Figure 1. A map of San Francisco, California. The path of an eight mile (12 and three quarters kilometer) walk is indicated. About 15900 steps and 1214 feet (370 meters) elevation over two and a half hours, (two and a quarter hours moving).
Re-using my comment on Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: “Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2017~ techie-San-Francisco and get 100% of the references and roll my eyes at a few of them.”
Started Sloan’s newest, Moonbound, immediately afterward, and it’s very different so far.
Figure 2. The paperback cover of “Sourdough”, by Robin Sloan. btw, it would be cool if publishers wrote their own alt-texts for their own covers!A photograph of a pale and cracked loaf of bread on a barely tinted solid yellow is covered in yellow crinkle-cut ovals in a sticker effect, one has the title, another a blurb, and so on (pasted bwloe. The author’s name is in the lower left in a cooper-like all-caps block serif.Pasted words:INCLUDESNEWTALE OFTHEPENUMBRAVERSE,THE SUITCASE CLONESOURDOUGH"Deliciousfun... Asoddlydelectableas itsnamesake."THE WASHINGTONPOSTAUTHOR OFMr. Penumbras24-HourBookstoreROBINSLOAN.
I think fauxtesting kinda sucks but this one cracks me up every time I walk past it because I also think scoldy and bossy signs also suck.
Figure 1. A fake road sign in the window of a house in san francisco that says:PRIVATESIGNDO NOTREADI'm sure on the backside, it didn't say nothing, etc., etc.
Moved a few afternoon meetings to make the last hour and a half of Kid Koala at SF MOMA’s ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition. I’m a huge fan from way back, was amazing!
Normally a phone-in-pocket-guy at shows but, he put on on John Carpenter’s soundtrack to Big Trouble Little China to play a bit of “Pork Chop Express” and I had to send proof back east to brag.
Figure 1. photograph of Kid Koala at SF MOMA's ‘Art of Noise’ exhibition in front of a knee-level table of fancy audio gear, with stacks of records, probably 60 or 80 or so, leaning against the table, and Kid Koala standing on front of it, looking at the back cover of John Carpenter’s soundtrack of Big Trouble Little China trying to decide what song to play for us.
oh word, which one was that? don’t worry, I got you
Nice, sometimes, when the fog is just right, as the sun sets, you get a rainbow through it
Figure 1. cropped photo of a rainbow over the mission in san francisco from the center bottom of the frame to the top 1/6th from the right-edge, a power line crossed 1/6th across the bottom edge and the top two stories of building in the bottom left face west and reflect the sunset in its windows. the sky is mostly cloudy with some blue.Figure 2. cropped photo of a rainbow touching down on the golden (dead) grass of bernal heights, the saturation is maxed out as is the luminance or something like that. A utility pole, trees, and buildings on 26th street fill the bottom 1/6th of the grame.
I’m three stories in to my first paper copy of @clarkesworld ( https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/) after subbing a week or two ago and all three are great, the print format is great, no regrets, would recommend, etc.
(my friday pizza bake is threaded so that you can mute it)
inspired by the "Bitter & Smokey” I had for lunch at Tony’s Napoletana yesterday, but too lazy to go buy ricotta or pancetta or broccoli rabe, I did the thing every online recipe commenter does and subbed the heck out of it with what I had on hand, but this time it turned out delicious, even with the left over frozen dough from a month ago that I used
I pre-cooked the broccoli in a carbon steel pan in the pizza oven, as one does
Figure 1. A screen grab of the menu from Tony’s NapoletanaBITTER & SMOKYbroccoli rabe,smoked pancetta,smoked mozzarella,lemon, ricotta,crushed red pepper$34.Figure 2. Photograph of the pizza before baking, topped with smoked provolone, mozz, red pepper flakes, grilled broccoli, and olive oil, on a bamboo peel resting on a stainless steel tabletop under an Ooni Koda 16 gas pizza oven. The flames of the oven are visible at the top of the photo as high as they get, and the oven is about 1000 degrees, the stone in the 800-900s, Fahrenheit.Figure 3. macro photograph of the pizza from inches above looking from one crust to the other, plated and sliced into quarters; the cheese has bubbled and browned in spots, the broccoli is charred a bit, and there’s a lemon wedge in the center, and the crust is browned with leopard spots.
