Author Archives: Stan Flouride

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About Stan Flouride

THIS BLOG IS ALWAYS AD-FREE I make stuff and do things.

Dead could be brought ‘back to life’ in groundbreaking project 

Clearly these folks have never read any of the novels or watched any of the myriad of science fiction movies that show how these things always end up going south. A biotech company in the US has been granted ethical permission to recruit … Continue reading

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Millions of email accounts compromised  in massive data breach that includes Google and Yahoo

CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS NOW! More than 270 million email accounts with major providers around the world have been compromised, a security expert has warned, with passwords being exchanged by criminals in Russia. Alex Holden, the expert, says most users of Mail.ru, Russia’s … Continue reading

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May the Fourth Be With You!

Here’s a collection of .gifs and images in honor of Star Wars Day. Starting with a bit of Daisy Ridley’s rather serious workout routine prior to filming: And here, my Jedlings, is a virtual sarlacc pit of related images:

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My Spring Guests Have Returned

These juncos (thanks Jeph!), certainly the same pair that nested in the same windowbox last year have returned and are hard at work feeding this year’s brood of four.

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At the SF Bernie delegate caucus

My fuck Trump hat is quite popular here.

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San Francisco condo boom turns into bust 

The long-term effects of this, especially vis-a-vis its impact on the rental market in San Francisco remains to be seen. Perhaps nothing is more indicative of a cooling market than increasing numbers of listings expiring and being withdrawn from the … Continue reading

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Finally- after 40 years here

I just did two VERY San Francisco things: I met Herb Gold and tried Swenson’s Ice Cream for the first time.

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Mammal-like reptile survived much longer than thought

Tritylodontids are the last known family of near-mammalian reptiles, before mammals with features such as advanced hearing evolved. Researchers have uncovered dozens of fossilized teeth in Kuwajima, Japan and identified this as a new species of tritylodontid. This suggests that … Continue reading

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Damned kids!!

Writing swear words all over the place…

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Bill Graham at the CJM

This is a wonderful show that is as much about the last 50 years of the San Francisco music scene as about Bill. I highly recommend it. Here’s the QR code for Bill’s narration  which will take you here: http://billgrahamaudiotour.toursphere.com/en/index.html

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