Work RenFaire picnic

Time to catch up with some of the pics that have been languishing on my phone!

Big Search Engine Company (tm) is too big to have just one company picnic. Instead, each major department has its own picnic, and this year my department decided to have a RenFaire-style picnic. Of course I went.

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California Academy of Sciences

Daunted by his illness last week from visiting San Francisco for the J-Pop Festival, dracosphynx vowed to venture to SF this week for the skulls exhibit, from which he wanted a better understanding of how horns attach to skulls. For his artwork, that is, he is not planning severe reconstructive surgery. That I know of.

Naturally, I tagged along because, hey, it sounded interesting!

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Tea at the Interval / Trying Yakitori

As you might recall from my last entry, we had just spent a few hours wandering around various exhibits in the California Academy of Sciences. Next up was the Interval, a teahouse where dracosphynx has a bag of 25-year-old vintage Pu-erh tea held for him by the proprietors.

They had an orrery out front that has been designed with mechanical gears to compute the relative placement of the planets. Interesting, but I admit one drawback is that it moves very, very slowly so you'd have to be watching quite a while to note any movement from the gears.

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