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Hot Cha Cafe

The Hot Cha Cafe at So Cal Landmarks:

In about 1932, a small, hexagonal shingle-style Victorian building in Long Beach got a programmatic makeover, adding a large, angular percolator made of metal and glass on the roof, to become the Hot Cha Café. The name changed to the Koffee Pot Café, but it remained a coffee shop into the 1960s…

If this was still a cafe I’d totally go there just for the style. I’m glad it was restored instead of demolished!

A small, red, one-level octagonal building sandwiched between what looks like a house and a garage on a sunny day. A tree sticks in from out of fram, and cars are parked in the street out front. It looks like there's only space for a single room, and the windows and glass door feature a logo and the name of a salon that you might be able to make out on a bigger display than the one I'm using. Most unusual: A stylized coffee percolator sits a top the pyramidal roof.

#Architecture #ProgrammaticArchitecture #coffee #cafe #LongBeach

Fleetwood Center

I always appreciate finding examples of novelty architecture that are still standing. And Googie.

Could there be any better expression of Southern California’s car-centric culture than the programmatic architecture of the Fleetwood Center on Ventura Boulevard in Tarzana?

SoCal Landmarks: Fleetwood Center

Photo of a wide, two-story building with a facade made to look like the front of a classic car. Fins on the side, and the upper story windows are shaped like a grill and headlights. Photo credit to Lonny Ross, via SoCal Landmarks.

#cars #architecture #socal

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EV car batteries that no longer hold a strong enough charge for driving can still hold a strong enough charge for grid storage

I remember reading about this idea a while back: EV car batteries that no longer hold a strong enough charge for driving can still hold a strong enough charge for grid storage, fitting the “reuse” part of reduce, reuse, recycle.

The big reuse: 25 MWh of ex-car batteries go on the grid in California

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Potential Marburg vaccine doing well

Potential Marburg vaccine doing well in early clinical trials

(If you’re not familiar with Marburg, it’s similar & related to Ebola – they’re both viral hemorrhagic fevers that can cause horrific rapid outbreaks with high death rates when they hit a human population. They’re absolutely terrifying, with the only bright spot being that they’re *so* fast they tend to burn themselves out quickly.)

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At-home Covid tests (good news)

Updated shelf life and expiration dates for at-home #covid tests, now that there’s been time to collect real-world data.

If you have an “expired” test lying around, check the list – it might still be usable.

https://www.inverse.com/mind-body/covid-19-at-home-tests-expiration-date-science

https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-covid-19-and-medical-devices/home-otc-covid-19-diagnostic-tests

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Gee, so sorry about your auto-immune disease…

“Gee, so sorry about your auto-immune disease, but the medicine you’ve been on for years *might* be used for something we don’t like, so you can’t have it anymore.”

😡

Post-Roe, many autoimmune patients lose access to ‘gold standard’ drug

Six days after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion, lupus patient Becky Schwarz got an unexpected message from her rheumatologist. “This is a notice to let you know that we are pausing all prescriptions and subsequent refills of methotrexate…”

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Brought to you, of course, by the party of “small government”

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“Migrating from WordPress to Markdown sounds easy…6months later and you’re losing your mind.”

So true!

“Migrating from WordPress to Markdown sounds easy. Mention it to any developer and they’ll say “Pfft, an afternoon of work at worst”
…
Suddenly it’s 6months later and you’re losing your mind.”

How to Export a Large WordPress Site to Markdown

I think I’m going to try the resulting script on one of my WP sites & see how it goes.

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