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
Figure 1. photo of Leonard Flynn Elementary School’s south wall which has two large two story 20’ x 20’ murals on it.Figure 2. a rainbow ball piñata with silver reflective party hates taped all around it with ribbon tassels on the ends hanging from a tree.
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
Figure 1. 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.
Figure 1. 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.
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
Figure 1. 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.
another case proclaims:
PHILATELIC INFORMATION
Figure 2. selfie, man wearing a yellow kn95 mask reflected in the glass of an empty notice board with a sign on top proclaiming: PHILATELIC INFORMATION.
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.
Figure 1. 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.Figure 2. 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.Figure 3. 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.Figure 4. bugs bunny as big chungus.
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
Figure 1. 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.
pictured: joel engardio himself, as seen from Sunset Dunes
Figure 2. 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.
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
Figure 1. 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????Figure 2. 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.
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.
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.
