LAHosken 🇺🇸👀

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Larry "LAHosken" Hosken. He lives in <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SanFrancisco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SanFrancisco</a>. He writes code. He encodes and decodes. He likes wordplay and puzzlehunts. He loves everybody.Toots computer programming nerdouts, photos of San Francisco, wordplay observations, puzzlehunt enthusiasm, and sundry miscellany.

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Post #4373168
Space filling curve, 8th+Irving St San Francisco
Post #4373167
@lzg Messier-Ashpool
Post #4373166
A fan of the #SanFrancisco Crosstown Trail posted his tribute &quot;Straight Up,&quot; a walking route straight up the middle from the south side of SF up to the Golden Gate. Monday, I walked it… https://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/new/2026/07/28/straight-up-route/
Post #4373165
New-to-me sidewalk art in #SanFrancisco &#39;s Upper Haight, Page Street near Lyon. A piece by Eclair Bandersnatch. In my pic, it looks like her hair eroded, but that&#39;s just my camera failing to depict glitter. Her hair had a lot of glitter. An assemblage of toys.
Post #4373164
This &quot;Gold Rush&quot; #SFPursuit reminds me of https://www.munzee.com/ , a.k.a. &quot;What if geocaching, but we can use QR codes?&quot;
Post #4373163
Spotted some art on tree stumps around #SanFrancisco walking between SFPursuit sites this weekend. The little blue house on the tall tree stump near the 19th Ave entrance to Golden Gate Park has a &quot;For Sale&quot; sign out plus American Gothic squirrels. A Hello Kitty pussyhat on a not-so-tall tree stump near Arguello and Euclid.
Post #4106017
Today&#39;s https://www.minutecryptic.com/ by Ben Stuart, pretty darned amazing: &quot;FIFA World Cup semifinals? Good excuse to miss work! (3)&quot; #puzzle
Post #4106016
Some mighty nice sidewalk chalk art at Presidio Wall Park today, celebrating Phillip&#39;s birthday. I dunno know who did it; it&#39;s unsigned. Maybe, like, Phillip&#39;s grandma or something? #SanFrancisco
Post #4106015
#USPol &quot;The AI czars have been Sacks, Burns, and Fall? are they doing a bit?&quot; –Prestemon https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:zsiieea4nujz6h7kh3vx5pqf/post/3mr7537u4wk2f
Post #4106014
#SFPursuit
Post #4106013
@lcamtuf goodreads says &quot;First published September 1, 1996&quot;
Post #4106012
How to finish an #SFPursuit challenge in minutes^W years: Attend elementary school a half block away. Get to know the neighborhood. Write (the first draft of) The 2-Tone Game https://lahosken.san-francisco.ca.us/frivolity/2tone/ , one of whose puzzles covered the relevant territory. If you&#39;re failing to discern something through glare-y glass: give up, stand back, and consider what nearby establishments the Hours &amp; Access notes might describe. Enter the first one you thought o...
Post #4106011
Outside Lands is still two weeks away, but the temporary cell towers are already up and their diesel generators are in full roar. Meanwhile, at 20th and Irving, there&#39;s a new-to-me Kal Zakzouk sidewalk chalk piece:
Post #2651395
oh cool, the emergency room near me is in the news oh hoo boy wait hang on https://missionlocal.org/2026/05/ucsf-er-crisis-death-staffing-parnassus/
Post #1459096
new from Sam Lavigne: &quot;A form which calculates an individual’s &#39;income tax body count&#39;, or the total number of conflict-related deaths they have caused through their income tax contributions to the U.S. government.&quot; https://income-tax-body-count.lav.io/
Post #1238873
A year and a half after a truck hit a pedestrian at Parnassus and Stanyan, we finally got some speed humps on Parnassus Ave. They&#39;re very, uh, gradual? I suppose the city wanted to say they&#39;d done something but didn&#39;t want to actually slow down traffic. Angry drivers might complain, and we mustn&#39;t have that. Hashtag Vision Zero, etc #SanFrancisco
Post #726496
Some new-to-me pretty-subtle #SanFrancisco #StreetArt this morning. Can I say it&#39;s &quot;new to me&quot; if I&#39;m not sure I haven&#39;t walked right under it many times without noticing? I was walking down the Willard Street hill south of Parnassus Ave and thought &quot;Eh, why isn&#39;t that crow moving?&quot; And then I thought &quot;Hey wait, why is a twig growing out of a utility pole?&quot; Compare and contrast: Two actual neighborhood ravens....
Post #322775
A couple of things I saw in #SanFrancisco&#39;s Fishmerman&#39;s Wharf this morning: There&#39;s a building missing. I guess one of the wharf places was beyond renovation and needed a tear-down and construction. The statue Desert Shark by Peter Hazel. This piece must have seemed pretty ironic, like (ahem) a fish out of water, in its original venue the Nevada desert Burning Man festival (https://www.peterhazel.com/#/desert-shark/). Here on the San Francisco waterfront, it loses that...
Post #282918
@BOOKHOUSE Bragging rights, maybe? If you&#39;re pretty sure they&#39;re on some social network you&#39;re also on, you could write a post that says @ so-and-so is clever and solved the such-and such puzzle!
Post #282917
The char picker (that little app you run if you want to enter an accented character or an emoji and you don&#39;t have the keyboard shortcut memorized) built into my desktop machine&#39;s OS was clunky enough such that I thought &quot;I bet I can make a web page that works better than this.&quot; I succeeded, uh, at least for someone with my work patterns or whatever. Behold the 🐭 CARpHick handy char-picker page and be amazed at the ease with which you can copy an em dash to your...
Post #282916
The Storybook House at Masonic Ave/Upper Terrace has their Valentine&#39;s Day decorations up. One word: 💕♥️ Hearts! 💖💗 The place across the street also has decorations up. More than one word, I guess. #SanFrancisco
Post #282915
I continue to check my little dashboard of #SanFrancisco COVID numbers each morning to decide whether to go get professionally made coffee at my local Peet&#39;s or make so-so coffee at home. As you may recall, I track three numbers: number of positive (i.e. sick) tests; % positive tests; and COVID detected in wastewater. A couple of weeks ago, the COVID-in-wastewater number zoomed up sharply. It was so sharp, I assumed it was just a momentary blip (wastewater numbers are noisy), but it stuc...
Post #282913
Yesterday, the Super Bowl took place in Santa Clara, a few towns south. A bunch of reporters and pundits stayed in #SanFrancisco and my socials were peppered with screen shots of various people from around the USA discovering that that SF is not a knee-deep-in-💩 hellscape, despite Trump&#39;s tweets to the contrary. &quot;We were so surprised by what we were told and expected versus when we walked through the streets.&quot; Good. SF ain&#39;t perfect, but it&#39;s nowhere ne...