Posts Tagged ‘bear’
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
This was the scene down on MACALLISTER Street in the Western Addition PJs last year, on govmint land of course.
…and here’s the same scene these days:
Let’s see here:
“When flags of states, cities, or localities, or pennants of societies are flown on the same halyard with the US flag, the US flag should always be at the peak.”
NOPE! Believe it or not, that rat tail you can see at bottom is our Stars and Stripes. Above it is the flag of the State of California. (You can still see the bear a little bit.)
“The flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.”
NOPE!
“The flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way.“
NOPE!
I could go on…
There’s a little black spot on the sun today
It’s the same old thing as yesterday
There’s a black hat caught in a high tree top
There’s a flag pole rag and the wind won’t stop
Tags: 2012, 2013, America, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, code, drug free, drug free zone, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Well here’s the statement:
“The San Francisco Housing Authority does not transfer any family to any particular apartment, community, neighborhood or development because of race, color, sex, religion (creed), disability, familial status, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, source of income, or age.”
Of course it’s not true, but that’s the statement.
The point of it is to discourage transfer requests, that’s true.
But they could have phrased it differently, that’s all.
Alemany (938 Ellsworth Street)
Alice Griffith (207 Cameron Way)
Bernal Dwellings (313 Kamille Street) (HOPE VI)
Great Highway
Hayes Valley (401 Rose Street) (HOPE VI)
Holly Courts (100 Appleton)
Hunter’s Point (90 Kiska Road)
Hunter’s View (112 Middle Point Road)
North Beach (455 Bay Street) (HOPE VI)
Ping Yuen North (838 Pacific Avenue)
Ping Yuen (795 Pacific Avenue)
Plaza East (642 Linden) (HOPE VI)
Potrero Terrace & Annex (1095 Connecticut Street)
Randolph & Head (200 Randolph/409 Head)
Robert B. Pitts (1150 Scott Street)
Sunnydale (1654 Sunnydale Avenue)
Valencia Gardens (390 Valencia) (HOPE VI)
Westbrook (90 Kiska Road)
Westside Courts (2501 Sutter Street)
Public Housing Project, McAllister Street, Western Addition (aka The Fillmore), San Francisco, 2012:
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Tags: 2012, 2013, America, American, asian, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, chinese, drug free, drug free zone, Family, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, race, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, transfer, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Thusly:
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At first I was thinking…Easter?
And then I thought Boston Marathon.
And then I realized it was for the GSW.
Is it a little cheesy to do this so far ahead of time?
Yep, IMO.
Oakland doesn’t have much, you know.
They were going to get a pair of pandas from China, but that didn’t work out.
Oh well.
That’s Venus, the Evening Star, to the right of the dome, BTW.
And that’s a #5 Fulton hover bus heading inbound on McAllister…
Tags: 2013, arena, baketball, basketball, bay area, bear, Blue, bus, california, City Hall, colors, ed lee, Evening Star, fight, gold, golden state, Golden State Warriors, Jean Quan, led, lights, lit up, Mayor Ed Lee, move, Muni, night, panda, pandas, purple, San Francisco, SFMTA, sports, stealing, team, venus, waterfront, yellow, zoo
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Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
Dude, I remember Windows 3.0. And, after that one, I remember Windows 95, 98, 98SE, Me, XP, Vista, and, of course, Seven.
And I’ll tell you, I wasn’t reverse to using any of them.
I even got a Vista box from Dell, even though many people were (and still are) sticking with XP. I didn’t care.
But Windows 8* is a big no-go.
So, say it now, aloud: “I Will Not Buy Windows 8.”
Again: “No Voy a Comprar Windows Ocho.”
Buying Windows 8 is muy prohibidado. (I wrote that it in Spanish because that’s how exotic and not allowed it is.)
Now here’s everything you need to know about W8:
Fear and Loathing and Windows 8 (Or: Why Windows 8 Scares Me — and Should Scare You Too)
Well, maybe that’s a bit too much, but how about these primary conclusions:
1. Windows 8 is not Windows, it’s a new operating system with Windows 7 compatibility tacked onto it.
2. Although Windows 8 looks pretty and is great for tablet-style content consumption, I question its benefits for traditional PC productivity tasks.
3. Big OS transitions like this one traditionally cause users to reconsider their OS decision and potentially switch to something else.
4. Microsoft has worsened the risk that people will migrate away from Windows 8, by disabling some key features of Windows 7, and mishandling the consumer “preview” program.
OK then.
Oh, remember that Farhad Manjoo, that writer who hated the Sunset District so much he just had to move away?
Well, he hates Windows 8 even more than he hates the foggy, foggy Sunset.
OK then.
So here’s what you do, you get a 16 GB, 2TB ZT Systems from the Costco.com (or from Walmart online or something) for like $600. That’ll come with Windows 7 and that’ll last you a good long time. And then you’ll be ready for Windows 8 Plus or Windows 9 or whatever shakes out.
OK then.
*Now maybe they’ll offer W8 (rhymes with wait – get it?) on a phone or a tablet or something what uses a touchscreen and maybe that’ll be OK (depending on the price, of course). But if you want to get something done with a PC, then why not just stick with W7?
Tags: "I Will Not Buy Windows 8, 2012, 95, 98, 98SE, bay area, bear, california, costco, dell, district, Farhad Manjoo, fog, foggy, how about no, me, microsoft, No Voy a Comprar Windows Ocho, San Francisco, seven, sunset, Sunset District, touch, touchscreen, vista, walmart, windows, Windows 7, windows 8, windows eight, Writer, XP, zt, zt systems
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Friday, June 15th, 2012
Public Housing Project, McAllister Street, Western Addition (aka The Fillmore), San Francisco, 2012:
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This area is about six blocks from San Francisco City Hall.
Here’s the exact same pair of flags from three years ago, would you agree?
And the DRUG FREE ZONE warning sign is still there as well. (But, of course, this isn’t actually a drug-free zone. Not in the least.)
Oh well.
So, why do we even have flagpoles then?
Perhaps putting them in was a bad idea? Perhaps it’s easier to put in a flagpole than to take care of a flagpole over its lifetime? Perhaps we should take these flagpoles down if this how City, County, State and/or Federal officials are handling things?
Perhaps Redevelopment of the Fillmore was a bad idea?
Perhaps other federally-funded projects, such as the useless Central Subway, are bad ideas as well?
Mmmmm.
Tags: 2012, America, bay area, bear, Blue, california, central subway, drug free, drug free zone, flag, Housing Authority, mcallister, old glory, patriots, red, San Francisco, San Francisco Housing Authority, SFHA, stars, street, stripes, tattered, The Fillmore, torn, United States, western addition, white, zone
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Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Well it won’t be long now…
The new Pearl’s Deluxe Burgers, right there on the corner of 6th and Market:
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It looks finished on the outside, anyway.
Only Time Will Tell when it will open.
And this is what this corner looked like not too long ago…
Here’s artist Chad Hasegawa at 6th and Market:
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But he wasn’t done yet, you dig?
He had to add in the reds and the blues and whatnot.
See?
Via The Tens
And yet another Doori no Kuma is born…
Tags: $1000, 2011, bay area, bear, bears, black, block, Blue, burgers, california, Chad, Chad Hasagawa, Chad Hasegawa, Chris, deluxe, Doori no Kuma, hamburgers, Hasegawa, head, market, mid market, paint, pearl's deluxe, pearls, red, San Francisco, sixth, street, street bear, tenderloin, twitter, twitterloin, yellow
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
NMA-TV out of Taiwan, Free Republic of China, well, they’ve got us pegged. They know all about what goes on in California and they show that with pithy animated videos.
As here, with the whole Governor Jerry Brown vs. Jeff Bezos / Amazon.com sales tax / “use tax”* issue. NMA already has a proposed slogan for the statewide initiative that’s coming our way from Amazon.
See?
And here’s Jeff Bezos (fresh from swimming in a pool of his money) explaining things to California Governor Jerry Brown and our Official State Animal, who looks hungry for a little tax money.
It’s going to be a tough row to hoe getting people to vote for the Amazon tax next year, IMO.
Anyway, good job NMA-TV.
*The tax is on your “use” in CA of whatever you buy. It’s pretty much like a sales tax except it’s based on the tax rate of where you live (as opposed to sales tax, which is based upon where you buy something).
Tags: 2011, affiliates, amazon, associates, bay area, bear, california, election, free, gatherers, golden, Governor, initiative, jeff bezos, jerry brown, let's keep not paying taxes, moon, mooonbeam, NMA-TV, NMAtelevision, out of state, petition, program, Republic of China, sacramento, sales tax, sales taxes, San Francisco, seattle, signatures, state, superman, swim, swimming, taiwan, tax, taxes, use tax, use taxes, Video, videos, vote, Washington, yay, youtube
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Here’s artist Chad Hasegawa at 6th and Market last week:
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But he wasn’t done yet, you dig?
He had to add in the reds and the blues and whatnot.
See?
Via The Tens
And yet another Doori no Kuma is born...
(And oh, this was about a block away, but people, let’s be careful out there…)
Tags: $1000, 2011, bay area, bear, bears, black, block, Blue, california, Chad, Chad Hasagawa, Chad Hasegawa, Chris, Doori no Kuma, Hasegawa, head, market, mid market, paint, red, San Francisco, sixth, street, street bear, tenderloin, twitter, twitterloin, yellow
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
The best mural ever, as shown at the Uptown Almanac:
Click to expand - Team 1:AM, 5th and Folsom
Speechless I am.
Tags: 1:00 AM, 2011, bay area, bear, california, califorya, car, convertible, driving, folsom, Golden Gate Bridge, mural, San Francisco, sun, Team 1:00 AM, Team 1:AM, that's califorya, tree, UPTOWN ALMANAC
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Thursday, April 28th, 2011
If Twitter is soon going to get a load of corporate welfare,* then there’s no reason why Kink. com (kids, ask the ‘rents before clicking) shouldn’t too, I s’pose…
*How Twitter Extorted a Desperate City
NB: Politicians might be able to give you employment, but they don’t, they can’t “create jobs.”
Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
It’s Twitter’s world. We’re just living in it…
Tags: 2011, bay area, bear, Blue, california, ed lee, edwin lee, flag, how to support sm in SF, JobsNow2, sado masochism, sadomasochism, San Francisco, sm, support, twitter, twitter republic, unemployed
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