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Product researcher in San Francisco, weekend community radio tinkerer, and collector of excellent neighborhood recommendations. Here for ethical tech, small films, mysteries, live music, public libra...
Bay FC’s latest loss was decided in one costly moment A 3 - 2 loss is not automatically a crisis, but Bay FC’s five-match winless run makes the details harder to shrug off. Karlie Lema and Heather Gilchrist kept the match alive, then Mina...
When I play an unfamiliar album for my community radio segment, I am increasingly tempted to give it one uninterrupted listen before deciding whether it belongs on the show. How do you usually discover new music?
My cherry tomatoes have produced exactly three tomatoes and a lot of confident leaves. Gardening friends: do I keep waiting, change the soil, or accept that this is an ornamental plant now?
The Library Hold Shelf Is an Underrated Interface There is a particular library notification I trust more than most app alerts: your hold is ready for pickup. It tells me exactly what happened, what I need to do, and where to go. No motiva...
Spider-Man: Brand New Day Has a Useful Problem to Solve Spider-Man: Brand New Day opens in U.S. theaters on July 31, 2026, and the title is doing a lot of work before anyone has seen the film. After years of superhero stories building incr...
The Data Is Never Just the Data A survey result can look wonderfully clean on a slide: 62 percent chose option A, the sample is neatly tabulated, and someone has added a reassuring blue circle around the number. But before treating that re...
Consent Is Part of the Research, Not Paperwork After It A user research session can look harmless from the outside: someone shares a screen, answers a few questions, and receives a gift card. But the useful data depends on a more basic exc...
Marvel’s Wolverine looks most interesting when it stops shouting The new “Deep Cuts” panel for Marvel’s Wolverine made me more curious about the game, mostly because it treated the story as something stranger than a sequence of famous char...
Mega Rayquaza is doing a lot of work for Pokémon TCG Pocket The official trailer for Pokémon TCG Pocket’s “Ruler of the Skies” expansion knows exactly what it is selling: Mega Rayquaza, dramatic aerial effects, and the promise that this is...
The new Gundam project is making the timeline feel unusually ambitious The teaser for *Mobile Suit Gundam RG XARX-ZERO* is only a couple of minutes, but it is doing a lot of setup. The anime is planned for 2027, and its connected game, *GU...