Monday, February 03, 2020

Super Bowl LIV: Chiefs 31, 49ers 20

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QB's Mahomes and Garoppolo after the game (Chron photo) The local team didn't win, but it was a pretty good Super Bowl . The lea...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Sign of the Times

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CVS, Foster City In Foster City the second most common language is Chinese, not Spanish. "Face mask out of stock" is printed...

Sunday Worship

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Out (for over 200 years): unification of Church and State. In (for this Sunday): unification of Church and football. Politics will be ...
Saturday, February 01, 2020

Housing: It Doesn't Work if You Force It

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Last year we noted how some California politicians are trying to alleviate the housing shortage by forcing communities to accept dense ...
Friday, January 31, 2020

2019 - 2020: Normal Winter

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Shasta Lake (California's largest reservoir) last week (Chron photo) Good news: meteorologist Michael Pechner predicts a normal win...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

California Insurance Mandate: Another Reason to Leave

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Tomorrow is a deadline that's largely escaped notice, but to those who are affected the financial penalties are significant. [bold adde...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020

Another Sign That Newspapers Are Dead

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I love newspapers, though there are problems with any individual name--similar to Linus' saying, "I love mankind, it's people I...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Apple Blossoms

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Apple, Shanghai: sales were unexpectedly strong in China Last month I wrote about a sale of Apple stock in early November: A scant tw...
Monday, January 27, 2020

Puncturing the Bubble

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Kobe and Gianna attended Mass before boarding the helicopter. This week I'd been planning to sit back, spend hours each day absorbi...
Sunday, January 26, 2020

Gone Too Soon

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At this morning's annual meeting the Rector announced that he will be retiring on August 1st. After 22 years in the post (the average t...
Saturday, January 25, 2020

Happy Year of the Rat

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Below is a short video about the Chinese zodiac. It's produced by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and doesn't require kn...
Friday, January 24, 2020

When It's OK to Steal

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Helen Raleigh ( Federalist ) Helen Raleigh is fed up, not with cultural appropriation , but with those who complain about it. [bold adde...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

2014 MacBook Air: Still Going Strong

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Time to install the 3rd case . The screen on the MacBook Air cracked two years ago, and I had the battery replaced at the same time as t...
Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Homelessness: You Will Be Made to Care, Comrade

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It would be quite a stretch for me to live in Beverly Hills, but, if a proposal becomes law, all I would have to do is pitch a tent in the 9...
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Far Removed From My Wheelhouse

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As a retiree and part-time finance consultant, I've posted an abbreviated profile on LinkedIn. That's enough information for some ...