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posts from 2024 / 07

  1. have a great evening y’all

  2. the purpose of a bollard is what it does

  3. 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.

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

    garlic cloves from an entire head, enough basil, stem and all, to fill the rest of a small sauce pan, and a healthy pinch of red pepper flakes, frying in a quarter cup of olive oil

    reserved sauce from a 22 ounce can of whole peeled san marzanos, add with finishings for brightness or earlier if the tomatoes start to burn, or split the difference

    whole peeled san marzanos from a 22 ounce can and a pinches of red pepper and salt flakes frying in a few tablespoons of olive oil. turn to taste, once it’s where you like it, carefully use a wire potato masher or bladed dough cutter to break up the tomatoes, reduce heat to a simmer

    pre-warmed heath commune ceramic shallow bowl full of al dente spaghetti noodles finished in the oil (use a fine mesh strainer and discard or re-purpose the garlic and basil) and tomatoes from the other photos with a tablespoon of unsalted butter, another tablespoon of olive oil, and two tablespoons of parmesan, topped with more parmesan and chiffonaded basil

  5. 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

    for me: tomato sauce, pecorino, basil, smoked provolone, hot Italian sausage

    top down photo of the hugest oxo cutting board with two 12” neapolitan pizzas on it. top right is the sausage and cheese, bottom left is all pep, half olives

    ECU photo half pep, olives, basil, half pep only, all over mozz and sauce - the red, green and black is on the left half of the photo, the red and white on the right half

    ECU, sausage, leopard spotted smoked provolone, basil, w/ huge crust bubbles in the bottom-left corner

    photo of plated slices, showing off the crust bubbles in the sausage/provolone pizza. p good tonight!

  6. 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

  7. 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.

    then, since I was already in spandex (very rare!), I tacked on a normal bay loop for the miles

    photo from Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco, looking down on a switchback of Twin Peaks Boulevard in the bottom half of the photo. The entire top half of the photo contains downtown San Francisco, in theory, but is solid gray with fog

    Selfie in a black and white giro helmet, transition glasses which are full tint black at this point, and a black cycling jesey with little red polka dots and a bright red zig zag across the front. My bike, a red and white gravel bike, is behind me, leaning up against the pink metal railing at Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco.

    a photograph of the golden gate bridge, in san francisco, taken from below, in the parking lot of Fort Point, through a chain link fence. A black sign with yellow left and right hand prints at high-five height labeled HOPPERS HANDS is fixed to the fence as a touch point for people who walk, bike, hike, or whatever, to get here and then turn around as it is a dead end

    Screen shot from Strava of my route, a red line over a map of san francisco through the mission, glen canyon, twin peaks, down 17th, across cesar chavez, and up around the bay to the golden gate bridge, then returning through the presidio, golden gate park, the wiggle, to the mission

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

    • kenji’s neapolitan w/ bob’s red mill 00 (which is very good imo) and SAF instant

    two slices of neapolitan pizza on a white plate topped with tomato sauce, pecorino romano, capers, black olives, anchovies, pepperoni, chili crisp, olive oil

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

    [my friends and I scurrying away, unkillable, but diving for cover anyway] “shut up! shut up! get out! get out! turn the lights back off!”

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. feeling matchy-matchy, might lean

    a photo of me leaning, with arms crossed, against an avocado green brick building next to a window protected by decorative cast iron security bars also painted avocado greenI’m wearing a black DOOM LOOP had, a black silk jacket with white silk sleeves that have arm length patches of green double-headed snakes running from wrist to shoulder over a light pink oxford, faded maroon corduroy pants, and black on black suede old school vans

  13. follow friday: https://botsin.space/@bestpizzaintown

    https://botsin.space/@bestpizzaintown/112775780386387788

  14. 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

    the full ritual as we perform it is too close to a cultural conflict and wildly inefficient. let me give you a guid

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 18th book of 2024: “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore”, by Robin Sloan ( https://www.robinsloan.com/books/penumbra/).

    Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2012-techie-San-Francisco (I was here by then) and get 100% of the references (and roll my eyes at a few w/ 12 years of hindsight).

    The paperback cover “Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore”, by Robin Sloan, as I read it. Nine rows of yellow blocks stamped alternating between four or five stacked on their back and four or five upright like books on a shelf but leaning left or right at random. The title and “A Novel” and author name are in hand written script over the entire front.

  18. 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

  19. 17th book of 2024: "The Book of Love”, by Kelly Link ( https://kellylink.net/books/the-book-of-love, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/157981682-the-book-of-love).

    I kind agree w/ the haters on this one but maybe not very strongly?

    the hardback cover of “The Book of Love” by Kelly Link, as I read it. Title in mixed case mixed case THE BooK oF LoVE” and author’s name upper case, both in black over a solid red background. Four rows of five moons line the cover in gold: crescent, waxing, full, waning, crescent. Alternating left and then right waning first, then waxing moons have silhouettes of faces instead of earth-shadows.

  20. lovely weather to bicycle across the only bridge we can.

    maybe some day, the other will be opened up!

    photo from the visitor’s lot on the north side of the golden gate bridge on a clear sunny day. the nearer, lower two-fifths of the photo contain a near stone wall, with my red and white steel frame gravel bike leaning against it on a gravel path. the distant, top three-fifths contain the san francisco bay, city skyline to the left, golden gate bridge to the right, and sutro tower in the distance

    a photo of the golden gate bridge from below, taken from the parking lot at Fort Point, an old military (US Army) base under the southern end of the bridge on the san francisco bay shorline

    photo of the Bay Bridge to Treasure Island and Oakland beyond, taken from the southern bay shore approach, on a clear sunny day

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

    • double parked in the bike lane with two empty car spots to his right

    ** sfmta is committed to not putting in a protected bike lane here to Mission St because of nonsense complications

    *** to ask me, after he caught up with us, what I’d said to him

    🤗