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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 27/09/2026

Two Oakland Roots goals? In this economy?

Oakland Coliseum scoreboard says Oakland Roots 2, Phoenix Rising 0

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 24/09/2026

This is not acceptable to do to tens of thousands of people on purpose.

Air quality map for Thursday afternoon in Richmond, California and the East Bay, showing seriously unhealthy breathing conditions downwind of Angel Island.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 16/08/2026

At PayPal Park in San Jose, where @flightradar24.com is an intrinsic part of the matchday experience.

Horizon Airlines retro jet lands at San Jose, behind the Earthquakes’ big scoreboard.

Flightradar24 screenshot of Horizon flight on approach to San Jose.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 09/08/2026

A day late to International Cat Day, but rest assured that Hobbes and Marvin made the most of it.

Orange cat inside a cupboard, grey tabby on the outside, surveying their victory over the shopping bags that used to be in the cupboard.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 09/08/2026

Everyone looking to the sky and waiting for trumpets when they should be keeping an eye on a reasonably priced electric car.

Snippet of a text message. It says ‘Look for Jesus in a 2023 Hyundai Kona Ev.’

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 27/07/2026

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

Cover of ‘Shakespeare my Butt’, the banger-laden 1991 release from Lowest of the Low

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 13/06/2026

Like a renaissance painting of a great battlefield. #WorldCup

A referee in a yellow shirt strides between two men lying prone on the field.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 09/06/2026

Me, when I try sitting in a Mazda Miata.

A large-framed grey tabby cat, Marvin, totally fitting fine (not really, but he believes) in a medium-size cardboard tray that once held cat-food cans.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 13/05/2026

The puck was vertical, eh? Across the line. #Sabres

Screenshot showing puck “conclusively” across the goal line in a goalie’s glove

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 20/04/2026

Shirt looks great and the Sabres are undefeated in the playoffs when I wear it to watch on TV.

T shirt with 26 Shirts legendary ‘Crossing the Niagara’ design, with several Sabres in a small boat and the Rasmus Dahlin figure hoisting a huge ‘River Hockey’ flag.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 11/04/2026

Good, good, good, was beginning to worry about those big chutes deploying.

A space capsule in a blue sky, slowed down by three big parachutes

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 24/03/2026

Perfect hed, no notes.

Headline from The Athletic: ‘Quadruple amputee cornhole professional jailed on murder charges’

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 20/03/2026

Really have to see the #Sabres in person to fully comprehend the Mutt and Jeff impression Metsa and Stanley make as a D pair.

Very tall defenseman wearing #64 and somewhat less tall counterpart wearing #73

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 20/03/2026

Love seeing all the #Sabres gear on Buffalo’s annual visit to San Jose. Only first intermission but I declare a winner.

Fellow in a concession stand line with a Buffalo Sabres jersey labeled ‘Jeanneret’ and a microphone outline where the numbers usually are.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 03/03/2026

You know what’s a good trigger for a software update? Doing it right when a person needs to open the program to use it. FFS.

On-screen Microsoft dialogue box saying “updating Microsoft 365 and Office, please wait a moment…”

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 28/02/2026

Fire-wagon hockey is fun to watch

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 28/01/2026

Lotta things make me feel old, living long enough for California to run out of license plate numbers is maybe the weirdest.

Partial California license plate starting with 9X. There’s only 9Y & 9Z to go, folks.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 14/12/2025

Good thing I’ve got this high-tech smartphone with sleek modern operating system that know to surface the result of a (checks notes) 10-year-ago football game.

iPhone notification that the Bills-Browns game of August 20, 2015, has ended.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 01/12/2025

My aircraft today is 2 weeks shy of its 35th birthday. Here’s hoping this Delta 767 flies like a savvy veteran of the skies, and not a tired time-server aching for retirement.

Flighty app screenshot noting that this Boeing 767-300 had its first flight: Dec 14, 1990 and is 34 years old.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 26/11/2025

When one is abroad, they say, one should enjoy local cuisine. 🍁

A bowl of Shreddies cereal, accompanying cereal box, and a Tim Horton’s coffee.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 16/10/2025

They are taking preparations for today’s Great Shakeout drill a little too far, IMO.

Report of a recent (minor) earthquake. I felt it.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 08/10/2025

A’s memory can’t be erased from Oakland that easily.

Way finding sign at Oakland Coliseum directing to ‘A’s Fan Center’

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 02/09/2025

New side gig doing quality control for German football

Email from DFL: ‘Hello football fan,
Thank you for the additional information, and please accept our apologies for the error.
We have forwarded this internally and are currently working on it.’

App update description from Bundesliga: ‘In this update, matches are now shown on the correct days, so no more time-traveling kick-offs.’

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 01/09/2025

For some more context, this was the daytime Zagreb-Ljubljana service offer in February.

Aging, graffiti-tagged passenger train car.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 05/08/2025

Anyway the real Business Class is the Metro North Commuter Railroad, on which businesspeople can actually ride.

Business Class label on a new Acela trainset, seen from parallel train

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 05/08/2025

Like the Flying Dutchman, the new Amtrak Acela trains haunt the Northeast Corridor, roaming from Boston to Washington empty of passengers.

An empty new Antrak Acela, as seen from a Metro North train running parallel in Connecticut.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 26/06/2025

Area Man Receives Yet Another Unsolicited Reminder of Mortality

Local man holds up today’s East Bay Times, bearing the headline ‘Bay Area population quickly growing old’

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 16/06/2025

Barely just moved in and they’re already judging me

Grey and orange cats looking at me unnervingly

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 07/06/2025

Very clean looking three-decade old Italian grocery getter at the North Berkeley Andronicos #AlfaRomeo #Quadrifoglio

White 1990s Alfa Romeo 164 Quadrifoglio in a supermarket parking lot.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 03/06/2025

Happr to see the one 2023 Alfa Giulia is getting regular Italian tuneups.

Fuelly data for one 2023 Alfa Romeo Giulia: 14.8 mpg over 23,000 miles.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 17/05/2025

Well done Crystal Palace! Happy for that group of fans.

Scene at Selhurst Park, where I watched Crystal Palace at home last season.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 08/05/2025

That or a blown head gasket

Headline: White Smoke Signals a Pope Has Been Chosen

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 01/05/2025

The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) flag flies over the El Cerrito Test Only Smog Station (and used car lot) in El Cerrito, California. No Trabi on the lot, let alone a Wartburg, so I guess this is more #weirdflags than #weirdcarbs

East German flag flying over a run-down East Bay used car lot

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 21/04/2025

Vatican fleet is already moving that direction.

BMW i3 in service as a Vatican City cop car. It is plugged in.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 18/02/2025

Overpromising and underdelivering.

Big sign saying ‘Welcome to the fun side of Frankfurt airport’

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 08/02/2025

In Germany atm, saw Bundesliga in person for the first time, and #fcunion did not look like the team I see on TV

Final score on the board in Sinsheim: Hoffenheim 0, Union Berlin 4

Josip Juranović takes a throw-in for Union Berlin at Hoffenheim.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 27/01/2025

If you see this, post a fictional artist/band that you would love to see live

Poster for the 1998 film Still Crazy, featuring the members of the fictional Strange Fruit

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 25/01/2025

Unreasonably to expect Apple to remember the album art of an obscure artist like (checks notes) Tom Petty.

Apple Music on my laptop sans artwork of 5 Tom Petty albums.

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 22/01/2025

@gruber.foo As a cynic my first question is, ‘Does this mean Apple can take the tax deduction?’

Text: ‘You're giving money to Apple, and Apple will then transfer 100 percent of it to the Red Cross.’ (Excerpt of post on Daringfireball.net)

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Rich Saskal @saskal.com · 28/12/2024

‘I wonder how many things in the spice cabinet are past their expiration dates?’ was either the right question to ask this morning or the wrong one, I’m not sure which.

Something like 20 or so little jars that once contained spices beyond their expiration dates, stretching as far back as the teens.

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