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Of haps and hap tics

Posted on September 3, 2014 by markweiss86

1. I ran into my Oak Creek neighbor Serkin at Farmer’s Market and gave him my only Weiss for Council pin, from 2012. New York Times article about robotics, Stanford byline, by John Markoff: “Brainy, Yes, But Far From Handy: … Continue reading →

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Of haps and haptics

Posted on September 3, 2014 by markweiss86

1. I ran into my Oak Creek neighbor Serkin at Farmer’s Market and gave him my only Weiss for Council pin, from 2012. New York Times article about robotics, Stanford date-line, by John Markoff: “Brainy, Yes, But Far From Handy: … Continue reading →

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Zasu Pitts at the New Varsity, circa 1988

Posted on August 20, 2014 by markweiss86

Randy Lutge is the Les Blank of Palo Alto, and his New Orleans is the New Varsity. He has about 500 films of acts and artists performing live music there, 456 University, in the late 1980s and early 1990s when … Continue reading →

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Stanford garners Fields Prize

Posted on August 14, 2014 by markweiss86

Paul J. Cohen won the Fields Prize in 1966 for work he did on the continuum hypothesis in 1963 while living in Palo Alto, on Princeton Street in College Terrace (actually quite close to where Zuckerberg founded Facebook years later). … Continue reading →

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Joe 90 v. Joe 90

Posted on August 12, 2014 by markweiss86

I never heard of Joe 90 until my cousin Craig told me that his band had changed it’s name to it, to wit:

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Sane endorsement, strange interlude

Posted on August 9, 2014 by markweiss86

I got a tour of 801 Alma from a resident who felt some dissatisfaction with the management of the new PAHC building, based on the perceived lack of community among the resident, who moved in about a year ago. I … Continue reading →

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I don’t wanna be your hero I just wanna fight like everyone else

Posted on July 29, 2014 by markweiss86

Thank you,  Kerry Yarkin and one other, for diverting the cavalcade of trolls who attacked me on the Weekly’s site, under the back-handed article about entering the race. What Gennady Sheyner strangely leaves out is that I got nearly 6,000 … Continue reading →

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Plastic Alto and Ran-Ham Bowl, St. Paul

Posted on July 4, 2014 by markweiss86

The masthead of Plastic Alto, a blog comprising 750 posts since 2010, pictures Mark Weiss bowling at Ran Ham Bowl in St. Paul. The photo is by Terry Acebo Davis. Mark’s cousin, Isaac Blumfield, had a gig in the adjoining … Continue reading →

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Puzzling evidence in Palo Alto

Posted on June 11, 2014 by markweiss86

  (under construction: time to eat the donuts….)   edit to add: Holy canoli! Did he say “Silicon Valley” at 1:40???

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Last call at Happy Donuts

Posted on June 6, 2014 by markweiss86

I am writing this post remote from Happy Donuts, its last day, last 9 hours. 1. This is admittedly a weird place to start even a lyrical essay about the rise and fall of Palo Alto’s Happy Donuts, but I … Continue reading →

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