Star of the day: Jonathan Sanchez

He is the first Giant pitcher who pitched a no-hitter since 1976! And he is not among the top 4 pitchers on the team. What a confidence boost for him! Go Sanchez. (And his dad should come visit him more. This is the first time he saw him pitching here.)

Tech of the day: the Power button on SlingPlayer Mobile

I'm talking about the iPhone version here. I wasn't able to find that button under "Remote." It turns out it just doesn't show up at first. Swiping to the left and you will see more buttons and "power" will be one of them.

Musicians of the day: Strunz and Farah

I have always been a big fan of guitar music. If there is one thing I want to complain about the SF bay area, that would be not having enough great guitarists touring here. But I guess I'm spoiled by having premier jazz clubs here so I could see great jazz musicians almost year-round. Ever since I fell in love with the sound of nylon string guitar, I try to attend to concerts with it as much as possible. And I'm glad that I didn't miss Strunz and Farah's performance at Yoshi's tonight. Their style is best described as fusion, with elements of flamenco, jazz and middle Eastern music. I heard a little bit of everything of the aforementioned at their show. The two guitar masters were backed by a flutist/clarinetist, a bassist and a percussionist, who were great instrumentalists themselves. It wouldn't be wrong to call their music new age but it is definitely not your typical soft/relaxing elevator music. On the contrary, it is full of energy and emotions.

Topic of the day: how to explain this to kids

It is about a DVD that was given to grade school kids by their teacher which is supposed to contain the kids photo/video but she accidentally slipped in a video of her having sex with her man.

It is a big mistake by her for sure. On the other hand, look at the reactions of those parents: one said he wanted the school to help explaining this to his kids since he didn't know how to. Come on! He is an adult and certainly know what sex is (otherwise he won't have kids)

If I were him, I'd explain like this: (1) this is a video of your teacher having sex. (2) In order to have children, you need to have sex. (3) your teacher has provided her video by mistake so we shouldn't watch it. That's it! How simple is that?