@connieloizos.bsky.social just read your tech crunch article about the Cadillac, and I'm dying to know, did you get from SF to Tahoe without having to charge?

$13 potato chips.

Gotta love Palo Alto!

The highlighted text says, "$8M is the new luxury threshold Notably, the $5 million threshold is no longer viewed as "luxury" so much as a high-activity price range. A 60-year-old original home on an 8,000-square-foot lot in North Palo Alto now commands close to $6 million, underscoring how elevated baseline values have become."

$8M is the new luxury threshold and $5M is now merely the "sweet spot".

🙄

#housing #paloalto

better chocolate babka If you haven’t fallen in love with chocolate babka yet, the only reason could be that you haven’t tried these deeply glossy, bronzed bittersweet loaves.

Ah no, smittenkitchen.com/2014/10/bett...

@smittenkitchen.bsky.social is the only recipe site where I read the stories. 🙂

Thank you! 🙏🏼

It's a chocolate mixture, no cinnamon because the dough has orange zest and I think that'd be a weird combo.

Dough ball in a steel bowl.

Overhead shot of two chocolate babkas on a cooling grid.

Black Friday project.

Infographic that explains the article with pictures for visual learners.

I made this (with AI).

A coyote peeks from behind my car's passenger side mirror.

Objects in mirror are closer than they seem.

Ok, but hear me out - four-cueing.

A receipt for McDonald's that says 67.

Making the kiddo happy multiple ways this morning.

A headline that reads, "Six-story development poised to replace iconic Mountain View Chase Bank".

A picture of a completely mundane bank.

Ah yes, Chase Bank. Icon of Silicon Valley.

People travel from miles around to ogle at this icon and are honored to pay $3.50 for the privilege of withdrawing cash from the ATM.

You could probably inject a banana with Red Bull and achieve a similar taste.

A can of banana water.

We've reached peak... something.

It's time for the fall edition of the Palo Alto weekly real estate guide.

We've got median sales prices of $4M in Palo Alto, 12% of homes selling $1M over asking in Los Altos, and minimum income of $548K in Santa Clara county.

Everything is fine!

@nextdoorsv.bsky.social

The best way to own the libs would be to show us how conservative policies are better.

It would make us lose our fucking minds!

I thought they were named after Pontius because of how you feel after you do them.

My lab @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social is recruiting! We are looking for a postdoc at the interface of quantitative proteomics and G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) biology:
postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
#TeamMassSpec #Proteomics #GPCR #Postdoc

A whitish mantis staring at the camera.

Saw a beautiful mantis today.

Palo Alto in one picture.

A Lotus Elise parked next to a line of RVs.

Also this week I learned about a new phrase, "vanlords".

A cargo bike loaded up with camping gear and a smaller kid's bike.

Getting ready for a #bikepacking weekend adventure with the kiddo. First leg, @caltrain.com!

This bar chart illustrates the population change by age group in Santa Clara County since 2020, based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau: The 65+ age group experienced the most significant growth at 13.41%. The 18-24 age group also saw substantial growth at 7.65%. The 0-17 age group had the largest decline in population at -10.65%. Other age groups showed smaller changes, with declines in 45-54 (-5.89%) and 55-64 (-1.35%), and slight growth in 25-34 (1.19%) and 35-44 (0.44%).

I cannot possibly imagine why this would be the case. Literally, I have no theories. A mystery for the ages.

cc @nextdoorsv.bsky.social

THE GRATEFUL DEAD THIS WAS THE LOCATION OF MAGOO'S PIZZA PARLOR WHERE THE PALO ALTO-BASED WARLOCKS FIRST PUBLICLY PERFORMED ON MAY 5, 1965. RENAMED THE GRATEFUL DEAD, IT BECAME A ROCK BAND WITH A UNIQUE STYLE OF "JAM" MUSIC AND A FAITHFUL FOLLOWING OF DEADHEADS. LORETTA OPENED HERE IN 2024.

Who knew, that before Haight-Ashbury, the Grateful Dead got their start in sleepy Menlo Park!

Time series histogram of solar energy production. The bars form half a bell curve, showing much production in summer months. Duh.

Californian here, have produced 5.4 MWh so far in 2025.

Smug New Yorkers going on about how the subway is where classes intermingle, but Bay Area Costcos have about 50/50 millionaire to non-millionaire.

Wait til they find out what the T in ChatGPT stands for.

Everyone knows ginger ale is the perfect airplane drink, but a less well known phenomenon is that every Jason Statham movie is the perfect airplane movie.

Practice class warfare by taking a piss in the first class bathrooms whilst boarding before continuing onward to steerage.

A leopard resting in a tree branch, because BlueSky limits you to 4 images per post. Meh.

An elephant flares its ears, backlit by the dawn sun.

A female white rhino bathed in early morning light.

A line of African Buffalo March toward the viewer.

The tawny rear of a lioness's head as she lies in the grass.

Hard to believe we got to see all of Africa's Big 5 in one trip.

All shots on a Sony a6000, with the 70-350mm f/4.5-6.3.

#photography #safari #big5

A male cheetah walks towards and stares at the camera.

Incredibly lucky to watch this cheetah and his brother (unsuccessfully) hunt some zebras today.

#SouthAfrica #photography