Posts Tagged ‘big’
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Remember when our San Francisco Giants won the World Series the time before last?
It was back in 2010. Good times. I celebrated by climbing on top of the Memphis Minnie’s Barbeque Joint And Smokehouse Ford van parked on the street in the Lower Haight.
There I was, looking fierce bouncing up and down in my little black dress and orange pumps, along with bunch of other people.* We few, we Band of Brothers, we Baseball Furies.
Anyway, as the above link to Haighteration shows, the Big Pig, she got messed up.
But here she is back on the road in 2013, wavy roof panels and all:
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I don’t know, I think this ride is worth more than it would have been without the battle scars from aught-ten.
I think this rig is now a historic artifact worthy of preservation.
Keep on keeping on, Memphis Minnie’s.
*Oh, not really. Actually, after watching on a friend’s big screen (’cause I don’t I have cable ’cause I want the Comcast monopoly to die die die) I had to ride my bike on up to Pac Heights. The city was electric, all over, not just in the Mission and in the Haights.
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Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Have you seen Lebron James on a Cannondale? It’s not pretty.
So, to solve that kind of problem, here comes The DirtySixer MTB with 36 inch tires.
There it is, parked at Erin Sherbert’s favorite bike rack - it’s next to the very same rack but look how different the bikes’ tires are:
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Looking at this thing freaked, me, out.
Now myself, I’m 6 foot 1 and a ton of fun so you’d figure one of these rigs would be great for me. But no, I’m not even close to qualifying for the DirtySixer club. You gotta be like 6 foot 5 or taller to fit proper.
Perhaps District Eight Supervisor Scott Wiener could use one of these rides for Bike To Work Day 2013 tomorrow? Why not?
Oh, the expense, what must be the crushing expense. I can only imagine what the MSRP is. That’s real titanium for the frame, BTW.
Now myself, I’ll have to make do with the MTBs sold for $200-something at the Marin Bikes Warehouse at 7th and Folsom in SoMA. (Fulton Street in 1st gear: Fuck, why can’t 1st gear be lower? Broadway Tunnel eastbound (scary scary): Fuck, why can’t 21st gear be higher? It’s like I’m being punished by Shimano for not spending enough or something.)
Anyway, contact Dave French if you’re interested.
All the deets.
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Back in the day, we only had little wind turbines.
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“Anheuser-Busch and Foundation Windpower assembled a white wind turbine with a tower some 320 feet tall at the Budweiser brewery along Interstate 80. Hundreds of such mammoth turbines are in place 10 miles to the east in rural Montezuma Hills pastureland, but this one is in Fairfield city limits. Brewing beer at Budweiser should soon be a breeze. Plant General Manager Kevin Finger estimated the turbine could provide 20 percent of the electricity for the brewery.”
Tags: $100, 100 series, Anheuser-Busch, big, biggest, Bud, Budweiser0, central valley, Don't Disturb This Groove, electricity, factory, fairfield, Foundation Windpower, freeway, generation, i80, i80\i-80freeway, land cruiser, metal, shots from the, tall, The System, toyota, video wind mill, windmill, windmills
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Sunday, October 28th, 2012
You’re invited to come to Civic Center tonight to see Game Four of the World Series on a makeshift “Jumbotron.”
See you at 5:07 PM (or earlier, to get a good spot if you want to be able to actually see the action unobstructed.)
It’ll look like this, but probably with more Matt Cain than Timothy Leroy Lincecum on the screen:
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The SFPD requests (more or less) that you transfer your alcohol to unmarked containers, thusly:
And, oh yes, speaking of the Rec and Park, Remember to Vote No on Proposition B (November 2012), the so-called “Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond”
Why?
Well, because Prop. B is too costly for San Francisco
And also because Reform is Needed at San Francisco’s Recreation and Parks Department.
Also because area lawyer Philip Alan Ginsburg would consider passage of Prop B (November 2012) an endorsement of how he’s running the RPD.
That’s why.
Now, let’s hear from San Francisco Mayor Ron Conway,* after the jump. (Spoiler: He wants you to go to Chipotle’s and spend your money before you blow town.)
PS: The after party will be in the Mission District – spread the word, bring fireworks.
*Poor Sony. It appears that any television-like contraption bigger than 100 inches now gets the generic term “jumbotron.”
Oh well.
“Displays similar to the Jumbotron include:
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Monday, September 17th, 2012
You don’t see this too often:
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Tags: 2012, bay area, big, california, car, fulton, holding, jesus, JESUS IS LORD, lady, lord, San Francisco, sign, street, webster, woan
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Monday, September 10th, 2012
This took a while so I’m not sure these photos show the same crawfish. The baby would keep dropping it and the mother would keep diving to retrieve.
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I guess it all worked out…
Tags: 2012, baby, bay area, big, bird, california, crawdad, crawdaddies, crawfish, Crayfish, feed, feeding, golden gate park, grebe, lobster, mother, pie bill, pie billed, red, San Francisco, Stow lake
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2012
Tags: 2012, American, bay area, big, by Sloan Schang, california, car, cooper, mini, pickup, San Francisco, Sloan Schang, small, Telstar Logistics, truck, twitter, usa
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
As seen at Four-Star Yelp-Rated Taqueria Cancun, 6th and Market:
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Leave us review: Former Mayor Gavin Newsom signed a payroll tax into law back in 2004. But a half-decade later, Twitter decided that it didn’t like Gavin Newsom’s tax, so an exemption was made for Twitter, and others so bold as to set up shop in an area that was mapped out by real estate interests and others, only Gaia knows.
So that’s how a $12,000 donation or something given to Gavin Newsom’s failed gubernatorial campaign led to the birth of the nascent Mid-Market Twitterloin area.
Hurray!
Tags: 1003, 2012, bay area, big, burrito, burrito mojado, california, Cancun, market, mexican, mexico, mid, mojado, San Francisco, street, taco, tacos, Taqueria, Taqueria Cancun, twitter, twitterloin, Wetback, Wetback Burrito, yelp
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Just look at this monster, this Raptor from Miraloma Park:
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Craiglist Founder Craig Newmark lives on this same hill but further down, so he gets smaller backyard birds…
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
When oh when will Lebowski Fest come back to the 415?
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Tags: 2011, bay area, big, california, dude, film, lebowski, movie, San Francisco, white russian, wOMAN
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