san francisco
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Anti-Super Bowl Adele Cover
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There’s no shortage of Adele covers, but this one’s perfect for San Francisco and this weekend’s Super Bowl. “Hello, Mayor Lee I’m in San Francisco dreaming about how things used to be when I could pay rent… and eat.” The video includes the homeless encampment along Division Street, anti-eviction rallies in the Mission, the Dropbox soccer…
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Super Bowl = Super Bill
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San Francisco’s POPOS
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Secrets of San Francisco is a guide to the city’s POPOS (privately owned public open spaces). I really need to get around to checking these out.
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Bay Bridge at Dusk
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Another drive-by shooting- couldn’t keep the horizon straight. Higher than the mountains that I face. Stronger than the power of the grave. Constant in the trial and the change.
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Why Housing is so Expensive in SF
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Want to see why SF housing is so expensive? This is a map of allowed building height. Yellow = 4 stories max.
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When part of the Bay Bridge collapsed in 1989 earthquake, I thought my parents had gone down with it because they crossed the bridge for their commute every day. There were no cell phones back then and all the land lines were jammed up following the earthquake, so it took us a few hours to…
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SF
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Was at City Hall last week for a wedding portrait shoot. Forgot how cool the building is.
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San Francisco Fog
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High five to cousin Steph for this.
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Bowling
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Do people still go bowling nowadays? Apparently so! I don’t remember the last time I bowled. And no, I didn’t bowl this time either. These were shot through my friend’s dirty car window: Maybe I need to cut back on the caffeine or I just need more practice for the handhelds: Pro: Not so pro:…
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Fan Wine
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Apparently, you can buy San Francisco Giants wine or better yet, Star Trek wine. Update (5:20pm): forgot to mention Silence of the Lamb wines too.
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Why Are San Franciscans So Busy All the Time?
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We’re watching the Giants/Niners/A’s/Warriors/Sharks win a playoff game, because we’re the best at sports. We’re eating farm-to-table at a loft that used to be a fire station that’s now also a shared working space. We’re at some start-up thing. It’s free. Whatever. We’re doing some trendy exercise that will go out of style soon. (Lookin’…
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The Golden Gate Bridge without a Road
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Whoa, check out the Golden Gate Bridge without a road. From the Denver Post, via Gizmodo.
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The World According to San Francisco
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High five to Lydia for pointing me to this.
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From the project’s github page: A recent feature in The New Yorker juxtaposed New York City’s subway stops with their residents’ incomes. Like NYC, San Francisco has people of both extreme poverty and wealth, often living toe-to-toe. We wondered how those graphs would look in our neck of the woods. The results show the Bay…
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What’s Wrong With Having a Little Faith?
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Vanessa Pinto, writing for the Huffington Post: We live in a city where we are encouraged to try everything out, but God or religion is definitely not one of them.
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And the Beat Goes On
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Treasure Island, 2013.
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Knitting on Muni
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Knitting on Muni. San Francisco. December, 2010. I miss being out with Geordi.
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Japanese Retailers coming to SF (Finally!)
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The Uniqlo store opens on Friday. MUJI will open is first store on the West Coast in November right here in SF, SOMA to be exact. It will be the largest MUJI store in the US. I’ve only been to the ones in HK and Shanghai. I can’t remember if I went in Beijing.
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Pier 39
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Just going through some old stuffs. Pier 39, San Francisco. August, 2011.
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Union Square
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I miss being out and about. Almost there. Photo taken at the end of June, a week before this whole ordeal.