Tieing up loose ends:

It looks like I managed to move my weblog without any major trouble! I hope to modify the look and feel by the next weekend.

I was browsing through my referral logs and search reports this weekend. Every now and then some people come here via google searching for some rather outlandish stuff. I now feel compelled to declare that this weblog doesn?t have anything to do with 'naked girls in Santa Cruz'. For anyone looking for nude beaches in Santa Cruz, the best bet is probably to drive up highway 1 North of Santa Cruz and look for cars parked with nothing in sight. I believe there are a few south of Davenport.

On my January 21's post, I wrote of James Lick, the man who funded the building of Lick Observatory; "He apparently toyed with the idea of building the world's greatest pyramid in downtown San Francisco, but was persuaded to build the greatest telescope by U.of California." That is what the Lick observatory employee who acted as our tour guide told us. I recently read in the book 'San Francisco is your home' by Samuel Dickson that Lick originally wanted to build the observatory in what is now South of Market in San Francisco, but was persuaded instead to build it in Mount Hamilton. Pyramids make for a better story. But I didn't find any reference to it in Dickson's account. Its probably an apocryphal story.

Errata:

Admission to SFMOMA is free only on the first Tuesday of every month as opposed to every Tuesday as I originally wrote on my last Thursday?s post. (Thanks Archana, for pointing that out)