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posts from 2025 / 05

  1. took my DSLR to junior’s graduation, was annoyed at myself for not changing my speedlight batteries while trying to get piñata shots under the shade of a tree so I changed them when I got home.

    the batteries I took out were dated 2011

    photo of Leonard Flynn Elementary School’s south wall which has two large two story 20’ x 20’ murals on it

    a rainbow ball piñata with silver reflective party hates taped all around it with ribbon tassels on the ends hanging from a tree

  2. a few of the people I follow are on a years-long usually dormant thread with a few dozen people that just post the most wild schematics and infographics at each other and if I could follow a thread I would follow that thread and if I could find it I would break my usual “don’t be a reply guy” lurker mentality and post this amazing graphic at it even though I don’t know any of them and don’t know what the thread is for so i’m just gonna post it here and maybe start a new one for myself and you

    the preview image from https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09039-2, “In vivo screen of Plasmodium targets for mosquito-based malaria control” which includes illustrations of a mosquito on a surface and the mosquito’s gut, a cool rainbow colored histogram(?), two rows of stacked scatter plots with pie charts under them, and a stacked bar chart

  3. expert guidance, as with all things: “get good.”

  4. we are third in line so we know we already lost and are only staying to learn how to scam our way to success on the next attempt, which we both have to do, in person, together, to get junior a passport

  5. another case proclaims:

    PHILATELIC INFORMATION

    selfie, man wearing a yellow kn95 mask reflected in the glass of an empty notice board with a sign on top proclaiming: PHILATELIC INFORMATION

  6. cool

    a print out taped to the wall at the post officePASSPORT WALK-INHOURS MON-SAT9:00 AM - 9:30 AM"ONLY TWO PASSPORT APPLICATIONSPER DAY, FIRST COME FIRST SERVE NOEXCEPTIONS."Lobby (front) door will be open at 8:30AM,please walk down the hall and wait by theBLUE door.DO NOT ring the bell unless it's already pass9:00 AM and no one has come to check you in.If you see people in the Lobby then we've likelyhave our two applicants, try again another day.We thank you for your cooperation andunderstanding.

  7. i would have misspelled this on assignment

    an old fashioned plastic punch letter ribbon sticker that was probably red a very long time ago which proclaims in all caps on top of a glass display case at the post office: MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

  8. maybe a silly thing to get excited about but every single time I’m all: “Wow! Look at it go!”

    Tomorrows 20" NY style pizza dough, which I made a few days ago using 10% wheat, 90% bread flour, and cold water, mixed in a food processor until the center of the dough read in the high 70s F (about 75 seconds), and then immediately cold fermented for a few days.

    web app screenshot from https://burner.com/pizza/calc/Bob's Simple Lehmann Pizza Dough CalculatorPizza Size: 20"Thickness Factor: 0.10"Balls: 1Hydration: 61%Salt: 2%Yeast: 0.2%Oil: 1%Flour: 542.4gSalt: 10.8gOil: 5.4gWater: 330.9gYeast: 1.1gSingle Ball: 890.6gA simpler non-Flash version of the original Lehmann Dough Calculator from pizzamaking.com. Icons for Salt and Olive Oil fromThe Noun Project. Wheat and Dash icons from OpenSansEmoji.

    A clear plastic 6L fermentation tub, lightly oiled with olive oil, with a tight ball of dough on the bottom, in the center, immediately after mixing. There are about 2” of empty space around the ball on the bottom and the top center nearly reaches the 2L line on the tub.

    3 days of cold primary fermentation later and the ball has more than doubled in size and is pressing itself against the sides all around the tub, displaying nice bubbles

    bugs bunny as big chungus

  9. https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/114581531126178751

    curious what effect this is having / will have on the robots

  10. pictured: joel engardio himself, as seen from Sunset Dunes

    photo of the back of someone’s house, which faces the new Sunset Dunes Park in san francisco. Thy’ve got a wooden fence about 8 foot tall, the house is yellow with aluminum windows and a black pitched roof. Peeking over the roofline of the fence is one of those giant skeletons people get for halloween. Only the skull is visible but it is probably the entire thing behind the fence, and it is facing kinda northwest toward Sunset Dunes. Even cooler, someone put a fake pigeon (?!) on top of the skull, which, like, nice job.

  11. did a little 20 mile bike loop from the mission mission to glen park, lake merced, sunset dunes park, gg park, doubled back to the pump track + skills track to meet the fam (the plan all along)

    jr pushed his scooter around the skills track boards for a bit, we hung out on the logs further north, then they went home and I continued on through GGP and the wiggle

    just by a rough eyeball count of blue “stand with joel” vs yellow “recall engardio” signs on the houses facing the GH, joel is doomed

    my bike, rolled up off the path onto the ice plant, leaning against a logit’s an ~10 year old gravel bike w/ slicks on it (an all-city macho man with disc breaks and 105 components) red on the front half and white on the back, with a buncha stupid stickers on the white half. I’ve got two water cages on it use both, a panier rack and bag.

  12. at the picture shop a few days ago getting a julian lage sf jazz residency poster framed (I caught the solo acoustic show and the duo with marc ribot, who is just the coolest 😍) and while I was trying to decide on a ready-made or not, the other table became the center of attention w/a full size (huge) star wars poster, which looked mint.

    the owner helping him says he worked at lucasfilm in the 80s and that this was one of two sizes or something? he was very excited

    a normal sized (18x24”) poster for Julian Lage’s SF Jazz residence in dark blue, dark green, and maroon over cream featuring an abstract guitar, a telecaster control set, flowers, and a hand holding a pen for some reason.I was trying to decide between the closest wood I could get to an acoustic guitar, and a metal that in hindsight looks a lot like fret wire. the metal was 1/3rd the cost of the wood, so I went w/ the metal."Julian” is horizontal in a script font on the left in red and LAGE is in all block sans in blue and green. the bottom left corner lists the dates and says:plays 4 nightssoloduo????

    a giant table-covering poster labeled “STAR WARS REURN OF THE JEDI SERIES B ONE SHEET”which had been stored rolled, never folded, and in mind condition, I assume for 42 years (circa 1983) but maybe a repro?This is one of the illustrated headshot ones with darth vader in front of the second death star top center, luke under him, han under that, and the rest of the cast horizontal below Junior and I just happened to watch this one last weekend and it is pretty hokey, but the people in the store were all pretty excited by it.

  13. at least a band famously hostile to tapers (or passive to Peter Grant) and infamously noted for onion-on-belt songwriting credit lag didn’t profit off of tapers I guess? weird decisions.

    also, it is full of stock footage cultural contextualization, which, as a device, ugh, the worst dreck of romanticism imo.

  14. the high school fan in me was pretty disappointed w/ the “becoming led zeppelin" thing that just came out. I bailed.

    the second half is full of neat ‘68, '69, and ‘70 film of the band live, but not with the definitely available and in some cases highly regarded audio of those shows. Instead, studio or bbc session releases for completely different songs, and not even particularly good songs were used.

    "Living Loving Maid”, to pick one they used, sucks, and was never in their actual live sets.

  15. half way through nabokov’s “pale fire” and istg every aside story in the commentary about stuff in zembla reads like a wes anderson scene

  16. 'Let ‘Em In’ by Wings ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re61B8sKQWk) has been in the rotation lately on mellotron ( https://www.lemellotron.com/) which I listen to on a JBL clip on the bike all the time.

    I didn’t grow up hearing much Wings so it’s just a delightful little pop thing w/ a good pedaling bass line to cycle to for me and not a Wings song I’ve heard a million times (some of those are great too of course) every time it comes on.

  17. and I’m like, sure, makes sense, whatever, but this was a chance to reject all of that nonsense and use a computer driver to force-daylight both crosswalks and get rid of right on red and we didn’t do it.

    damn.

  18. watching a waymo creep in a crosswalk on howard parallel to me like a human would, even with probably-misplaced confidence that it is doing to so to

    1. get a right on red, but for my walk

    2. not be blocked by peds crossing when the light changes

    3. drive more like a human so that the human drives behind it don’t lose their god damned minds that the person in front isn’t off the line on the green

    4. because it is probably ultimately more efficient overall for the system

    5. training

  19. So, I upgraded my pocketcasts subscription to a tier that supports hosting arbitrary files, downloaded all of the mp3s from the archive, uploaded them to pocketcasts on the web, found them on my phone (profile, files, sort by name) and off I go.

    A little tedious and so-close but not there with just advanced search.

    Alas.

  20. I am a few classes into Hubert Dreyfus’s 2007 ”Man, God, and Society in Western Literature” Berkeley lectures ( https://archive.org/details/ucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619).

    The Internet Archive’s advanced search can return RSS which podcast apps understand, but it seems like it it’s for subscribing to new collections, not for turning collections into podcasts.

    So I think this is the best I can do? https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=identifier%33Aucberkeley_webcast_itunesu_461120619fl%5B%5D=identifier&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&sort%5B%5D=&rows=50&page=1&callback=callback&save=yes&output=rss

  21. 🚶🏽‍♂️

    🏁 what I’m considering The Excelsior.

    Lovely neighborhood of sidewalk gardens and views. Dipping into McLaren Park for the final few east side walks was a nice bonus. Getting there on the 14 or 49 or BART was convenient but the time it took limited how often I could get any miles in on weekday mornings. Luckily the buses stop a block from my house and are running by 6AM those mornings.

    Next: Outer Mission, or Portola?

    A map of San Francisco. Balboa Park BART along the center-left, McLaren Park in the bottom right quadrant, 280 running along the top, and the entirety of Excelsior’s streets (and not many alleys) marked with a purple trail.

  22. a marxist analysis of people posting computer generated action figures of themselves still in the packaging in hyper-mint condition

  23. fresh mozz margs and proper (whole foods deli) peperoni for jr. trying to go as fast as I can: launch, go back inside, shape, go outside, turn, go inside, sauce, go outside, pull, etc.

    ~75-85 seconds at 900F

    Also I got a bunch of aluminum plates at the right size for these so that I can to set the full size oven to warm and rack these as they come out so that and everyone gets warm pizza instead of cold

    three uncut 12” neapolitan pizzas: two margheritas and one pepperoni, on a counter with a pizza peel, two kinds of olive oil, a glass of beer, and a bottle of ginger ale

    close up, a margherita piza

    close up, another margherita pizza, this one was shaped on wheat flour and has pecorino romano cheese as well

    macro close up of the pepperoni pizza. the pepperoni is cupped and the cheese is melted in circles, making an overlapping polka dot effect over the red tomato sauce.

  24. The Muni Potrero Yard trolleybus tour was super neato. I’ve been bike commuting past this station for fifteen years off and on (less so the last five) and it was a special treat to tour around inside where some of the lines I ride the most call home before it is rebuilt into a modern facility.

    https://mastodon.social/@gravely/114449902629389095

    A photograph looking southwest from the rooftop of the yard where the bus tire shed is, looking down at buses that remain at the full capacity station when most are out on routes. Dozens of SF MTA trolley busses are parked in rows in the foreground, with the closest parked next to what I learned are giant industrial vacuums that are not used anymore. The top half of the photo is a blue sky with whispy white clouds. Sutro tower, an SF landmark, is recognizable on the horizon to the right.

    A bulletin board of notices for route operators of the routs that are homed in this staion. Hand cut red letters are taped to the top which say POTRERO STATIONclipboards for six lines are mounted on the board under white paper with red lettering indicating the line they correspond do.From left to right:5R - LINE, 6 - LINE, 14 - LINE, 22 - LINE, 30 - LINE, 49 - LINEI take the 14 and 49 very frequently, I used to take the 22 less frequently and now infrequently but it is a critical line to me when I need. Love to see this!

    A printed notice to operators pinned to the board which I cropped to not display anyone’s names or dates. All text on the page is capitalized and underlined. A pictogram of a red circle with a red slash (the “forbidden”symbol) has a figure reclining on the red slash and Z z z’s trailing from the mouthAbove:SLEEPERSSTOP BRINGING SLEEPERS TO THE YARD, PERIOD!I love signs like this and type like this. PERIOD!If you haven’t nodded off on a Muni give it a try, it’s a delight, I did on the 12 line heading home from a Giants game only a few days ago! “Wow right before my stop” I thought as I noticed I’d napped a bit.

  25. a mama doe on a hillside of grass. behind the doe the brush thickens but is not a forrest, in which two others (at least) younger deer linger, unpictured but who walked by just after I took this photo

    a black snake about two feet long with white rings and a white belly crosses left to right on a gravel path

    The same snake from passing by, heading away from me

  26. took the fam to the Pulgas Temple via the Sheep Camp Trail, saw flowers, saw water, saw lizard, saw deer, saw snek, not bad for a 'burbs hike!

    the first time I came out here in '17 we took a more boring route and saw none of these things save the water, go figure.

    A green sign with white uppercase routed letters hanging from a green pipe on a larger steel pole, surrounded by green deciduous, pine, and bushes under a clear blue sky, which reads:PULGAS TEMPLETERMINUSHETCH HETCHY AQUEDUCTSAN FRANCISCOWATER DEPARTMENT

    a smattering of papery-leafed pink flowers with yellow centers over greenery

    a ground covering greenery with tiny yellow flowers

    photograph of the pulgas temple, a (pasting from wikipedia) a circle of fluted Corinthian columns surmounted by a large masonry ring bearing the inscription "I give waters in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people" [from Isaiah 43:20]. There is a reflecting pool lined with cypress trees.