Interview Setup of the LED Lighting Love


Bike Leg of the UC Davis Triathlon

Dorky? Yes. Fast? Also yes.

Bike and apparel courtesy Joyent.

Photo by Thomas Smith.

Joyent Cloud Meetup: Circonus’s Brian Clapper
Note: This was a joint meetup with the illumos community, as well so thanks for your support! Here’s video from our last Joyent Cloud Meetup with Circonus CTO Brian Clapper. Brian ran through how they integrated their sophisticated monitoring and alert tool (which covers cloud-centric compute services, marketing metrics, financial metrics and many other areas) [...]

Joyent Cloud Meetup: 10gen’s Jared Rosoff and MongoLab’s Todd Dampier
Here’s videos of our latest Joyent Cloud Meetup featuring 10gen’s Director of Product Marketing and Customer Engagement Jared Rosoff and MongoLab CTO and Co-Founder Todd Dampier. Jared gives a great introduction to MongoDB on SmartOS and Joyent Cloud (10gen is the corporate steward of the MongoDB open source project). And Todd provides eye-opening findings on [...]

Rash of the Limantour Spit Road

Yeah, hit some black ice on a descent going about 30mph, slid for nearly 70 yards. Good thing I was wearing jeans and a jacket!

Working remotely of the mobile office


Sir Harry of the merch table


Muni Monte of the short con


San Francisco of the waiting for the boat


Good to know of the it's not paranoia if they really are out to get you


Joyent Endurance Team of the Marin Century

Note the pace of the first two laps are when I was playing catch-up after oversleeping, catching the bus to San Rafael and starting 70 minutes after the rest of the team.

Also note that I did "The Wall" climb -- 750 feet over 3.1 miles -- in 0:18:08.

Not that it was a race!

Results of the Tiburon Triathlon


Home-hacked electric bike of the tied up with ribbon


Lake Washington of the Seafair Triathlon


Morning coffee of the Truckee


Morning ride of the pastry powered


Packed and ready of the clearly unimpressed cat


Travel kit of the overnight roundtrip to Pigeon Point


Mounties of the not Canadian, "outdoorsy"


Pink Saturday downtown of the Juggalo pride


Morning of the good times


Stats of the regimen

Not entirely accurate, but not far off! Culled from self-reported and machine-generated workout logs in TrainingPeaks starting in January.

"Other" is mostly basketball (and underreported), "Brick" is mostly cycling and some of the cycling was actually napping and eating pastry on a touring ride while the timer ran. Mostly surprised at the share of strength training -- almost all yoga, actually.

Please, A Small Political Favor (Updated)
Update: With no objections, the Rules Committee recommended that the full Board of Supervisors appointment me to seat 11 on the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. I’d really like to thank Jeremy and Justin who showed up to offer their support in person, as well as everyone who contacted the members of the committee with letters [...]

Meet a Fellow Vain Brigand
So after years of wanting a cat, but it never being the right time, or the right place, or short on money, today I finally took the plunge. After doing my research at the San Francisco SPCA’s website, I came prepared with money and paperwork to their location at 16th and Bryant. Luckily, I just [...]

The Adventures of Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE

Watch Flashy as he goes native to uncover the nefarious plots being hatched by his demented captor. Music from Archive.org , sound effects from Freesound.org .

Where to Find Me These Days
While I’m having some technical difficulties with jacksonwest.com, most of the writing I’ve been doing of late has been over at Joyeur. My latest post is about losing weight and signing up for Joyent’s endurance team. Earlier I shared my ex’s cranberry jelly recipe, at it was rather saucy. Otherwise, I’m serving as the lead [...]

San Francisco Celebrates the Giants Winning the World Series

The scene in San Francisco in the moments before and after the Giants won the World Series on November 1st, 2010.

I Just Had to Say Something
So watching the Daily Show last night, I immediately noticed something was amiss — Jon Stewart’s jacket was bunching up at the collar, and in a bad way. Having been hanging out downtown for over a month, naturally I’ve been silently judging the cut of everyone’s jib, and for a large part everyone follows the [...]

Angel Island

I went to Angel Island with @ernieatlyd and @allaboutgeorge, and nearly forgot that I had a video camera in my pocket at all times in the form of an iPhone -- from which it was surprisingly difficult to get the source-quality footage! ;That said, hope you enjoy it against a Joni Mitchell performance from the Beeb back in the sixties.

From Thrift to Custom
The Bold Italic has thrown a men’s fashion week in San Francisco, and I managed to get a piece in about turning used finds into real daily wear for the Montgomery Street set. But one of my goals with the piece was to get something custom-made, and I did, but it didn’t make the edit [...]

Yes, I Done Got a Real Job
I’m sure I’ll have more to say about it later — I haven’t even been able to come up with 140 appropriate characters to announce it on Twitter. Anyway, the company has a reading club! Just three days at the office so still able to keep up with internal email somewhat, and finally checked out [...]

Immoderate User-Submitted Tags
Hulu allows users to tag videos, and oh the crazy things that users will say! Like, “Cheney is a pedophile,” currently the most popular tag for the documentary “Bush’s Brain” about Karl Rove. Good times.

The Sims Body Snatchers Invade Facebook
I have long been losing trust in online enterprises not to play with me or my data, and the larger they are, the less I trust them. But when I realized I am literally being played with like a toy, that really made my skin crawl. An email arrived in my inbox from Facebook, one [...]

Sunshine, On My Shoulder, Makes Me Happy
So my good friend Eve Batey at the San Francisco Appeal shot me an email today with an idea so crazy it just might work. She suggested that I — me, Jackson West — might be a good candidate for San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. And right now, even if you live in San [...]

Worlds Collide, Part Whatever
So yesterday I got a last-minute invitation to join my good friends Eve and Matt to talk about Muni in front of cameras. Naturally, I put on a suit and my new-to-me Cavali shirt ($7.99 plus tax at Thrift Town) because if you offer me an excuse to overdress, I will take it. But I [...]

Bulldogs skateboard to America, Fuck Yeah!

From Valleywag. Yay, America! Or else.

Clinton Wins California



Narrative Workshop Diary - December 18th, 2007

Final diary entry as I compile the production book DVD.

Noel Hidalgo

Posting for future reference.

Winnies Promo

From Eddie Codel, Jackson West and the fine folks at SlutskyKline-Beecham, a new treatment for S.A.D. -- The Winnies!

Narrative Workshop Diary - November 20th, 2007

Time for that table read. Next week, screencasts of CeltX.

Narrative Workshop Diary - November 18th, 2007

In which we go behind-the-scenes. Table read to follow.

Narrative Workshop Diary - November 9th, 2007

Beating a retreat on the location front and holing up in my backyard.

Narrative Workshop Diary - November 2nd, 2007

Getting cold in Brooklyn. Thanks to everyone who's pre-ordered a DVD and contributed!

Narrative Workshop Diary - October 23rd, 2007

In which I make my shameless appeal for cashish. Help out!

Narrative Workshop Diary - October 14th, 2007

In which some actors audition and provide a small sense of the story.

Narrative Workshop Diary - October 9th, 2007

Killing time in the park between classes. Music by the EE Marching Funk Bunnies.

Narrative Workshop Diary - October 3rd, 2007

In which the plan, if not coming together, at least appears to have become inevitable.

Narrative Workshop Diary - September 24th, 2007

In which I apologize to Brett Ratner, kinda, after he makes a surprise visit to class.

Narrative Workshop Diary - September 17th, 2007

My first installment in a weekly series as I work on my project for film school.