Around 2:30 this afternoon, while I was in the middle of a meeting, we lost power in our office (and in the surrounding neighborhood). With only minimal emergency lighting on, we elected to move our meeting outside. While we were out there, PG&E allegedly told the university that they didn’t know what had happened but […]
Tonight we’re seeing Avenue Q at the Orpheum Theater in San Francisco. We actually saw it on Broadway three-and-a-half years ago, but it wouldn’t be the first time we’ve gone to touring productions of shows we’ve already seen in New York (we’ve seen both Putnam County Spelling Bee and Altar Boyz here in SF this […]
This past weekend Jeff and I went to Santa Cruz, where I was planning to attend a UC systemwide computing services conference from Sunday evening through Tuesday afternoon. I had never been to Santa Cruz, so we drove down together Saturday morning to do some sightseeing ahead of time. We went to the boardwalk, rode […]
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve made a pretty big decision: I’ve put my Northern Virginia condo on the market. I’d been thinking about it for a while. In fact, when I accepted the position here in San Francisco last year, I thought about trying to sell it then, but the interviews, job offer […]
Saturday morning, at about 10:30 a.m., the doorbell rang and a cute UPS deliveryman in his signature brown shorts (so I’m told by Jeff, who answered the door and collected the package) dropped off my pre-ordered copy of the 739-page Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and last book in the Harry Potter […]
An important point I noticed at the time but inadvertently left out of my earlier posting on the New Jersey same-sex marriage ruling: the decision, in its essence, was unanimous. All seven justices agreed that the committed relationships of the gay and lesbian citizens of New Jersey must be accorded the same legal rights and […]
New Jersey’s highest court has ruled today that within 180 days the state legislature must provide same-sex couples with the rights and privileges accorded to heterosexual marriage, stopping short of requiring that it be called marriage, stating explicitly that the legislature could choose to enact civil unions instead. text of the opinion (note: PDF file) […]
My department at UCSF is hiring a graphic designer/web designer (official title: Principal Artist), so if you know of any graphic artists in the Bay Area looking for a permanent position, please pass this on. Or, if you know of good specialized sites/lists for reaching graphic artists, please let me know (we’re using Craigslist, of […]
I’m not sure why I need to say anything since, as a friend once said to me when I expressed surprise that a co-worker didn’t know I was gay and had asked me about my wife (I assumed that everyone knew I was gay; after all, in 1988 at that organization I’d successfully spearheaded the […]
Jeff’s already written about our fondue date on the 29th of September, at the Melting Pot restaurant in Larkspur, the occasion both of that location’s first anniversary and a fundraiser for UCSF Children’s Hospital. I’d never before eaten at a Melting Pot, though I’d always wanted to, so for a good cause we made it […]