John C. Baker

Whatever else happens tonight, this has been a great #WorldSeries game.

Thinking of watching a #StarTrek TOS episode with a good Chekov part today to honor Walter Koenig. Any recommendations on which one? Have it narrowed down to The Deadly Years, Spectre of the Gun, and Gamesters of Triskelion.

A huge loss for the Star Trek community and a tough way to start the week.

Late anniversary date with The Missus. She knows I love 100% historically accurate shows like this! #OhMary

I hope the mystery fourth actor is Hamish Patel. Right age, acting chops, and the right "blend-in" looks for a spy these days, while still being handsome enough to be seductive. Plus it'll piss off the right people.

Restocking some camping food and this is the longest best-by date for a perishable item I’ve ever seen!

I’m striking today with tens of thousands of State of California workers alongside @seiu1000.bsky.social in the quest for a contract that values public workers!

Went to the Berkeley Comics Show today. I didn’t have $40k for what I wanted in photo 1, so my haul was photo 2.

Hey fellow #MacOS users, anyone else see huge inexplicable jumps in system data since updating to MacOS 27? I've cleared caches and the trash is empty, yet I'm still seeing >550Gb in System Data.

Some pre-Blue Angels pics from the San Francisco Fleet Week air show. F-22 and F-35, you may even see a P-51 Mustang if you look closely. #SFFleetWeek

Pro-tip: If the drive-in vaccination line is shorter than the walk-in line, Kaiser will let you go through it on a bicycle.

I just gotta say, "Peter Hook" is a great name for a bassist.

Seems to be an encampment fire behind fire behind the Westborough Pacific Super in South San Francisco. Police scanner says they heard explosions.

I liked Krakoa, I had fun with the Morrison and Whedon runs, but Gail’s Uncanny is the first time I’ve LOVED the X-men since around Claremont’s issue 210.

A great step forward for local workforce housing which can be emulated elsewhere: San Mateo County Office of Education buys existing apartment building, and as residents naturally move, educators will be replacing them at reduced rents. www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/a...

Damn, the Temu app sucks. I just want to buy a cheap [item redacted to avoid ads]. They make you play non-skippable stupid games (“spin a wheel to get a free prize,” etc.) just to get on the app. I don’t have time for this. Off to eBay or Amazon.

John Mulaney showing off his book from my hometown Glendale Library at the #Emmys!

Today, in separate concerts, I saw two very different bands that have each been touring the world for nearly 50 years: Kool and the Gang (at SSF’s concert in the park) and Public Image Limited (at the Fillmore). Even money that I may be the first to see them both on the same day.

Ah shucks, according to Thor issue 284 (picking up a thread from Jack Kirby’s Eternals run), the Celestials are going to judge us this year. Don’t think we’re gonna make it, folks.

Hey, @nytimes.com: I'm a subscriber with a desktop, laptop, tablet, work computer, and smart phone. Multiple devices are typical today, so stop accusing me of sharing my account and making me go through 2FA each time I read a story. I'm not buying your damn family plan.

I think there's a bunch of people in the Trump administration who've never seen Come From Away.

Leadoff home run on first pitch and walk-off home run in same game: 8/17/26 Pete Crow-Armstrong 5/7/57 Vic Power

RIP Frank Beard of ZZ Top, who ironically was the only member without a beard.

Charles Hoelter is running for Congress against @kevinmullin.house.gov. Nothing says "fighting for the common man" like posting a variable width picture of yourself in a tuxedo and nothing says "attention to detail" like not capitalizing your own name.

I love Star Trek, including new shows (especially SNW), and loved the convenience of streaming any episode, anytime on Paramount+. But, with my annual subscription ending about the time this season of Strange New Worlds does, I am cancelling because of the evisceration of editorial independence.

It’s 8-0 in the 9th, but I have faith the #SFGiants can come back because the Tigers have Kenley Jansen in their bullpen.

This is how Amazon delivers in downtown Hamburg. I like it (the vehicle, not Amazon or Bezo's politics)!

#MLB trade deadline hot take: intra-division trades should be outlawed, with a 60-game waiting period for trades involving a third team out of the division. Looking at you Giants /Padres and Red Sox/Orioles.

I have never forgotten this "well, duh" headline that the Chronicle put on a murder story back in the day.

Back home, and greeted with this view!

The screen on my United flight says we’re about to leave Medford, Oregon. We’re in Germany. I’m assuming/hoping it’s not connected to the navigation computer.

St. Nikolai’s Church in Hamburg. Destroyed by Allied bombing in WWII and maintained as a memorial. Warmongers usually reap what they sow.

Germany bucket list item achieved: woman next to me on Hamburg bus just exclaimed “scheiss!” into her phone.

Hamburg! As a former working journalist, I like that this building is just outside our hotel window. Hoping to see some early Beatles history while I’m here — and to have a hamburger.

Speaking of property taxes, I feel compelled to show you this Silicon Valley house that has a market value of $4,313,755, and an annual property tax bill of $2,551 - an effective rate of 0.06%

Trump’s threats to Greenland have pissed off the Danes enough that it’s breaking through the kitty love.

Always happy to see libraries with large graphic novel sections, like the one I am in now in Lund, Sweden.

F*** me? Well f*** you too!

My first Danish comic book store visit (and mini-haul).

New #CityHallSelfie. Copenhagen’s radhaus!

Argentinian fans rally in Copenhagen before tonight‘s #WorldCup final.

I love the name of this Danish town.

Very impressed with Aalborg’s bike infrastructure and TRIPLE articulated (bendy) buses!

Off to Denmark by sea… see you Saturday, Aalborg!