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posts from 2024 / 04

  1. 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

  2. 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

    • ACP, FOUO, Confidential, SECRET, etc

  3. aside, while i’m mad-posting about cars

    in the fall when I started these walks I was able to make up for morning routine interruptions by ending my day with a walk instead.

    I had to knock that shit off after daylight savings because it is even unsafer than normal to be a pedestrian crossing streets as soon as the sun begins to set, and that just gets worse and worse hour over hour until the sun comes back up

  4. “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?”

  5. 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)

    implementation could box rent seekers out out by acquiring all the retail property in neighborhoods and then sprinkling planned retail back into them

  6. 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

    it seems like cartels all the way down?

  7. heather k, please help

    our small business owners are being fattened on ice cream sugar cones, fudgesicles, rainbow sherbert pops, swirl lollys, and pastel mints and then gobbled up by witches whose houses are painted with those delicious treats and nobody is talking about it

    please amplify this for your audience at the new yawk times, thanks in advance

    —concerned in bernal

    photograph of the garage door of a pink stucco house with white trimthe garage door panels are white with illustrations of an ice cream sugar cone, a fudgesicle, a rainbow sherbert pop on the main panels, and swirl lollys, and pastel mints on along the smaller top panelssomeone tagged the fudgesicle kinda clumsily in white spraypaint but at least used a heart in it so that’s nice I guess

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

    that’s right, i hurt myself shrugging

    a screenshot of fitbod.app video instructions for a compound deadlift move that ends in a shruga man in black shorts, a black shirt, black tennis shoes, and black socks holding dumbbells in both hands is paused mid-shrugunder the photo, the app describes this move:Demo & InstructionsDumbbell RomanianDeadlift to Shrug

  9. 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.

    thanks for funding the arts, jerks!

  10. 13th book of 2024: “Bliss Montage”, by Ling Ma ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60243188-bliss-montage").

    I forget why this got my attention but I will cop to the “by the author of Severance” blurb helping more than somewhat, not realizing that it’s a novel that predates the show by four years and is completely unrelated to it.

    What a lovely mistake! The stories were excellent and I will probably grab the novel too. Warning: maybe check the content before starting on the first two stories?

    the paperback cover of "Bliss Montage", by Ling Ma, a close up color photo of a clear plastic bag of oranges, so close only one full orange is visible while about 9 others are cropped in various ways and the size of the bag is not determined, while the title, authors name, and blurb are overlayed in all caps grotesque distorted as if it were printed on the clear plastic, to nice effect.BLISSMONTAGEStoriesLING MAAuthor ofSeverance

  11. 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.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBtjKTEHKUM his performance of it last night had a lot more skronk on it, but, this, generally

  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20240413115023/http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/sf-traffic-ticket-decline-data-19383950.php

    doomed

    infrastructure cannot be corrected by process controls

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

    Screenshot of the context menu for a message in slack scrollback detailing all the mistakes you can make if you put Slack the message-in-scrollback mode, specifically consisting of these accidents:Mark unread URemind me about this > Forward message... FCopy link LPin to channel PStart a huddle in thread...Edit message E

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

    mise for coq au vin: a cutting board with diced carrots on top of a board scraper, quartered mushrooms, smashed garlic, peeled shallots, minced parsley, and diced potatoes (for a side). left to right behind the board: a few cups of broth with gelatin in a measuring cup, a peeler, a bottle of red wine, a compost container, ands a chef knife

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

  16. pave, Pave, PAVE.

    https://alt.pavethe.earth

  17. 12th (I am not tryna spell "twelth?f?”th, these stories deserve to be 13th, alas) book of 2024: “Magic for Beginners”, by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/66657.Magic_for_Beginners). Yep.

    Goth surrealist tangential punny folklore ghost stories? Idk what the hell I just read and if it was a TV show I’d turn it off but I can read stuff like this all day long (and just did).

    the paperback cover of “Magic for Beginners”, Stories by Kelly Link. An illustration of a woman with black hair parted down the middle, a long black doubled-over pearl necklace, and multiple rings and black wristbands in a black t-shirt holds a ferret? looking left (pretty goth imo), over a blue background. A sky blue rectangle with the corners clipped (as if it was a card tucked into cuts in the cover) is covered w/ the title in all caps sans, the authors name below in light blue over the blue background.Per Link’s website: The cover is modeled on Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Lady with an Ermine.”

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

    bugs: ugh, hey, hi, so, uh, am i in that one?

    me: 🙄 yes

  19. not helped by this 🐝 being 🐝what i was reading at the time https://kellylink.net/books/magic-for-beginners-old/the-hortlak

  20. 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”

    photo of a Sequoia grove to me east, the rising sun above, blue skies behind

  21. eleventh book of 2024: “Trust”, by Herman Diaz. ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58210933)

    Insulting to anarchists. “Obama liked this!” should have turned me away, but i was a fool.

    Meh. Almost DNF’d about ⅔ of the way through but I’m on vacation and had an hour to slog through.

    On the bright side, when I drop it off at one of those little free libraries maybe someone will have left a classic I can trade up for.

    The paperback cover of "Trust", by Hernan Diaz, as i read it, except my copy as the pulitzer prize winner seal on it.

  22. 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️ 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering Glen Park and Diamond Heights, bound by Portola, Diamond Heights Blvd, San Jose, Bosworth, and O’Shaughnessy Blvd

    🏁 what I’m considering Potrero Hill, bound by Division, 280, Cesar Chavez, and 101

    A San Francisco street map centering the area bound by Market, 3rd street, 280, and Twin Peaks, on which most streets have a meandering purple GPS path I’ve logged on it, generally completing (in order I walked it) Noe Valley, Bernal Heights, the Inner Mission, Mission Dolores, the Castro, Eureka Valley, Glen Park, Diamond Heights, and Potrero Hill.

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

    the current Vintage International paperback cover of “Pnin” by Vladimir Nabovkov, as I read it:a black leather frame that is set on and shadows a white field contains a bow tie constructed of two or three pieces of maroon paper covered with the lowercase typewritten letters p, n, i, and n in repetitive 8 letter blocks is affixed to white board with sewing pins.and a strip of cream paper with “Pnin” typewritten below,

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

    I never really got into these things because I guess it never occurred to me that they would have pleasant margin options for single app configs, which for some reason I kinda prefer (tiled round rect windows and drop shadows at 0px margin and padding look weird, to me)

    I’ve used Moom ( https://manytricks.com/moom/) for years, it’s great.

    now I’m playing with Amethyst ( https://manytricks.com/moom/) instead.

    screenshot of a computer desktop with the mastodon application Ivory open and filling nearly the entire screen. floating over Ivory’s main window is an image open in a window about 1/3 the size of the main window by volume, which seems to have been the default way to “show image” since lightbox.js ten or fifteen years ago or whatever.

    the same image loaded on the same computer with nothing changed except that Amethyst is running and instantly yoinked the image to fill the entire screen, which is always what I wanted when I tell the computer to “show image” or whatever, instead of lightbox.js style nonsense

  25. took junior to hike the sign

    that’s right

    SOUTH

    SAN FRANCISCO

    THE INDUSTRIAL CITY

    pretty nice, always wanted to do that.

    it’s a little 2 mile loop with a steep stepped shortcut up from the bottom to the top. also, you can walk on the letters. also also, if you bring cardboard you can slide on a few of them even.

    wide angle photograph looking up hill at the huge ‘L’ from “INDUSTRIAL”

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

    everyone who asks and finds out what I’m doing is all “I couldn’t get through the awkward phase" and I’m all “well, tbh? it’s all awkward, with brief OK phases"

    beat

    also everyone who has ever had long hair when I complain about it: “well you could always cut it off, I don’t regret going that at all" and I’m like “you are right.”

    beat

    so I think I’ll keep growing it out another year

  27. 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—

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

    archiving the first (top) message causes gmail to select the message below the archived message

    archiving any non-top messages that aren’t the ultimate (bottom) message causes gmail to select the message above the archived message

    archiving the ultimate (bottom) message causes gmail to select the message above the message above the archived message.

    🤷🏻‍♂️