Author Archives: Stan Flouride

If we don’t bury ourselves under the mountains of plastic we’ve already created this coul be GREAT! Marc A. Hillmyer and colleagues developed an efficient method to make a sugar-derived rubbery polyester compound called poly(β-methyl-δ-valerolactone), or PMVL, that can be … Continue reading →

I just applied this cool metal flake sign to the window at the oldest restaurant on Haight St.   The sparkling doesn’t show well in photos but here’s a couple of pics: It cost $57.00 (slightly more expensive because it … Continue reading →

“You want to know what this was really all about?” Nixon aid John Ehrlichman told journalist Dan Baum in 1994, according to an article published in Harper’s Magazine in 2016. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House … Continue reading →

Mammals are about ¾ water and it shows:

And a genuine news item from the Great White North: Christopher Hiscock, 33, got only a year’s probation after his guilty plea for trespassing on a ranch in Kamloops, British Columbia, in September–because it was a trespass with panache: Since no one … Continue reading →

It’s flippin’ everywhere!

My pal Jett turned me on to these images of the Haight Street Market parklet that randomly include me: I’m in the orange shirt and leather suspenders (that I made). A second picture also includes a picture of me that … Continue reading →

One year after snow surveyors stood on a dusty mountainside in California and reported that snow-water content was just 5 percent of normal, the situation in the Sierra Nevada range is much improved. But it is still not normal. The … Continue reading →