tweets o' the day

• 08:26 dropping the dog off at the kennel. he really does love this place (and they love having a great dane around the place)
• 12:29 clear of the Bay Area, about to merge onto I-5N on our way to Mount Shasta stop
• 16:03 walking around Mt Shasta City. More smoky than I'd feared. so much for good views of the summit
• 18:12 at the Klamath Falls Safeway getting s'mores makings
• 21:10 sitting around tje campfire. abouit to start making our s'mores

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• 16:48 Off to buy another 50# of chicken feed. Gotta keep the girls happily and well fed so they keep gifting us with those delicious eggs!
• 17:09 @kentlangley there's no question owning chickens in your backyard is a net positive. see urbanchickens.net for more of my musings
• 17:59 off to get a last swim workout in the pool before our trip. For the next two weeks I'll be doing open water swims in lakes and rivers
• 19:17 i hate it when scheduke forces me to cut a workout short. so unsatisfying
• 22:12 there are no ills a friendly game of darts can't solve
• 23:33 ok, time to finish packing for our road trip. leaving in the morning!
• 08:26 dropping the dog off at the kennel. he really does love this place (and they love having a great dane around the place)
• 12:29 clear of the Bay Area, about to merge onto I-5N on our way to Mount Shasta stop
• 16:03 walking around Mt Shasta City. More smoky than I'd feared. so much for good views of the summit

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tweets o' the day

• 15:24 Must focus on work for a couple more hours. Then it'll be time to turn on the auto-responder, change the vmail greeting & head out of town
• 16:48 Off to buy another 50# of chicken feed. Gotta keep the girls happily and well fed so they keep gifting us with those delicious eggs!
• 17:09 @kentlangley there's no question owning chickens in your backyard is a net positive. see urbanchickens.net for more of my musings
• 17:59 off to get a last swim workout in the pool before our trip. For the next two weeks I'll be doing open water swims in lakes and rivers
• 19:17 i hate it when scheduke forces me to cut a workout short. so unsatisfying
• 22:12 there are no ills a friendly game of darts can't solve
• 23:33 ok, time to finish packing for our road trip. leaving in the morning!
• 08:26 dropping the dog off at the kennel. he really does love this place (and they love having a great dane around the place)
• 12:29 clear of the Bay Area, about to merge onto I-5N on our way to Mount Shasta stop

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tweets o' the day

• 15:24 Must focus on work for a couple more hours. Then it'll be time to turn on the auto-responder, change the vmail greeting & head out of town
• 16:48 Off to buy another 50# of chicken feed. Gotta keep the girls happily and well fed so they keep gifting us with those delicious eggs!
• 17:09 @kentlangley there's no question owning chickens in your backyard is a net positive. see urbanchickens.net for more of my musings
• 17:59 off to get a last swim workout in the pool before our trip. For the next two weeks I'll be doing open water swims in lakes and rivers
• 19:17 i hate it when scheduke forces me to cut a workout short. so unsatisfying
• 22:12 there are no ills a friendly game of darts can't solve
• 23:33 ok, time to finish packing for our road trip. leaving in the morning!
• 08:26 dropping the dog off at the kennel. he really does love this place (and they love having a great dane around the place)
• 12:29 clear of the Bay Area, about to merge onto I-5N on our way to Mount Shasta stop

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tweets o' the day

• 11:54 Timing the leap from Twitter reports of LA earthquake to MSM reports of same.
• 11:56 the AP clocks in with a wire at 8 min after first tweet of same
• 15:24 Must focus on work for a couple more hours. Then it'll be time to turn on the auto-responder, change the vmail greeting & head out of town
• 16:48 Off to buy another 50# of chicken feed. Gotta keep the girls happily and well fed so they keep gifting us with those delicious eggs!
• 17:09 @kentlangley there's no question owning chickens in your backyard is a net positive. see urbanchickens.net for more of my musings
• 17:59 off to get a last swim workout in the pool before our trip. For the next two weeks I'll be doing open water swims in lakes and rivers
• 19:17 i hate it when scheduke forces me to cut a workout short. so unsatisfying
• 22:12 there are no ills a friendly game of darts can't solve
• 23:33 ok, time to finish packing for our road trip. leaving in the morning!
• 08:26 dropping the dog off at the kennel. he really does love this place (and they love having a great dane around the place)

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tweets o' the day

• 09:53 @chep2m fantastic news re @Ribbit and BT, congrats to the team
• 11:54 Timing the leap from Twitter reports of LA earthquake to MSM reports of same.
• 11:56 the AP clocks in with a wire at 8 min after first tweet of same
• 15:24 Must focus on work for a couple more hours. Then it'll be time to turn on the auto-responder, change the vmail greeting & head out of town
• 16:48 Off to buy another 50# of chicken feed. Gotta keep the girls happily and well fed so they keep gifting us with those delicious eggs!
• 17:09 @kentlangley there's no question owning chickens in your backyard is a net positive. see urbanchickens.net for more of my musings
• 17:59 off to get a last swim workout in the pool before our trip. For the next two weeks I'll be doing open water swims in lakes and rivers
• 19:17 i hate it when scheduke forces me to cut a workout short. so unsatisfying
• 22:12 there are no ills a friendly game of darts can't solve
• 23:33 ok, time to finish packing for our road trip. leaving in the morning!
• 08:26 dropping the dog off at the kennel. he really does love this place (and they love having a great dane around the place)

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time-lapse movie of KaBOOM! playground build

I'm a huge fan of the folks at KaBOOM! and their mission to create a place to play within walking distance of every child. I've participated in a couple playground builds myself (one in Pahrump, Nev. and the other in San Jose, Calif.).

Colleagues of mine participated in a recent build at the McKinley School in San Francisco, and it was captured on time-lapse so you, too can see the magic that is a KaBOOM! playground coming to life:


KAboom, WaMu McKinley School Timelapse from ricky montalvo on Vimeo.

tweets o' the day

• 08:45 @RocchiJulia don't worry, it's not you. we all got a stats haircut in the last 12 hours. See Twitter status blog snurl.com/34asl
• 13:31 Folks at SF Documentary Festival think I work for a filmmaker trying to get a film included. I just want to see the film. how to persuade?
• 14:09 @RocchiJulia wow. I like the Rent-a-chook idea. I wonder if it could work here in the States? hmmm
• 14:51 per twittercounter.com I've got 30 followers MIA (and 12 followings by my own recollection, but I don't know who they are exactly)
• 16:21 @chep2m you never lost me (not that you tried) looking forward to coffee IRL
• 16:28 our local NBC station just started broadcasting local news show in HD: too bad they're filling the extra real estate with too bright graphix
• 20:06 after feeding the dog, I'm heading out on a 45 min training run. Hope I'm done before dark
• 22:20 great interval run tonight. I heart my Garmin Forerunner 305 and the motionbased.com site it syncs with. geeky goodness

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tweets o' the day

• 08:06 hate it when my blackberry and computer calendars are out-of-sync. missed a social-media-in-project-mgmt workshop this morning. grrr
• 08:35 10 of 12 nights' reservations made for our Canada road trip. Two nights of camping left to scope out near Spokane, WA and Bend, OR.
• 08:44 @krob driving south after I run my 10K in Invermere, Canada & don't think we can make it to Bend in one day. Gotta stop in WA near Spokane
• 09:55 just had a coworker's long-unused Chumby dropped on my desk to adopt as my own. must. resist. urge. to play.
• 10:28 @jk5027a great blog observations on Twebinar #2. Left a comment re: your question of "fresh air into the social causerie?"
• 10:49 @rohitbhargava congrats on the recognition of PNI!
• 14:40 inspired by seeing so many logo treatments. kinda wish I was back in that line of work, but then I remember how the sausage gets made. nope
• 17:57 my left shoe has started to squeak. i'm thisclose to chucking it in the trash, but it's my dress-up slip-on shoe. oil? wax? what?
• 20:05 appreciating the crowdsourced suggestions for where to camp near Spokane, WA and near Bend, OR. any other inputs before I reserve?
• 22:20 @chep2m i'm missing followers and followings. hmmm indeed

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yet another battle at Kruger?

Last July I blogged about the Battle at Kruger, an epic battle between lions, hippos and Cape buffalo, thanks to a tip from our tour guide at Safari West.

Today, thanks to boingboing, I got a tip to check out a leopard attacking a crocodile at Kruger National Park that was photo documented by Hal Brindley.

Not sure what it is that makes Kruger National Park the site of so many surprising predator-prey combinations, but I'm glad there are folks around to document it so I can witness from the comfort of my keyboard.

A teaser slideshow is below:

tweets o' the day

• 07:38 hopping on a call with ICTSD. Their day in Geneva's ending just as mine is beginning in the Bay Area
• 09:45 Impressed with HOT studio's presentation books for strategy and discovery content re: new web site and logo
• 09:46 @davetaylor I use LoudTwitter to aggregate my day's tweets into a blog post

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tweets o' the day

• 07:05 fav morning ritual? crafting a fresh cup of coffee on our bosch benvenuto machine. no better way to start the day
• 08:27 there's something just way too cool about getting updates from mars via the tweets of @MarsPhoenix Who'd have thunk it 25 years ago?
• 09:10 @kaparkins do tell!
• 11:28 returning from a great meeting with Ross Dawson re: networks and reputations and social capital, oh my
• 14:54 thanks to solar panels, our July electric bill is $0.60, and our annual bill averaged less than $20/month. thank you, Mr. Sun
• 15:13 @hjstrout we purchased the house with the solar panels already installed, so don't know how hard/expensive ours were.
• 15:16 @hjstrout we haven't yet modified our contract with the electric co to maximize earning potential of our panels (now is flat rate buy/sell)

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tweets o' the day

• 07:02 @wenderful how about twittering brunch?
• 08:22 trying to upload the GPS data from our Mt Whitney climb showing 8351' of ascent (2279' of descent) over the 10:28 it took to get to 14,500'
• 09:09 @krob fingers crossed someone's home tomorrow!
• 10:15 @jsb thanks for taking one for the team in trying the avocado smoothie. now I can avoid it based on your rec
• 14:11 Very grateful for the insights of my lunch partner who's recently gone through a successful salesforce.com integration. now to do our own.
• 22:55 glad to have reconnected with former colleagues and old friends tonight at two different functions. strengthening the network again

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tweets o' the day

• 08:32 nervous about results of today's doc appt to look at my calf. not worried, just anxious that all's ok and I can resume training in earnest
• 13:17 very satisfying to have the doc's computer double-check my weight because I've lost 40 lbs since last visit
• 13:58 doc's recommended course of action (vascular surgery) not covered by my insurance. it's pay out-of-pocket v manage the symptoms. sigh
• 18:07 @rodot totally jealous of you, my friend. enjoy your time backstage!
• 18:34 Donning my brand new compression sock to manage the swelling in my left calf. Looks/feels like an over-long black dress sock. oh, the suck.

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tweets o' the day

• 11:25 glad we came back from climbing Mt Whitney yesterday. Today feels like a gift to hang out with my girls before going back to office tomorrow
• 13:48 wishing my work email inbox had a "delete all promotional/tangential/no-longer-important messages now" button
• 14:37 watching Wizard of Oz with my girls... according to them, I'm tinman & scarecrow & lion all in one. so many lines to memorize
• 17:37 just alerted a cop to the dog locked in its oven-like car at safeway. hope owner gets fined big time
• 18:57 grilling asian chicken satay for the peanut sauce and rice for dinner

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• 08:52 day after Mt Whitney summit, and with a good night's sleep, feel like a new man
• 08:53 in Mammoth Lakes eating a monster breakfast at the Stove again
• 13:54 gassing up in Oakdale, CA. back in the Bay Area by 3:30p and home to see my girls
• 17:03 home again... uploading Mt Whitney Summit Trip pix

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• 17:00 just returned from Mt Whitney summit (yay!). 20 hrs on mountain. dead tired

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• 00:41 finally arrived at our hotel in Mammoth Lakes. Now to lay my weary head to rest...
• 07:39 beautiful morning in Mammoth Lakes. a few more hours before the whole crew's awake and ready to eat our BIG carbo-load breakfast.
• 14:25 standing at the whitney trail head. so excited! hiking starts in 7.5 hrs
• 16:40 from the looks of the clouds we may get a little rain shower before we start hiking tonight
• 19:48 dinner is over, now it's time to pack the packs, change into our hiking gear and head to the Mt Whitney trail
• 21:28 on the whitney trail with a 21 lb pack. tweet you tomorrow after we return from the summit!

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tweets o' the day

• 09:45 Wishing somehow I wasn't so excited for the trip to Mt Whitney... didn't sleep nearly enough last night due to giddy anticipation
• 11:13 about to dive into meetings for the next 6 hours. see you on the other side.
• 17:28 out of my meetings, now to pack up and hit the road to Mt Whitney!
• 00:41 finally arrived at our hotel in Mammoth Lakes. Now to lay my weary head to rest...

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tweets o' the day

• 16:42 where the heck did Monday go?
• 17:55 not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but why is WSJ covering the Tour de France? to show off their interactive mapping skills?
• 20:49 sending out the last logistics email to the Mt Whitney summit crew. In less than 48 hours, we'll be on the road headed to the trailhead.

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