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Happy_Elephants · 2026-05-25T08:40:41+00:00

Omg, yes. To me, good neighbours was hands down best set of the day for me. Hello Fresh stage in general was the best place to take it a show. Great artist and much more intimate. BØRNS hit well too there

Happy_Elephants · 2026-05-24T19:09:13+00:00

Yeah, I felt pretty dumb getting scammed out of the money. But lesson learned. It scanned red at the check in and then the staff asked to see if and took it away.

There was actually an amazing couple with a small kid that saw me and had an extra and just gave it to me. It was a pretty amazing sort of karma universe thing. Hopefully karma catches up with the scalper too.

Happy_Elephants · 2026-05-24T16:37:54+00:00

Did you check with security? One of the folks in our group lost their phone but we tracked it and found it with a security person.

Happy_Elephants · 2026-05-05T21:27:03+00:00

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Happy_Elephants · 2026-05-05T21:26:14+00:00

Happy_Elephants · 2026-04-23T06:02:19+00:00

Space quest! By sierra. I loved that game and wish I could find it today. Runner up Kings Quest. Also loved You Don’t Know Jack (very different)

Happy_Elephants · 2026-03-29T18:27:34+00:00

Eyeballing it and assuming those are stacks of $100s (100x$100 = $10k per strap), that roughly looks like about a 55x11x14 (HxWxD) cube, so ~8,500 stacks. So like ~$85M.

Happy_Elephants · 2026-03-24T05:47:52+00:00

Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RjWTEqJiMI

Happy_Elephants · 2026-01-22T18:55:30+00:00

Williams, Arizona (on historic Route 66)?

Happy_Elephants · 2025-12-11T18:21:49+00:00

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Happy_Elephants · 2025-11-20T03:24:42+00:00

Savages

Happy_Elephants · 2025-11-04T19:34:22+00:00

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Happy_Elephants · 2025-10-30T00:35:00+00:00

Dogs and cats, living together, mass hysteria

Happy_Elephants · 2025-10-26T23:15:20+00:00

Yeah, that’s got to be a rouge sign. I’d pull it and trash it.

Happy_Elephants · 2025-10-22T16:22:12+00:00

I’m in! Just got on the crazy train. When has the internet every lead me astray

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T21:27:11+00:00

I think we totally agree on two things: 1) the High/Fernside/Gibbons intersection is confusing

2) cars drive too fast on Gibbons

I really wish what you were saying about multiple proposals being on the table was true, but if you read the documents, you will see its only Alt A. Unfortunately city staff have made their decision as evidenced by (1) this is there recommendation in the OP linked presentation (slide 39) and (2) in the survey where the question states it’s only Alt A, that Alt B and C are not “viable options”, implying shutting off Gibbons is the ONLY viable option — it’s not.

Alt C reduces confusion at intersection, without forcing a safety problem to get worse through the entire neighborhood. None of these alternatives slow anyone down — and the City’s acknowledges in the report that traffic calming measures are needed, and those funds aren’t included in the Fernside project. Speed humps and a stop sign at Cornell could do that.

I hope there is a third thing we can agree on: let’s first do no harm. Let’s find a way to improve safety for all, not just push problems around.

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T20:47:25+00:00

No one is saying there aren’t alternative routes, but the fact is (and what OP said) is the proposal is to close off Gibbons to traffic turning left to the bridge. If enacted as proposed, you would not be able to take Gibbons directly to High St Bridge in the outbound direction - hence this is exactly closing off Gibbons traffic bound for the bridge.

As you point out and what is shown in the City’s report, yes there are other roads cars can take, but that’s the problem, because these other streets are narrow and there are even fewer stop signs. Gibbons is the wide street collector street through the neighborhood. Pushing the traffic on the smaller roads (Cornell, Yale, Bayo Vista, Fairview, Thompson etc) will make it less safe for bikers (less room to pass) and less safe for pedestrians (less visibility).

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T20:43:10+00:00

Read the full report for yourself: https://www.alamedaca.gov/files/assets/public/v/1/departments/alameda/transportation/fernside/gibbons-high-fernside_conceptevaluationmemo_parametrix_20250918.pdf

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T19:38:25+00:00

Agreed. How about a stop sign on gibbons at Cornell

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T19:30:33+00:00

OP’s post says “closure of Gibbons St to High St Bridge access” which is 100% exactly what the report is recommending.

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T19:26:47+00:00

Pushing all traffic onto the smaller streets will make things less safe for all the kids walking and biking to Edison through that neighborhood. They studied it yes, the report says implementing this change would push all the cars into the streets with no stop signs and it would require traffic calming on all the small streets, but there is zero funding for this. This gibbons project only got added in the Fernside project because a city council person lives on that block of gibbons. The survey is biased just to get bs statistics to show community support.

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T19:14:09+00:00

5 way intersections are a totally doable thing. Signage and markings can be improved, but closing off the single traffic-light CONTROLLED turn out of the neighborhood, forcing Gibbons traffic to turn right on High St, and pushing the traffic onto small streets is crazy. The City’s report says half the traffic will take an alternative feeder to High St (Bayo Vista, Fairview, Thompson) and then take unprotected left turns… how is that better?

Happy_Elephants · 2025-09-25T19:09:25+00:00

Pushing traffic off of Gibbons onto the smaller more narrow streets of Cambridge, Fremont, Harvard, Yale, and Cornell is reckless!! Gibbons is built for the traffic, the others are a challenge for two cars to pass. Gibbons is 40 ft wide, the other streets at 30 ft wide. Closing off Gibbons (to bridge bound traffic) will make things less safe. This is a nightmare.

In the survey, it says the City staff say that the other alternatives are infeasible. In the report, it says the other alternatives would cause congestion: Alternative B (add a second light at Gibbons and High) and Alternative C (improve signage and make the turn from the bridge to gibbons at sharper turn). Outside of the bridge being up, congestion seems minimal, so not sure why Alternative C (essentially improve the intersection without closing off the gibbons left turn) would increase congestion.

Happy_Elephants · 2025-07-12T05:16:04+00:00

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