Pedestrian

Usually Facebook is one of the more unhelpful sites I use regularly - a confusing mess of undercooked noodles that I pry apart to find the thing I want. I love that I don’t get any spam in my Facebook inbox and I used it a lot for email with friends.

I’m helping a high school friend plan her wedding at San Francisco City Hall in a couple weeks (she’s flying in from Florida! Yay!) and we’ve been planning via Facebook messages. I was looking for the Facebook message where she said what she and her bride-to-be are going to wear.

Click, back button, click, back button, scroll, back button, and so on. Then I noticed that Facebook had planted a helpful yellow message at the top of my Inbox after a few back/forths - I’ve never seen the search box for messages before - cool!

I found the Eye-Fi Wireless Camera SD Card when I was looking for reports of average October weather at Ocean Beach in San Francisco.  Moya and I take a lot of photos of our daughter using our Treo 700’s which translates into a fairly low-res photo history of her life.  We got a new camera (Nikon D40) and I used it to take pictures last weekend.  I forgot (doh!) that a regular camera can’t upload photos as soon as I take them, and, being the busy people that we are, it seems like too much effort to plug the cord into a computer or take out the card and import before uploading to the web.  The Eye-Fi (according to Photojojo) will do most of what I need.  Now if only it was an 8GB instead of 2GB card.

I didn’t mention the chocolatier (in the NPR story linked below) that inspired (along with Gavin Newsom’s decision) our first wedding in San Francisco. The chocolates were from Candinas chocolatier in Verona, Wisconsin. They’re delicious subtle chocolates - the kind of chocolates that disappear too quickly and you wonder, “did I really eat all of those?” And, yes, you did - every delicious treasure.

Lesbian Couple Hopes Third ‘I Do’ Proves Charm is an NPR All Things Considered story about me and Moya. We’re so thrilled and overjoyed that we can, after 11 years as a couple, marry each other in the state and city where we live here in California. It overwhelms me with giddy happy joy!

My last name makes it pretty obvious that I’m Norwegian, though it’s missing an h or two. Three things happened this week that inspired me to more passionately identify with being Norwegian:

1. Norway’s parliament members overwhelmingly voted (84 to 41) for gay marriage this week
2. I watch these lions (living in Norway) every day. They sometimes remind me of Spike, my cat who died in 2004, and sometimes the mama lion’s routine of sleep, clean the babies, feed the babies, sleep reminds me of taking care of my daughter when she was a baby.
3. Norway has progressive legislation that has increased the number of women on corporate boards (”public limited companies”) according to this article Norway’s big stick for getting women on boards:

And the result? Statistics Norway revealed that by February 19, 39 per cent of the board representatives in public limited companies were women. Ninety-three per cent of the 459 public limited companies had met the requirements of representation of both sexes laid down in the Public Limited Companies Act.