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  1. To the south: San Francisco? Daly City?

    To the east: US 1

    photo of the san francisco (or daly city or pacificia? I’m not sure) coastline from 20 miles north on the coast, looking south over a ridge as the sun set. urban lights are vibisle along the coast

    photograph of the sun setting over the pacific ocean, a line of bush, and a large orange tent in the foreground in a clearing

    photograph looking north-east from the westerly point of the upper camp site at Slide Ranch. US 1 is along the ridge.

  2. We camped at Slide Ranch the night before last.

    Pretty nice! Our 5 yo had a blast.

    In addition to the farm with chickens, sheep, and goats, the camp site is well sited, and from it, there is a trail down to pacific ocean tide pools.

    photograph of single track trail that descends 100 feet over 3/5ths of a mile to pacific ocean tide pools. the trails are all well trodden but posion plants are common on either side

    photograph of pacific coast shore rocks at slide ranth, north of san francisco

    pacific ocean tide pool sea anenenenenenomies (which I have a hard time pronouncing). They look like 4” dirty brown hoses with green spikey spiney succulents with purple tipds on the end in a ring

  3. jimmy fallon at band of brothers s1e5

    the alien from the star trek the next generation episode, darmok (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok)statement translates as "schmuck!"

  4. Slide Ranchallones

    photograph of the Farallones from Slide Ranch camp ground, north of san francisco of US 1 past Stinson Beach

    max zoom, photograph of the Farallones from Slide Ranch camp ground, north of san francisco of US 1 past Stinson Beach

  5. damn!

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

    now I’m by the 27, a perfect door to door school bus for my kid, on paper, if only the headway nearly three times as long as the 49’s. It is faster to just walk.

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

    selfie on the way out the door, wearing a bigfoot monster truck shirt and bigfoot beer hat

  8. https://thecinemaholic.com/bodies-iris-kyal-elias-new-timeline/ this cinemaholic piece calls an LP record that is showing being cut live and played back on a record player multiple times throughout the series a “tape” throughout the piece 🫠

    the ‘buy it now raiting’ samurai sword guy’s younger brother (?) saying “it’s tape”

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

    the funniest thing was the retiree calling a biz tax “punitive", which, like, I’m not a lawyer, but, lol, lmao

    0.175 percent to 0.69 (nice) percent on gross receipts for businesses with over $50 million in gross annual receipts, or

    1.5 percent of payroll expenses for certain businesses with over $1 billion in gross annual receipts and administrative offices in San Francisco.

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

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

  12. http://www.online-literature.com/anton_chekhov/1289/ Anton Chekhov on next-door-posting, every-day-carry types of 1898, “The Man in the Case” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Case)

    Fun. I’m reading some light socialist realism, "Stalingrad”, by Vasily Grossman, and this story came up in reference with a footnote so I tracked it down.

    Photograph of the Belikov Monument next to the Chekhov Gymnasium in Taganrog, from Wikipedia

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

  14. absolutely not, app badges privileges revoked

    iPhone "Phone" app notification indicator screenshot, a white "1" in a red circle over what looks like a very abstract magnetic tape reel to reel icon over the word "Voicemail" in dark gray

    iPhone "Phone" app screenshot, text over a button:To retrieve a voicemail first set a password and greeting.[Set Up]

  15. 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

    so I’ve now got https://docslib.org/doc/5900836/franz-kafka-on-the-tenth-anniversary-of-his-death open to maybe read, maybe abandon, at some later time, idk

  16. 22nd book of the year: “The Trial" by Franz Kafka.

    Someone in Bernal Heights (Bonview at or near Cortland? It was a few months ago) left a box of books on the sidewalk with “FREE” written on a flap that had a few things I grabbed, among them, DFW’s “Consider the Lobster, and other essays” which I started and abandoned (lol), and this.

    I enjoy stuff like this from time to time but don’t think I’m “smart enough” for it, whatever that means (and I’m not entirely sure).

    paperback cover, Schoken press edition, introduction by George Steimer, a red tinted photograph of a face—really only the right half from chin to eyebrow—peers through four black bars inset on a black cover

    the copy I read, yesterday, on my blue beach towel in the foregrown, my own shadow on the patio pavers in the background, where I was working on my suntan yesterday, wondering why god gives me his toughest battles (why I chose to read this instead of a page-turner that would actually be relaxing for the weekend)

  17. arrabbiata base is just garlic, tomato, salt¹ and pepper²

    ¹ kosher, anchovy

    ² paprika, cracked black, red flakes, greek pepperocini

    arrabbiata base in the bottom of a sauce pan: minced garlic, tomato paste, kosher salt, anchovies, paprika, cracked black pepper, red pepepr flakes, minced greek pepperocini

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

    nevertheless, great show

    audience photo of Queens of the Stone Age performing at Bill Graham Auditorium, the band is lit by a triangle of pink lights overhead hard to believe, I’m sure, but with a crowd of mostly 40-something couples in black rock t-shirts (yours truly included), the damned bar ran out of IPA before the band even started

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

  20. 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.

    i will learn nothing from this pleasant experience.

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

    “Well that kid is so and so, they went to pre-school together. And that kid is so and so, they are in TK together. That kid in the red shirt is, ah, jeeze, a friend’s kid who we see all the time but I’m completely blanking on their name"

    She says, “Yeah, that’s so and so.”

    I say, "right, I forgot.”

    Then I realize I’m talking to the kid in the red shirt’s mom.