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it is p funny to me that the dumbest people on earth who respect no one and no thing who bumble through life with least effort reactions damning all consequence are still participating in the meritocracy of J.D.s and Ivies and so on.

S. J. W.s at this playground?

Oè!

on my bullshit—in Denver—not nearly my first time here, just visiting friends for the weekend and had a kid-nap-time time to wander.

“Blah, blah blah. But, blah blah, blah.” — a billionaire.

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“whatya mean, I’m not turning on reactions?”

gonna call this variety of slop post-labor-impressionism

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Aesop’s “The Boy Who Cried Wolf And Was Told By The Farmers On The Embankment, Oh, You’re Surprised There’s A Wolf? You’re Tending Sheep, Didn’t You Read that Article In The Atlantic Last Year About This? Here Is A Link It Will Only Take You Fifteen Minutes To Read Oh By The Way It Looks Like The Wolf Ate Your Whole Flock, That Is Really Unfortunate And We Sure Do Hate It.”

(not knocking the book, it’s a sign of a good recipe imo when there’s more than one way to do a thing instead of trying to elevate technique over outcomes)

o/ to the product manager or whoever is responsible for apple’s “Reactions” menubar feature inventing or using a new and immature notification flow to tell me when my browser turns the feature off, we see you and appreciate you

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have a great saturday y’all

we have potted plans from at least three friends who left SF (and CA, it turns out), and one is an orchid that I never figured out how to do much with beyond keep alive for two years.

was catching up on the O.G. after suggesting this doc to a friend and found out / was reminded maybe/why Donald Fagan’s response to being asked to be involved in any way was to say "fuck you”

standing in a band labeled 30-80lbs that is wrapped behind and around the parallel bars of a chin up bar getting ready to do the 8th and final chin up of 3 sets of 8 when the band slips off my heels and thwaps me across the shoulder blades like only a 2" wide rubber band supporting my entire body weight can thwap

I wonder what the folks at the bottom of coso on precita did to get their new bollards installed?

last week or w/e, a car drove into the corner store at 26th and guerrero

strava’s AI features which upon announcement already motivated me to delete my account and I’m merely waiting or a fedi or or similar open source self-hosted equivalent to move to before I do so, reads like the FBI S.A. assigned to monitor me’s updates to my dosier

tag yerself

grumpy postjng about the pass it on media campaign

very mild shenanigans, nice.

walked past the place I lived 20+ years ago at Kalorama and Champlain: it’s still there, hell yeah. saw three different people slip on the same ice patch on 18th near Florida. that sucks.

At ShmooCon for the weekend.

Rival Self // Prog Rock, Psych, Breaks and Loops on Vinyl and Cassette

the e in e/acc is specifically about the trompe l’oeil of the tunnel painted on the wall.

evolution keeps producing crabs (php web forums) for a reason, but I’m sure your not-crab thing will be great too, glhf

stop looking at the sunrise reflecting off an entire block of buildings in the distance challenge

At a client of mine’s in the early 00s:

musical breaks are the mayonnaise of kid’s movies.

took a guest through Glen Canyon up Twin Peaks new year’s eve, toured Philosopher’s Way with junior today. enjoy the green while it’s with us.

Very small sample size but: I overshot kneading on one of two dough balls by 10 degrees to mid-80s F, so when I placed them in my fermenting tray (and flattened them out given I had so much space to work with, so that they would cool more evenly), I marked that one.

I’ve been struggling to land on a good dough process without doing a bunch of math.

Had a few friends over for a holiday party this week and made two extra large New York style pizzas to feed everyone a lot faster and with a lot less work than my neapolitan process.

also born on this day, go figure

upgraded the pizza oven to the new ‘max’ ooni, which is insanely huge, so that I could do this: make an NY style pizza with slices that are the “correct” size, and feed the family one-and-done.

I was also surprised to find that pest control (I assume) includes cats someone or some group takes care of out there.

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solidarity with all the parents of little kids who would be hitting their winter break stride right now if they had a moment of peace but won’t until school starts up again, ten of the longest days of the year from now, and oh btw it’s been raining the entire week

so hot on my wishlist I got it in fully modulated stereo

p funny going through bad twenty year old posts on my silly old website converting them to their fourth or fifth text markup language this holiday break and running into so many broken links and embeds.

a 20-something tailgated me through one of the new door sized bart gates this week, clearly waiting for the right person to follow, and I knew exactly what to do, keep listening to my podcast, acknowledge nothing, even with the stupid new turnstile, which is slow and annoying, beeping behind me.

ah, the boys sang Pocket Calculator in Italian for Italian TV

got a barcode, will be in DC Thursday through Sunday 🤗

oops, forgot to try for a shmoocon barcode one last time

junior on working through some math (addition of single digit numbers, kindergarten-appropriate):

math-knowers in chat have pointed out that I should have parlayed this into quarto equis on account of dos times dos producing that quatro, but this is one of my locals and I can’t get quatro equis every time I go to keep in order to service that charade

ordred some tacos and a dos equis at the tacqueria last night, clerk rang me up, I paid, he turned around and handed me my tacos and dos dos equis.

this hot tip was solid, Eric Isaacson had a lot to share and I’m pretty glad we went even if we ended up not getting home to relieve our high-school aged babysitter until after 9:30. “It’s OK, tbh I stay up until midnight anyway.”

this kinda stuff is better thought of as sets of idioms* in the it “cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements" sense than as whatever adjectives advocates like to throw around like “simple” or “clean” and so on

ASTRONUT.BMF

reminded of all the places I’ve tagged with my kid before they could write and make me stop.

dang!

can we not?

for a publication called The Atlantic, they sure go way out of their lane posting about stuff that happens on the various continents a lot

ninja posts would also be nice, when I’m just moving stuff around to make pinned posts

Greetings

sf being a small town, it went like this

Getting another @paulrickards piece framed at the same time as the @SunRaUniverse poster I got Saturday at the show.

every morning I crack three eggs into a non-stick pan on medium heat, slide them off to a plate sunny side up when they are ready, return the pan to the stove, raise the heat to medium-high, and fry spinach and a few cherry tomatoes in olive oil which spatters oil all over the place

logging on

standing in the back of the club wearing a kn95 and earplugs wishing mask precautions weren’t a thing anymore and that i hadn’t stood where i did the entire j mascis (Witch) show in baltimore twenty years ago

when I was a energy company security person back in the 00s my intrusion detection system hit on a VNC signature and I had a network capture running so I went and carved it out and replayed the video of it and it looked just like this and I panicked a little (I had no idea what our actual control systems looked like) and then called the worker who I saw on the other end of it

and someone from the parks service walked over and gave us three huge trash bags and asked that we make sure to clean up after ourselves, which of course we had planned to, and did, but that was nice

someone approached and asked how we booked the spot because they wanted to do the same thing so I got to relate that story, then they took a picture one of the grills we were using, which I thought was weird, but I guess people just do that anymore

the picnic was a success, we used two of the grills, four or five of the tables, and some of us grabbed e-bikes back to work downtown from the parking racks up the street because the ride from Chase to the Ferry Building is pretty nice even on a cool day

i should be allowed to drop some words in some sentences and some letters in some words

It’s a secret to everybody. I put my sourdough starter in the little closet under the stairs where my home server and network gear is when I feed it on weekends in the winter.

so I’m finally going back to 1999, running it for myself only, on my home internet connection. kinda nice tbh

most of the content is even more personally embarrassing than it was when I blew it away last time, six years ago. No one should have to reconcile with specific texts of their own teens, twenties, or thirties, which was the explicit reason I used to keep it up, until I didn’t believe it anymore: the unexamined life, blah, blah, blah

someone who knows better has a hot tip that there is in fact a bathroom up the steps next to harmonic in thrive city (“yea, I’m going to the city next week”; some local “hey, we don’t say “the city” you sound like a damned tourist, we say whole ass name [enunciating carefully] Thrive city, c’mon.”)

I can hear this hooky Newmanesque chorus (or a much better one probably) getting played at Giants games and everything

those jerks at HBO better not disrespect Steve Huey, JD Ryznar, David B Lyons, and Hunter Stair with all that is going on with the world right now

the lower clouds this morning were as much fun as the sky itself, like fog sneaking off to the bay instead of burning off like it’s supposed to

dorothea lange bot is posting my neighborhood!

if you are in line to vote for trevor chandler stay in line

the network stack on os x sequoia sucks, wish I hadn’t upgraded

anyway, so bogomil, probably had the usual baggage, but I bet this specific bit didn’t work out too well for them

flipping the OBS scene from “face cam” to “footage”, the increasingly tangential pop-documentary archival clip style that has replaced burns-style photo-pans-and-zoom of actual subject matter with abstract and completely unrelated stock that, at best, is period correct or ironically untrue to the nonsense I’m spouting as I go into a big monologue to staff about getting our reports done on time

looking up the chicago school of economics building to make a house of leaves jokes in chat and unsurprised to find it looks like a god damned church

violet, fuscia, deep orange, sunshine yellow gradient. that’s pretty.

it’s really clever how oven makers put the big stock pot burners on the back so’s when you accidentally pull your entire salt cellar out of the upper cabinet next to the stove with an errant finger while trying to get a pinch in a hurry for something else and about two cups of kosher salt dump all over the stovetop, counter, floor, etc, none of it gets in the stock pot with dinner in it

what will it take to connect this all the way to Mission? I want to understand

that the added text is in parenthesis is specifically great

“Persons will HOB NAILS BOOT! ARE FORBIDDEN IN THIS OFFICE [By Order of Postmaster].”

looking at linkedin from time to time is like wandering into the wrong church where I don’t know any of the rituals (which for me would be any church, but I do know one set of rituals I don’t practice, at least) and seeing random people I know there, doing some of the moves

the only robot i want in my life but can’t have is a chrome plated smokers robot

Ultimately it’s a fun read and a break from the John and Zoe books and pretty mad at the same stuff a lot of people are on mastodon are mad about re: the other social networks, so, I’m glad I read it.

cw: mens rights nonsense

a few of my favorite very-online writers—but I’m think of Pargin and Jeb Lund (who for all I know don’t know each other at all) specifically here and not like, uh, Lockwood—are pretty good about using their veterans-of-forum-wars (or at least that era of online) past to be pretty strong voices for not being assholes on the internet.

I was gonna have a visual aid of a real pirate treasure map for this but it seems like real pirates merely wanted real maps, which were hard to come by back then

an elaborate rude metaphor in which every landmark the dashed line loops around on weathered parchment before it eventually reaches the X-marks-the-spot is a pivot in virtualization stacks by the freenas people trying and failing to lose both the the annoying virtualization (jails, docker, kubernetes, etc) janitors inhabiting each landmark and the actual pirates who use their projects to power their NASs 🏴‍☠️

convincing myself that my bad posts in chat, that even the people who used to reply to, have stopped replying to, to me, are still worth doing, for the lurkers

Pressing the bubble on pop-°-matic® TROUBLE® is now AI.

it would be nice a la “smoking or non?" at restaurants if I could make a reservation for outdoor dining and not arrive to find “outdoor” to be four walls of clear vinyl and propane

kinda worry that sonos is never going to re-add direct stream urls to their first party apps or even fix the players to load the ones that are already there, and that think the fix is going to be a DIY sonos service app and not entire DIY controllers, which, unfortunately, seems to be the bias

doodling on maps with satellites

wtb a nudie cohn suit (or suits) for halloween and general casual wear

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lol at the worldbuilding you get mid-book explaining why multiples are absolutely taboo:

my recall for the scales is fine even in every other common CAGED position

does it like 00 flour and salt? sure looks like it

my intent here, from the get go, was to use the starter for pizza dough but the bread was good enough and easy enough that I’ll probably also be making it on the regular too (I’m already looking forward to having a loaf on hand the next time I make coq au vin)

sitting at chase center eating dinner at Gott’s the night before last and U.S. football was on the giant wall TV and I couldn’t exactly follow what was going on but it included a timeline of a player’s multiple concussions over the past few years, seems bad, idk

to the tune of I Should Be Allowed to Think

this morning’s spooky:

22: “Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World”, by Naomi Klein

I tend to buy clothes on ebay rather than dealing with retail—like thrifting with less effort and better selection (especially for bright colors and patterns). On the way to getting some other thing, I ended up impulse buying a pair of broadcloth pajamas and now I’m Ricky Ricardo morning-or-evening-scene pilled

Realistic only very large.

huh, I wonder if I can walk down here

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises [Movement 6]

Look so-and-so, i know I’m being a complete stick in the mud here but I refuse to subscribe to a paper that runs editorial board opinion columns I disagree with on a regular basis, and it isn’t on principle, it’s discipline, it’s a boycott, that sort of thing

looks like we found the trail 2 ur moms house

by corollary, managers who do that are actually saying “hey, hey. will you play with me?”

I need to find a band to play with, picking up a guitar at home just gets junior’s attention and then breaks the impulse to pick up the instrument in the first place, like a dog or cat vectoring in on the one person who isn’t into one or the other (which is also me usually), or like a helicopter manager ignoring the headphones and full screen doc or IDE for a “hey, do you got a second?”

making stuff once a week with perishables has really upped my kitchen hygiene; I p much don’t touch anything with my fingers anymore that I’m not about to cook and eat immediately, with the exception of salt

blah blah blah “kindly" blah blah blah

was still thinkin’ about that marg from a few weeks ago, and a then a friend in Marin gave us a few tomatoes from her garden.

Grandfather Hot Dog Stand

as a life-long “why on earth would I do that to myself?" and "what are they running from?” sayer coasting on the metabolism and cholesterol levels of youth, I finally, when I don’t need one, have a real excuse to not like running

Worked my way up to a jogging a full mile over the past few weeks and, I guess my form was wrong, or my body wasn’t ready in spite of all the walking I do. I didn’t notice any one bad move but when I tried to repeat the mile jog a few days later and couldn’t make it a block.

21: “Family Furnishings", by Alice Munro

two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)

texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I’m not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we’re all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.

inspired but in no way meeting the bar set by the amazingly incredible early girl tomato marg I had at the pizza, bagel, and beer fest last weekend

😬 a lil’ nervous, I have an appointment with a stylist this afternoon, my first since February 2020, when I was forced to end years of an every-three-weeks wash and style scissor-cut booking near the office (a luxury). I, eventually started cutting my own.

check it out, shadows of the tower in the fog

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logging on

Announcer: Thirty parents in SF agree.

I think fauxtesting kinda sucks but this one cracks me up every time I walk past it because I also think scoldy and bossy signs also suck.

and so on

oh word, which one was that? don’t worry, I got you

Moved a few afternoon meetings to make the last hour and a half of Kid Koala at SF MOMA’s ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition. I’m a huge fan from way back, was amazing!

nice, sometimes, when the fog is just right, as the sun sets, you get a rainbow through it

(my friday pizza bake is threaded so that you can mute it)

“pedestrian activity is that intuitive factor"

have a great evening y’all

the purpose of a bollard is what it does

I’m aware of and have tried the half-onion pan fried in butter approach to a simple red sauce and the subtlety of it is completely lost on me.

our house spaghetti recipe was O.P. last week. I need to start making this sauce for pizza, I think it’d work fine.

for mom and junior: mozz and pecorino over sauce, pep all over for junior, and add basil and olives on the other half, for mom

people who contain their aspirations (never demands) to what is immediately achievable think the rest of us are annoying as hell, but, in a surprise twist, guess what

finally checked biking up twin peaks off my list after a friend suggested I head up via glen park instead of the usual routes. it’s the same climb (and I hate climbing) but gradual over 5 miles instead of bunched up in the last mile and a half.

tonight’s pizza*: tomato sauce, pecorino romano, capers, black olives, anchovies, pepperoni, chili crisp, olive oil

[flicks the light on] whoa! look at all these cockroaches in here! holy shit this is now how we behave! do better!

dudesl love to not post for weeks at a time and then right as the eye doctor’s dialation drops kick in, get brain foam they have a scrape away immediately while squinting and blinking at their dumb phone in a dark room

pedantly explaining to the fourth wall that i can get away with it because i’m in the third panel, after the person in the second panel pedantly explaining to the fourth wall why people who say what I said can’t get away with what Zi am getting away with because they are in the only other panel than theirs, the second panel of two

feeling matchy-matchy, might lean

would honestly prefer to give whoever needs it (this morning, an optometry office) a social security number equivalent and my public-persona handle rather than 1) the name I go by (which happens to be my middle name) and 2) my last name-including-how-to-spell-it, and then 3) disambiguating that from my full legal name, which has a different first name as well as a suffix

my eyes also just kind of slide off of paragraph length posts on this website as I scroll through it but I’ll keep posting that shit anyway I guess

thanks to discord’s hokey use of a command for command-K, officially “Find or Start a Direct Message" per their docs, I am always constantly narrowly avoiding direct messaging someone I do not know who has the last name of Jerke who I assume also idles in an open source community server I idle in, when I try to switch to the chat I made for talking about anything but games on my friend’s gaming-oriented community server which they immediately renamed and locked to #jerk_factory for me

I think if cars and car parts were stollen at the rates bikes are in U.S. cities, deployed technical controls would look a lot more like off-site valet parking than like racks on the sidewalk, and the compensating control would look a lot more like car insurance than like adding the car to your home insurance policy, and nothing at all like whatever the latest video from some guy in NYC posting how to use three specific locks in very specific ways

lovely weather to bicycle across the only bridge we can.

☺️ aww, a man gave up his parking spot* on valencia at 23rd** for me***

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recently returned from two weeks spent in NC, SC, and MD and if I hadn’t been at the beach, bay, or poolside every other day (and sure of imminent return to the bay) I would have a buzz cut right now

chef’s travel tip: many folks out there in the wide wide western world consider little black dots on their food to be a delicacy

Back east visiting. Took a walk and passed a bar that used to have live music where a band that was ok with young people sitting in had a weekly — a thing I tried exactly once. I sucked. The bar has been renamed and the bandstand is gone.

from a cab we had a 5:00AM alarm to catch: oh, lol, it pretty much was. Cesar Chavez and Valencia

riding my bike over sideshow rubber elsewhere in the city from time to time: eh heheh hehe

lovely bit of dark tower lore

super neat paper

15th book of 2024: "White Cat Black Dog”, by Kelly Link.

junior’s TK teacher gave him a old craft mobile in a book from 1983 (when I was his age)

Homer still holds up because he repeats this same narrative echo in the form of advice over and over:

14th book of 2024: “The Iliad", by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson.

RIP Alice Munro

muni fare enforcement at the inbound 27 / 12 stop on Cesar Chavez at Valencia

the cool sierpinski

ah, jeeze, this listener-supported streaming rock station doesn’t erase the rock music that came out between my junior year in high school when music “went to shit” and my junior year in college when I started listening to listener-support streaming stations and they weren’t playing “that new stuff”

The New York Trilogy was on the reading list for a Detective Fiction course I took in college (lovely course!) and, because it’s so great, I’m sure I don’t have that copy on my shelf anymore because I foisted it on someone with "you have to read this” after one of the re-readings I’d given it since then.

bored, looking at property listings for decorating ideas while holding a Geiger counter modified to detect and measure the wrongness of refrigerator door hinge swing and handing pointed at the screen the entire time

one problem with giving your casual industry pals chat a name with all the series business labels* as a joke is that you end up posting your weekend plans all casual like to the actual serious business chat

aside, while i’m mad-posting about cars

“Hi, welcome to the Munizza! How did you travel to our store today? Uh-huh? That’s great, and from about how far? Thanks so much, uh, what can I getchya?”

probably incredibly naive, making almost no attempt to map what I want to achievability, what I’d prefer is a municipalized neighborhood services plan where districts can establish their own priorities for rubber-stamp retail distribution so that I can open my pizza parlor as a city worker and union member (well, I’d be in management, so idk)

I simultaneously A) dream about getting out of big business and opening a tiny pizza parlor and/or coffee shop as a worker owned business and B) have absolutely no respect for the “small business owner” class I would join doing so and don’t understand why anyone else does

heather k, please help

injured my left lat and/or trap yesterday lifting weights doing this compound move incorrectly

kinda annoying (to me, of me, and of-me-to-me) to read a great story and think “ah dang this was originally published in so-and-such maybe I should just subscribe to that to see those stories as they come out” but it always ends up being the atlantic or the new yorker or some other nonsense I can’t tolerate reading.

saw Bill Frisell’s solo show last night in Berkeley and it was pretty trippy for me that he opened his 8PM set with You Are My Sunshine, which is the song my wife sings to our kid at his bed time, which is 8PM. it’s like I hadn’t left home.

I’ve never used a modal single-letter keyboard command in Slack on purpose.

it’s only coq au vin, small shallots will do

gravely googling: reliable source of pearl onions in sf fresh or frozen

pave, Pave, PAVE.

me: time to read a creepy story with bugs in it

had to move the adirondack i was sunning myself in about fifteen feet into a clearing because the trees above where it was initially are so full of bees that every other thought i had was “buzz”

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tenth book of 2024: “Pnin", by Vladimir Nabokov. Nice.

unexpected tiling window manager bonus: image popovers immediately get tiled to the same size

took junior to hike the sign

haven’t cut my hair in over a year except for one straight DIY shear pass mid-year on the back to de-mullet

i just wanna inbox-zero from the oldest message, folks, is that so bad [I get hit in the chest w/ a tomato thrown from the audience] no, not that one, the one below it [a shoe flies by, the entire crowd is hissing and booing, an anvil drops from the stage lights and crashes to the floor just to my left] see if I press ‘y’ google is all ’n’ and imo that’s [a giant hook enters from stage right] a huge ‘L’ [the house lights come up, a google bus crashes into the venue, workers start pouring ou—

in gmail on web with the preview pane enabled for a sorted mailbox:

wanted to read Chekhov but wasn’t sure what translation to look for, learned that Nabokov had a dislike for Constance Garnett, remembered that Nabokov was also on my todo list, started Pnin, and right away, he’s doing the moves, dumping on Garnett 🤗

i’m constantly flip flopping things in my imagination and honestly it’s kinda intrusive and annoying but also some people clearly do not and cannot and it’s so weird imaging their world

I still spin my phone the same way I did twenty years ago with my thumb on my blackberry’s thumb wheel and middle finger on the back of the phone

important follow up disclaimer: signs are but a small part of activism, one person’s shame and action is not the actual sole or specific expected result, there is almost always a larger strategy, there isn’t a “right way” to protest, etc

shameful-bystander-“they oughta”-comment

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feeling pretty isolated and lonely this evening, so much that socials are downright off-putting, I can’t get into the book I’m reading, and there’s nothing to watch that is appealing at all. oh, I do have an American Master’s to finish, let’s see

I forgot to check on this last night! Phew, we remain on standby.

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this coat is reversible and I’ve been liking it both right-side-out and inside-out so the collar is permanently in cooler-than-me casual rebellion

I love views of downtown as I enter the city afar, and from hilltops and rooftops in the neighborhoods. But I always also imagine the following dialog with myself:

laying in bed “watching tv” on my laptop, but about to close it and go to sleep. it is 8:50PM.

🏁 what I’m considering Mission Dolores, Castro, and Eureka Valley, bound by Market, Valencia, and 20th.

it’s still fun to be surprised my own browser word replacement filters. I’ve got half a dozen going right now, loving it.

hiked Bayview hill yesterday, today was very much a “I want to go down there” result

🏁 what I’m considering the inner mission, bound by 101, Cesar Chaves, and Valencia

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good morning

complimented on this “clean ass jacket” within five minutes of wearing it out for the first time, while waiting for a train to berkeley

jiggled!

It took me about two years and a half years, but I’m caught up with This Old House.

coming up with a plausible but even more frustrating syntax for plain text markup

our cane plant has flowered this month after I moved it away from the sliding glass door into a distant corner and it is very, very fragrant — neato, had no idea it flowered!

🏁 what I’m considering bernal but which is a bit more I suppose? Bound by Ceasar Chavez, 101, Alemany, and 280, and which I’d already had a head start on.

this thing is chock full of software upscaling a la “Let It Be”, and that’s certainly a choice. I know this pisses lots of people off (like normalization, autotune, drum machines, etc) and I’m not gonna tilt at it, it’s just a thing people are doing right now.

nice, nice, American Masters: “Max Roach”

23rd book of the year: “Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia" by Jason Pargin. Fun as expected. A pre-order, because that this point I just subscribe to Pargin stuff.

was looking for a set of configuration params for something incredibly tedious to look up from scratch yesterday

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like any hobby I guess, doing this is a great way to shut up my stupid brain, but this one helps me sleep. At least that’s the idea, anyway.

Well this got out of hand, as usual with me.

Jr., last week, overhearing parent-talk, said “Wait, so if you’re in your forties, so I’m in my five-ies?"

I get that it’s synecdoche or w/e but the “this bike lane is killing small blah blah” slogan is kinda funny

“What about that blue one? We’ll take that one.”

junior is watching a lot of the 1960s Spiderman cartoon lately, which has pretty catchy music that it maybe relies on a bit too much: like it’s always playing one of three for our themes

=]

lmao

camera two, camera one

walked down to and through Glen Canyon after lunch

oblique strategy

I only ever recorded these to get a distance measurement immediately after I was done and had forgotten they were recorded. there’s so much shit out there that we keep forever “for free” and I guess that’s ok but I would also be ok if we did not do this at all, it’s all so arbitrary

I normally that find perpetual schadenfreude wears pretty thin (in that it doesn’t work to make me feel any better and is eventually a real bummer. I’m glad it helps other people though.)

jeeze, I guess I’s best be avoiding that fella in my business dealings [slaps open a metal ticket book, removes a bic pen, licks a finger, flips to the first empty page of an 8” x 5” legal pad, licks the pen tip, and begins writing: s, a, m, et cetera]

commuting a few blocks out of my way for some (but not enough) safety delenda est

I left to meet the fam for 5pm dinner after this (DST delenda est).

I called 911 on an active fire on Osage St. (the half block west of / behind Mission St) this evening near 26th because I saw a garage door smoking in a funny way. (nobody was hurt afaik)

that everyone fuckin’ hates DST yet we still have it is p effective propaganda

have been going for walks every weekday morning for the past two weeks after dropping the kid off at school and following “whatever is steeper" holistic routes

To the south: San Francisco? Daly City?

We camped at Slide Ranch the night before last.

jimmy fallon at band of brothers s1e5

Slide Ranchallones

damn!

lived near the 33, 14, 49, etc for a while and got really spoiled by reasonable headways

didn’t notice I’d stacked my bigfoot monster truck shirt with a bigfoot beer hat, wife did though

the second funniest thing in the new yorker thing about san francisco was the grow sf people wearing their own swag

this was not about mack “the navigator” andyson when i wrote it, but today it is

what finally makes the man start to crack is seeing a woman on a bicycle, war never changes

hegemony havers complaining about their critics while getting their way are ridiculous. this message repeats.

absolutely not, app badges privileges revoked

I skipped the damned introduction (as per. I don’t read introductions first, they are for re-readers) and read it after, which is a lot of words to say some interesting things but mostly conclude that Walter Benjamin gets the closest to figuring Kafka out

22nd book of the year: “The Trial" by Franz Kafka.

arrabbiata base is just garlic, tomato, salt¹ and pepper²

trip report: if they did it wasn’t up to the day or crowd, it was hot as hell in there

does bill graham have air conditioning? going to the qotsa show tonight and haven’t been there on a hot day before

two nights of clean living, exercising again after a week of office work followed by a weekend house guest, plus a new pillow top on the bed, fell asleep at 9:30, did not wake up until 5:45.

Hosting my kid’s birthday party yesterday answering a friend’s question, “so how do you know all of these kids?”

guy next to me on bart is reading the last few pages of The Road between civic center and the mission, brutal

It’s all in the second person, which i got used to but, ugh

21st book of the year: “The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida”, by Shehan Karunatilaka

stunt dark, labor free (free as in time)

my kid (5y old this week!) has been obsessed with building stuff out of cardboard after drawing front back top and sides and cutting them out and wanted me to make a transformer yesterday

i learned to make roux for gumbo from dad’s pal from boot camp, who was from louisiana, and he taught us the patient “stir, stir, stir, heat, stir, but whatever you do, don’t burn!” method.

✅ boosted, ✅ flu vaxed, ✅ guy giving me the shot asked if I was a swimmer on account of these deltoids

The ebay search paid off and I was able to buy a pair of out-of-production pants identical to ones I already own (noticing as I post this that I’m wearing the original pair right now) for next to nothing because I like the pair I have and want them to live forever and this is one way to cheat commodity death. huzzah.

Telling a friend about 4, 3, 2, 1 over dinner, I said it was romantic and lovely, if you didn’t mind new yorkers in love with new york, ellis island through the 60s, the anti-war movement, and all that shit we’ve heard so much about, which I did not mind.

🎼 “Lines form on my face and hands"

🤌🏼

Youtube is so great for guitar players. Via Norman’s Rare Guitars “Guitar of the Day”, in addition to the hosts, I got into Josh Smith, and from Josh to Bruce Foreman, and also from Josh to Greg Koch.

Up all night worrying that we haven’t begun design let alone construction of a thousand foot tall colossus (my preferred design is a phoenix looking west) atop earthworks in the san francisco bay, which, as a long term serious thinker, is my only political issue

this

“It’s so dark with all this wood paneling, so to brighten it up, we’re going to paint it all this true white, and the walls this more neutral blue/gray. To separate these two rooms, we had a local artisan make this barn door to hang on rollers.”

getting really close to watching the video cassette of space balls the movie w/ my This Old House speed run, and it is terrible. I’m now skipping the interior design nonsense like I already skip any home alarm system nonsense.

alright, “4321” has my attention, this is lovely

18th book of the year: “SPQR”, by Mary Beard

oh, one thing you’ve learned was against your will? must be nice!

asleep by 9:15, wake up at 4, mentally review damage taken (doh) and given (oops) yesterday, pad down to the kitchen at 5, turn the lights on as dim as they go, make coffee, start to read scrollback and accruing damage for the day

lol lmao that ‘judgement’ is correctly spelled ‘judgment’ in some uses and visa versa

fake-warning “a man recommending a podcast"

also, re-reading Bartleby (the original anti-makin’ copies guy) reminded me that 1) he has office mates named Turkey, Nippers, and Ginger Nut (tag yourself) and 2) “I would prefer not to” is only his first catch phrase, once he wore that out he pivoted to "I am not particular.” which is also delicious.

had mini-split air conditioning installed in our place last month, where i work from home, at great expense and wall-destruction, and now that it’s summer in the west bay I’m sitting in the cat bird seat

I think merchant associations should have a seat at the table sike!

first day of public school for junior (t. k. at Flynn) and well, well, well, if it isn’t my old nemesis, the prison-wall face with ever-changing hands which slow down the more you glance at them. slower and slower, slower and slower. but to look away is impossible

the real best part though? I bought both 1 and 2 used as paperbacks and they are both about 1000 pages and about 70-90 stories but Black Water 2 was printed on much lighter paper than Black Water, which made holding the damned thing open to read much less uncomfortable.

16: “Black Water 2, More Tales of the Fantastic” loved it, full of surprises and delights from authors I’ve never heard of and authors most have — Arthur Conan Doyle, F Scott Fitzgerald, E B White, Joseph Conrad, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Margret Atwood, George Bernard Shaw , Arthur C Lark) — and stories too , like Melville’s Bartleby.

the only challenge coin i’ve ever kept

finally signing up for tsa [spits on the ground] pre and mad about this form question

[TMBG voice] there’s only two parties in me, and I’m heading to the third

Least favorite usually-reactionary move is when they say they are against something for the preposterous reason of, not-getting-it.

it is so weird how having hobbies is coped with by randos at parties who I assume are just thinking out loud

more like sunburn streets

Ship of Calrisseus

municipal yachting

What if 🥺 we kissed 😳 at the 🙅🏻‍♂️ giant fenced in 🧩 mystery field-of-mulch 🍂 in front of st lukes 🏥 at the muni bus stop that 🚍 buses only ever use to take🥱 breaks?

went to grab Black Water 2 off the table only to find that a little spider was using it to build a web over the tv. spooky!

sfmta I challenge y’all to not concern troll this excellent feedback on your L by complaining about defacements

in a world, where two movies come out around the same time, and every single person on earth seems to notice for some reason almost as if they were directly participating in a coordinated marketing campaign for one or the other or both movies, idk idk, ahem, ahem. every poster, must fight to survive

exactly one block of this otherwise lovely ride was dumb enough for a car (perhaps London Breed herself!) to honk at me.

Municipal Legacy Business Equity Agency

my go to red sauce for two starts with the oil: a half cup, a quarter cup, and an eighth cup, to extract garlic, basil, and pepper, to fry the tomatoes, and to finish with butter and cheese, respectively

tacked a few days before a wedding to visit burlington, vermont for a day (lovely) and stay in a lake house on upper saranac lake (pictured, also lovely) for a two

had to “Draw a bunny" for a work training thing and there weren’t any rules so I printed someone else’s garfield sonic chimera, placed the paper out over my ipad, and used an apple pencil to trace their illustration into a notes.app note.

the center lane should instead be an overhead-wire trolly (modern or historical, w/e) that just bounces between mission and market all day long, back and forth, back and forth. I wonder what the headways would be with such a short route and where the shunting or passing spots might fit?

I had to buy a new suit to wear to friend’s wedding because I’ve been [smug pause] working out often enough that my size 40 jacket doesn’t fit anymore. turns out i’m a 42 now.

extremely bored with our neo-gilded age and the affairs of our aristocrats. nonsense.

threading “Black Water 2” stories w/ the “Black Water” stories

zz of unstoppable force

neapolitan pizza topped with hand crushed san marzano, anchovies, capers, black olives, mozz, pecorino, pep, olive oil

not pictured: wildflowers galore, oops!

was thinking this morning how I missed "that dj that used to open 6AM with the same Billie Holiday song every morning on KCSM and was a great interviewer” even though our kid is old enough that I’m not up that early every day (just every few days) anymore

my plan for when I finally ghost on everyone is to still be self aware enough to not gotta give people thirty to fifty years younger than me one last spoonful of pablum they didn’t ask for on my way out the door 😉 😉 😉

joked to myself the other day “wow it must have been windy last night" as I passed the flattened flex-post on east-bound 17th at Gus’s, but it’s been that way since at least January.

finally made it to salesforce park today with junior. incredibly rad the that we as a society have somehow made one, single, incredibly nice (mid) multi-story boondoggle bus stop instead of improving every other bus stop even slightly, like it’s almost, as if the author, were trying to, very clumsily, make a point, about, nah, no, couldn’t be, that would mean that, wow, no way

“Hi, do you work here?”

is that the annoying over-40 poster?

thanks car-London, for telling the [adrian belew voice] ”this is a dangerous place!" story to everybody in ear shot, threatening to get the cops involved but not actually usefully getting anyone involved at all, just being annoying to everyone around, and useless, to boot

really enjoying Alice Munro stories, more than I expected, and a little bummed that I don’t remember who suggested them.

I haven’t gotten covid yet because of my positive mental attitude, which you can tell I have because I’m cracking trying to say this with a straight face

As a fun thought experiment, every time I hear a car alarm going off in the city, I think to myself: Wow, our great Mayor, London Breed, who is a car, must really love San Francisco. There she is, living her best life, occupying a parking spot, honking her horn with devotion.

michael moritz is immune to spoonerism and thus an unstoppable foe

I’ve only ever read one other collection of stories that was so well assembled I chased the editor before the various authors therein and that was Otto Penzler.

on the home stretch (about a dozen stories or 200 pages left) and then I added “Black Water 2” to the to-read pile

“Little Lebowski Thirsty Strivers”

friday night is pizza night for junior (and I) and I’ve pretty much got his favorite NY style pepperoni dialed in now, this was perfect

the flowers my wife gave me for our wedding anniversary has ranunculus in it and 1. cool, never noticed this kind of flower before 2. what a fun name to say

looks like the everloving wife has taken to tagging the neighborhood

living in the future, record scratch

… my knee-jerk to lots of stuff, but this morning to delivery app restaurant fee cap expirations

hey this guy that gets to tell us what to do because he has $500,000,000 and we don’t would like us to commute out to another company’s office which used to be in the city but isn’t anymore because ugh, city taxes

“‘Sun of the wolves’, a metaphor for the moon”, delicious.

the a.i.'s are going to both create the designer drugs seen in pkd novels we will all get addicted to and power the argumentative doors that demand micropayments to navigate our own crummy conapts seen in pkd novels

casting call for generic extra at pre-school drop off

i’ve got a saved search on ebay for levis cords in my size - works great, already snagged a pair in an out-of-production color that i’m wearing in one of my pinned posts

huh, I think this petard is one I made, I wonder what that’s doing here

the bike infra surrounding UCSF (edit: mission bay) is extremely mid—flex post half-bike lanes (the right half of bike lanes between car lanes and parking lanes are actually door lanes) and sharrows, all of which pick up from and dump you nowhere

me: sir, reporting to discord support for duty, sir

Sitting criss-cross applesauce on a gym mat in my exercise get-up with my eyes closed and my arms raised into broadcast position calming emitting ”I’m not going to RSA" energy to universe.

view from the dentist’s chair

the last time I yelled at someone doing the same thing at the same intersection, the guys working the oil change spot got on their drive through intercom PA and said [PHSK!] “STOP YELLING”

lmao a driver going south on Valencia turning right on Duboce with the windows all the way down inching into the bike lane was loudly scolded into the open passenger window by two guys ahead of me YOU ARE TURNING RIGHT ON A NO TURN RED while they pointed at the signs as I approached behind them hitting both of my breaks turned turned right on the red

everloving wife couldn’t find my wool cardigan to steal so she put on the very moth eaten cashmere pullover that she asks me to get rid of every single time i wear, going on ten years, since the moths were a real problem, and which she had never ever worn before, on account of all the moth holes in it, and said “damn sweater is comfy as hell.”

the everloving wife and I made about an eighth of the way around Stow Lake in Golden Gate Park with junior and my dad in the back seat yesterday (so about 650 pounds passenger load) in one of those little peddle boats before my legs said to turn around

it usually drives me crazy when writers (borrowing another afterword word) peacock how well-read or at least broadly-read they are, or explode every scene into a McMaster-Carr order, but the half-a-dozen fields expanded in Novel Explosives and the etymology there-in kept my attention.

eponymous peaks

so clearly the goal isn’t zero deaths, and the city should drop the vision zero pretense, it is absolutely stollen valor at this point

if your goal is zero deaths, this ain’t it. if your goal is zero injuries, this definitely ain’t it.

what really grinds my gears about the design is the repeated references to paint, signs, and enforcement: no left turn, no turn on red, and so on: imaginary safe places to be next to actually unsafe places to be

so anyway, with an upside down muni track painted green, I’ll have to pretty much stop my bike to enter an unobstructed travel lane mid-block when the curbed bike lane is obstructed, so I will probably try to look farther up ahead and do it at intersections. it’s gonna be dumb but I’ll cope #BicyclingInSanFrancisco

I immediately take the car lane for the full block as soon as I see a car in the current bike lanes. “I got us a lane, come on in fellow riders, I think to myself”, and maybe I’m imaging it but I usually get a vibe of relief when the see another cyclist stuck in the bike lane realize that they can join me safely

here’s a tag you can mute, no hard feelings, ok cya later: #BicyclingInSanFrancisco

That afternoon, walking in the garden, the prince came face to face with Death. “Why,” he asked, “did you make a threatening gesture at my gardener this morning?” “It wasn’t a threatening gesture,” answered Death. “It was a gesture of surprise. I saw him far from Ispahan this morning and I knew I must take him in Ispahan tonight.”

another one! “Death and the Gardener” by Jean Cocteau, fits in two posts:

(if you haven’t made risotto m. recently, that’s about a hundred bucks worth of saffron. when I buy it at the grocery store I can get a hundredth of an ounce in a weird little bag for seven bucks)

“centering" “voices” “communities” “most vulnerable” “advocates”, etc, while maybe not originally liberal nonsense, is now definitely liberal nonsense. Stop the nonsense!

I could fix valencia street

scribbling “meteorologists" under “doctors” on the list of people I’m cool with but looking forward to hearing from less

oops, broke off the first cork screw, sending a second one in after it

orchid a-comin’

wind gust max speed in the mission hit 27.7 mph on my little sensor in the alley so far today. neat.

peeking into the party around the person I don’t know who opened the door: Hey!

Ah, jeeze, these hamsicks and circle-As are really picky about having the crust cut off of their diagonal cut PB&Js and the skins peeled off of their apple slices and etc, and etc. I really [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral)

inventing a new “federal housing insurance corporation” as a thought experiment and being tackled and beaten unconscious by 90 Stanford grad founder-in-bio posters wearing Fnord brand “punch left" gear I didn’t even know sports basement sold because that part of the store is invisible to me, a normal person

four other braun clocks throughout the house (the only other clocks in the house)

this guy is picky as hell about clocks

Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don’t know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down.

threading is getting fragile so I’m backing this out to the main thread: what I thought would be the fifth, sixth, or maybe seventh book of the year turned out to be my eight. Such is the tragic unpredictability of having a full shelf of in-progress and to-read nonsense.

made a 16" NY-style pizza last night in the Ooni

warms the cockles of my bureaucratic heart to see a team of competent workers swoop in, protect other workers, and prevent losses for debtors (while realizing losses for risk takers): this must be what it feels like to “send in the troops”

happy friday

silly nonsense update, i’ve completed the seventy or eighty prologues to The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel) by Macedonio Fernández and would like to congratulate myself for not posting out of context paragraphs of it this entire time like this one, which it is full of. now to start the novel itself

seventh book: “Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters” by Richard P. Rumelt.

changelog.txt

Pedagogy of the Homophone

BREAKING In a move decried by the SF BOS (pejorative), SFPD had been authorized by Mayor London Breed to hire Superman and equip him with a light saber.

apparently there are real hardy types who consider it just a hotel who would rather be in a tent or something but i would love to be snowed in at the ahwanee rn while the entire valley is snowed in, by that fireplace

i’m at the combination hair growing out selfie / “i guess i’m a large size shirt now” selfie/ lol at this shirt which i like to read as both for and against drinking post

what if

muni buses seat sooooo many people and muni bus shelters seat one, maybe two people. every muni stop should be as big as that one 22 stop in the filmore.

realized my “it’s still there” gag about Bernal Heights generally could have been read as if I had anything to do w/ the (cool) antifa cycling club sticker in one of my photos. Nope, I’ve got nothing to do with that.

I read volume one+ when I bought this five years ago*: Rocannon’s World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions, The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed, as well as The Word for World Is Forest. Thanks for the suggestion all those years ago @InclinedPlane!

fifth book: took a break from all the serious stuff I’m reading to get and read Kitchen Confidential this week. Never read any of his stuff, but it turns out Bourdain’s writing on Parts Unknown is in exactly the same voice, so it was practically an audio book to read.

bonus ride photo, cool new bike sticker

rode up to bernal and then carried my bike to the top, it’s still there, great work everyone, thanks so much

in my building, it’s x-mas all year round, thank you

cheap trick lookin’ work fit

air puppets make great roommates so long as they save rent money between giant blowout sales you wouldn’t believe because they really keep to themselves and only need a window

wierdly half squatting off the bench and then dropping back down to get the last rep from almost there to there on an arnold press is actually good form in a reverse-jerk technique i just invented, tyvm

“the only genuine way to practice futurism is to put it off for later” -mid paragraph pith from fernández

intrusive thought: location, market based returns on capital

reading a business book about strategy that describes DEC’s downfall as a failure to focus on a single coherent strategy amongst 1) selling computers (boxes) 2) silicon fab (chips) or 3) consulting (solutions) and with hindsight I think we can all agree that it was 1a) selling colorful computers that looked really cool*

13 years living in SF and 3 years into only ever sitting outside at places to eat and/or drink and I still under-dress and then sit facing the winer sun as if it ever helps

I don’t know many Verlaine stories but this one on Pushing Ahead of the Dame about Bowie’s cover of “Kingdom Come” on Scary Monsters has stuck with me since it was posted (there’s a similar story about Jimmy Page in the early 80s spending most of an invite on wah pedal battery fussing and not really laying anything down): everybody has off days.

lol at this weird 😘 vehicle the everloving wife made with jr this morning

I can fix “the mastodon community”

gm2u 😘

a Jacobin essay about how MILF Manor is really about abolition of the family

fifth, sixth, and seventh books are none of them page turners, so they are all in an indeterminate race, although this silly nonsense is a likely winner: The Museum of Eterna’s Novel (The First Good Novel)

lemon n’ lime dogs

plates, and jousts

in addition to the music, david crosby was a poster’s poster, rip

finally figured out no-handing on the cargo bike: simply allow the tires to run a little low, simple as.

fourth book, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage”, Haruki Murakami

third book, “The Stories of your Life and others”, Ted Chiang.

ok, what the letters spells out is p easy to find on tvtropes[.]org which I’m told is a terrible website that’ll rot your brain and your ability to perceive art as anything but strings of gimmicks (they probably have a name for people like me who believe this), so I guess if you look for it the right way, like I did, the answer is in the google preview (remember when things were like that?) and you don’t have to click through.

second book down, the new Jason Pargin (f. k. a. David Wong), “If This Book Exists, You’re in the Wrong Universe.” It was fun! I lol’d a few times, didn’t want to put it down, etc.

first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh somewhere?): “Axiomatic,” a collection of Greg Egan’s short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov’s) between 1989 and 1992.

it’s bowie’s birthday ◻️

lets all agree to call the FTC ruling invalidating non-competes a “Right to Work” rule

26th near valencia

does the fact that I got out a 6’ ladder and traversed the wall between our units to clear out the neighbor’s clogged patio drains ahead of tomorrow (they are out of town) absolve me of putting our christmas tree out on the sidewalk tonight (which to be clear I haven’t done yet) where it will surely float away in the storm tomorrow and disrupt commerce on Valencia St or nah?

i have over six hundreds mutes in tweetbot, muting quote tweets here will be easy for me, now to go mute the word “quote” itself and get started on that

polishing my knob(s)

hrmm i think this building is trying to tell me something? what is that? oh, how rude

please allow me to relieve you of “being the adult” or whatever it is you are trying to do, you don’t gotta do it, it’s a fake idea

listen “spell” check, if you can’t come up with any words to suggest that I use instead, you don’t get to add the red underline to the word I did use, istg

earthquake!

lady ordering at popeyes for her office pool has been adding stuff to the order for so long that the person on register went on break instead of reading the order back to her

pretty windy in san francisco rn, one of our plants that we keep on casters just sailed across the patio and crashed into the building

adding a feature to all enterprise comms that injects random insults to the person reading the archives and showing them whenever the logged in user isn’t the user the comms were to or from

“huh, groups should probably add ‘chuds bought our communication archives’ to our threat model”

za!

pizza dough outgrew its refracted mirror image self overnight, wish i could do that

turned off my cross-poster, which I think I used respectably and not for much nonsense, because I don’t really want to post there anymore

i’ve always had internal investigators and litigation counsel in my corporate workstation threat model but never really thought about acquisitions. oops.

the company’s union philosophy CBT overdue notification has hit my PMC spam folder

Tom Waits/Cookie Monster mashup - God’s Away On Business

Sight & Sound list but for fingertips

if you let enough high priority deadline oriented shit pile up you can tackle any one of them in order to procrastinate on doing the others, and that’s my productivity secret, hth

just wanted to let you all know i’ve updated a few policies, watch your asses

lol at mingus’s bass line on this track b/w 2:30 and 3:15, it’s either genius or somebody fucking around in guitar center with a synth pad I would murder him

be me, doing crimes,

A ROBOT

Norm!

💃🏽

49 muni driver explaining to another muni driver (passenger) that he learned to drive one of these things “on 9/11 you know? while the planes were flying into the buildings, 9/11? i was learning to drive one of these things for the first time. shoot.”

intrusive thought: ramset vacu vin

looks like a pretty big fire by the safeway on mission?

“Look: this weirdo has monomania.”

tech execs everyone (even their friends) called an asshole two years ago for completely whiffing the summer of 2020 will now use whatever is going on to tell on themselves (again) when they proudly say “I told you so” as if anyone is enjoying any of this. ghouls.

it’s really annoying how dumb our antagonists are

cab calloway: Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi (hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-hi)

marxists do it with chiasmus

hey, glowfari called, they’ve got that statue of you all set up on the other side of the giant shark tunnel

fondly recalling tossing the ol’ pig skin with friends at a party when I, oops, over the fence, through next-door’s screen door

had my new @BAKKOOONN@twitter.com (Wv2-120) double matted white over blue

I was also half way through the Ted Chiang book of stories that included the story the movie Arrival is based on but i think i left it on the plane at SFO yesterday after two dudes behind me got in a fight as we were deplaning and it distracted me from checking the seat pocket, RIP

new to me used book, lovely inscription

one ceo

walking around the office of the company I just acquired setting numerous ACME patent-pending traps, bombs, suspended heavy objects, etc, and then lighting the cigar that came complimentary from the ACME salesman with a strike anywhere match on my boot

barely flavored sparkling water (la croix, etc) is an op

new concept pitch: micro-billionaires

revised and trashed a few posts about how weird people tend to maximally scope “community” for weird reasons (their own and those of others) with weird effects but I think i’ll just mute the word, recommend doing so to the Mute community, and move on w/ my life

do NOT solve for x on my TL

massive respect for the chile rellenos, never made these before and i got most of the steps wrong and wasted too much but they turned out ok!

dude is exiting his “I would prefer not to” phase and now well into his riverboat scam phase

oops, all pink and purple today

taking a zoom spanish class every tuesday afternoon w/ the everloving wife and cramming vocabulary the afternoon-of (right now) is the most stressful part of my week, every week

The San Francisco Chronicle Democratic Club

biblically accurate amatriciana sauce

dude is almost grown out of these things and ready for real legos (dude being me in this example, jr. built the small house on the right, then asked for a chimney to drop toys down)

Probably a cool daylight savings issue: my @FitbodApp@twitter.com workout today is identical to yesterday’s in spite of that never happening (I have Fresh Muscle Groups enabled).

extremely silly grilled cheese sandwiches (had two small blocks of extra sharp cheddar left in the fridge)

growing my hair back out from a DIY #2 taper because I switched from gamer headphones to speakers and a mic don’t have headphone-ring anymore.

imagine reading SIASL ITYOOL-two-thousand-whatever and then complying with adding “grok” to your vocabulary like the nerds before you

aside: “Unlike most political systems, plutocracy is not rooted in any established political philosophy.” lmbo

i know it’s just plutocracy by another name but if you can believe it, we can invent a society run by clowns, which I suppose would be called a “coulrotocracy”

My sources say that trunk-or-treat, for kids, being considered for Americans. I am insufferable and take no pleasure in reporting this.

the most beautiful word in the american language is the word COMPACT spray painted on the concrete between the spaces in a parking garage

posting volunteer fire company

“truth coming out of her think tank to” and so on and so forth, and/or along with other things of a similar kind, et cetera, et cetera

that was originally going to be “jazz” but then I thought, what is even more annoying to people who don’t like it than ska?

It goes without saying that the contents of this ska song would have been inclusive of people of many tastes and backgrounds, as well as those of us who are not into music at all.

Atheism!

towers on hills in fog 🌁

what else does a person do with the rest of the chilis after making enchilada sauce?

time to use exactly one quarter of the chilis in this can, all of the sauce, and then throw the rest away

carved my pumpkin with a stencil from a kit, p happy with it

also spoopy ones

pomeroy pumpkin patch has rose emoji

tomatoes and strawberries coming in ☺️

KRS Attenborough: “Woop-woop! That’s the sound of the sharp-tailed grouse.”

Threads.

24 hour laters, simply ridiculous, to me, still

gm, gm

I would like to call special attention to the background color used by the sf landlord political action committee’s on their own website. They can’t help themselves! It’s a sickness!

“Now is not the time to raises our costs.”

Look, if this worked, it would deserve a Nobel Prize, 𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘰.

my infinite ponzi scheme illustration has lots of people asking about my infinite ponzi scheme

poster’s code, if you use other people’s advice to double down on a decision, you’d better apologize

oh, a few of Barbara Wright’s english version of these are on google books, of course, nice.

wired: getting on the “S” bus and witnessing an altercation between a man with a long neck and funny hat and another passenger

it’s been over three years since I’ve been in a room where people used finger snaps / hisses

you: what are s.m. style tomatoes?

making spagetti sauce with one half s. m. style tomatoes a friend grew in her garden (bottom row), one half canned (top row)

left: landlord sees you making a little extra from your job, raises your rent

garlic mash cheat code

uh, serious question, have you taken ENG101? Tue/Thu at from 9-11 in the old brick building w/ that professor who is really into “themes”, or whatever?

you’ve been visited by the train boper

the playmobil toys jr got for his fourth are the shishito peppers of “will i have to put this damned thing together like flatpak?”