i’ve got a saved search on ebay for levis cords in my size - works great, already snagged a pair in an out-of-production color that i’m wearing in one of my pinned posts
anyway, today’s hit is fun for two reasons: 1) I’ve never seen this red pointer before and love it, 2) it looks like someone blew the back out of these things?
I’m gonna pass on them
huh, I think this petard is one I made, I wonder what that’s doing here
the bike infra surrounding UCSF (edit: mission bay) is extremely mid—flex post half-bike lanes (the right half of bike lanes between car lanes and parking lanes are actually door lanes) and sharrows, all of which pick up from and dump you nowhere
but the stoplights? really pretty bad. long timing, poor sensors, beg buttons etc. might as well be in Redwood City because they ignore me and I ignore them
nice, Black Water has “The Monkey’s Paw” in it, ( https://www.owleyes.org/text/monkeys-paw/read/) shortly followed by another wishing tale: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Bottle Imp”.
The Monkey's Paw Full Text - I. - Owl EyesRead Full Text and Annotations on The Monkey's Paw I. at Owl Eyesowleyes.orgwhere better to start a story about wish than a hilltop mansion so earned in san francisco https://americanliterature.com/author/robert-louis-stevenson/short-story/the-bottle-imp
me: sir, reporting to discord support for duty, sir
open source volunteer: what is it now, computer janitor
me: sir, I’m stuck trying to get this feature to work after performing all of the rituals, sir
open source volunteer: that feature doesn’t work right now.
me [quietly, to myself, fist pumping in the air, ‘I knew it! for fuck’s sake’]: sir, thank you very much, sir.