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Home Archives Archives before June 13, 2001 RSS Feed Adaptive Path (my company!) About peterme Coordinates Most of the Time Oakland, CA Interests Current American history around the time of the Revolution, figuring out how to marry top-down task-based information architecture processes with bottom-up document-based ones, finding a good dentist in San Francisco Oakland Perennial Designing the user experience (interaction design, information architecture, user research, etc.), cognitive science, ice cream, films and film theory, girls, commuter bicycling, coffee, travel, theoretical physics for laypeople, single malt scotch, fresh salmon nigiri, hanging out, comics formalism, applied complexity theory, Krispy Kreme donuts. surf Click to see where I wander. Wish list Show me you love me by buying me things. Spyonme Track updates of this page with Spyonit. Clickee here. Essays [Editor's note: peterme.com began as a site of self-published essays, a la Stating The Obvious. This evolved (or devolved) towards link lists and shorter thoughtpieces. These essays are getting a tad old, but have some good ideas.] Reader Favorites Interface Design Recommended Reading List Whose "My" Is It Anyway? Frames: Information Vs. Application Subjects Interface Design Web Development Movie Reviews Travel		peterme in L.A. Posted on 11/22/2001. So, I'm heading to Los Angeles this weekend, and I'll be in the Big Orange for 2 weeks, some time in Pasadena, some time in Mar Vista/West L.A. I think this makes my single longest stay in La-La Land since the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in college. I'd love to meet up with people, so drop me a line. I'm also desirous of Interesting Things To Do, particularly from a perspective aligned with what I blather about here on the site. I'm thinking things like architectural driving tours, cool museum exhibits (I gotta get back to the MJT...), amazing coffeehouses, non-standard film programs, good locally-made ice cream, etc. etc. Please post suggestions in the comments! 4 comments so far. Add a comment. Previous entry: "Some Light Holiday Reading." Next entry: "A couple of data points in the discussion of "brand."" Comments: COMMENT #1 Just down the road from the MJT is The Conservatory, perhaps the finest, in-house brewed coffee bean, coffee house in West LA. Posted by mathowie @ 11/23/2001 03:05 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #2 Takes practically no time, the LaBrea Tar Pits. They have a nice, small museum and, well, tar. Check out the wolf boner wall. Posted by priscilla @ 11/30/2001 06:49 AM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #3 van go's ear, in venice, 796 main street. cute funky lil' coffeehaus... and museum-wise, how can you go wrong with the hollywood wax museum? hours of endless fun. i'll be curious to hear what you do and what's fun... i'm gonna be back in LA at the end of dec. Posted by ajr @ 11/30/2001 05:21 PM PST [link to this comment] COMMENT #4 The Getty. I'll second Van Gogh's Ear. Joe's on Abbot Kinney in Venice is great for dinner. Posted by Some Guy @ 12/02/2001 09:39 PM PST [link to this comment] Add A New Comment: Name E-Mail (optional) Homepage (optional) Comments Now with a bigger box for text entry! Whee! All contents of peterme.com are © 1998 - 2002 Peter Merholz.