I really enjoyed the educational sessions my family attended there, and that missing barn owl is a cutie. I hope all the birds are safe and the perpetrator is punished.

BART doing fare inspection on a rainy Saturday afternoon just leaving Glen Park. I have only ever seen this at rush hour downtown. Seems desperate...I cannot imagine this nets much.

I have the white discs.
The first CD I tried just now does still play!

I have one!
I played it a few years ago and the CDRs still work.
I made sure to grab your mp3s too.
I have very much enjoyed it over the years.
Has it really been 21 years?

Can’t believe this is finally really happening. Doors open soon, get down here SF!

Sally Timms reminds me that Nixon was president and the Vietnam War was on for Apollo 11...

oh yes

We should just make it feasible for H1 B holders to change jobs if they want to, rather than having it be almost impossible like it is today. Other than that, its mostly ok.

But Jeffery...that's like 80% ag water (with most of ag for export). And like 10% urban irrigation. So maybe we dial down on the almonds and rice in the central valley and axe a few golf courses and we're fine.

Also used to love the location on Divis with an excellent Sirron Norris mural that closed a decade ago :(

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As a neighbor, I appreciate the art but would appreciate it more if the buildings and landscaping were maintained. Even the MUC / Harry Britt building, finished maybe a decade ago, is surrounded by overgrown weeds and litter while the corrogated siding has visibly degraded.

The WSJ reported two day ago that a the guards at a Syrian prison holding 20k ISIL affilliates left their posts and the prisoners left. Why are the Dems not doing a Benghazi here?

This could be a good strategy. But I have to admit, since I know both of these terms have incel community origins....ooof

FWIW, this conspiracy theory also was around when I did the phone app for the T-Mobile Sidekick 25 yrs ago. It was like 'I wrote this code and can tell you that's definitely not happening'

For the bulk of you who don't have this baked into your head, those '=' in the Epstien emails are a little like %'s in URLs -- they represent stuff that's not a basic English character. In this case, it's usually curly apostophes or quotes or soft line breaks. It's called 'quoted-printable'.

Some billionaires may flee but the vastness of employee talent is still here. That's what the Traitorous Eight proved in the fifties: you can always find someone else with money.

See also his completely pointless anti-bike-lane votes as CCSF board chair.

FWIW, the pattern I've seen in light fixtures is the more it's about Design the less it's about durability and longevity.

My designer bathroom fixture (a) requires a lightbulb specced for horizontal installation in a vertical fixture and (b) needs four screws of two different sizes to swap the bulb

I'd say one of the inherent downsides of a touchscreen is it's easy to tap by mistake. Fumble with your phone. An errant rain drop. Oops.

Some thirteen years on, you would have thought we'd have a universal undo gesture to deal with this.

But I think adding friction is what is done instead.

I had a bike that needed a custom welding job. Everyone said 'Call Mikkelsen in Alameda'.

This guy who was still welding bikes even after a stroke saw something the original frame designers had not. His job is brilliant.

Where did he get his start?

Not welding...riveting

Riveting B 52s

Is the muni bart muni transfer something that Clipper 2.0 (supposed to launch next week) will resolve?

Sun setting over the ocean as seen from in between two urban hills.

Sunset from the top of Sunnyside Park in San Francisco

Not sure this is an explanation, but after I liked it I was followed by an account that looked like a bot that had liked it too. Like the bot was trying to show it liked the same thing to seem more authentic.

So you may have got some bot updraft.

Would be nice if we had a mobile framework solution that was performant and also allowed server driven updates and cross-platform implementation sharing...

We can reach our destination, but we're still a ways away.

Almost as good as Progressive Grounds?

You know, when California chose to blame wildfires soley on PG&E (not innocent for sure!) I knew they would respond by punishing outlying communities.

Here in San Francisco, I was chatting with a corner store owner. I said 'I figured out where you buy your bread. You get it from <this vendor>.' He said "oh that's just for the sour rolls. We have three more bread vendors for the other bread options."

My mom remembered the polio vaccine as life changing. When she was a young child, she was never allowed to go to a beach or a fair or anywhere with crowds for fear of contracting polio.

When she was ten, she had a sugarcube and the world opened up. There was nothing to fear anymore.