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posts from 2023 / 02

  1. 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.

  2. 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

    "the great lounge" room at the big, old, fancy, 20s lodge in the yosemite valley; a huge room of 20' ceilings, three great long walls of glazing looking out on a meadow, seating for hundreds, and a great big fireplace on one wall with sofas facing it, which i've personally enjoyed a great book on, in front of said fire, on a quiet evening

  3. 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

    selfie, receding hair line pompadour?? 40-something in a pink t shirt that fits, with a woodcut style illustration of a bottle kicking a brain between its legs over the slogan "stop thinking / start drinking" on it

  4. what if

    picture of the quake 1 difficulty selection area with an emoji figure on the left holding a heart and an emoji figure on the right raising their handtop text: what if we kissed...bottom text: in the quake difficulty selection are

  5. 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.

  6. 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 was just joking about Bernal Heights generally still being there. Anywhay, here’s another picture. OK, cya.

    downtown san francisco as seen from the radio antenna fence line atop Bernal Heights, framed on the right side by the seat post of my bike

  7. 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!

    • I probably would have finished this a lot sooner but four and a half years ago we had a kid, 🫠.

  8. sixth book: volume two of Ursula K. Le Guin’s two volume collection, The Hainish Novels and Stories. ( https://www.ursulakleguin.com/hainish-novels-and-stories )

    I’ve been working my way through the stories in the second volume for years, picking it off my to-read pile now and again. This weekend I read the Five Ways to Forgiveness cycle and am about half way through The Telling, which has me enthralled, so I’m calling this one done early.

    Strongest possible endorsement for the entire collection.

    ( https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/33533489-the-hainish-novels-and-stories)

    a 3D rendering of the box that The Hainish Novels and Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin comes in. It has a wrap around color photo of a long-exposure shot of the night sky turning over mountains as the sun rises (or sets?) behind them. Kind of a boring cover tbh.

  9. 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.

    ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential)

    the “updated edition” paperback cover of Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, featuring a younger Bourdain in chef’s whites and an apron looking through the window of Les Halles, the restraunt he worked at when he wrote it

  10. bonus ride photo, cool new bike sticker

    ecu: a sticker on the back of my seat post of a sonic the hedgehog / garfield chimera

    the sticker on the back of my seat post of a sonic the hedgehog / garfield chimera from a different angle

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

    selfie in a black and red polka dot cycling shirt from the top of bernal heights park, downtown sf behind me. i wore a cycling shirt because i wanted all the rear pockets for my keys and snacks and stuff like that

    the front triangle of my bike leaning against a guard rail, the guard rail has a sticker on it that says ANTIFA CYCLING CLUB

    map of my ride path from strava, which tells this story: i know i'll just ride straight up folsom! no fuck this, back down to precita park and around, up ripley instead

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

    ecu a blue san francisco rolling can for recyclables that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

    ecu a second blue san francisco rolling can for recyclables that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

    ecu a green san francisco rolling can for compostables that someone has written "THANK YOU" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

    ecu a back san francisco rolling can for trash that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

  13. cheap trick lookin’ work fit

    full length selfie of me, black baseball cap, black "gravely" embroidered jean jacket, black "the purpose of a system is what it does" t-shirt, black jeans, back tennis shoes, mirror shades

  14. 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

    what looks like about a 12 foot clear plastic cylinder about a foot in diameter blowing solid out a propped up window on the first floor over a soft story garage on ceasar chavez street in san francisco, pointing down about 30 degrees

  15. 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

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

  17. intrusive thought: location, market based returns on capital

  18. 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*

    *this poster is too young to have ever seen one not in a museum much less used one

    the front panel of a pdp-11/70 flush with rows of bright violet, fuchsia, and pink switches and buttons and red lights set on a black background over a wide row of violet, fuchsia, and pink keys in an off-white case

  19. 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

    a picture of me squinting into the sun wearing a yellow hat, pink shirt, grey hoodie, and black jean jacket, phone in hand, with a round of beers on the table in front of me