i love the smell of Election Day in the morning

calling them a "random restaurant" is such a wild snub

I maintain that the WSJ managed to produce even more hatereads than the NYT but the paywall keeps them out of the discourse anyways... www.wsj.com/lifestyle/tr...

smoked sausage, garden pistou, lentils with grilled leeks and tomatoes, grilled bread

we’re so back

state capacity posting www.liberalcurrents.com/the-empty-ar...

Underrated SoCal MCM letter of rec: Fullerton city hall

bond yields rule everything around me journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

good article about how culver city has become one of LA's flight to quality market in real estate but missing that Culver City really benefits from the expo (now E) line and expanding access to jobs since opening in 2013/2015 www.costar.com/article/1509...

Woohoo! @metrolosangeles.bsky.social credit/debit card payments are now live!!!

chicken in a morel cream sauce, garden fava puree with first tomatoes of the season, sourdough

come work with me! we're hiring a transit data scientist to work directly on rail and transit issues Applications due 5/28, great benefits, even better coworkers, etc! calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

everywhere is brooklyn, seoul edition www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

cold smoked-lox and kippered salmon prep

Hannibal’s style crab rice with local rock crab and homegrown leeks + wax beans

I never realized that Fresno and Bakersfield subsidized pre recession sprawl by just refusing to charge development fees and declaring that they couldn’t afford CEQA studies

Wilshire Fairfax to Wilshire Western. This thing is FAST

happy last night as a terminal station, Wilshire / Western

the perks of may grey

huge "state capacity" job with my colleagues at GovOps: Assistant Secretary of Procurement and Acquisition Reform calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

Stuff is doable if people want stuff done h/t @yonahfreemark.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/n...

sand dabs with a lemon caper sauce, garden radicchio salad with feta, pickled fennel and tomato vin, roubechon style “creamy” potatoes with chives

The new US consulate in Guadalajara ... has a pool and looks like a modernist resort along the spanish coast? www.dezeen.com/2025/06/27/m...

ever wonder why your bus is waiting for a green light? excited to share a big work project milestone (and kudos to the team who delivered this) - the first ever California Open Transit Signal Priority Metrics, a key rulebook on how to evaluate the operational performance dot.ca.gov/cal-itp/tsp-...

LACFD Helibase 69 Bravo W, LosAngeles County, CA 🗺34.0746, -118.6279 🧭31° ⛰2428 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/2059

turns out Coachella in your mid 30s just means listen the XX set while making pasta at home for a solo dinner

good morning california

may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like, etc

happy thursday

many things about 2026 are ... say, less than optimal but it is truly a silver age for those of us who still used RSS after google reader died

time for some light east asian co-prosperity sphere propaganda

loved this on doing fraud detection using various ML methods, plus, uh, Caravaggio arpitrage.substack.com/p/finding-ne...

just a Friday reminder of some of California’s finest bike infrastructure

for the tomatoheads paxculinaria.substack.com/p/the-most-d...

looking good, Owens

TIL the city of San Diego has a all-marine strip of territory in order to connect the southern part of the city / US border to the remainder

"We built 6 Hoover Dams worth of batteries in five years" is a really cool story that we need to shout from the hills.

steak night feat garden green garlic chimichurri, schmaltz potatoes, grilled pea shoots with crispy green garlic and garden salad

back at it

I’m very skeptical of Kei cars doing numbers in the US but the EV luxury minivan that doesn’t look like a minivan would do numbers (Zeekr Mix pictured)

if your city has a large diorama model of the city.. you absolutely know I’m gonna visit

obviously the Singapore housing model is functionally unique but extremely cool to see semi-public housing both built and being rebuilt / expanded basically everywhere you go

coffeeshop in KL MRT blasting tame impala in the plaza

men only want one thing (to legally import the Suzuki Jimmy into the US)

The ROC (Sun Yat-Sen edition) flag feels remarkably modern en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fl...

Hong Kong bus drivers absolutely built different

LAX->HKG

LA, where you have to define if you want Lebanese-Oaxacan or Egyptian-Mexican as your Mexico<->Middle Eastern crossover food restaurant

I will say the dream of yahoo pipes is alive with AI tools (I just had claude download my feedly OPML, scan it for various architecture feeds I already follow, and pick out buildings that have been featured in hong kong... in like 15 min of work)