Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

Manages department level special studies and projects, that are more high level and complex in nature which includes: contract administration; establishing and monitoring timelines; preparing requests for proposals; selecting consultants; ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, specifications, and/or requirements; monitoring project budgets; tracking projects; preparing related reports; and, performing other related duties.

The City of Palo Alto is looking for people to be Human Resources Anaylst for $116,000 per year —I’m calling them “hookers” in the sense of managing other humans as resources -/ and or scratchers in the form of playing the mandolin like the feller last night at First Friday..

Yes, if you are a multigenerational real estate developer worth hundreds of millions of dollars already. For example Boyd Smith and Lund Smith, at the corner of university and Middlefield.. want to build 63 units of housing within 40 feet of a heritage oak tree which we the people stipulate should be protected better. (last time I looked there was a formula where they measured the diameter of the tree and projected out).

Palo Alto Forward which I used to call Palo Alto For War meaning “class war” — the billionaires versus the rest of us— approves of the project.

I am cynical enough to believe that people who claim they are pro housing are actually pro developer.

And anti-tree.

TOM WAITS IN COEN BROS “THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS”

super attorney, Isaac H. Winer, a graduate of the class of ‘89 and UCLA law school has been named the next president of Stanford. he said his priority is to buy up distressed property in college terrace and expand the Stanford research park which currently only has $18 billion worth of leases. The endowment itself $35 billion.

my model for the growth and asset management of Stamford is United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, not Oxford, Cambridge, or Cambridge or Berkeley. He announced via a hologram that he said was the original hologram used in Star Wars for Princess Leia. Which the university bought as part of its new history of film building or school.

As part of his deal, Stanford’s investing $50 million into T-shirts to promote his name, image and likeness. And the official fight song will go for all right now to pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew.

this was announced April 1 2024.

pew, pew, pew, pew.
(for PEW)

He writes: Special thanks to Mark Weiss in Palo Alto for underwriting a lot of awesome music all week at Earthwise. Marta Sanchez was featured on the Earthwise series playing her utterly distinctive prepared piano music. Hopefully a record is in the works…Here she is quickly undoing her preparations before I started playing: