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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 2d

Walking in Golden Gate Park today, I was pleasantly surprised to stumble upon The San Francisco Old Car Picnic. I don't know much about cars, but I do appreciate a shiny paint job.

row of shiny cars parked on a lawn. also, some people walk past, admiring

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 3d

and later: "Reader, I buried him."

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 6d

I'm relatively sane, compared to those who do it in one day: urbanhikersf.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

The San Francisco Roundabout Trail - A urban hike fueled by determination, grit, and pain meds

On October 5, 2025, five of us met before dawn at the corner of John Muir Drive and Sklyine Boulevard. Our goal: Complete the new 38-mile Ro...

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 6d

October 10–11 2025, I walked, roughly, around #SanFrancisco

The Crosstown Trail people published The Roundabout, a walking guide to streets and trails around the edge of SF. I saw it would take me throu…

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In the foreground, a bush covered with yellow-white webby stuff, something like dandelion puffs. in the background, the ocean and a big guano-spattered rock

in the foreground, walking path by the bay with walkers and
joggers. In the background, the Golden Gate Bridge

in the foreground: a trail winds through rocky cliffs, dotted with shrubs. Beyond, a blue bay. Beyond that, the marin headlands, mostly brown but dotted with green

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 7d

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As Hallowe'en approaches, some of the seasonal displays at the grocery store give mixed messages. It's not wrong, but it might make more …

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 8d

came here to post this

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 13d

I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether brunching at a neighborhood crêperie is a fine way to occasionally take a break fro…

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I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to figure out whether brunching at a neighborhood crêperie …

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 16d

otoh "König" is German, and the Königsberg bridges is a very different pathfinding problem

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 18d

wondering about today's (oct 3) 9 across clue. maybe supposed to be "____ Honey"?

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 19d

a 30 day set of puzzles in a 31-day month makes me wonder if you're planning something tricky for 🎃-day

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 20d

...with the caveat that I spend the $ on a proper website instead of in Apple's weird store thingy

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 20d

dont ask me to choose between TfOS and Toon

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 23d

I took pictures of a couple of boxes in Golden Gate Park this morning. …

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big box looms over a modern-art-ish bench on a sidewalk

sidewalk piano partially enclosed by a big wooden box on rollers on tracks

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 28d

OMFG

"math fact! having the middle amount of vertices, edges, and faces (30, 60, and 32, respectively) among all 13 of the options, the icosidodecahedron is the archi-median archimedean solid"

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#math #wordplay

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · 28d

knives come in pretty colors. can't even see what color that filament is, what's the point

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 21

*Abettors, dang

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 21

Abbetors:

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 20

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image meme; it's that image that starts "is there a doctor here?"

woman on sidewalk kneeling next to collapsed man: "any doctor here?"

man with briefcase walking past: "I'm a doctor"

woman: "he's having a heart attack"

man w/briefcase: "I'm a doctor of economics"

woman: "he's going to die"

man w/briefcase: "impossible. that wouldn't be in his self interest"

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 20

Occam's Razor hard at work in Golden Gate Park this morning.

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Occam's Razor hard at work in Golden Gate Park this morning.

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 18

So much for the tolerant right

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 15

Maybe don't split it up, keep it together and try to get a group rate on therapy

Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 14

#Book Report: Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

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Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts

Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts It's a puzzlehunt drama, with the emphasis on the drama. The hunt's designer says And the true prize, the jewel …

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 13

A neighborhood mystery solved: Some weeks back, I walked past as someone in a forklift repeatedly rammed into the side of a UCSF building at Arguello and Irving, poking a big hole in the wall. Since then, the room thus entranced has been under constructi… lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2025/09/...

a big ol' medical scanner barely fitting through the whole in a wall. off to the side, a forklift stands ready. (could a little forklift handle a big ol' medical scanner? idk. anyhow

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 13

went to visit a shorter friend's apartment

there was a dead bird on a high shelf and i had to break the news

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Larry "lahosken" Hosken 🇺🇸 👀 @lahosken.bsky.social · Sep 12

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It's a vax selfie. Normally I'd wait a month for the COVID vax so it would be full-strength for mid-January. But I worried that some worm-eaten …

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