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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play

Paul E. Weiss, October 6, 1924 – August 25, 2015

Posted on September 29, 2015 by markweiss86

Some photo memories, previously published on “Plastic Alto” edit to add, October 6, 2015 (would be Paul’s 91st birthday): This is one of my favorite photos, that was stored in my phone for about a year until just now: Dad … Continue reading →

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49ers from Section 20, Box 5K Seats 1, 2

Posted on September 24, 2015 by markweiss86

My father, Paul E. Weiss (1924-2015) and I sat together for the San Francisco 49ers games for roughly 30 years, near the 20 yard line. Our seats were first called Section 20, Box 5K, seats 1, 2 and then Lower … Continue reading →

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‘Pixilated’ w. ‘pixelated’

Posted on August 30, 2015 by markweiss86

In deeds

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18 studies of Aoki potentially useful towards turning him into a toy, an animalperhaps an anthropomorphic chipmunk a girl a tennis player, art, after Aoki

Posted on August 22, 2015 by markweiss86

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Tom Zhang new Subway pitchman

Posted on August 21, 2015 by markweiss86
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The prime tuples conjecture, sieve theory, and the work of Goldston-Pintz-Yildirim, Motohashi-Pintz, and Zhang

Posted on August 21, 2015 by markweiss86

Originally posted on What's new:
Suppose one is given a -tuple of distinct integers for some , arranged in increasing order. When is it possible to find infinitely many translates of which consists entirely of primes? The case is…

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Cardinals sink Giants on Yadda Yadda Yadda (Molina homer 100)

Posted on August 20, 2015 by markweiss86

edit to add: somehow I am claiming also not just Seinfeld but Nabokov “Pale Fire” and previous unpublished research or sussing or Googling or search-injuning on “Red Sox Beat Yanks 5–4 On Chapman’s Homer” and Lawrence Ritter and “hoot mon” … Continue reading →

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds

Posted on August 20, 2015 by markweiss86

That’s not actually the USPS motto, but an inscription on a building in New York, sort of a monument. There’s supposedly a Carly Simon song based on it. And I think of James Taylor. But I am here trying to … Continue reading →

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The searchable fortress

Posted on August 20, 2015 by markweiss86

I found your blog and this post because “The Hidden Fortress” plays tonite in Palo Alto, California, at the Stanford Theatre, a non-profit film museum under-written and subsidized (tickets are $7, pop corn only $1) by the Packard Foundation, related … Continue reading →

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Foolish Wallace

Posted on August 19, 2015 by markweiss86

perhaps it was reading Huck Finn that sent me spelunking as in Hannibal MO into the Earthwise storage catacombs unearthing a press clipping IRA call from years ago about one of my favorite bands to it and it’s actually a … Continue reading →

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