Golden Gate Bridge from Marshall's Beach
Updated on Wednesday, May 12, 2021
The Golden Gate Bridge peeps out from between some rocks at Marshall's Beach in San Francisco. (previously)
Book reviews for July 2016
Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017
The Nightmare Stacks (Laundry Files, #7) by Charles Stross
4/5
The Girls by Emma Cline
3/5
OK, but lots of foreshadowing, not much shadow.
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Updated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
Every time I go back to the UK now I experience some sort of culture shock. A couple of years ago it was the matryoshka of Marks & Spencers. This trip, post-Brexit, I was expecting a J.G. Ballard style post-apocalyptic wasteland. But it was even worse - it's nearly impossible to buy tonic water without sweetener.
I'm unlucky (or maybe lucky) enough to be sensitive to aspartame and anything made with the stuff tastes foul to me. I can no longer have a gin and tonic in a pub because the full-fat tonic is as tainted as the diet stuff. It's not just tonic water, many other drinks are laced with the stuff. And kids in the UK now live on Fruit Shoots which are short on fruit and long on chemical warfare.
Is this some sneaky anti-obesity move I haven't read about? More likely the vile artificial stuff is just cheaper than actual sugar and it's a cost saving measure.
Oh, and I saw a crew of motorway workers washing traffic cones. In the rain.
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Book reviews for June 2016
Updated on Friday, February 24, 2017
The Night Stalker (DCI Erika Foster, #2) by Robert Bryndza
4/5
Decent police thriller, a notch up from the first in the series I thought. I'll buy the next one.
Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers by Ian Stewart
4/5
A tour of mathematics through the device of looking at what's interesting about different numbers. Brought back all sorts of things I learned in school and university that are now slowly fading again.
The Girl In The Ice (DCI Erika Foster, #1) by Robert Bryndza
3/5
Bit linear but fun.
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Bredo
Updated on Wednesday, February 22, 2017
If David Cameron really cares about the future of the UK he needs to call an election instead of handing the reins over to (presumably) Boris in a few months.
A party which campaigned on a platform of ignoring the referendum and sticking with the EU would have a legitimate mandate to do just that. Especially if they bring back the good Miliband.
I can't think of anything else that works.
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News: Brexit: British clubs could suffer in transfer window, warns sports expert
Updated on Saturday, September 24, 2022
Brexit: British clubs could suffer in transfer window, warns sports expert
If only this had been made clear before the vote. FFS.
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West Portal Timelapse of Timelapses
Updated on Saturday, February 19, 2022
This is the third and strangest video in my series of timelapses from West Portal, San Francisco.
Each frame is a single-frame timelapse where each vertical line is from a different time of day. 4,320 photos go into each frame over 24 hours. The video covers 366 days (from June 21, 2015 to June 20, 2016 - summer solstice to summer solstice) so 1,581,120 photos total. For the video I also generated a ten frame fade between each SFTL shot to try and make the whole thing a little more comprehensible.
Photos were captured using a Google Apps Script that I wrote to pull frames from a Nest Cam / DropCam to Google Drive and then downloaded and processed around once a week for the past year.
Music is Erratic Revenge by JukeDeck.
I have one more coming...
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Summer Solstice 2016 in Catfood Earth
It's the start of Summer (or Winter in the Southern Hemisphere). Unusually for June it even feels like Summer in San Francisco today. Rendered in Catfood Earth (Windows, Android).
(Previously, Previously, Previously)
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Updated on Monday, May 24, 2021
Photo of a Pipevine Swallowtail caterpillar, it has a black body with brilliant orange spikes.
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California and San Francisco June 2016 Propositions
State
50: Yes - makes it harder so suspend a legislator but provides a more impactful sanction when this does happen. I don't think legislators should be suspended unless the circumstances are extreme.
San Francisco
A: Yes - mostly hospital and fire station upgrades.
B: No - I like parks, but the city should decide how much to allocate to them. I generally don't like measures that carve out specific areas for funding.
C: I have no idea. Abstain. I don't have the time to untangle this one.
D: Yes, clearly more oversight of lethal force by SFPD is needed.
E: Yes, brings San Francisco sick leave in line with State rules.
AA: No, regressive per-parcel tax. Should be funded in a better way.
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