Mmmm Bacon Yogurt

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Mar 292009

I stopped by the bacon yogurt celebration a few weeks ago. The stuff is tasty.

Doc Pop’s Bacon Yogurt on Youtube

Only 2 more days to eat the delicious Bacon, maple, cereal yogurt at YoCup. Try it before it’s gone! If you don’t live in San Francisco, just add the ingredients to some plain yogurt, and it’s almost the same experience.

Speaking of bacon and dessert, Heather Lynch took the grand prize at BaconCamp for her Maker’s Mark Ice Cream with a Maple Caramel Swirl and Candied Bacon Bits. I didn’t make it out to to the event (yes, it was my baby, but so it goes), and I’m hoping Heather will make another batch soon so I can taste it. Yum!


photo by Edrabbit

BTW BaconCamp kicked major ass. 40+ presentations, 9 prizes, 300+ people, $1500+ raised for AHA. I am thoroughly pleased. Expect another BaconCampSF in a few months. Check out the blog for more details about the past event, and some photos on flickr.

Posted by Karen at 10:04 pm Tagged with: , , ,

Bye bye Brickhouse!

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Mar 272009

I, unfortunately, wasn’t around to capture the move from Brickhouse to Sansome, so here’s a video of our move from Jumpcut to Brickhouse.

I will miss:
the ridiculous amount of space
the nice Brickhouse coffee & Cafe Centro folks
working near some dear friends
stopping by Whole Foods on my way home

I’m looking forward to:
working near some other dear friends
Hot financial district people (aka fai deee hotties)
new food places
proximity to ChinaTown, with all it’s weird Asian treats
the view

One book closed, another opens.

Posted by Karen at 10:39 pm Tagged with: ,

BaconCamp!

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Mar 122009

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been more than a month since I thought about organizing BaconCamp. It’s a little more than a week away, and I can’t wait. Everyone has been so supportive and helpful. I’m feeling and appreciating all the love.

Don’t forget to get your ticket early.
BaconCamp San Francisco
when: March 21, 2009 1pm-5pm
where: 500 3rd Street, Suite 510
cost: $0-20 donations – proceeds go to American Heart Association

Vanessa and I made this video to help you learn all about bacon:

We are still looking for more submissions for dishes and art so please tell your friends and sign up today. Sign up by Monday, March 16th so that we can guarantee you a spot and make sure you have what you need to shine.
You only have 4 days left! We’ll have a few open slots for presentations the day of, but you want to sign.

Need a little inspiration?Check out this post for ideas and suggestions of what you could present for BaconCamp

Scott also put together this great video of bacon memes:


BaconCamp – The Internet Bacon Meme in 60 Seconds from Bac'n.com on Vimeo.

Hope to see you guys there!

Posted by Karen at 7:20 pm Tagged with: , ,

My first tweet! What was yours?

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Mar 102009

It’s around that time again, when my twitter feed is flooded with conversations about sxsw. Many claim that Twitter was put on the map by SXSW 07, when throngs of geeks and bloggers used the service to praise and criticize panels and to find out where the partying was happening.

My first tweet!

Fortunately, Twitter has become much more stable since then, and is now a pretty reliable service. I got curious to see if I could find my first tweet. They still have the data! Check out the little video I made about my first tweet.

I want to know what was your first tweet? Tag your tweet #my1sttweet. It’ll make it much easier to search for your tweets. If you’re not on twitter, you should join!

If you’re not going to SXSW this year, and do not want the constant barrage of tweets from your friends, try Twitter Snooze to silence them for a few days.

EDIT: Looks like Twitter doesn’t keep the data for all users depending on how many tweets you have. Try finding your earliest tweet. :)

Posted by Karen at 6:49 pm Tagged with: ,

On relationships

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Mar 052009

Two pieces of writing I’ve enjoyed lately:

From Vanessa:

How to attract a real loser

There’s plenty of advice out there about what to do to attract a great guy, but sometimes it’s easier to understand what not to do. Therefore, from a wealth of personal experience–my own and that of some other battle-scarred ladies–I’ll share with you an easy five-step plan for attracting–and holding on to!–a real loser.

From Terry:

Love is a Fallacy

It is not often that one so young has such a giant intellect. Take, for example, Petey Bellows, my roommate at the university. Same age, same background, but dumb as an ox. A nice enough fellow, you understand, but nothing upstairs. Emotional type. Unstable. Impressionable. Worst of all, a faddist. Fads, I submit, are the very negation of reason. To be swept up in every new craze that comes along, to surrender oneself to idiocy just because everybody else is doing it—this, to me, is the acme of mindlessness.

Posted by Karen at 9:59 pm Tagged with: ,

Ask ijay & after effects

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Mar 042009

Justine is doing a series where she answers user submitted questions. Check out the first episode. I finally got a chance to put together a little video.

Ask IJ on Youtube

I got a couple of “creepy” comments. Ha. Am I creepy?

With the release of Adobe’s CS4 I was able to download another free trial of After Effects.  I first used AE more than a year ago in Resurrection (where I bring Justine back from the dead). I’ve never considered any Adobe software intuitive, and it took me 4 hours to figure out how to mask & blur the license plate on the car (that you see for all of 3 seconds).  After a year of working with flash and delving deeper into photoshop, AE finally clicks.  It turns out Flash & AE have a lot of similarities.  Trials are 30 days long, so I’m trying to learn as much effecting as I can in the next few weeks.  Rendering takes a while on my poor little lappy, though.

While I was editing the Ask IJ video I had one of those “woah this is amazing moments”.  When I was young, I watched Mary Poppins easily 100 times.

In the above scene Bert dances with animated penguins.  I have no concept of how accomplished that effect at the time.  Were they literally slicing images together with the cells frame by frame?  Possibly.  It is truly stunning to think how far we’ve come. I have the tools to do the same thing more efficiently on my laptop, and the software was free (for 30 days). Go technology.

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