Notices by Chuck Fry 🏳️‍🌈 (svchucko@sfba.social)

@skinnylatte Was the Coast Starlight on time? Thinking about a trip to L.A. by train at some point.

@jeridansky @APBBlue I'm an Indy car fan. Ignoring for the moment the political implications (*just* for the moment), it'll be a logistical nightmare to set up a temporary street course on only 6 months notice. Most such events take well over a year for the initial running. And it probably won't be a very interesting course.

The political implications? IndyCar owner Roger Penske has his Medal of Freedom from Trump. This is payback time. Penske is only too happy to fellate him.

@kims Cataract surgery is a modern miracle.

@skinnylatte Is that Aappakadai, with two As?

@skinnylatte I’ve definitely noticed an abundance of Asian foods in the Sunnyvale Costco. Something like half of Sunnyvale is foreign born.

@twrling Potential downside: the City would become responsible for decades of PG&E’s deferred maintenance.

@skinnylatte I’m not aware of many places in the US that have anywhere near that population density. NYC, yes, maybe Chicago. Beyond that? Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any.

@skinnylatte An intern from Hong Kong worked at our facility for a year. He also found SF not big or dense enough to suit. He would travel to New York to get his fix of real urban life.

L.A. has been getting denser for some time, but I still think of it as “a dozen suburbs in search of a downtown”.

@skinnylatte So when are you going to write a guidebook/blog about SF/Monterey Bay area restaurants? You named a couple places last week that are near my home. And now I have to check out Ming’s Tasty.

@skinnylatte As the old joke goes, “America got Britain’s religious zealots, and Australia got the criminals. Seems to me Australia got the better deal.”

@skinnylatte Have you been to Boston yet? IMHO similar feel to SF, but older.

@skinnylatte Do you know about Freestyle Photo in Hollywood yet? I used to buy film there before I went 100% digital. Their retail store on Sunset east of the 101 is worth a visit when you're in L.A. https://www.freestylephoto.com/

@skinnylatte Uh-oh indeed. Somehow I suspect you’ll have a blast at it.

Do they still make Polaroid film in 4x5 or 8x10 formats?

@ryanc @domi What about stress-ng? My experience with memtest86 is that it's not very sensitive to the kinds of RAM issues you might encounter in overclocking. stress-ng and even Prime95 are better at exercising the whole memory subsystem.

@ai6yr Having been to the Indy 500 and had the race postponed due to weather, this is absolutely nothing new.

Notorious Reich-wing lobby group #ALEC is pushing state bills unconditionally supporting #Israel's utter destruction of #Gaza. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/20/alec-state-leglislatures-pro-israel-resolution