Bay area folk, if my friends need some SF advice (finding housing, neighborhoods, childcare, vets) can I point them your way?

Sure. SF Area advice, or SF specifically? Javachik & I can speak for the closer-in East Bay, at any rate (Oakland/Berkeley).

Many happy returns, Plei!

And what a shame about Gandolfini: 51 is just too damn young.

Yeah, that's a good distinction. I can help with my zone of hinterland if that's useful.

I won't post the picture or the link, but there's a story of a man who thought it would be fun to dress the dog--shepherd size--as a, well, size-proportional jillifont. And whenever his wife came home, the dog would always run to her in excitement.

I saw that on Tumblr, and my reaction was OH FUCK NO. And I am amazed she didn't divorce him.

So, the woman "sitting" next to me on the bus who keeps folding in half and passing out/falling asleep: exhausted or drugs? She's done this on a couple other days, so m suspecting drugs.

Consuela, I don't know. Not sure of the physical location of Matt's work, or how close they want to be to it. For the interim, they will be living with in-laws (I can't remember which, or how close they will be to SF, but a helluva lot closer than B'more) while they search in a more leisurely fashion for housing. I'll let them know the options!

-t, thanks, too!

Um, what's your hinterland, -t? You can email it if you want. My username.1 at gmail.

You know that horrible Reddit/Kickstarter thing from earlier? Kickstarter has released a statement that, while the content is “abhorrent and inconsistent with [their] values,” their current guidelines do not warrant removal. So now there's a petition to tell Kickstarter that's not okay: [link]

I can help with Solano County or maybe Contra Costa County, sarameg.

Abhorrent is allowed, eh? That seems like a good opportunity to rethink the guidelines, Kickstarter.

Bay area folk, if my friends need some SF advice (finding housing, neighborhoods, childcare, vets) can I point them your way? They are Cali kids, but I think mostly SoCal.

Of course, I can give a good rundown on schools in SF and the East Bay.

Jesse, this might be a good video for the Tumblr: Things Dogs Teach Us. [link]

Beware, though, there's a point in the middle where it might make you cry.

I doubt this is science (NY Post???), but are the numbers in this [link] correct that women start experience pain pretty damned early in heel-wearing? I thought that was kinda just me. Pulling a work day in narrow 2-4 inch heeled pumps boggles me.

But one interviewee says she has tricks to go 12 hours without pain...I'm not curious enough to try, though.

Shit! My sister asked me to read her paper. I have to go have a brain. I thought I was done braining for the day.