I never expected film photography to experience a resurgence. Maybe I should give it a try? I sold my Leica kit in 2018 but I still have a Nikon FE and lots of F mount glass from my D700. youtu.be/90eraf0yMeQ?...

Leaving work 1/3

In a shocking development, something very good is also very good for other reasons you hadn't even considered.

Live view from the White House:

Iran has so much leverage they could just directly ask for nuclear weapons.

This project would open up most of Berkeley and Oakland to a less than 60 min ebike ride to downtown SF. I cant imagine how many folks would do this commute via ebike.

I enjoyed that SCOTUS cited Sony’s Betamax win - a win based on “substantial noninfringing uses” - in ruling against Sony today. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

We should just use the clone stamp tool.

I love travel photography: the art of documenting the lives of more interesting people.

future historian who thinks trump is an epiphenomenon of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables: “At the turn of the third millennium, the two great empires built on fossil fuels collapsed, first the more brittle Soviet Union and then the United States of America”

Folks, we went to the Oracle of Delphi, a very beautiful woman. And she said, they told me not to say it, should I say it? She said that if we went to Persia a great empire would fall! So we’re feeling pretty good about how it’s going.

Oil pressure is indeed very important. There is a great "I Do Cars" youtube channel and the majority of his content is tearing down and examining blown engines that failed catastrophically, most commonly from oil starvation.

There is one great public square in the world.

Love watching El Cerrito Plaza BART TOD being built from the BART platform - such a great view! Here are my weekly photos, March 6-24. A lot of progress has been made in 3 weeks! Excited for 70 new affordable homes for 100+ new neighbors to open next year, first phase of 743 homes at Plaza BART.

That mindset is how, in the 80s and 90s, half of my teachers concluded that the appropriate treatment for my ADHD was verbal and emotional abuse.

You can't just diagnose me in public like this.

Iran has made the business case remarkably clear: you can bet your company on the volatile whims of global oil markets, or invest in reliable, predictable, durable solar and battery storage. Anyone with a fiduciary duty to shareholders will arrive at the same conclusion.

One thing Mastodon got right, this website should definitely not have full-text search. It's not too late to remove it.

Ideal rate is 100% of single family homes owned by investors.

I asked Grok:

One of my biggest disappointments is that social media in 2026 is actively hostile to landscape-orientation images. I really dislike cropping my photos to square.

Moratorium on British people writing opinions about anything.

The Bound But Not Protected Act of 2029

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

The finest tree lined streets in this country are in Brooklyn, population density 40,000 people per square mile.

It's surprisingly short!

A GTFS-Based Dataset for the US Intercity Bus Network

This is peak performance. You might not like it, but you'll be too busy looking at the beautiful buildings and peaceful streets to remember why.

Just realized that in Pokopia you can build a subway system and that seems like a better use of my attention than reading the news.

Last night I watched the episode of Breaking Bad where an overstressed, grieving air traffic controller loses his concentration and causes a disaster, and uh...

Guard cat

This is why I support mandatory demolition of historically significant structures. The past is a sin that must be erased.

Securities laws exist for the safety of traders. I mean their physical safety. Traders may not like the current laws, but they’ll like it a lot less when insider trading and corruption are completely normalized and people start reacting accordingly.

You know what other president wanted to add a little length to a seam for the sake of his ball room?

EBRPD should take a chunk of Tilden Regional Park and fill it with tame deer and maybe a temple and tea garden.

Your grandparents destroyed infrastructure you can only dream about.

Bikes are really good now. The range of choices at all prices. The used market. The fact my bike won’t stop working if a new model comes out.

"Several Japanese companies regularly produce more than 10,000 new prefab homes every year, including Toyota, which sold 5,000 homes in 2006, all built in under 45 days and guaranteed for 60 years."

Mission walk 1/3

When you let Americans argue about design and engineering details, then bickering about design and engineering details rapidly consumers all available oxygen. This is why standardization is important. The fastest decision is when there is no decision. youtu.be/ehTy-qQVZhM?...

the left nimby program in a nutshell 1: "decommodify housing" 2: sadly, no new housing is built 3: i inherit my parents' house

I'll be a nimby about one thing: population around Lake Tahoe should be zero.

Fruitvale Station

379 affordable apartments and 146 parking spaces in 7- and 9-story buildings on a brownfield site in Zurich for just 150 million CHF – under $300 per gross sq. ft., $400k/unit for a mix of 1-4BR apartments. Completed in July. www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/w...

Shenzhen's first subway line opened in 2004. Today it is one of the world's largest and most utilized.

yes but you see NYC isn't space constrained by bodies of water, like seattle is.

For what it's worth, I am fine taking my chances in a world with zero airport security. No checks at all.

"Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen" turns out to be a load-bearing principle of post-Cold War geopolitics

Gonna go walk around either North Beach or Mission District later this afternoon.