Gina told me that her husband was a magician. A very good magician.
Turns out that he is also a maths teacher. That’s how he makes is money. He really wants to make his living as a magician. …
Dan knew what he was doing. He offered me an Amber Ale from his selection. It was glorious. Arguably one of the best Amber’s I had ever tasted.
The rest of the beer selection looked equally …
I met Candy while she was having dinner with her beau ... Brian. She is a truck driver who operates as far North as Seattle and as far South as San Jose.
Her grandfather had a business …
Caroline and Marcus had arrived in the US a couple of days earlier, most of their two-week sojourn in front of them.
They described their route over the next 10 days. There was going to be a lot of …
Stevie was unsteady on his feet. He walked slowly. He didn’t seem to have much money. He was visiting the area because he had a hospital appointment.
It wasn’t clear why he needed a hospital. I didn’t …
Jeff had worked in Somerset for 4 years. Emma's mother was born in England. Now they lived in America. Together.
We found ourselves talking over a couple of brews about the benefits of America over …
People First has a big vision and is moving forward on a variety of initiatives. Life is too short to record it all in detail here ... so I am choosing to reference a few (in alphabetical order); …
It’s a piece by SF mayoral candidate Jane Kim … calling the SF Chronicle out on their attempted hatchet job.
One of her questions back:
”Why didn’t you fact check the false assertions contained in these questions against publicly available information before contacting me or choosing to move forward with this story?”
Which resulted in them not runing with the story at all …. this is their response
Politico reporting how Seattle, San Francisco et al are too expensive to live in because highly paid tech people are arriving and pushing up the prices.
Those same tech people are very quick to preach that the Future of Work is virtual.
Is it that what is good for the goose is not good for the gander?
Great read - and spot on …
“And this leads to my second reaction, which is the deepest impatience and frustration with IndieWeb itself for having developed tools to very literally …