As my colleague Lori Dorfman of Berkeley Media Studies Group put it, Richmond and El Monte "threw big pebbles in the soda tax water" in 2012 and just two years later "Berkeley and San Francisco have pushed boulders in".
A bigger pebble in Visa's shoe is PayPal, a unit of eBay.
These days there are records for being the first person to the office, or finding the biggest pebble on your driveway, so let's not freak out here, but Guinness World Records has indeed confirmed that LG's Optimus 2x is the world's first dual-core smartphone.
It's as if the guy dropping the pebbles had to drop bigger pebbles in; the troughs created by the bigger pebbles would at some point become wildly out of proportion to the crests of the original pebble.
Under our sandals the big pale pebbles rattled and shifted awkwardly.
The lowest of those numbers would dwarf the existing smartwatch market, where the biggest player, Pebble, has shipped just over 1m units in two years, and devices using Google's "Android Wear" from companies including Samsung, Motorola and LG shipped just 720,000 in 2014.
A big operation like Pebble, it says, would destroy 54 miles to 87.9 miles of critical streams and up to 6.7 square miles of wetlands.
Robert Scoble, of all people, also leaked something about the "littlest phone" he's ever seen, a new Palm Phone that is as big as a pebble.
Eleanor Antin's snapshots of herself on a diet, "carving" her own body through caloric attrition, are also here, along with a sculpture by Cildo Meireles, "The Southern Cross," which is no bigger than a pebble.
In the city, most people hide tiny little microcaches, no bigger than a pebble.
