Michael’s Blog

Posted 18 July 2016

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Posted 17 May 2016

Last week I gave my third annual talk to our local high school’s programming/computer science class. The classes are taught by Analy High math… Read more »

Posted 15 May 2016

I have long thought about combining historic and modern images of San Francisco to make aligned, composite images that showed some parts new and… Read more »

Posted 12 May 2016

My mother-in-law, Joyce Stratton, who is 89, moved into a board and care home a few weeks ago. Irene and her siblings have been… Read more »

Posted 8 May 2016

Helen Slater at age 21, in 1941. My mom, Helen Slater Zager, died at age 92 a little more than three years ago. She… Read more »

Posted 4 May 2016

It was 1979 when Irene and I drove north from Palo Alto for a weekend away in remote Pt. Reyes. I was 24, we… Read more »

Posted 3 May 2016

Barney Saltzberg is one of my few very-long-time friends, going back to elementary school. He was a year ahead of me, so we didn’t… Read more »

Posted 20 April 2016

I created this website as a way to publish my blog posts, essays, photographs, and a few other projects. My focus is on creating… Read more »

Posted 18 April 2016

Today, my household entered the true age of broadband. Sure, we’ve been there for years, depending on how you define it. But this is… Read more »

Posted 17 April 2016

My son Gregory has been passionate about magic for 20 years — and he is only 25! He has been working on his time-keeping… Read more »

Posted 13 April 2016

Eight years ago, I cofounded Webvanta, a SaaS CMS platform and web development agency. I have been running Webvanta ever since, through all the… Read more »

Posted 10 April 2016

The Occidental Community Choir’s spring concerts are coming up Saturday, April 30, through Sunday, May 8, in a new program titled: A West County… Read more »

Posted 8 April 2016

If you love magic, and especially if you have kids, there’s a once-a-year event coming up in just one week that you don’t want… Read more »

Posted 4 April 2016

One of my best and oldest friends, Mark Indictor, came to visit this weekend, and we had a wonderful time! Mark and I went… Read more »

Posted 13 March 2016

I’ve read (or listened to) a lot of books. There is such a vast range of books out there, it is hard to choose…. Read more »

Posted 26 February 2016

Here’s a wonderful time-lapse movie of San Francisco Bay, shot from the Inn Above Tide in Sausalito. An entire day in 4 minutes. Click… Read more »

Posted 25 February 2016

At the house I grew up in, there was a shelf in the dining room with a toaster on it. I’m not sure how… Read more »

Posted 1 February 2016

I have been a fan of audiobooks since you had to buy them on tape, and then on CDs. I used to drive regularly… Read more »

Posted 28 January 2016

It was a couple years ago that I first heard about the idea of cat cafes. As a lifelong cat lover, the idea immediately… Read more »

Posted 27 January 2016

This blog has been live, in one form or another, for a decade. This year, I’ve done a full reset, keeping most of the… Read more »