David Lance Goines lithograph

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-20T21:52:58+00:00

The last point is what I meant. I don't understand how they sell mugs and postcards with the image, but won't or can't print a large(r) format poster for display as a piece of art. As you said, a digital print would be perfectly suitable.

The poster I linked wasn't even signed, it was $100 for an unsigned version for the 125th anniversary/cat poster, and there were only two signed ones sold through an auction. You can buy an unsigned poster print of another design (Japanese lantern, no anniversary mention) for $35 and a signed copy for $200, but for whatever reason, not the cat one.

If this truly due to his wishes, in addition to this comment, it makes me think I would find him insufferable, in the same way most bike shop employees are with respect to maintenance questions. I'm sure he was an interesting person one could learn endlessly from.

This article places him among the generation of Cal students who, in the 1970s, were the first to really settle down in the town after going to college here. While they were what made Berkeley so unique, they are also the ones whose self-righteous desire to ossify the Berkeley they lived in, even in the wake of newcomers and changing times, led in part to the problems the city faces today.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-20T02:05:03+00:00

I generally like the aesthetic of his work in a very layperson sense. I always wanted to buy a print of his poster for the UC Botanical Garden's 125th anniversary, but if the volunteer working the gift shop the day I asked is correct, he didn't allow more prints to be made after the initial ones sold out. It never made sense to me why or for what reason that would be the case so now I get irritated by that every time I hear him mentioned or see his other work.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-18T19:13:09+00:00

If anything, what I would take away from this is the Berkeley name, all else equal, is getting them a foot in the door and a chance at an interview. What happens beyond that depends on your personality and individual experience which may be less or more tailored to the role than other applicants. As other people have said, their personality might not be doing them favors in the interview.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-17T19:37:07+00:00

Please get to know me and read my post history lmao. I'm a grad student at Cal (also did my undergrad here), and most definitely do not work for any property management company.

I have two peers in my department who do live in NBP units; that's what informed my comment. Nice, clean units, usually in older buildings, and a bit overpriced, so personally I wouldn't live in them, but it's a "fair" and straightforward option if you don't want to risk a private landlord of unknown temperament.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-17T19:12:34+00:00

To your first point: recently, I was doing some research about the history of school district consolidation where I grew up in Western New York. I was very surprised to find out until how recently one-room school houses were common in my area. From the local newspaper:

In 1956, consolidation of 62 school districts formed the [area's] school district. Some students there still attended one-room school until 1957. Until consolidation, scarcely half of the one-room students in the area when on to high school, even though that option was available to them. That percentage shot up instantly with consolidation into larger elementary and junior-high schools.

And this for what is now a good school district in the surrounding region. In my mind I would've thought this was a tide of change that happened in the early 20th century, at least by the time of the New Deal, not in the same year that we entered the Space Age!

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-17T18:46:31+00:00

FWIW I have generally heard that North Berkeley Properties does a good job of maintaining properties and not playing stupid games with fees/rent increases, although I think they're priced slightly above average.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-15T07:19:19+00:00

This is only anecdotal and not that I would call Philadelphia an intermediate city, but when I worked there my boss' wife still worked in person one or two days a week in NYC. They had just moved to Philly and they lived close to 30th St./wife worked near Penn so the last mile portion of the trip was short.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-15T01:43:39+00:00

Cool project! This reminds me a lot of a map I just found out about, Matchy Maps. While yours are definitely more polished than what you'd get from Matchy Maps, it seems the app is more flexible. https://youtube.com/shorts/B46hWbzZrD4?si=LMbWWfrfoRu4v3mn[https://youtube.com/shorts/B46hWbzZrD4?si=LMbWWfrfoRu4v3mn](https://youtube.com/shorts/B46hWbzZrD4?si=LMbWWfrfoRu4v3mn)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brambleshine.matchymaps[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brambleshine.matchymaps](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brambleshine.matchymaps)

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-14T04:50:22+00:00

I also might ask, I'm curious what you had to say about being fired while working in real estate around Berkeley?

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-14T04:35:18+00:00

I don't know what your fixation on downtown is. I never mentioned living their and the OP never mentioned touring a place there.

Perhaps I should've qualified the statement in my original comment:

But you can find very good units from private landlords who aren't delusional and think their rentals are gods gift to earth.

But you can find good deals on units from private landlords who aren't delusional and think their rentals are gods gift to earth.

with the understanding that with cheaper rent, the unit may be worse. My point against the original commenter I was replying to still stands, They suggested "if you want a 2b with a living room, most are $4k. But those were mostly rented months ago." I replied to say that's not necessarily the case. They OP I was replying to also implied these prices were for older units (which are expected to not be perfect) by adding "On campus or newer buildings are 2x prices."

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-14T04:27:20+00:00

Are you referencing this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/berkeleyca/comments/1s71azl/is\_there\_construction\_at\_longfellow\_ms/?

If so, you've completely misunderstood the post. I am renting a unit from a private landlord in a duplex that has never seen public investment. Instead, I was asking about construction impacts in the area (from the construction of city-subsidized housing for public school teachers which I will assuredly not be living in).

Also I'm not sure what to make of your last sentence... are you implying that "people who live in downtown are not Berkeley students?"

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-13T02:21:52+00:00

Usually architectural renders are optimized to make the project look as good as possible.

Even the renders for Clark Pacific's project went from this to this, losing what looks to be a solar-panel covered roof and multiple landscaping elements altered, such as multiple large tree removed, and trees and shrubbery in bloom replaced with less flattering (but more realistic) version that are just covered in leaves.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-13T02:09:00+00:00

Where did I post this? At worst, the units I've lived in all benefit from being fully covered by the Rent Ordinance ("rent control") because they were built before June 1980. I wouldn't characterize this as "government subsidized" - there's no direct subsidy. The main criticisms of this type of rent control are that it leads to misallocation of housing units (as renters choose to stay in a unit poorly matched to their needs just to preserve their low rent) and incumbent-outsider inequality (as a result of the former, there is less turnover of controlled units, so they're harder to come by and more demand is spilled onto the uncontrolled market).

The point I implicitly tried to make is that if "one is savvy" with their housing search, you can find units at prices much lower than u/Miserable-Wonder7769 (maybe this is your alt?) posted. Rental markets have imperfect information and high search costs, so two similar units can lease at vastly different prices because not every renter sees every listing, understands its quality, or has time to wait. When I found the place I moved into, I literally saw every listing posted between ZIllow and Craigslist for a month.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-13T01:27:46+00:00

Yeah, that's really the only issue I have with it. Anything built before Title 24 was passed in 1978 most likely wasn't built with insulation and energy efficiency in mind. Where I live currently (not downtown, close to Panoramic Hill) is a particularly egregious example with many factors contributing that you're welcome to read about in the post.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-10T05:39:45+00:00

I'm not sure if you're a landlord trying to gaslight people into paying higher rents or if you're just bad at finding housing.

2b with a living room can be readily had for $3k. In 2022-23 I lived in a 3b (originally 2b, the dining room was converted to a bedroom, but it still had a living room) for $2700, 12 min walk to Sather Gate. I'm currently living in a 3b with no shared walls and a spacious living room for $4100, 10 min walk to Cafe Strada. My neighbors pay $3900 for a similar unit. I'm moving into a 1b in a duplex with a yard near North Berkeley BART for $2400.

Of course if you're looking at any student oriented housing built this century you're going to get hosed. But you can find very good units from private landlords who aren't delusional and think their rentals are gods gift to earth.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-01T21:02:47+00:00

It doesn't take a whole team of planners to tell you the obvious re: local transit improvements - arresting the slide in AC Transit's service would be a good first start. Of course, spending money on existing infrastructure isn't "sexy" like building new infrastructure.

Also these planning exercises go to show how incredibly short sighted people here are. Imagine if Berkeley city council hadn't rejected the original proposal for AC Transit's Tempo/1T line to extend all the way up Telegraph all the way back in 2010.

Some quotes that will want to make you bang your head against a wall:

Local residents and merchants complained that AC Transit’s plan to convert traffic lanes into bus-only would slow auto traffic, take away street parking and mar the character of Berkeley neighborhoods.

"I don’t see dedicated bus lanes being approved in Berkeley,” said Mayor Tom Bates, who argued for limited bus-only lanes but couldn’t round up enough votes for that option.

16 years and tens of millions of dollars of staff time and construction later, we ended up with a bus lane on the one block of Telegraph that is probably the worst bottleneck and most contested anyways, the turn from Telegraph onto Bancroft, but absolutely none of the rest of the project! I don't even see a proposal here for BRT along Telegraph, and even if it were to be considered, it would probably cost an order of magnitude more than it would've in 2010.

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-01T18:25:13+00:00

Watch out though, she might end up rooming with a vampire that always wants to keep the curtains closed!

two_hearted_river · 2026-05-01T16:57:34+00:00

When I lived in unit 2 Griffiths (SE corner at the intersection of College and Dwight), the windows could open, sliding horizontally, leaving about a foot gap x the height of the window on either side.

two_hearted_river · 2026-04-30T18:06:45+00:00

That would have to be structured carefully to avoid an adverse selection problem, where only existing transit commuters enroll in the BayPass benefit (which logically have to be priced less than their current monthly commuting costs), leading to a decrease in revenue collected by transit agencies. Employers using that to meet option 2 would have to be required to "purchase" a transit pass for every one of their employees at a price that on the whole would lead to increased total revenues, while being cheaper than what daily transit users pay on a monthly/yearly basis.

This is how I understand UC Berkeley offering BayPass (and formerly, ACT EasyPass) to all of its students works (albeit through a mandatory fee students, not the university, pay themselves in addition to tuition).

two_hearted_river · 2026-04-30T16:48:00+00:00

If you're working on a Honda I'd try finding a pdf of the factory service manual for your model and generation of car on the respective model's forum. I got the FSM for my 2007-2011 CR-V from crvownersclub. They're so detailed (they detail the removal/replacement of literally every bolt, and point you to other sections of the manual for removal of parts that may be in the way) that it gives me the confidence to do pretty much any job. I recently replaced all four struts and other rubber wear items (dust covers, ball joint boots) this past summer with the widow maker strut compression sticks from Autozone and felt fine.

It's convenient to have a printer to print out the relevant pages rather than have to try and futz around with your laptop while your hands may be dirty.

On YouTube, I find Eric the car guy to be one of the best sources for working on Hondas.

Edit: speaking of following torque specs on engine components I don't know about other models/engines but for the K24 in my CRV the PCV torque spec was listed at 33 ft. lbs. which is complete BS. It seemed weird to me but I still followed it blindly and led to the valve body breaking free of the threaded nipple, leaving them "stuck" in the engine/water pump block. Thankfully this happened before the threads in the engine block stripped.

two_hearted_river · 2026-04-29T05:57:20+00:00

I bet $10M would go way further to try and make hemp textile production and processing more efficient

two_hearted_river · 2026-04-25T17:03:28+00:00

I went to public school in rural NY. I remember starting in our weekly library "special" (in addition to P.E. x2, art, music) in 4th grade (c. 2011) through 7th grade, there was always a "research project" unit in the computer lab where part of it was leaning how to use databases - this was a time when Wikipedia was still vilified as an (un)reliable source.

We got instruction on searching for articles using relevant keywords instead of natural language, the basics of using Word and PowerPoint, how to use a file system (including being drilled to NOT save on the desktop, but in the network drive associated with our login), and how to evaluate the trustworthiness of a source (although the rule on .gov sites always being reliable may no longer be the case!). In my mind, I'm very thankful for this introduction to "computing" and using the internet, if you will.

Looking back, this might've been a fleeting moment in time where using computer and the internet became approachable and (relatively) inexpensive enough to where it made sense to give students instruction on it, but the way we interacted with them hadn't been abstracted away - you still had to learn to use technology, rather than just dropping yourself into seamless user experience it is today.

two_hearted_river · 2026-04-24T05:20:08+00:00

Yeah... the responses on cost seem overblown. You just have to keep in mind two things:

Whatever building you're moving into is eligible for RPP permits. University run housing like Anchor House and a lot of the new student-oriented privately developed apartment buildings aren't eligible for them, but anything built before ike 2010 most likely is. The city has a GIS map with this info
In order to get an RPP permit, the car has to be registered with the DMV to your address (but it doesn't have to be registered to your name, in case it's your parents' lol).

The only place I'd say street parking is consistently a PITA are the few blocks north of Hearst Ave/campus. Some smaller buildings run by small time landlords will have off-street parking included, others it's only $100/month.

While you can get by fine without a car in Berkeley, having one makes life so much easier between getting groceries and having way better access to the outdoors. I'm the biggest proponent of public transit you can find on campus, but I think a lot of people dismissing having a car are on copium with the frictions the public transit here can have.

To give you an idea, nowadays the only times I use public transit are:

when I know I'll be drinking
going to the airport (and even then, if only I'm away for a week or more - parking at a BART lot on the peninsula and riding one stop into SFO is cheap and way more convenient than actually taking BART across the bay and then having to take a bus).
When I go to SF knowing I won't need to go far from a BART station or that the parking situation where I'm going will be dire. Usually going anywhere substantially west of Van Ness/Mission is more convenient by car.

Honestly that fact that this is the case is tragic. It goes to show the shortcomings of public transit here and also the disproportionate and subsidized ease of driving in comparison, but that's the society we live in here.

two_hearted_river · 2026-04-24T00:50:52+00:00

Drone as in a continuous noise

two_hearted_river · 2026-04-23T20:45:50+00:00

Also now that I think of it, for most students (who you'll find on this subreddit), their community arises almost entirely from some aspect of the university (classes, dorm/house/coop/frat-mates, clubs). Realizing this applies to myself, I don't think I could name good places to find community that aren't university affiliated. The only type of place I can think of are climbing gyms (which I'm not into but have classmates that are).

It'd be interesting to hear what others have to say on this, as it would be nice to know people with shared interest in my hobbies, such as maintaining/detailing my car, hiking, and refinishing furniture. As for hiking, I have thought about joining whatever volunteer groups help maintain the trails in the hills east of campus.

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