Deco Clock

Deco Clock, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

11th & Mission SF

Hall of Justice

Hall of Justice, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

behavior court field trip

SF Police Impound

SF Police Impound, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Surveillance, anyone?

Aquaman

Aquaman, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

New Office at BAART

New Office at BAART, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

7/20/10 Begin Tues/Thurs duty at BAART. Computer in Exam Room 2 is gone. Dan Graney brings me my keys! Change offices, move across the hall to David Vergi's old office, where computer had been moved to. Switch out desks w exam room 2.

Sharkey

Sharkey, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Potholder/puppet

For the Win

For the Win, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Dear Cory

I ordered a hold on For the Win from the Oakland Public Library, where I had donated a copy via Amazon. I just got notice that it's waiting for me there. I'm not going to keep it for long, as I just finished reading it on my phone, and I got it for the library so that it can circulate. Loved it! I thought it was a great socioeconomic manifesto and a rollickin' good yarn, too. I can almost understand derivatives now. I'm afraid I'll never understand games.

Now. I have a request. I was wondering if I could get you to sign this copy. Not physically. If you send me a jpeg of your book-sig, I'll print it and paste it into the book, wherever you'd like. I've got a small history of defacing library books, and if you'd like to participate, I'd be happy to co-conspire with you. If you'd prefer not to, that's cool as well. Just thought it might be fun.

Your fan,
Bruce Bortin
___________

Hey, Bruce! Sure!

Cory Doctorow
___________

Awesomeness squared! Thanks. You're a sport!

xxBB

Catnip Blanket

Catnip Blanket
Originally uploaded by dumbeast

Judy thought it would be good for Ray to have something new that doesn't smell like Pearl. He REALLY likes it. Thanks, Judy.

Pomeriggio di Domenica Expense Account

1. Eat half a slice of bologna.
   
2. Ride to Piedmont.
3. Buy sandwich at grocery store $5.99, 2 skeins of wool @$6.99, ticket to movie $8
   
4. Eat half of sandwich on park bench. That bologna was piccante.
5. Devise design of new woolen oven mitt.
   
6. "Crochet shark oven mitt, batik-bleach belly"
   
7. Buy an espresso $2.
8. Go to theater way early.
   
9. Text Mary.
10. Talk to Mary in lobby, losing bike rearview. Was that mortadella?
11. 
12. Usher comes into theater: "Anybody ride a bike here?" My heart skipped a beat. "Missing a little mirror?"
    
13. "Yeah! That's me. Thank you so much!"
    
14. Watch a bunch of much too loud ads, then Cyrus, which if it was a book, I would have stopped reading at page 100. About a dysfunctional mother/son & John C Riley triangle situation.
15. After movie, thank wrong usher.
    
16. Go outside, aak! sunglasses
17. Being from Genoa makes me a much less macho bicyclist. Ride most of the way home on sidewalk. Ciao. Guido una bicicletta come una donna sposata anziana.
18. Buy quarters at BART $1
19. Buy more quarters store $3
20. Come home, switch the glasses that I repaired with their nearly identical mates, in attempted gaslighting of the Missus.
21. [ride in un modo clandestino]
    

How can I bleach wool?

The page at http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?t=74104 says:

1. NEVER use chlorine bleach on wool or silk. Both are dissolved by sodium hypochlorite, the active ingredient in Chlorox.
2. NEVER mix chlorine bleach with any other chemical. You may release chlorine gas which is toxic and could cause death or permanent damage to your lungs.
3. Do not add chlorine bleach to any garment which has been soaked in vinegar without throughly rinsing out the vinegar.
4. The proper bleach for wool is hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), which is never found in chlorine bleach. You can use first aid strength H2O2, hair bleach strength H2O2 or 35% H2O2.

The strength of the H2O2 will determine the length of time the fabric needs to stay in the solution. A small amount of plain Tide detergent or Synthropol added to the solution will help wet the fabric. A dark fabric like navy will probably never bleach white and may not even stay blue depending on what color it was before it was navy.

Vinegar is used in wool to set dyes, not remove them.

The page here http://www.prochemical.com/directions/BleachingWool.htm is also instructive.

Sunday Afternoon Expense Account

1. Eat half a slice of cheese.
   
2. Ride to Piedmont.
3. Buy sandwich at grocery store $5.99, 2 skeins of wool @$6.99, ticket to movie $8
   
4. Eat half of sandwich on park bench. That cheese was pungent.
   
5. Devise design of new woolen oven mitt.
6. 
   
7. "Crochet shark oven mitt, batik-bleach belly"
   
8. Buy an espresso $2.
9. Go to theater way early.
   
10. Text Mary.
11. Talk to Mary in lobby, losing bike rearview. Was that limburger?
    
12. Usher comes into theater: "Anybody ride a bike here?" My heart skipped a beat. "Missing a little mirror?"
    
13. "Yeah! That's me. Thank you so much!"
    
14. Watch a bunch of much too loud ads, then Cyrus, which if it was a book, I would have stopped reading at page 100. About a dysfunctional mother/son & John C Riley triangle situation.
15. After movie, thank wrong usher.
    
16. Go outside, aak! sunglasses
17. Being from Wisconsin makes me a much less macho bicyclist. Ride most of the way home on sidewalk. Ugh. Like squaw.
18. Buy quarters at BART $1
19. Buy more quarters store $3
20. Come home, switch the glasses that I repaired with their nearly identical mates, in attempted gaslighting of the Missus.
21. [snickers]
    

Straight from the Bog

Straight from the Bog, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

I wonder how this campaign is doing in the Great Britain market.

From Urbandictionary.com

bog: a toilet "I need to go to the bog."

Pulpo Paul with Flags

PAUL with Nato & Taliban, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Put that clairvoyant German octopus in a tank with a NATO flag and a Taliban flag. Any bets?

Big ups to MJF for helping me tighten up on the punchline.

Office Mechanix

From: bbortin@sfbar.org

To: HAP

Re: How to Fax GA

You can now fax to the GA fax machine (558-4104) by pressing “Coded Dial” and then 000 (those are zeros, folks)

How to Fax GA, originally uploaded by dumbeast.

Stressed

Last night, I barely made it off BART before movement in Oakland became impossible. We had planned to take Ray to the vet, but there weren't any cabs at 13th street. I called Al to beg a ride, but it turned out that the streets were so clogged that he couldn't get to our house. And we had no idea whether we'd be able to get home from the vet. So we rescheduled.

Note to cops: maybe the day of the riot, you could see to it that the staging area gets cleared of dumpsters filled with kindling? All night long there were big explosions coming from downtown.



BART was crawling with cops this morning. Mary had to restrain me from going up to them and administering a quick quiz: "Pronto, Officer! Which one's the taser? Which one's the gun? Could be important some day...."

In San Francisco, walking down 24th street, every firetruck and heavy rescue vehicle in the city came screeching past me and then deployed smackdab in my path a block ahead of me. I had to crawl over EMTs & firehoses to get to work.


Anybody know where there's a place where you can sell your cortisol? The stress bank? I could make a killing there.

So glad I don't live in Basra or Kandahar.