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3 July: San Jose canceled its vastly popular fireworks show this year so that the populace would understand just how tight money was in the city's budget. Karen and I searched for replacements, and found one: the special Independence Day fireworks show at the San Jose Giants (minor league) baseball game on July 3.
8 February: Every year Brad Templeton hosts a party at which the Superbowl is recorded while we take a hike. On our return, we fast-forward through the game and examine carefully the commercials. The 2010 party was held at the new (still not quite fully open for business) headquarters of the Internet Archive.

3 November: Jon Singer's visit was the excuse for a trip to exotic grocers and a dinner featuring the results of the search. Gordon Garb came over to help eat.
1 November: We went to the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose, but I didn't take many pictures. Here are one image of the dealer's room and five of the fantastic cake made for Poe's 200th birthday.
September 26: We had bees, and arranged with a beekeeper [Mark Small at smallbees.com] to move them to an apiary at his location. The pictures show bees living in an architectural decoration; dead bees which had found their way into the house through the walls; and the man in the bee suit removing the tiles and vacuuming the bees up. There's a closeup of the very large combs, and the confused bees shown huddling together when they can't find the queen. The bees haunted the front of the house for a day and a half, and have now mostly gone away. Click for larger.
August 20: Mike's photos of our BBQ dinner party for visiting TAFF delegate Steve Green.
April/May: Karen's photos from Italy
January 31: A trip to the Farmers Market at Ferry Plaza, SF, and a Stairway Walk. Here.

November 8: Day of the Doon VI: A party for fans of Bonny Doon Vineyards. Food! Wine! Entertainment! Have I mentioned Wine? The Fire Dancers performed as night came and the Bonny Doon crew cleaned the place up.
July 4: The "Rose, White, and Blue" Rose Garden District Parade and Festival, celebrating July 4th in a modernized traditional way.
June 2: A memorial celebration of the life of Steve Cisler, held at Sanborn-Skyline County Park.
May 8: The introduction and preview presentation of the Babbage Difference Engine #2 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

October 26-28: Mike's photos from ArtCon (Art Widner's 90th Birthday party, and a Ditto). Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Also includes photos from Saturday Dinner at St. Orres, Art's House, a visit to Bowling Ball Beach, and Picturesque Scenes from Gualala, California, and The Breakers Inn (site of the party/Ditto).

August 11: Mike's photos from the Survival Research Labs show at the end of the ZeroOne event.
August 8-11: Mike's photos from the art show, events and displays of the 2006 ZeroOne digital art conference and show in San Jose.
August 7-8: Mikes's photos from the Pacific Rim New Media Summit (PRNMS)
July 1-4: Mike's photos from Westercon 59 in San Diego, CA.
February 19: Mike's photos from a walk through Wilder Ranch State Park, an unusually decorated building lot in Santa Cruz, and the Pacific Coast.

June: Mike's photos from the Master Gardener's tour of Napa and Sonoma counties, CA.
May 28-31: Mike's photos from Wiscon 28 in Madison, WI.

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