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   Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 00:59:03 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

   I'm getting closer to being able to name all 58 California counties from memory.

   https://mattmangels.com/code/california_counties/

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 09:50:42 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     My last 5 tries I can get 57/58. But the country I can't remember keeps changing. Tehama, Merced, Amador, Colusa ...

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 02:43:39 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     Can reliably name all 58 counties now. Ask me in a couple of months if I have retained this knowledge tho....

     As a side note, I have a borrower's card for libraries in 9 of the 58 counties.

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     scott f (scott@carfree.city)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 03:43:32 JST scott f

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     @kingrat nice!

     Colusa was one I got the first time because there’s a small one-block street in the Hub called Colusa Court, plus it was the name of Jerry Brown’s dog. https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/first-dogs/index.html

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 03:43:32 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • scott f

     @scott I *should* have had Colusa from the start, as I have a distant relative in my family tree that I've researched who lived in Colusa county.

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     Frappe (frappe@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 08:46:15 JST Frappe

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     @kingrat how many non-county library systems (like Oakland and Berkeley)?

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 08:46:15 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • Frappe

     @frappe I have 22 library cards total. The county ones are: sonoma, solano, alameda, santa clara, san francisco, contra costa, la county, king county (washington), & sno-isle (washington). from cities, I have sausalito, palo alto, daly city, oakland, san jose, richmond, berkeley, los angeles, pasadena, santa monica, hayward, mountain view and upland.

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     Frappe (frappe@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 10:14:06 JST Frappe

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     @kingrat Nice. Any surprise values in there? I was surprised to find Berkeley provides online Oxford English Dictionary access but SFPL does not (at least it doesn’t show up under OED’s “Access with library card” choices)

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 10:14:06 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • Frappe

     @frappe SFPL has JSTOR and RosettaStone. Alameda County library has NewspaperArchive, though it looks like SFPL has added it since I last checked. A few libraries have very limited sets of newspapers at NewspaperArchive, but Alameda has a pretty expansive set.

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     Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jul-2024 10:51:19 JST Philip Weiss (Phil in SF)

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     • Frappe

     @frappe Santa Clara, Solano, Palo Alto, LA County, and LAPL all have Freegal, which allows downloading of 3-5 MP3s (depending on the library) per week.