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August 23, 2026

2026.08.23

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On the Ferry to San Francisco!
statue near the Ferry Building...
The self-driving Waymo cars are creepy as heck.
Cupid Bow scultpure
Random street art
We took Filbert Steps up to Colt tower... there were...a lot of steps.
Flower on the way
More flowers on the way
view of the city from Colt Tower
The famous zigzag Lombard St
Alcatraz
No where but up even when you're at the top.
Well, back down
Walking through Chinatown
Amazon trying to get in on self-driving microbus taxis, "Zoox"
The Cable Car museum surrounds the working powerhouse that is spinning the massive wheels pulling steel cables that the cable cars are grabbing onto to go up and down the streets! Amazing old school technology.
Rawr. We also had a nice tea tasting at Vital Leaf and got some Milky Oolong.
Fans of Emperor Norton's Stationary Marching Band should check out the Comstock Salloon, where there's the only public statue in honor.
Prohibition Coffee at Tasca
at Specs' Twelve Adler Museum Cafe...
Nothing like a good bookstore and City Lights is one if the best
Jack Kerouac alley
Vesuvia - we happen to run into Jack Yaghubian of Fast Cheap and Easy graphics who is showing on the walls, cool images putting Vance and Hegseth through a Mighty Mouse and Yosemite Sam lens.
w/ our host Judy and Dessert at Stella's
Muni station had some cool papercut style art.
When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.
Lin Yutang
What's your favourite toxic heavy metal? For most of us, it's gotta be lead. Sure, it's a pretty common one, but just because it's popular doesn't mean it's bad. All four of the osmium lovers are busy telling the six or seven bismuth types that they are the real aesthetes of dangerous elements. That disagreement turns into a bar brawl so small that they don't even call the cops. Meanwhile, Leadcon 2026? Sold the fuck out, baybee.

My personal fascination with lead started in the same place it did for many of you. Chewing on lead paint as a baby. Widely available, easily approachable, and comforting to return to after a long, hard day of sucking on your thumb and crawling aimlessly. As I matured, lead was still a part of my life. Plumbing solder. Electrical solder. Auto body repair. Gasoline.

Yes, it felt like Pb would always be there for me. And then the government intervened. Suddenly, it was "not cool" to have lead paint. Drinking-water pipes started getting made out of plastic or the inferior copper – which is probably just as bad for you, the scientists just haven't figured out how yet – and worst of all, lead body repair gave way to the hateful Bondo.

"Premium unleaded," sneered the man-about-town, unaware of the oxymoron.

I still think we made out better than all the arsenic fans. Lead can still be easily acquired from any number of reputable online warehouses. Sometimes it's even a surprise. You'll bite down on some modern child's toy and get that familiar tang on your tongue again. Undeclared lead is the sweetest lead of all.