THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN MOP San Francisco’s best-paid janitor earned more than a quarter-million dollars cleaning stations for Bay Area Rapid Transit in 2015, according to a recent investigation by Oakland’s KTVU. Liang Zhao Zhang cleared almost $58,000 in base pay and $162,000 in overtime, and other benefits ran his total income to $271,243. He worked at San Francisco’s … [Read more...] about NOTW: Dumb burglars, bad priests and the man with the golden mop
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EX MACHINA New Movie Review
In the near future, Caleb (played by Domhnall Gleeson) is a code programmer who works for an Internet search engine company called Blue Book. When Caleb is summoned by Nathan (Oscar Isaac), the company's elusive CEO, he finds himself flown by helicopter over acres of snowy, mountainous regions, all of which, he's informed, are owned by Nathan. Once Caleb meets his employer, … [Read more...] about EX MACHINA New Movie Review
Criminal Studies, Milking Robots and Mold Races
LEARNING IS NOT A CRIME California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo has a huge, 350-student "viticulture and enology" program, preparing its majors for an industry critical to the state's economy (and with a venerable international cachet)–but puritanical state law continues to hobble it. Many in Cal Poly's four-year winemaking program must arrange for a fifth … [Read more...] about Criminal Studies, Milking Robots and Mold Races
PACIFIC RIM New Movie Review
To quote the Wizard of Oz, Pacific Rim is “a clinking, clanking, clattering collection of caliginous junk.” This giant robots versus giant monsters movie is the latest from visionary director Guillermo Del Toro and it’s easily the least of his otherwise stellar body of work. Giant monsters from the bottom of the ocean, called Kaijus, are terrorizing humankind. Brave warriors … [Read more...] about PACIFIC RIM New Movie Review