Shan and I took a trip up to San Francisco a couple of weeks ago to visit some of the best family and friends to have ever set foot on the planet. We also went to Chez Panisse for the best meal of the year. My cousin Sam is a host/server at the restaurant and he treated us right. Chez Panisse’s pizza chef shares my first name and he graciously gifted us a delicious wild nettle pizza (I never knew that you can eat nettles). Belonging to the Jed club has its advantages.
We flew up there on Virgin America, and kicked off the trip with the most amazing thing that’s happened to me in a long time: I paid attention to the entire safety video.
See it for yourself:
Kudos to Anomaly (the people behind the video) for making a safety video for human beings. Massive kudos to Virgin for giving their airline such a friendly voice. The flight was perfect, and I’m jealous that Shan gets to fly it again next week for a job interview.
Here’s the natural follow up: a post about the power of an animated infographic. Until I saw the awesome explanation of π shown above (found on Wikipedia, of course), animated gifs have served little for me other than comic relief. I always knew π had something to do with circles, but I was never quite sure (at least not since 7th grade). Now, after watching this nifty animation about 20 times, it might finally be permanently written on my brains.
If only I knew what to do with this knowledge! Maybe I’ll invent a new kind of shoe with wheels on the heel for kids to wear at the mall.
The Sandy’s Hope 2008 t-shirt screen. Ready to print!
Shannon and I will be walking for hope in less than two weeks! That is, we’ll be walking with thousands of people whose lives have been affected by breast cancer, sharing our hope that we will find a cure for breast cancer. It’s a beautiful event, and one that I’m humbled to attend with Shannon, who lost her mother, Sandy, to breast cancer in April 2006. I never met Sandy, but I fully celebrate her life, as I get to live mine with her wonderful daughter.
I’m excited that some of our friends will be joining us this year as well. If you’d like to support us by walking or donating to our effort, please click here and donate or join our team.
Also, If you donate $35 or more, I’ll make you a t-shirt with my own two hands. The picture at the beginning of this post is of the silk screen that I made yesterday to print the shirts (here’s an even larger image of the design).
Once you’ve donated, send an email to SandysHope@gmail.com and let us know your shirt size (we only have men’s and women’s medium, large and extra large American Apparel shirts) and if you want the design printed in black or dark pink.
If you live in the San Diego metro area and order before April 24, we will get you your shirt on or before the walk on May 3. If you order by June 1, you will get your shirts about two weeks later.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions for places to add. If we—as a community—get our act together, this map will eventually be loaded with great places to get local, healthy, sustainably produced food.
Ever since taking Edward Tufte’s course back in ‘03, I’ve been a sucker for a good chart or information graphic. This excellent specimen came across the internet this morning, and has convinced me that I don’t want to see Rambo (the most recent one). Looks like it has too much violence and not enough “Rambo getting shot at without significant result.” I don’t know if I ever saw First Blood Part II, but it sounds like it’s got just the right amount of everything.
Kudos to John Mueller for putting this chart together for the LA Times. Boo to the LA Times for not figuring out how to create good looking tables for the web. I don’t know who scanned it from the actual newspaper.
