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Last weekend I had a big cooking marathon. This weekend was all about baking. I made two loaves of no-knead bread (written up by the New York Times’ minimalist Mark Bittman)—one whole wheat, one “regular” (i.e. all-purpose flour). After letting them rise overnight and doing the last stages of prep today, I popped them in the oven. Ta-dah! Bread.

My book this week is I am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President. The author Josh Lieb is a writer on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, perfect credentials for a book meant to make you giggle. (more…)

The Cal women’s basketball team played UCLA at Haas Pavilion this afternoon. It was an ugly loss for the Bears. By half-time the score was 8-14. Ouch.

The women’s basketball teams from Cal and USC have a long-time rivalry. The past few competitions have come down to the last few seconds. But by the time the final buzzer sounded the Bears had a healthy six-point lead.

I covered Head Coach Jeff Tedford’s announcement of the 2010 recruiting class for football. The journalists who attended watched videos of the new recruits and Coach Tedford said this was the best class yet.

During my break from classes I took a long walk through downtown Berkeley, made a brief stop at the post office and stopped over at the Cal tennis courts to watch the end of a match. What a luxurious afternoon.

Went out on assignment on January 28 to photograph the swearing of of Berkeley’s new police chief. I’m playing a bit of catch-up with my photo-a-day posts, so I’m posting a few images from my recent archives.

Another photo from rugby match against Stanford from yesterday. I’ve slipped up a bit on the photo-a-day, but I’m getting back on it. Here goes!

The Cal Bears have a great track record in rugby. For the best two plus decades the Bears have been nearly unbeatable. Today was no different. The final score of the game was 99-0. Phew!

It’s early evening in San Francisco and diligent workers are just leaving their offices and flooding out onto the rain-soaked streets. I just got off work myself and headed north to Market Street to catch the BART home. This weekend will provide a much-needed break. Tomorrow morning I’m headed down to the farmers’ market for a couple late-in-the-season persimmons and a bunch or red chard.

Just a note about yesterday’s post: The over-edited image is proof that you need a calibrated monitor when you’re looking at images. You shouldn’t even bother if you suspect the monitor’s off.