That’s an awful lot of money to give to a stranger.
When I first noticed the headline for this story (“Identical twins, identical crimes”) I was intrigued by the difficulty that must be involved in prosecuting the case: how do you prove which identical...
View ArticleWhy would anyone think the Fillmore was a blight on the neighborhood?
I mean, maybe if it were the Regency Ballroom … Says the New York Times, in an obituary for Mr. Coblentz: They met when local complaints threatened to keep Mr. Graham’s Fillmore Auditorium from...
View ArticleSpookfest
Spookfest comments: (a) the crowd was unusually shovy and impatient. There’s a certain grace to flowing through large crowds – I can almost always get up front and close, it just takes some time (15...
View ArticleEliminating toll takers
According to an article in this morning’s Chronicle (which I read on my Kindle and so can’t link directly to), the Golden Gate Bridge District is considering abolishing toll-takers and replacing them...
View ArticleIntermittent trivium
According to this report, “an estimated 10 million pounds of pesticides are used in the Bay Area annually, with the highest use in Sonoma and Napa counties.” Just … wow.
View ArticleSenseless
This is one of the strangest news stories I’ve read in some time, and really highlights the fact that people are often short-sighted idiots. The article (not actually available online until 3AM PDT on...
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