Topical Tuesday (7)

Last weekend I was in Mountain View to meet up with some friends and decided to get dinner there beforehand. I went to what was formerly Colonel Lee’s Mongolian BBQ to find out that they had completely redone the place with very beautiful and intricate display pieces on the walls, and even renamed the place New Mongolian BBQ.

I like the name new to reflect the changes, though, I do wonder if they will re-rename it after it has been there for a long time under the same name or if they will just keep it even if it doesn’t make a lot of sense anymore, like when products in the grocery store such as detergents keep “New and Improved” labels for years.

I decided to buy a new card reader to have one with me on the go and found myself contemplating a lot of choices. I saw for the first time the Ecotrends card reader which claims to read 50 digital card types. I can’t even name 10 digital types, yet I was intrigued by the claim, reasonable price and the fact that it was eco-friendly with very little packaging to waste. It worked well for both my SD cards and my Compact Flash cards, yet I found out if you tried to read both at once it would give you an error message. Still it’s a great device to have on the go and will even let me read/connect to friend’s cards if they happen to have a need for it.

I’ve always appreciated the art in the bathroom of Barefoot Coffee Roasters. They have both bare feet painted on the ceiling and addition to ever changing art painted on the walls. I liked how the current artwork was a contrast of both a beautiful and a sinister face.

I found myself at San Jose’s City Hall walking around Sunday as I was waiting for the Martin Luther King Library to open (they were testing fire safety equipment and could not open till it was finished). The hazy rainy day made for a very dark and ominous background for a different perspective. I really like the open and clear dome so it was a fun contrast as well.

When the library opened I made sure to try photographing the flags of the world again from different angles and even floors.

Additionally the moving words electronic piece caught my attention.