Views by the Bay

A journal from what was once the most beautiful place on Earth

Thursday, May 31, 2018

In Tim I Trust

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The Apple Watch has already breached my defenses. The inputs: a person's internet searches, driving patterns ("the number of ...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Experience Trumps a Training Manual

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The cashier was also a barista who made my cold brew. Just ahead of me a 12-year-old girl tried to pay for a purchase using a credit car...
Tuesday, May 29, 2018

If You Won't Obey, You Just Need a Behavioral Change

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We've written before how the recycling racket is uneconomic to consumers, businesses, and the recyclers themselves. We have previously...
Monday, May 28, 2018

A Day for Respect

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We pass by the Golden Gate National Cemetery frequently but have never visited. Today, Memorial Day, it was time to rectify that omission...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

An American Story

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Ken Langone is a billionaire co-founder of Home Depot and has written an unapologetic paean to capitalism entitled, naturally, I Love Capit...
Saturday, May 26, 2018

KISS Guy Shreds

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Current top-ten rock band Foo Fighters often calls audience members up to the stage to strut their stuff. The results are predictable---te...
Friday, May 25, 2018

Second Life for Some TV Shows

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Two of the TV shows I watch regularly, Elementary (Sherlock Holmes in 21st-century New York) and Agents of Shield (part of the Marvel Cine...
Thursday, May 24, 2018

Yes, Talk Shows Were Better Back Then

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Two powerful, beautiful, funny women are completely comfortable talking about their own bodies, men, ethnicity, and work on national TV. The...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Crazy for Living Next to a Volcano? No, Just Insured

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Keli'i Akina of the Grassroot Institute , a Hawaii think-tank, says that Hawaii insurance laws encourage building homes next to active v...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Lightning Rod

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I don't think it's his main criterion for selecting officials, but if President Trump's appointees can drive his opponents barki...
Monday, May 21, 2018

Lennon-ist, not Leninist

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St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle ( Rutland Herald) The beauty of Anglicanism was on full display Saturday during the wedding of H...
Sunday, May 20, 2018

Pentecost, 2018

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Blessing the seminarian as he departs for the summer. On Pentecost Sunday half the congregation remembered to wear red. Less familiar th...
Saturday, May 19, 2018

The Perfect Princess for A Hashtag World

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Still sparkling (her not him) after the wedding vows ( Daily Mail ) Time: at thirty-six...Meghan is not only three years older than h...
Friday, May 18, 2018

Gentlemen Songsters Off on a Spree

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50 years after Yale College admitted women (they were in the Class of 1971), a woman will join the Whiffenpoofs : SofĂ­a Campoamor ’19 a...
Thursday, May 17, 2018

How You Get Another Proposition 13

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Using math to persuade--good luck with that. (Chron photo) In December we noted how residents of high-tax states were early-paying thei...
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After spending the first 17 years of my life in Honolulu, I've happily settled in the SF Bay Area. Married with two children, I've worked for five companies, large and very small, in the field of finance and accounting. Education: BA, MBA. Professional: CPA (Inactive)
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