorantly!) introduced myself just before he had to leave for his flight back to Oregon.
Met some other interesting people there, including Jasmeet, Merlin, Quasistoic, Kafkaesque, Vacapinta, ikkyu2, jasper411, Bob, and some more who also went to the Flickr meetup…
San Francisco’s 4th of July Celebration
Was a good one, the best fireworks I’ve seen. Everything from smiley faces, cubes, stars, and all in duplicate as there were synchronised versions of the fireworks on the west and east side of the City. I hope to add some photographs once I organise my collection.
Yesterday, we walked over and back across the Golden Gate bridge. It was slightly foggy, but still had some amazing views. My aunt brought us to Sausalito, a pretty little waterfront town just across the bridge.
Also went to see War of the Worlds. I enjoyed it, great effects, and relatively tense for a Spielberg blockbuster. It has its flaws (how many times can they escape from those stupid Martians?), but overall I’d recommend it.
Greetings from Independence Day-celebrating USA!
Yesterday, met with family here and went for lunch on Union Street’s Pasta Pomodoro. After that, went to see Miyazaki’s latest offering, Howl’s Moving Castle in the AMC Kabuki 8 Screen which is in nearby Japantown. It was good, but not as satisfactory as Spirited Away or Mononoke because of some unresolved characters and in part due to it being slightly too long. America’s (and the world’s) critics weren’t as harsh; the film is currently listed third by US film critics in terms of those currently on release and rated, and IMDB gives it a rating of 8.2.
Went to the Japan Center in Japantown and spent an hour or two browsing the books in Kinokuniya, where I picked up the manga of Battle Angel Alita: Last Orders 1 and Nausicaa 1. Lots of interesting DVDs and CDs there too, I saw Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala, a great film which I might pick up before I go back.
Called home using SkypeOut - what an amazing rate they give, 1.5 cents per minute to and from most countries in the “western world” - that 10 euro call credit I bought is going to last a long time!
And to tonight, we’ll probably pop along to the waterfront to watch the fireworks from Pier 39, I think it kicks off at 9:30-ish. Should be fun!
Another lovely sunny day! Wandered up to Fillmore Street again where there’s a Jazz Festival and barbeque for the next two days. Got the bus to Union Square, walked to Chinatown, had a great big feed in the Great Eastern restaurant…
Isn’t air travel a nightmare? Got bumped up to Business Class for one leg of the trip here, but it was still hellish. Must remember to break up the journey next time… Still quite jet lagged but considering it is now 2:30 AM in Ireland, not doing so bad 
Anyway, got to the apartment in San Francisco! So far, so great - the place is lovely… Wandered up to the lively Fillmore Street area where they have some cool restaurants and shops, and had lunch in a nice place called Galette; was very happy to find the print edition of The Onion for free in a newsstand there. Lots of food stores nearby so won’t starve: organic specialists Trader Joes, the more high-end Molly Stones, and then there’s Safeway for all the usual stuff…
Going to explore the city centre proper tomorrow, and of course July 4th is just around the corner…
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