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Not the only thing I did today :)

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Years ago I worked on Sun workstations, with bigass B&W CRT monitors, and I made a little collection of monochrome bitmaps to use as tiled backgrounds. Later on I got color displays (probably on linux by then) then I kept using them setting fg and bg color for a […] [Original post on sfba.social]

my desktop with a bunch of little green and black kitty faces

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

@drmike Ok that blows. And the permanent 4 unread messages is very Teams-esque.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

@drmike I see this. There is admittedly blank space on both sides. But in the middle I can see newer posts, and I still have place to write whatever I want to the left. Has the UI changed for you?

screenshot showing desktop browser Mastodon interface

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

@davidgallagher.bsky.social Lots of things I've never seen in color before--like steam-powered ferries on the bay.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@toxi The need for a globally unique name is a high bar. Suppose you and your friends form a band, and pick a cool name. Pre-internet, if some other band in another city randomly had the same name, no big deal. Probably neither band is ever going to get famous anyway. And if one of them actually […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

They were cool. First of all lots of different hobbies. Trains, R/C cars and boats, really random model kits (like silly 50s scifi spaceships), dollhouses, cross-stitching, beads, general crafts, you name it. And they they had a ton of old stock around. I picked up some #modeltrain layout […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

They were cool. First of all a big variety; trains,

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I was looking for some glue and found this one. The Hobby House has been gone a couple years. I miss those guys. During the 2020 lockdown, they did walkup sales at their door. Couldn't browse, but if you needed glue or paint or something you could describe, you could get it.

A bottle of cyanoacrylate with a sticker from J&M Hobby House, San Carlos, CA.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@tante The evolution of language is one bit of true democracy that the rich and powerful can't thwart.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

@zzt This is a good thing to do with a simpler tool, because if there are cases where a simple update rule fails, you should stop and think about it

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Biked around 3rd St & Bayview in SF (a neighborhood I was advised to keep out of as a kid). Saw some neat stuff.

The front part of this house looks like a 1906 earthquake shack.

Nicely painted little truck. Back door has a chill lion smoking something. Seems to say Dzyer.

The last of Muni's Breda LRVs, on the dead line in the 3rd St yard.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Saw the SSW diesel again. Actually on the move, doing some switching in South City.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

@aarbrk Pescadero proper. Right on the corner :) Aside from a taqueria it's a grocery, maybe a bit more thorough than a regular convenience store. The main store in town, Arcangeli Grocery, is nice but a bit upscale, and maybe the gas station also doubles or triples as the place to get basic […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A neighbor (well, originally I thought of her as "my neighbor's kid" but she's in her 20's now) had a job at a summer camp in the area so we chatted about what's in Pescadero. It's a small place so if you mention "the store" or "the coffee shop" it's unambiguous. Anyway she mentioned that they […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Saw some bigass pumpkins, as expected. Also the HMB HS band played, and they sound pretty good. Only took film pics, so you guys have to wait a bit to see them :) Afterwards we (my son & I) went down to Pescadero and paddled around the marsh with folding kayaks (Tucktec). You're allowed to do […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

SFBA residents have all probably heard of the HMB pumpkin festival. It's just a thing to get tourists to spend money. The HMB pumpkin weigh-off is separate. It's a fun thing almost only locals go to. It's happening today. About to head over the hill to have a look at this year's megapumpkins […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I should have asked about this one.

An old bus that's slightly pink. I don't think on purpose, I think the paint has just faded this way.

Front end of the same bus. Fairly flat front. One corner has a railroad-style marker light.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

A real oldie. There were a few others of this vintage under cover, and apparently drivable, though not looking much better than this.

a falling-apart bus with a long hood. 20's or 30's?

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

This is a cutdown #SFMuni Mack. It used to run up Telegraph Hill to Coit Tower. There were 3 of these and this is the last one left. Here's some info about Muni Macks: www.streetcarmike.com/muni_mack.html (including a picture of this bus in service).

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

In Williams, CA, there's a "bus graveyard". The owner was around and I chatted a bit. If you have a really old bus, this is the place to find parts for it.

A row of really old busses in various states of dilapidation and disassembly.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Yay, back in the #darkroom after a long while... how did it get to be 2 in the morning? (I was up this late last night too, working. This is a much better reason)

prints hanging from the shower curtain bar

they don't all come out right on the first try!

dried enough to take down, putting them on a bed to dry the rest of the way

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Here's that old Cotton Belt/SSW diesel I've been stalking.

Parked on a siding. The CalTrain mainline parallels to the right. There's an overpass in the distance.

Side of the engine seen through a fence and tall grass.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Two of BART's predecessors: a "Bridge Unit" (these once ran over the Bay Bridge) and an East Bay trolley.

Two big windows, a narrow door in between, and a diamond pantograph on the roof.

It's kinda boxy. Has a bow-tie design painted on the front.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Developed and scanned my latest roll of film from the #KodakBrownie. I get 8 shots per roll. It's 7 trains and 1 cat. I visited the Western (Electric) Railway Museum (near Rio Vista, CA) last weekend. They have some of the original BART fleet trains on display now. #SFBART

BART "Old Boi" train with a shovel nose and window on one side only.

Inside the train. Low angle. I needed to take a long exposure and there really wasn't anywhere to put the camera down except on the floor.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Later on I found it again in South City (what we call South SF around here). I snuck around the parking garage of some apartments and back behind a Days Inn to got some more pictures. It's parked on a siding right by the CalTrain tracks. Which I did not set foot […] [Original post on sfba.social]

close up view of this engine, with SSW on it's red nose. note CalTrain EMU in background

picture taken from across the tracks and up some stairs. peeling lettering of COTTON BELT can be seen on the side.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This locomotive has not been repainted since at least 1996 (when the SP, of which the SSW was a subsidiary, was merged into the UP). #southernpacific #ssw en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Louis_Sou…

A paint-peeling and graffitied diesel up on a viaduct in San Carlos, CA.

It's lettered (in peeling letters) "Cotton Belt" which was an SP subsidiary (officially St Louis Southwestern, or SSW). It follow the late SP ¨bloody nose" pattern of being dark gray/dusty black except for a bright red splotch on the front. This one has a yellow stripe under the cab window for it's official post-merger UP numbering (but even that is peeling).

Heading northward with a cut of hoppers.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@minmi Oh goddamn phone. For *not* wanting to kill someone. Autocorrect thinks I'm a psychopath apparently.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

@minmi I don't know how many times I've been honked at by drivers behind me, making me want to yell "excuse the &$@# out of me for now wanting to kill someone!"

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

From @sfcriticalmass tonight. Yeah, that's an #sfmuni trolley... and #SpiderMan. I actually saw Spidey riding around on a non-CM ride a few days ago, and chatted him up before we started tonight. Turns out he lives in my old neighborhood. #criticalMass

A bunch of bikers riding up Market St. A Muni PCC (painted green and yellow, memorializing LA's streetcar system) is coming the other way. And Spider-Man is riding ahead of me!

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The San Mateo County History Museum delivered carriages to the 2nd floor of their new exhibit space by crane.

a nice old carriage (phaeton?) is on a platform suspended via cables from a crane

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

#KodakBrownie picture of a falling-down cabin somewhere in the high Sierras. #FilmIsNotDead

old log cabin, leaning in from the ends; most of the roof is bare to the rafters. pine trees are taking over

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Developed some film from the #KodakBrownie; first time in a while. Old and new in #SanFrancisco

an old painted-on-the-wall buildboard for Shasta Cola, with an astronaut, higher up there's a modern billboard advertising some AI crap

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

DId not make it to #SFMuni History Weekend proper, but got a peek at the Geneva Barn later last night.

A Muni Motorman raising the back-up trolley pole (which is on the front end) on a PCC car, so it can back into the trolley barn. It's at night.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I think I'm going to have to make a memorial ride on the F-Line: Castro & Market all the way to Fisherman's Wharf. And walk over to the Buena Vista for an Irish coffee. (Not sure that he was particularly a fan of those, but it's a quintessentially SF thing to do and I could use one).

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

This weekend is #SFMuni Heritage Weekend. It's fun but bittersweet because I just learned that an old friend, a former #FLine motorman, scholar, and transit photographer, that I used to see annually at these, passed on in July. At least last year, I bought a copy of his book and he signed it […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@renegourley That's really something. I can imagine walking into this scene (and ending up with a bunch of dried twigs stuck in my socks).

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@adron Combining transit + bike is the one way of getting around a big urban area that just works.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

@ObsidianUrbex This is making me think about all the gross things that are in cars.... If it was me, the one thing I'd really think about is properly disposing of the battery. And there could still be some gas in the tank? Ugh. It'll slowly drip oil. That's icky. I would do any vegetable growing […]

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@ObsidianUrbex There's something charming about a weed-overgrown abandoned car (even though, technically, they should be properly disposed of for environmental reasons).

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Back from a short nocturnal bike ride and I'm sweaty, which is not normal in the SFBA.

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14mission @14mission.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I haven't been doing so much film lately, but I didn't want to miss out on #shittyCameraChallenge. So here's a #3d picture of my cat Chompsky taken with a #3DS. #stereoscopy #stereography

he's a big black and white cat. in the picture he's walking across my (dead) lawn, looking back over his shoulder. the picture is side-by-side stereo.

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