386 not thinking too hard


Nah, it's not some guy with an axe looking to improve his view.

It's seawater, rising, invisible underground. I first heard about this in Florida a number of years ago, where salt was killing palm trees along the coastal barrier islands. 

Concerned people's thinking is moving from "how do we stop this?" to "how do we deal with this?"

File under: shovel ready

Remember the big bad wall? We totally stopped construction...

...well, except where we didn't.

File under: way to pivot

Will June 15th's "reopening" include live performance?

In the meantime, you can get John Doe in your driveway for $1000! (Maybe, or maybe it will be the guy from Toad The Wet Sprocket.)(Or maybe Mark Twain's Barbary Coast Revue.)

File under: isn't that summer vacation?


This isn't just offices that are currently empty, this is offices with nobody paying rent.

At what point will the whole "live/work" idea run into the whole "offices are dinosaurs" idea? Am I just fantasizing? 

This really is kind of a crappy headline. The real finding was that this group of people living in Europe 45k years ago don't really have any European descendants. Meaning, they got pushed out by another wave of people moving in from Africa. Meanwhile, some of their common ancestors settled Asia and the Americas.

It's kind of amazing learning human history in the era of DNA. There are a lot of dead ends on the family tree of humanity. Some groups of wanderers just didn't make it to the modern era, and their DNA peters out. And then there are a few bottleneck moments where some small group was massively successful compared to everyone around, and their DNA is everywhere.

File under: wtf

That's right, we're a bunch of shaved-headed mopers, and the true progressive spirit of San Francisco is embodied by these two leftovers from the Marina, circa 1986. Look at how boldly he has tucked his sweater into his slacks!

(If this were truly in the spirit of SF, the two main figures would be naked and wearing only masks. Sorry, Clyde.)

Giving the old emotional wringer the day off. Have a nice one!

At top, a quote from the San Francisco Oracle, circa late '60s.

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