Topic: san francisco

Did this make the rounds while I was at the coast? What a great clip. via Miss Cellania.

I'm leaving tonight for 5 days in San Francisco. I'll be covering Proposition 8 (the measure to overturn California's recently won marriage equality victory), visiting some museums, catching up with friends, seeing some performances and maybe, just maybe, doing some big heady thinking. Or something. I'm taking a Greyhound bus, which should be an adventure all by itself. There are sometimes...

from kgo: Police and firefighters are testing the city's response time in a theoretical weapons attack. Several blocks in San Francisco's financial district were closed down for the day. The fire department was calling this a real public-private partnership as they got the owners of the downtown building at 555 California Street to allow them to let it fall victim to a mock emergency. The...

Last week when I was in San Francisco I took a BART train from the airport into the city. I took a sound recording at some point to catch a distinct hum the train has as it gets going. Here's what I heard: [embedded MP3 at...

The Tripwire has a review of Wallpaper's show at The Independent in San Francisco on Aug. 8th.

First of all, if you haven't heard of Muni Manners, it's "an etiquette blog for the transit savvy." While the writers are located in San Francisco, they do talk about "etiquette rules" that any public transportation rider can practice in any city. Muni Manners is having a photo contest in which you can submit your public transportation photography to possibly be featured on their blog (with photo...

Last week I was in San Francisco for the Start Conference. Not only was it a refreshingly hype-free conference filled with great ideas and advice, but Matt had a chance to get on stage and talk about something we just started: Fuelly. It's a site that helps you track your gas mileage and then share and compare how you're doing with others. Sometime in June Matt mentioned the basic...

Speculators blamed for mortgage defaults around San Francisco - FT.com Gold leads latest dive in commodities, wiping out 2008 gain - Los Angeles Times House prices edge higher in June - Yahoo! Finance Slowing Foreclosures May Mask Breadth of Woes - WSJ.com 'Short sellers' trimmed bearish bets on many financial issues - Los Angeles Times...

These are the things I tell myself when I go over the top; over and over again. This weekend can only be described as a San Francisco/culinary adventure.Which always ends in tragedy and where our heroine learns her own gastro-intestinal limits, learns a few more things and comes out smelling like fresh peach tart. Friday started with a need for steak. I spent 08.08.08 wandering through the...

Awful news... SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Nine people are missing and feared dead in the crash of an Oregon-based helicopter that was carrying firefighters over a Northern California forest, officials said Wednesday. The Carson Helicopter Sikorsky S-61 was carrying 11 firefighters and two crew members when it went down Tuesday night in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, said Ian Gregor,...