Food: Culture: Cool: and SF Events.

A (fairly) quick post to mention a few upcoming things-to-do.

How exactly the Kingdom of Navarra, Spain is visiting San Francisco is beyond my comprehension. But some great local restaurants are deeming exactly this until Feb. 4th. With special menus on hand at thirteen fine SF locales (like Rubicon and B44), it's kinda like traveling... uhhmmm, without the traveling part. Visit the "Participating Restaurants" link to view.

Quick get out your wallet... (No, you're not getting mugged by me over your PPPoE internet connection). It's time for a Sample Angel sample sale this Sat. Feb. 3rd at Boom Boom Room. everything from Shu Uemura Cosmetics to some menswear, 11- 4 pm. Or you can always visit their new store at 514 Presidio at California St for 50-80% off retail (open 4 days a week, see site for deets).

Tomorrow, Sat. Feb 3rd, jazz sax legend Wayne Shorter is at The Marin Center. I was lucky enough to see him in his first-ever live performance w/ pianist Herbie Hancock a couple years back. He sounds brilliant live, but you have to get over how he "visually stutters" making him a little hard to watch... Just open your ears and close your eyes, and settle in for a great performance.

If you're tired of looking at the tired ol' Windows screensaver, you can get a FREE Planet Earth 3D screensaver. You must download AND install it today, otherwise it's not free. I did, it isn't bad, but it isn't out-of-this-world amazing. I kinda like it having a clock, even if the graphics are only okay-ish. Hey, you get what you pay for. lol.

Continuing on the freeware tip, here is a page link w/ The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities. I'm not sure if I agree, but that's okay, it's got lots of great links (and gains credibility by listing Firefox as the premier browser of choice).

If astronomy is of interest, The Wild Blue Yonder is playing at the Red Vic Sun 2/4 to Tues 2/6. I blogged it in my last post, but it looks interesting enough to mention again.

Maybe interstellar travel gets your stomach all upside-down (from the freeze-dried onboard meal, no doubt!), maybe just a jaunt to the W Maldives Resort would suffice. This is just one of several new resorts in the region; but, by golly, it's a W Hotel. Full article on The Cool Hunter.

While searching PBase photo galleries of shots taken w/ my camera (Canon S3 IS), I found this one of Moses by Antonio Gonzalez (by Michelangelo, San Pietro in Vincoli, Roma, Italy). This is certainly one of my favorite sculptures anywhere, and also a favorite site in Rome.

Lastly, if you're still simply using Google to search for things, you may want to try Swami. It's a search engine that continually updates items you are searching for. I've used it, and it's great- especially if you're looking for the same info repeatedly (like news on a celebrity or a new gadget release date). Registration is simple and free. Cheers.

image credits: Wayne Shorter from Yahoo! Music, Earth from gamegiveawayoftheday, The Wild Blue Yonder from wildblueyonder.wernerherzog.com, W Maldives from The Cool Hunter.net, Moses by Michelangelo photo by Antonio Gonzalez on PBase.