San Francisco’s famous Sutro Tower (owned by Sutro Tower, Inc., the buyer-offer and $hutter-upperof San Francisco’s mid-town NIMBYs) has a new look for Fall.
Here’s Before (a way back in August 2009)…
…und jetzt After, the way it looks these days (when being buzzed by a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 NG heading to El Lay, camera right, see it?)
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Très chic! Non?
Now, she’s all set for the next meteor shower:
Courage.
Well here’s this scene this morning up on Mount Sutro (former home to the SF-89C Mount Sutro Nike Missile Control Station, don’t you know.) Can you see what’s missing?
Sutro Tower is losing antennas (that’s right, not antennae or antennea or anything else) and getting other updates all in the name of Our Digital Future. Get some deets here at the Burrito Justice.
The West Stack appears all nubbed out these days, no? Click to expand.
Make your necessary adjustments and your Wheel will come in just fine every evening, as per usual.
How can it be.
Believe me
The Lyndon LaRouche Movement of the San Francisco Bay Area is going all out against any changes to healthcare policy being forwarded by Barack Obama.
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This is right near the Financial District on Market Street - two people, some literature, and an ironing board, that’s your Movement in the Bay Area.
So, the LaRouchies don’t don’t like George W Bush, the Queen of England, and now, President Barack Obama. Makes you wonder who they DO like (besides Lyndon LaRouche).
Don’t Stop Believin’, LaRouchies!
San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar has a new plan to reward homeowners for green upgrades.
Read all about it from this afternoon’s press release, below.
Eric just loves the sun. Maybe you will love it just as much, if his program gets voted in by the full board.
Supervisor Mar Introduces a Green Financing Program
Green Financing Program to help with energy and water retrofits for building owners
Supervisor Mar is working with Mayor Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, the Controller’s Office of Public Finance and the Department of the Environment to establish a program to allow San Franciscans to finance environmental improvements to the buildings they own. Today, Supervisor Mar introduced the first of a series of legislation to enable the green financing program.
“With almost half of San Francisco’s greenhouse gas emissions being produced by our homes and local buildings, this new green financing program will drastically curb San Francisco’s carbon footprint and reduce the strain on our regional water supply,” said Supervisor Eric Mar. “It will also help put San Franciscans to work through our growing green jobs academies and programs.”
This legislation will set up a Mello-Roos Special Tax District that would be available to finance privately–owned energy efficiency, renewable energy and water conservation improvements. The repayment obligationis attached to the property, rather than the individual, and is paid back through property taxes over the useful life of the improvements.
Currently, the largest barrier to building owners increasing their energy and water efficiency is the large up-front cost of improvements. Even with various government incentives and rebates, many home owners find it impossible to make energy or water efficiency improvements due to cost.
“It is my hope that many homeowners and building owners will opt into this great program and reap the benefits of lower utility and water bills while also helping our city achieve its ambitious climate action plan goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and conserving water,” said Supervisor Eric Mar. “San Francisco will be the nation’s first large city to implement a program of this type,” said Mar.
This legislation is the first of a series of enabling pieces of legislation and Supervisor Mar will continue to work with community and environmental groups, the Mayor’s Office, Public Utilities Commission and other city departments to develop the green financing program.
More deets – read the FAQ, after the jump.
Well, check it out. Today, Southwest Airlines (LUV) is crowing about their lack of fees.
So that means “NO First or Second Checked Bag Fees, Change Fees, Fuel Surcharges, Snack Fees, Aisle or Window Seat Fees, Curbside Check-In Fees, or Phone Reservation Fees.” Hurray!
What the “legacy” carriers don’t seem to understand is that some people really, really don’t like hidden fees. Like how some restaurants in San Francisco hit you with an undisclosed 4% tack-on when you get your bill.
Fly with Southwest and you’ll think you’ve been transported back to the 1970’s, when fees were a four-letter word:
Nostalgic photo via Church of the Customer
Now, some may quibble about a few things, like how the cheapest fares from Southwest are only available online. But that’s as it should be, since reserving a flight by yourself lowers the expenses of running the airline. This is a better approach than a company advertising a price and then surprising you with a fee that you didn’t even know existed. The point is that Southwest has none of the new fees all the other airlines seem to have.
Now this might put SWA at a disadvantage when they advertise their rates, because they lose all those little “profit centers” the other airlines take advantage of. But just remember that Bags Fly Free, and lots of other things are free, when you fly with LUV.
Hurray. Certain other airlines should take notice of this.
Full-service public relations and public affairs consultancy Hill and Knowltonannounced today that former vice president Al Gore, upon his death, will be encased in carbonite and then buried. This type of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) was only made possible this year through the use of nanotechnology.
Until recently this was our understanding of carbonite, made famous in Star Wars V – The Empire Strikes Back:
“By the rules of chemical nomenclature, the formula for a “carbonite anion” would be CO22-, which is thought to be an impossible formation (methanoate being preferentially formed instead).”
Impossible no longer.
Artist’s conception of the former vice president encased in the densest form of carbon known to man:
Just one treatment of this double carbon material will take the equivalent of 1200 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. The only downside will be the expense of a slightly oversized coffin. The upside is that Al Gore, Jr. will be the most severely carbon negative person in recorded history.
A relieved Hill & Knowlton spokesperson confided to one reporter that this announcement will lay to rest the controversy over the greenhouse emissions of Al Gore’s house, for some reason an issue of almost daily concern to the D.C.-based House of Flack.
If only Han Solo were alive to see this day…
