Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026My most direct answer to your actual question is look at the museums in SJ, go to San Pedro Square, I can't say enough nice things about the history park and gardens there. 010
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And of course, you can always drive up to SF, which we do a lot for concerts. 110
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If you want concerts, it's lacking. A few small clubs and large venues. Nothing in the 200-2K people range. However, Santa Cruz is a relatively easy drive as well, and it's a fun place on its own -- boardwalk, etc. 100
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Santana Row in SJ is a Small Walkable Neighborhood with restaurants, nightlife, shopping, etc. It is intentionally an homage to La Rambla in Barcelona. 110
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There are wineries around. San Pedro Square is a local analogue of a hawkers market. There are a number of nice gardens and parks in environs, like Hakone Gardens in Saratoga. 120
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If you are in SJ city and don't want to go far, there's some nice museums downtown (e.g. Tech Museum), along with the History Park and Japanese Friendship Gardens. I highly recommend the latter, they even have a train/tram museum there. 130
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I am sometimes exasperated when someone explains to me that they are dead, for reasons similar to that. A couple of times, yes I know they are dead, but I wasn’t thinking about it when I was typing, I was thinking about them. 010
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I wish all my dead friends happy birthday. It makes me smile, that I think about them. 110
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026It could be worse than having the mascot be a turtle; up 95 a bit they are the sad chickens. 020
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Though, many of us from there intentionally mispronounce “Terp” as “Twerp” and you are welcome to. 120
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026No problem. I feel a little bad being pedantic about it. The whole story is about getting details right, and some magat might play gotcha there. 220
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Have you? The feint is one thing. The wry thought is that she’s the hospice nurse 1113
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026My similar-age knapsack laptop etc. bag is a Tom Bihn. Can’t go wrong there, either. 110
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Umm, better than the other Sonos with their connection. I was too lossy in my compression. 100
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Briggs and Riley. My default rollaboard has enough miles for lifetime OneWorld Sapphire. 110
Reposted by Jon CallasKim @kimoco.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Fuck doomerism. Do not give up, Fight like hell 011
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Paid subscriber here! I dumped the tired alternative. 010
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Too late. I had thousands of dollars of Sonos. In every room. My remaining Sonos speaker (“remaining” because they bricked the others) I just use with Bluetooth because it works with advanced audio concepts like “pause” and “resume.” The Airplay2 to my Denon is better than the other Sonos what’s it. 110
Reposted by Jon Callas🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Disincentivizing widely-used online services from offering strong encryption. During a war with Iran. A country that's been conducting cyber operations against U.S. targets for years. That's what both parties think belongs in the NATIONAL DEFENSE BILL. 310763
Reposted by Jon CallasJohn Perrino @johnperrino.com · 15/07/2026There's another effort to break encryption in the US Senate! The STOP CSAM Act was added to the current version of the annual defense spending bill, known as the NDAA. If passed, it could require Internet infrastructure services and online platforms to break encryption to scan all data.static.klipy.comThis Is Fine Dog in Burning HouseALT: This Is Fine Dog in Burning House 215690
Reposted by Jon CallasSCBWI @scbwi.bsky.social · 12/06/2026The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI), and the children’s book world, is saddened by the news that author, mentor and friend, Jane Yolen, has died. She was 87 and her loss cannot be measured. Please find the full obituary here: www.scbwi.org/remembering-... 15555149
Reposted by Jon CallasBrian Eno News @dark-shark.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Wishing a very happy 102nd birthday to the great Marshall Allen, born on May 25, 1924 #SunRa #Arkestra 03811
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026Just flagging. What in your opinion is the proper way to deal with this? Is it not a violation of the most sacred duty an officer of the court and country might do? 020
Reposted by Jon CallasDr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!? 484112282254
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Decades ago there was a Miss Manners rant about wanting the relationship to be “customer” rather than “friend.” 020
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I think it is that. It is sometimes still rocky. I bitched the other week about a clunky experience that was (I think) a system that wanted 2FA, so it unexpectedly asked me for a password after my passkey. We are still waiting for the transition to passkey-1FA. 110
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I have also had to figure out in the IETF when someone gets funded to help. Cue, “good news, everybody! Sirius Cybernetics has given us a headcount!” 000
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 01/05/2026I have funded such people. And been lectured that I should give cash. 100
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Sounds good, but that doesn’t really exist. The point of Brooks Law is that people must get up to speed and they’re a drain on resources for a while. What happens when the person donated is a great person but a bad hire? People are not interchangeable parts that can be dropped in. 100
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My assessment is that it is more associated with being a parent. It matches my observations of the world. Now it is hardly casual and lightly correlated, and maybe even just an observational effect. 010
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 14/04/2026I have to disagree with your premise, even as I agree with your conclusion. But folk theories are like that. They are dioramas. When I was a child, my parents (born in the 30s) told this to me “oh, you will be more conservative when you get older) as a truism. 100
Reposted by Jon Callasrobynhitchcock.bsky.social @robynhitchcock.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Hello dear reader, My new album, THE CONFUSER is out on July 24 on Tiny Ghost Records. It’s a rockin’ affair, with a few ballads for romantic waltzing & a dystopian psychedelic rant. Guaranteed to float your chimes & ring your boat! Available now for pre-order here: linktr.ee/robynhitchco... 69324
Reposted by Jon Callasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/03/2026The year is 2030. I now own a home in every walkable US neighborhood, which I've paid for by selling rubber stamps that say "refused to release the Epstein files" 1404436559
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I have things that need to be done for a few hours, but I will. 020
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 18/03/2026<cracks knuckles> Well, as someone who was part of building the damned fence, I can tell you lots of what’s wrong with it. Got a couple hours? Wanna hear how I’d fix the fence? 120
Reposted by Jon Callasderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/02/2026if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them 1039246472865
Jon Callas @joncallas.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I think I would take the opposite bet, that they wouldn’t be fired even after that. The guiding principle of this administration is that the buck stops somewhere else. People in charge give orders and take credit. People below get consequences. 000