Paly routs Tino

Posted on January 25, 2022 by markweiss86
Seb Chancellor leads transition as Vikings beat Cupertino by 22 Tuesday at the Peery


Actually this is a better crop:
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Shave and a hair cut two bits

Posted on January 25, 2022 by markweiss86

I buy three newspapers most mornings at Mac’s for seven bucks and leave a buck in sales tax. When we built the new Mitchell Park library we spent $250,000 of the $25m budget on art: the Beasley arch, a laser cut tree, the owl bollards. The library that is open only slightly more than our system wide rate of 27 percent of the time 97 of 350 possible hours

So if we are going to discuss a business tax, why not go where the money is: venture capital.

Why not tax a tenth of a percent $1 per thousand?

There’s $300b nationwide up from $160 the previous year. One billion of that lands in Palo Alto. Another billion starts here. The trades track this stuff. Subscribe to SV Business Journal.

It says $8m is for ArmorCode security software. They’d probably enjoy knowing thar due to their ingenuity we kept The Mitch open a couple extra hours per week.

We could have an extra $100m per year for we the people hosting the trillions of wealth ”created” here.

 

2100 Geng Road in the Baylands

ArmorCode was founded in July 2020 by CEO Nikhil Gupta — the former VMware and Cisco executive most known for founding Avid Secure, an AI-powered enterprise cloud security posture management company acquired by Sophos — and seasoned CTO Anant Misra to help companies take charge of increasingly-complicated application security environments. According to Gartner, application security is one of the top three fastest-growing segments within cybersecurity.

 

 

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John Arrillaga, 1937-2022

Posted on January 24, 2022 by markweiss86
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Arrillaga’s Xanadu is our new gym?

Posted on January 23, 2022 by markweiss86

Did he already build this gym, the “well-ness center” two-levels — maybe figurative and literal levels.

Is the gym actually his famous residence, his fortress in the hills, next to Foothill Park?

His Xanadu, him Kubla Khan, his “pleasure dome decree” — its a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, that is also quoted in “Citizen Kane” — by the way, has anyone checked for a clue somewhere on Palo Alto’s Coleridge: “YES”. 

Maybe this is John Arrillaga’s visionary way of announcing that he is gifting us little people his house!

There is precedent in the whole Grand Jury Report, 7.7 acres of hidden parkland revealed to us. It wasn’t his and then he gave it to us; it was ours, we didn’t know about it, and he was being very sneaky about finally, six years and two renewal terms after normal people would have cleared this up, he tried to secretly buy it from us at a discount — in a exchange for “giving us” — if us, We the People, and Stanford, a $35b endowment with another $18b in groundleases is us — an office tower. An office tower with a theatre. Literally, “a” theatre. For Theatreworks. (Although few people know this but the day it hit the papers I left John Arrillaga a voice mail suggesting that if that didn’t work out he could from Chop Keenen buy The Varsity for Theatreworks and other uses – -like live music. Little did I know that he was way ahead of me, because Amy French of City staff, a former backup singer for Fee Waybill, had suggested Arrillaga add the theatre to the office tower because of my advocacy for enforcing the reversion clause in Borders’ controversial lease, according to a paper by a budding developer at GSB. 

So maybe John Arrillaga is not a hardass, he’s a trickster with literary allusion and sense of panache. And really bad PR people. 

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan

A stately pleasure-dome decree:

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran

Through caverns measureless to man

   Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground

With walls and towers were girdled round;

And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,

Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;

And here were forests ancient as the hills,

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

On other hand, some reports say Arrillaga does not live in Palo Alto, he lives in Portola Valley. Also, to Ed Shikada: Cubberley has three gyms. Not “two small gyms and a pavillion”. I had suggested earlier in this saga that rather than spending $20m of our money we just change the name of the Cubberley main gym – -where Peterson with Chuckie Wright Mel Cosby and Ben Bennett nipped Cubberley with Lockhart, Violante, Rosenberg, Ruff and Snyder 66-65 in triple OT in the last game ever played there*—Presley Pavillion in honor of basketball coaching legend Bud Presley and Elvis Presley — there’s a whole lot of shaking going on. (They have dances there, sometimes to Elvis oldies. I think…close enough for Plastic Alto…I’d support the gym if it was to be named for William Fenwick).

Of the 42 men in Stanford’s basketball hall of fame, I’ve seen 14 of them play * coach Delannoy who supports the gym offer verbatim corrected my poetic version of those final prep classics: We lost by 6 at Cubberley and we lost by 2 in Double OT in the playoffs.

edit to ad: SVBJ reports this evening that John Arrillaga died today at 84. His daughter reports that he spearheaded 200 donations of facilities and infrastructure and visited Stanford campus every day of his adult life. (I changed one word of the above from its first published version: hardass. 
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Four out of six ain’t bad

Posted on January 22, 2022 by markweiss86
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Crooked Tree rfd

Posted on January 22, 2022 by markweiss86

Lets rename our town Crooked Tree, in honor of Molly Tuttle — “El Palo Alto” was cut down in 1771 two years after it was identified. Changing the name of our town would be a nod towards the beauty, ethics and kindness that this daughter of ours exemplifies.

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Go, badgers!?

Posted on January 20, 2022 by markweiss86
  • In Mel Brooks’s Western Blazing Saddles ( 1974), the line was delivered as “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.”
  • In Charles Swenson’s animated film Down and Dirty Duck (1974), a stereotypical Mexican mouse character, wearing a sombrero and a bandolier (probably in a parody of Speedy Gonzales), speaks the line as “I don’t want your stinkin’ badges!”
  • In the film The Ninth Configuration (1980), when the asylum patients are quoting lines from movies, one quotes “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.”
  • In the sketch-comedy film Elephant Parts (1981), one of the fake ad sequences portrays “an authentic Mexican bandito in a Mexican-American restaurant,” whose sole line is “Nachos? We don’t need no stinkin’ nachos!”
  • In the movie Gotcha! (1985), the character Manolo says “Don’t show me your badges; we don’t know nothing about no stinking badges.”
  • The movie Troop Beverly Hills (1989) contains the line “We don’t need no stinkin’ patches.”
  • In the “Weird Al” Yankovic film UHF (1989), when animal show host Raul (Trinidad Silva) is asked to take a consignment of badgers, he says “Badgers? Badgers?! We don’t need no stinking badgers!”
  • In the film Flashback (1990), as the hooker is undressing the FBI agent, she discards his badge saying “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges.”
  • In the Ron Howard film Backdraft (1991), William Baldwin’s character tries to refresh his nephew’s memory by using a hand puppet to exclaim, “Spinach? We don’t need no stinkin’ spinach!”
  • In the film No Code of Conduct (1998) Paul Gleason’s character says in a bad Mexican accent “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”, then goes on to sheepishly mention that he was quoting from the 1974 film Blazing Saddles.
  • In the film Bubble Boy (2001), when Jimmy offers Danny Trejo’s character Slim patches for his motorcycle’s flat tire he responds, “Patches? I could use some stinking patches.”
  • In the film Zombie Strippers (2008), when Paco (Joey Medina) is told to obtain some wild animals to dispose of the bodies, he says, “Badgers? Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers.”
  • In the film 6 Underground (2019), Three says the line while breaking into the enemy stronghold and going past the security desk.
  • In Spike Lee’s American war drama film Da 5 Bloods (2020), when Desroche’s gunmen first try to dispossess the Bloods of the recovered gold bars, the leader of the gunmen tells Paul, “We don’t need no stinking official badges.”
  • In the film “Fatherhood”(2021) Matt (Kevin Hart) and his daughter say “Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules.” many times throughout the film.
    • In the Stephen King novel It (1986), character Richie Tozier repeatedly says, in a poor imitation of a Mexican accent, “Batches? We don’t need no steeking batches.”
    • In the Stephen King novel Bag of Bones the narrator describes his denial of having writer’s block by saying to the reader “Writer’s block? What writer’s block? We don’t got no stinking writer’s block.”
    • The Luis Valdez play I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinkin’ Badges (1987) draws its title from this quote, and makes a specific reference to Sierra Madre.
    • In Eldest (2005), the second novel in Christopher Paolini’s The Inheritance Cycle series, a cobbler named Loring eschews the use of barges as a means of human transportation, saying, “Barges? We don’t want no stinking barges.” My mother always told me to keep my mouth shut unless I was eschewing. 
    • In William S. Burroughs’ report on the 1968 Democratic Convention for Esquire magazine, Burroughs has a cop demand to see the permit of the candidate’s entourage. The response is: “Permits? We don’t have any permits. We don’t have to show you any stinking permits. You are talking, suh, to the future President of America.”
    • The song “Badges” (1984) by Minutemen quoted the line as “We have no badges…we don’t need no badges…we don’t need no stinking badges”. I mean I didn’t stink at basketball, but in truth I was more of a minuteman than a gamer. 

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    • The song “Medicine Show” (1985) by Big Audio Dynamite sampled the quote by Alfonso Bedoya from the film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The song prominently featured quotes sampled from other westerns as well, including several by or making reference to the Eli Wallach character Tuco from the film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This association — as well as the similarity of voice and accent employed by both actors in their respective bandito roles — reinforces the common misconception that Wallach delivered the famous line.
    • Julian Cope’s semi-eponymous song “Julian H Cope” from his album Jehovahkill (1992) featured the line: “Badges? Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges! So sissified, civilised, I want to be a savage”.
    • The 2 Skinnee J’s song “The Good, the Bad, and The Skinnee” (1998) from the album SuperMercado! features the line “Badges, we don’t need no stinking badges” sung as a refrain five times in a row. Oh that’s weird I was confusing this group with the Toyes who wrote and recorded “Smoke Two Joints” not to be confused with a report in a local rag about turning a sporting goods store the size of a Safeway into a cannabis store; and to my point about self-governance, Palo Alto is a place where libertarians wanted to legalize marijuana. 
    • At the beginning of the song “Big Fat Money” off the album Balance by Van Halen, someone (probably Bruce Fairbairn) asked, “Al, you want a click on this one?” to which Alex Van Halen replied, “I don’t need no stinkin’ click!” Although personally I’d take the Cline brothers Nels and Alex over the VHs. 
    • The New York-based jam band moe often uses the line humorously during a pause in their song “Mexico” when playing it live.
    • The Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers song “Barons to Break,” from the album Native Heart (2017), includes the line in the chorus.
    • The Ian Brown song “Little Seed, Big Tree” has the phrase at the beginning of the song.

     

    • In the episode “It’s a Nice Place to Visit” (September, 1967) of The Monkees, Micky Dolenz delivers the line as “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges”.
    • In the episode “Filthy Pictures” (1980) of WKRP In Cincinnati, Johnny Fever is telling a story “I said show me some badges, and the guy says, Badges! Uh, we don’t need no stinking badges”.
    • In a 1983 episode of Wizards and Warriors, the character Marko (played by Walter Olkewicz) delivers a spoof of the line as “Badgers? We don’t need no stinkin’ badgers”. Never heard of it but I am sticking to a format of bold-facing the term “badger” which can also mean annoy. 
    • In the episode “There Goes the Neighborhood”(December 3, 1985) of The A-Team, Murdock reacts to fake badges with “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges”.
    • In the episode “Sledge in Toyland” (December 3, 1987) of Sledge Hammer!, Sledge and his partner arrive at the office of the murdered toy tycoon and the security guard sticks a visitor’s badge on his chest. Sledge throws it on the counter saying: “Heeeey, I don’t need no sticking badges.”
    • In the episode “Darkstar Rising” (2008) of Ben 10: Alien Force, when Kevin is lamenting the loss of his plumber’s badge, Ben says, “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges.”
    • In a 2014 episode of Transformers: Rescue Bots, Kade Burns says “Badgers? We don’t need no stinking badgers.” according to Wikipedia (and I almost wrote “accordion to” in a referernce to Weird Al, whose new movie features a kid from Harry Potter, talk about shtick!)
    • In an episode (season 1, episode 2: “A Better Mousetrap”) of the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Michelangelo intones, “Chill, bro — we don’t need no stinking surface world.”
    • In the Salute Your Shorts episode “The Treasure of Sara Madre” (1991), the gang is digging for buried treasure, and Z.Z. finds a junior park ranger’s badge, about which Michael states, “Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges!”
    • In the Friends Season 8 episode “The One with the Baby Shower” (2002), the quote is mentioned as one of Joey’s training questions for the show Bamboozled.
    • In the “A Beautiful Mine” (2003) episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Sheen says, “Uh, Libby, I don’t think they need no stinkin’ badges.” This entire episode is a parody of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. And in the movie version of “A Beautiful Mind” some people think the scene with Nash talking to his imaginary friend is actually an indirect way of discussing Nash with Paul J. Cohen. 
    • In the “Stuck with Dick” episode (1998) of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Harry says “Bagels? Bagels? We don’t need no stinkin’ bagels!”. 
    • In the “Ghost in the Machine,” episode 82, season 3 (1986) of The Transformers, the Ghost of Starscream tells Decepticon guards Runabout and Runamuck by saying, “Passes? Passes? I don’t have to show you no stinking passes!”
    • In the TV movie Good Luck Charlie, It’s Christmas!, when asked to see some identification badges, the leader of a group of live action video game players responded with “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!”
    • In the episode “Musta Been a Beautiful Baby” (Episode 28, October 13, 1993) of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Scratch and Grounder masquerade as police officers from the “Department of Lost Kids”, and when asked for their badges, reply “Badges? We don’t need no stinking—” before being cut off and thrown out. Which reminds me that I ran into our Chief, Robert Jonsen and he told me that he is from Novato, in Marin County, but spent much of his career in Southern California. He said his poitical influences include Barak Hussein Obama and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Which reminds me of the time I told Bhi Bhiman, former Paly baseball star, to change his name to Bho Bhoman. 
    • In the episode “Gumby with a Pokey” (Season 7, Episode 21, May 17, 2010) of Two and a Half Men, Berta and Charlie are quoting movies while high, and Berta says the line “Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” using a popsicle as a mustache.
    • In the episode “Blood Drive” (Season 5, Episode 18, March 5, 2009) of The Office, Michael is talking at a Valentine’s Day singles party and says “Relationships? We don’t need no stinkin’ relationships!”

     


    • In the Broadway production of American Idiot, between the songs “St. Jimmy” and “Give me Novocaine” the character, St. Jimmy, proclaims that “We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!” before Johnny and Whatsername initiate an intimate moment in the center stage bed. American Idiot which was influenced or begat I guess you could say by “Passing Strange” whose creator Mark Stew Stewart made his NorCal debut in September, 1995 at the Cubberley Auditorium. Cubberley which has three perfectly fine gyms, I’m just saying. 
  • So that is  46 previous references to a scene from the Humphrey Bogart movie “treasure of the Sierra Madre” about authority and those who dissemble. I meant no offense, however my previous letter was interpreted.
  • I also played basketball for Gunn High School. Above is former NBA player Michael Finley the former Wisconsin Badger. Finley who played more than 1,000 NBA games and averaged nearly 16 points per outing. 2x all star
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It’s a gig!

Posted on January 20, 2022 by markweiss86

Drew Dunlevie, the spearhead of Menlo’s new non profit rock club, looks like a guy who just had a baby! The eclectic programming kicks off with Kurt Elling Charlie Hunter band, February 5. I recommend Ambrose Akinmusire, Robert Glasper, Lyrics Born, and Mollie Tuttle, whose show may have already sold out, except standing room

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B-E-R-G-W-I-J-N!!!

Posted on January 19, 2022 by markweiss86
Tottenham super sub with extra time brace is new hero of English soccer; Steven Bergwijn
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Holiday, Monday January 17, 2022

Posted on January 17, 2022 by markweiss86
in today Times arts C2
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