pizza slow (high quality)

fifth book: took a break from all the serious stuff I’m reading to get and read Kitchen Confidential this week. Never read any of his stuff, but it turns out Bourdain’s writing on Parts Unknown is in exactly the same voice, so it was practically an audio book to read.

( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33313.Kitchen_Confidential)

the “updated edition” paperback cover of Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, featuring a younger Bourdain in chef’s whites and an apron looking through the window of Les Halles, the restraunt he worked at when he wrote it

bonus ride photo, cool new bike sticker

ecu: a sticker on the back of my seat post of a sonic the hedgehog / garfield chimera

the sticker on the back of my seat post of a sonic the hedgehog / garfield chimera from a different angle

rode up to bernal and then carried my bike to the top, it’s still there, great work everyone, thanks so much

selfie in a black and red polka dot cycling shirt from the top of bernal heights park, downtown sf behind me. i wore a cycling shirt because i wanted all the rear pockets for my keys and snacks and stuff like that

the front triangle of my bike leaning against a guard rail, the guard rail has a sticker on it that says ANTIFA CYCLING CLUB

map of my ride path from strava, which tells this story: i know i'll just ride straight up folsom! no fuck this, back down to precita park and around, up ripley instead

in my building, it’s x-mas all year round, thank you

ecu a blue san francisco rolling can for recyclables that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

ecu a second blue san francisco rolling can for recyclables that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

ecu a green san francisco rolling can for compostables that someone has written "THANK YOU" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

ecu a back san francisco rolling can for trash that someone has written "THANK YOU X-MAS" on, in white permanent marker, for reasons unknown to me

cheap trick lookin’ work fit

full length selfie of me, black baseball cap, black "gravely" embroidered jean jacket, black "the purpose of a system is what it does" t-shirt, black jeans, back tennis shoes, mirror shades

air puppets make great roommates so long as they save rent money between giant blowout sales you wouldn’t believe because they really keep to themselves and only need a window

what looks like about a 12 foot clear plastic cylinder about a foot in diameter blowing solid out a propped up window on the first floor over a soft story garage on ceasar chavez street in san francisco, pointing down about 30 degrees

wierdly half squatting off the bench and then dropping back down to get the last rep from almost there to there on an arnold press is actually good form in a reverse-jerk technique i just invented, tyvm

“the only genuine way to practice futurism is to put it off for later” -mid paragraph pith from fernández

intrusive thought: location, market based returns on capital

reading a business book about strategy that describes DEC’s downfall as a failure to focus on a single coherent strategy amongst 1) selling computers (boxes) 2) silicon fab (chips) or 3) consulting (solutions) and with hindsight I think we can all agree that it was 1a) selling colorful computers that looked really cool*

*this poster is too young to have ever seen one not in a museum much less used one

the front panel of a pdp-11/70 flush with rows of bright violet, fuchsia, and pink switches and buttons and red lights set on a black background over a wide row of violet, fuchsia, and pink keys in an off-white case