pizza slow (high quality)
  1. noticed a fav new spot (Hi-hat in SF, be warned, a little on the pricey side) uses a lot more sauce than I do, I leaned that way tonight, the fam liked it.

    anchovies, mozz, san marzano, olive oil, salt

    could have doubled the anchovies

    an irregular shaped Neapolitan pizza on a stainless steel 12” plate, topped mostly with red tomato sauce, eight white circles of mozzarella, and four anchovy filets

    close up of a slice of pizza, the crust is consistently one mm of bubbles thick

    originally posted on mastodon about 10 months ago (permalink)
  2. had nearly 5 hours of meetings this afternoon with no time to ball tonight’s neapolitan pizza dough, which I haven’t made in a month or two because Iv’e been working on 20" NY styles, but I did get it out off the fridge in time to warm up

    so as per, the first one I mindlessy stretched like it was tight and instantly had a razor thin 16" mess I couldn’t even get on a peel

    the second one I was “careful” and holed in the oven

    the third and fourth I just patted flat and baked and they were OK

    originally posted on mastodon about 10 months ago (permalink)
  3. it’s so funny to me how “broadly” seems to have become the serious poster’s defense against getting nit picked

    originally posted on mastodon about 11 months ago (permalink)
  4. silly workaround for passively seeing who you muted in slack without unmuting them is to paste a link to a muted post in the message window, hit space, and let the preview unfurl to yourself and only yourself, where it reveals all to you even though you have the poster blocked and can see neither the poster nor the post in chat

    🤷🏻‍♂️

    originally posted on mastodon about 11 months ago (permalink)
  5. obviously not gonna happen but i should be able to take a drivers license equivalent exam and road test to earn the right to roll down the lower windows on muni buses and ride with my elbow hanging out, maybe stick a hand out to wave it in the breeze, and so on

    originally posted on mastodon about 11 months ago (permalink)
  6. we lose sun on our western-oriented patio around 3 or 3:30 in the afternoon this time of year but the summer sun sets just north enough to tag from around the other side of the building and hit the farthest northwest patio corner from 5:30 to 6:30PM before we lose it again and that sun patch is like my secret book nook to escape out to for one month a year. I love it.

    originally posted on mastodon about 11 months ago (permalink)
  7. so stoked about the martian I didn’t notice spiderman

    selfie, man (me) in a yellow camp shirt w/ flowers on it, red kn95 mask and black SF giants hat. behind me someone with a “save NPR” sign is dressed like the martians from sesame street who panic every time the phone rings trying to figure out what it isfurther in the distance someone in a spiderman costume pushes a bike

    originally posted on mastodon about a year ago (permalink)
  8. it was kinda nice to get to civic center and not really find any electeds going on about some nonsense on a PA system, it was just like, well we’re here, that was nice, there’s the avakian revcom weirdos [wayne’s world wayne seeing-stacy-face] there’s the people from salt tabling, ok, well let’s walk back up market and see how long it is, wow this is a lot, very cool

    ah well I guess that’s it, ok, cya, I’m gonna go get a beer, ok cya I’ve got plans, yeah cool, later

    originally posted on mastodon about a year ago (permalink)
  9. relaxing this morning after breakfast reading a bit before heading to the Dolores Park to Civic Center “No Kings" march later today and I get to Inferno III ( https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n61/mode/2up), beginning with the famous “abandon all hope, you who enter here” gate of hell, and where Dante and Virgil encounter the damned for the first time, in the vestibule, who in life were neutral and never took a side.

    😬. Well, ok then.

    Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n603/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 34-36, which says:34-36. For the history of the interpretation of this tercet, nowgenerally understood to indicate the presence in the "ante-inferno," orvestibule of hell, of the neutrals, those who never took a side, seeMazzoni (Mazz. 1967.1), pp. 355-67. And, for the existence of exactlysuch a "vestibule" in hell in the apocryphal Visio Pauli, describing St.Paul's descent to the netherworld, see Silverstein (Silv.1937.1). InPaul's vision (for the most recent text see Silv. 1997.1) there is a riverof flame separating "those who were neither hot nor cold" (Revelation3:15-16) from the other sinners. [return to English / Italian]

    Annotation in Hollander’s Inferno translation (https://archive.org/details/dante-dantes-the-divine-comedy-the-inferno-2012-dante-alighieri-robert-hollander-jean-hollander/page/n605/mode/2up) cropped to the note for lines 52-57, which says:52-57. Dante's essential technique for indicating the crucial moralfailures of his various groups of sinners is here before us for the firsttime. The neutrals, who never took a side, are portrayed as anorganized crowd following a banner: exactly what they were not inlife (e.g., the neutral angels who neither rebelled directly against Godnor stood with Him, but who kept to one side). And in this respect theneutrals are punished by being forced to assume a pose antithetic tothat which they struck in life. At the same time, the banner that theyfollow is the very essence of indeterminacy. Not only is there noidentifying sign on it, it is not held in the anchoring hand of anystandard-bearer; it is a parody of the standard raised before a body ofmen who follow a leader. Elsewhere we will encounter other suchsymbolic artifacts. In Dante's hell the punishment of sin involves theapplication of opposites and similarities. This form of just retributionis what Dante will later refer to as the contrapasso (Inf. XXVIII.142).[return to English / Italian]

    originally posted on mastodon about a year ago (permalink)
  10. as a bonus, this helps me feel ok not passing along second-hand “advice" or information, or even posting much at all anymore

    originally posted on mastodon about a year ago (permalink)