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The Philippines, with 13 murders last year, is the second worst place for journalists. Iraq is first.

Luxury vacations, fast-track careers, and bigger houses used to be a priority for family men, but no longer. Today’s young fathers are taking paternity leaves, rejecting overtime, and rushing home after work to do all the things many of their own fathers didn’t.

Yesterday turned out to be a day pleasantly spent with a couple of old and new friends. I met up with Edmund, a long lost friend of mine, to check out the Macworld expo together. Ed was a roommate/co-worker from back in the day.

Ed and I at Cha-Am Restaurant across the street from Moscone Center.

Click here to see how we looked ten or so years, and pounds, ago.

Cha-Am is a Thai fast food restaurant which occupies the space where Jollibee used to be. While dining there, I recognized Mike of Pusod and Jayadewa.com. I introduced myself, then invited him to join our table. We had a nice little chat about Macworld (which he himself attended), the internet and work.

We do! We do! We do need our steenkin’ badges!

More Macworld pics here.

I’ve all but forgotten about this section of my blog. I’ve taken a few pictures with the T616 over the past six months or so however, and here are some of them:

  
Left: SFMOMA from the Metreon; Right: Son no. 2 mimicking Harold and the Purple Crayon

  
Left: Gundam head and the boys; Right: Easter bunny with the baby

  
These Star Wars action figures suspiciously look too much like this guy. Well, the one on the right looks more like Oscar Goldman, the Bionic Man’s boss.

  
Left: Came across this clever theft deterrent (it’s fake, guys); Right: Receiving respiratory therapy after an asthma attack.

Over the past several weeks, flocks of seagulls have encircled the skies over Fremont to create “funnels” that rise hundreds of feet in the air. They spiral around these funnels for no apparent reason. It can’t be because of sources of food on the ground below because these funnels tend to drift and not stay put. Once in a while a new flock will fly from afar to join this mass of birds in the sky. Searching the net on this behavior has turned up nothing.

Here’s a worm’s eye view video (avi, 2.3MB) of the phenomenon.