Hi all,
My car was recently towed in Oakland. I've come to terms with letting it go if I must, hence I do not have the funds nor desire to pay their exhorbitant fees for extrortion.
My question is if anyone has gone through a similar situation in Oakland or California for that matter. Do you have any advice/best practices?
While I'm not necessarily concerned with my credit, I am concerned with my ability to eventually drive a car legally and staying out of jail.
Much love,
-Luis M.
"Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California omnicommons.org/donate?v=es"
I regularly see broken windshield glass on the sidewalks in Temescal.
Sounds like there are some thieves who systematically cruise the
neighborhood looking for anything they can grab out of parked cars - check
the eye witness report from one of our members below.
Temescal is a relatively up-and-coming neighborhood in Oakland, but you
really should not be leaving any valuables visible in your car *anywhere*
in the Bay Area...
I know the apartment building across the street had its security camera
trained on the Omni for a while. If you experience a car break-in, there's
a possibility the police may be able to use that tape to catch these
A-holes.
If you see anything suspicious (like in this case, a car driving up on the
wrong side of the road checking out parked cars), make sure to jot down a
license plate if you can...
Patrik
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: ken osborn <misterkenosborn(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: Any new pics from fungal microscopy meetup?
To: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
Hi Patrik - I went to the meetup and even brought a microscope, but as I
was unloading my car another drove up on the wrong side of the road and
opposite the car parked in front of me. Then what happened next was hard
to believe, but I then witnessed a smash-and-grab. It happened very fast
and was more than a bit confusion because at the same time that was
happening I was on the cell with my daughter and another call came in just
as the car drove up so I was paying attention completely until I heard the
sound of a window breaking, almost like a gun shot. I did not leave
immediately but went into the meetup interrupting Alan to let folks know
that they should make sure if they drove to the meetup and left anything
visible inside their car they should move it so it was not visible. What I
saw clearly demonstrated that these guys cruise looking for something they
can grab rapidly. They also are very brazen. This was in broad daylight
and I don't think they could have missed seeing me while I was on the
phone. While I was not about to put myself in harm's way to stop them I
did attempt to get the license number but by the time I got to the street
they were too far away for me to read the plate. I'm not sure if there is
a solution to this as a potential problem for attendance, but I may be
taking BART in the future. The problem with that is my wife freaked and
said it would be better to have the care damaged than her husband walking
alone at night in that part of town. Maybe. The other possibility is to
talk to the Oakland PD and see if they would have a patrol car in the area
on a regular basis. I have seen lots of broken glass in the street and now
recognize it as car break-ins that must be taking place more than
occasionally. - Ken
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 3:04 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> How was the fungal microscopy meetup yesterday? Sorry I couldn't make it -
> woudl have loved to!
>
> We're putting together an article about CCL - possibly for TechCrunch or
> some guest blog post. - and I was wondering if there were any more cool
> pics that came out of the meetup yesterday, since it seemed like you had a
> good crowd signed up.
>
> If you have any on the "people having fun doing real work in the lab"
> category, and you wouldn't mind getting credited somewhere high-profile,
> let us know...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Patrik
>
--
Ken Osborn
Misterken Photography
Web: www.flickr.com/photos/misterken
Email: kozborn(a)sbcglobal.net
> Anyone got a spare 26-pin cable I could give you $ for? Need one for
> use with an extension board. Thanks.
you can use a ribbon cable for an IDE/PATA hard drive, or a floppy disk
drive, they have more than enough pins.
if there are too many pins you can just hacksaw off the extras. Just
don't cut too close to the last row you need - leave an extra full row
just to be safe. And then glue the cut end of the ribbon cable clip so it
doesn't pull off when you forget you cut it.
does anyone know how to edit the Support Us! thing on the left side of
http://sudoroom.org ?
i want to add support for a one-time donation through stripe. I am told
it is something like this:
https://stripe.com/blog/stripe-checkout
of course it would need to be a locked link, so nobody can change it and
redirect donations toward themselves.. and I don't know how access control
works.
I also don't know anything about how to actually install this function or
any function into a webpage. I have no idea what i'm doing.
does anyone reading this list know how to set up one-time donations on our
webpage? Can we do that now? Is there anything i can do to help?
thank you!
-jake
