@Julie have a great trip!

@Julie The other day I thought “I should send this podcast to my dad, he’d love it”. Pop passed away in 2011.

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@marcprecipice I’m on Russell near San Pablo park, would love to help

Mercury, latitude: -21.1 longitude: 218.6, 849.4 km wide, https://kesterallen.com/mercury/218.58,-21.11,256.60,-1.16/1920/1080

@JuKuBerlin Thanks! Those look terrific, and the local library has several!

@lukeburrage Hi Luke! Nice to see you here! Could you tell me what @JuKuBerlin’s palate cleanser books were that she mentioned on the most recent SFBRP episode? I thought you said “Brian Fisher”, but that isn’t bringing up the expected results :) thanks again for the great book reviews!

Chris Hemsworth, I believe, is 6’ 3” and 215 pounds.

I still think about this sign pretty often:

New entry for Berkekey’s Least Threatening Graffiti competition: #evenmore

Local friends, I could not be more thrilled that the Harvard Book Store is hosting a launch event for HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS: on Friday, October 20th, and that I’ll be in conversation with my brilliant colleague and Riverhead Books labelmate Sara Hendren, author of WHAT CAN A BODY DO? HOW WE MEET THE BUILT WORLD.

I hope you can join us!

https://www.harvard.com/event/deb_chachra/

Waffle truck waffle in Brussels: delicious!

a thing of beauty

Delighted to learn that Samuel R. Delany is a) still alive, b) on Twitter, and c) mostly posting photos of takeout burgers

Made some discount aisle Halloween rice crispies / Valentine’s Day marshmallow treats with the 8yo:

Seagull enjoying a hummus breakfast #berkeley

Berekeley Bicycle Bingo: grumpy-looking sixty-year-old cruising down 9th St at 6 mph, towing an empty trailer, wearing a head-to-toe teddy bear costume.

Achievement Unlocked: family Saturday schedule is quite a bit past the “this’d be a lot easier to organize with a gantt chart” line

Take Your Kid To Work Day, Tennis Coach Edition:

R.I.P. Pandemic Emotional Support Hat, you had a good three-year run before disintegrating entirely (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023):