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@rangerdan - We just held a beatnik themed birthday party for my wife. We had poetry reading (some were very well done and performed) and berets and bongos and a giant illuminated "H Bomb Cafe" sign that was a fly-in piece from a play I did in Mountain View. We now have a City Lights poster of Kerouac.

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@rangerdan - We just held a beatnik themed birthday party for my wife. We had poetry reading (some were very well done and performed) and berets and bongos and a giant illuminated "H Bomb Cafe" sign that was a fly-in piece from a play I did in Mountain View. We now have a City Lights poster of Kerouac.

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@cliffc - Wow, so few people know about Sierra Beauties. My trees are less than 5 years old, so they don't bear a lot yet (and the deer, birds, & wasps extract their tithe.)

We're trying to create a scented garden so we've also got bergamot, eureka & meyers lemons, kumquots, Mexican limes, roses, jasmine, sages/salvias, heliotrope, gardenia, onion, rosemary, bay laurel, etc, etc. (Also momatoro tomatoes.)

Creating a garden got us through the pandemic.

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@cliffc - Wow, so few people know about Sierra Beauties. My trees are less than 5 years old, so they don't bear a lot yet (and the deer, birds, & wasps extract their tithe.)

We're trying to create a scented garden so we've also got bergamot, eureka & meyers lemons, kumquots, Mexican limes, roses, jasmine, sages/salvias, heliotrope, gardenia, onion, rosemary, bay laurel, etc, etc. (Also momatoro tomatoes.)

Creating a garden got us through the pandemic.

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@cliffc - I've not heard of Macoun apples. I will have to check them out.

Here, near Santa Cruz, I've got three trees (still small, but bearing fruit) of Sierra Beauty, a rather rare variety from the Anderson Valley area near Mendocino.

https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/S ierra_Beauty_Apples_4532.php

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@cliffc - I've not heard of Macoun apples. I will have to check them out.

Here, near Santa Cruz, I've got three trees (still small, but bearing fruit) of Sierra Beauty, a rather rare variety from the Anderson Valley area near Mendocino.

https://specialtyproduce.com/produce/S ierra_Beauty_Apples_4532.php

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@smellsofbikes - Here it is US Patent number 465,588 Dec 22, 1891

https://patents.google.com/patent/US46 5588A/en

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@smellsofbikes - Here it is US Patent number 465,588 Dec 22, 1891

https://patents.google.com/patent/US46 5588A/en

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@smellsofbikes Did you get the patent for the toilet paper roll? (I can scrounge up the number if you need it.)

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@smellsofbikes Did you get the patent for the toilet paper roll? (I can scrounge up the number if you need it.)

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@nbatalha - I'm also here in Santa Cruz. I'm have nothing to do with astronomy or physics (I'm a computer networking type) but I know people who you probably work with at UCSC and who have mentioned astrobiology. I just listened with my jaw kinda of hanging open in wonder.

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@nbatalha - I'm also here in Santa Cruz. I'm have nothing to do with astronomy or physics (I'm a computer networking type) but I know people who you probably work with at UCSC and who have mentioned astrobiology. I just listened with my jaw kinda of hanging open in wonder.

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@ChanceyFleet - I used to work with blind kids, and I could read Braille - but that was a long time ago and after learning mandolin and developing callouses my sense of touch is rather numbed.

Tactile design is important for fully sighted people too - Tesla ought to learn that lesson for its driving controls.

BTW, about 15+ years ago I wrote a story "Beware the Tactyldactyl!"

https://www. cavebear.com/old_cbblog/000303.html

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@ChanceyFleet - I used to work with blind kids, and I could read Braille - but that was a long time ago and after learning mandolin and developing callouses my sense of touch is rather numbed.

Tactile design is important for fully sighted people too - Tesla ought to learn that lesson for its driving controls.

BTW, about 15+ years ago I wrote a story "Beware the Tactyldactyl!"

https://www. cavebear.com/old_cbblog/000303.html

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@TheChrisPaduan - Seventy+ years ago (1950) that would have been mostly fruit orchards - rather than "Silicon Valley" it would have been "Valley of the Heart's Delight".

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@TheChrisPaduan - Seventy+ years ago (1950) that would have been mostly fruit orchards - rather than "Silicon Valley" it would have been "Valley of the Heart's Delight".

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@ramblinghobbit - We consider our California State Park pass to be a great value - we use it several times a week.

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@ramblinghobbit - We consider our California State Park pass to be a great value - we use it several times a week.

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Just watched "The Outfit" (on Amazon streaming). I found it quite well done and worthwhile. A very nice change from the typical offerings.

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Just watched "The Outfit" (on Amazon streaming). I found it quite well done and worthwhile. A very nice change from the typical offerings.

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Since I'm thinking of #architecture I wanted to mention that I abhor designs by Frank Gehry - I worked in some of his stuff in Santa Monica when he was just getting started, he did some buildings for my law school, and I've visited others. Yeech, uncomfortable. I prefer Sullivan's "form follows function" rather than Gehry's swoosh-a-tecture.

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Since I'm thinking of #architecture I wanted to mention that I abhor designs by Frank Gehry - I worked in some of his stuff in Santa Monica when he was just getting started, he did some buildings for my law school, and I've visited others. Yeech, uncomfortable. I prefer Sullivan's "form follows function" rather than Gehry's swoosh-a-tecture.

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About 35 years ago I nearly bought a Julia Morgan house in Berkeley. Wonderful, warm, bright house - unlike Greene and Greene designs.

I kinda dream of designing and building a modern Morgan-style timber-frame house with modern utilities. (I've got a perfect spot on a 40 acre hillside near Dartmouth overlooking the Connecticut River, Woodstock and the Green Mts of Vermont.) But I live in California and New Hampshire is kinda remote for me.

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About 35 years ago I nearly bought a Julia Morgan house in Berkeley. Wonderful, warm, bright house - unlike Greene and Greene designs.

I kinda dream of designing and building a modern Morgan-style timber-frame house with modern utilities. (I've got a perfect spot on a 40 acre hillside near Dartmouth overlooking the Connecticut River, Woodstock and the Green Mts of Vermont.) But I live in California and New Hampshire is kinda remote for me.

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Back when I was at Berkeley I got to meet Paolo Soleri. I thought his designs were kinda crazy but I liked his notions of cities that are built around people, not automobiles. (I am very fond of places like town squares with mixed living, retail, commercial, transit.)

I got to ask him, on a visit to Arcosante, just before he died, how he thought his ideas would be affected by social networks., but his mind was fading so he had no good answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_So leri

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Back when I was at Berkeley I got to meet Paolo Soleri. I thought his designs were kinda crazy but I liked his notions of cities that are built around people, not automobiles. (I am very fond of places like town squares with mixed living, retail, commercial, transit.)

I got to ask him, on a visit to Arcosante, just before he died, how he thought his ideas would be affected by social networks., but his mind was fading so he had no good answer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_So leri

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It's kinda fun - in a techie sort of way - of having a stratum 1 time server at home.

(Actually have two of 'em - each built on a Raspberry Compute Module 4 with a GPS "hat".)

I sure wish this parts shortage would end - so many computer parts I need are being scalped or are simply available only with many months of lead time.

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It's kinda fun - in a techie sort of way - of having a stratum 1 time server at home.

(Actually have two of 'em - each built on a Raspberry Compute Module 4 with a GPS "hat".)

I sure wish this parts shortage would end - so many computer parts I need are being scalped or are simply available only with many months of lead time.

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@rangerdan - I'm envious. I like to go to the old washed-out bridge across the Klamath and try to climb up and pet the bears on their noses. (The Klamath is my favorite river in California. I heard that some of the dams will be removed, that's great.)

I live on a small creek here in Santa Cruz and I wish the salmon would return here.

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@rangerdan - I'm envious. I like to go to the old washed-out bridge across the Klamath and try to climb up and pet the bears on their noses. (The Klamath is my favorite river in California. I heard that some of the dams will be removed, that's great.)

I live on a small creek here in Santa Cruz and I wish the salmon would return here.

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YIMBY vs NIMBY - I wish we'd drop that distinction. Long ago I studied how cities work. One point is clear - we gotta stop building cities around automobiles. I don't think even the most YIMBY wants to build anything anywhere - that could lead us back to the pre-law NY tenements, which were hellholes. And I doubt many NIMBYs want gated townlets (like in S. Florida).

So my sense is that there's gotta be a balance, some regulation, and a lot of investment, to get new housing.

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YIMBY vs NIMBY - I wish we'd drop that distinction. Long ago I studied how cities work. One point is clear - we gotta stop building cities around automobiles. I don't think even the most YIMBY wants to build anything anywhere - that could lead us back to the pre-law NY tenements, which were hellholes. And I doubt many NIMBYs want gated townlets (like in S. Florida).

So my sense is that there's gotta be a balance, some regulation, and a lot of investment, to get new housing.

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@rangerdan - Ah yes, Humboldt - you've got even more fog than we do! When I visit I tend to go a bit further north up to Prairie Creek.

My cousin lives in McKinleyville.

I do like the Kinetic Sculpture race.

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@rangerdan - Ah yes, Humboldt - you've got even more fog than we do! When I visit I tend to go a bit further north up to Prairie Creek.

My cousin lives in McKinleyville.

I do like the Kinetic Sculpture race.

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I figure I should start with an innocuous posting (I can be a downright nudkik on occasion.)

I'm here in Santa Cruz and I planted a white sapota tree a couple of years back - and this year we got exactly one fruit. That's what I get for trying to grow a tree at the very northern end of its range.

But it was good eating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sa pote

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I figure I should start with an innocuous posting (I can be a downright nudkik on occasion.)

I'm here in Santa Cruz and I planted a white sapota tree a couple of years back - and this year we got exactly one fruit. That's what I get for trying to grow a tree at the very northern end of its range.

But it was good eating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_sa pote

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#introduction - Pardon my fumbling - I'm trying to get used to Mastadon (I'm usually over on Twitter or on Diasp.org, and a refugee from the loss of Google Plus.)

Anyway, I'm here in Santa Cruz - that's "the other bay area". (I used to live in The City back in the '80s.)

I'm an internet techie, lawyer (not of the advice giving kind, more of the "what if" conjecturing kind), interested in theatre, steam locomotives, and lots of other stuff.

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#introduction - Pardon my fumbling - I'm trying to get used to Mastadon (I'm usually over on Twitter or on Diasp.org, and a refugee from the loss of Google Plus.)

Anyway, I'm here in Santa Cruz - that's "the other bay area". (I used to live in The City back in the '80s.)

I'm an internet techie, lawyer (not of the advice giving kind, more of the "what if" conjecturing kind), interested in theatre, steam locomotives, and lots of other stuff.