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Ray Ryan
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Proud dad. Loving and perfectly adequate husband. Core http://github.com/square/workflow hacker. Retired!?

Former: Distinguished Senior Software Citizen at Square. Instigator at Google. Chief Pedant at Lighthouse Design.

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SF Opera really outdid themselves with The Monkey King. Standing room only crowd.

Like a lot of contemporary opera there was a strong emphasis on visual spectacle, and wow did they deliver that. But not at the expense of the music, which just got stronger and stronger all evening.
November 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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A forlorn wooden brown bear doll on an amber leaf on a gray sidewalk.
November 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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I am furious to hear that the shutdown is likely to end without any protections for ACA, and if this happens I will blame all of you. Please inform leadership, especially Mr. Schumer, that this breakdown of party discipline is unacceptable. It renders the entire shutdown pointless, a complete failure and Republican victory. Your no vote, Schumer's no vote, are meaningless theater if they are ineffective. Get your party in line!
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Pete Gabriel in a rain spattered blue car
November 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Name your fav superhero that isn’t DC or Marvel
Cover of volume one of Reid Fleming / World's Toughest Milkman. Reid has male pattern baldness, a square nose, is smoking a cigarette, looks furious, and is pointing at you while saying "I am not bald! I get my hair CUT this way!"
November 8, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Screen in Grace Cathedral promising the SF Jazz presentation of Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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The Dodgers had Ultraman on the field in August. And I guess you could say he's on the mound tonight.
Ultraman waving at a baseball crowd.
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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My brother found the explanation.
Post by Jerry Clark of Moffet Field: Pathfinder 1. Getting ready for its capstone flight, going all the way to the Golden Gate and back!
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Zeppelin over the Golden Gate Bridge!
A bright white Zeppelin flying west over the Golden Gate Bridge
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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'tis the season
A gorgeous pomegranate on a cutting board with one wedge cut out of it, by the knife that made the cut and the empty jar ready to receive the seeds.
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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#ToDo
Stack o' Books Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf Ravens In Winter / Bernd Heinrich Satchmo / Louis Armstrong Waiting for Godot / Samuel Beckett The Golden Road / William Dalrymple The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey / Carol (C J) Verburg Life Drawing / Jaime Hernandez Love and Rockets, The Sketchbooks Love And Rockets, The Covers
October 20, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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This was a thing. And…it was pretty good?
Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips
October 18, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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"Learned."

Wikipedia says the tradition is that January and February were in fact inserted. And historians say "maybe? shrug."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_c...
Romulus's successor Numa Pompilius was then usually credited with a revised calendar that divided winter between the two months of January and February, shortened most other months accordingly, and brought everything into rough alignment with the solar year by some system of intercalation. This is a typical element of lunisolar calendars and was necessary to keep the Roman religious festivals and other activities in their proper seasons. Modern historians dispute various points of this account. It is possible the original calendar was agriculturally based, observational of the seasons and stars rather than of the moon, with ten months of varying length filling the entire year. If this ever existed,
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Sorry, what?
Weather station report showing 94% humidity / 62.0 ° F dewpoint.
October 2, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A driver about twenty feet down from the ocean surface, framed by at least nine sperm whales.
September 28, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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Any chance of it getting a little mobile browser love? Don't know if this issue is just the tutorial.
September 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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The other week at Green Apple Books I got to see Josephine Rowe discuss and read from her new gem, Little World (which I devoured). Now I want to know more about saints and incorruptible bodies.

It's published by Transit Books, which is also a gem.

#HellaScape
Ashley Nelson Levy and Josephine Rowe at Green Apple Books The dog runs back up the embankment, weaving between my legs, lovingly jeopardizing me. A gorgeous animal—red-gold with fennec-like ears, and as always it feels radiant to be the subject of her attention. We put on speed over the bare red bull ant fields, so the jumpers don't have time to get purchase, and we keep up that pace until Tilde's forest comes into view; a grove started from a handful of seeds, tipped out of a secondhand coat pocket decades ago, with no notion of what they were. A kind that oughtn't usually grow here, it turned out. Canoe timber, so far inland, coaxed from this clay-clotted soil. She'd raised them to cover a three-acre plot with all the density of a plantation. Now they towered, blotted the sky. Or sheltered you from it, as you like. The world had gone to the knackery, Tilde said, but she was making her own climate out here. Actually, what she said was: _Fuck 'em, Grow my own fucking air_. The cover of Little World by Josephine Rowe.
September 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Test
September 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Built in, maybe a Pixel thing?
At a Glance settings, Earthquake alert toggle enabled. "Alert when earthquake larger than magnitude 4.5 detected nearby"
September 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Indeed.
Android notification reading "Earthquake nearby • 2m / Expect light shaking. Initial estimate M4"
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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I love the local fire department.
Fire department 12 in San Francisco projecting their Grateful Dead / Streal Your Face logo on the neighboring house.
September 16, 2025 at 7:10 AM
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Here's a little help for those lacking context to appreciate the casual genius of The Dark Sailor Returns.
The cover of Batman / Dark Knight Triumphant by Frank Miller, Klaus Janson and Lynn Verley.
September 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Rubber duck
September 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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I love thoughtful book spine design.
Rachel Cusk's recent trilogy in a stack. Each has "OUTLINE TRANSIT KUDOS RACHEL KUSK" printed on it, with the names of the other two books printed in light gray ink — so the Outline, Transit and Kudos in black ink give a pleasing descending staircase effect.
September 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM