Posts Tagged ‘dollar’
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
This San Francisco Park Ranger had his hands full the other day handing out $88 red zone parking tickets in Golden Gate Park right in front of the Conservatory of Flowers.
Would our tourists all park here if they knew they weren’t supposed to? Probably not. Do the markings on the pavement make sense really? No.
Is the current Bicycle Plan injunction a good excuse for the ridiculous way JFK Drive is marked for traffic and parking these days? Don’t know, You Make The Call.
A target-rich environment on Saturdays, that’s for sure.
Click to expand
Oh well
Tags: 88, bicycle, bike, bus, conservatory, conservatory of flowers, cyclist, dollar, drive, driver, eastbound, F, flowers, golden gate park, jfk, John, Jr, kennedy, lane, parking, parking park, stripe, ticket, westbound
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Saturday, October 10th, 2009
In honor of the recession and in light of the fact that fewer people are heading out to grab a quck bit before work these days, McDonalds added some items for breakfast on their Dollar Menu. I’ve never tried these actual products before but, you know, they all cost a buck and they all use sausage as the main degredient so let’s take a look.
Three items enter, one item leaves as the Victor. Click to enlarge:
Sausage Breakfast Burrito:
There’s not much inside this thing, excepting for molten cheese, which the Ronald crew calls “shredded” – tasted like American “cheese” to me. Could have used some spiciness, which was entirely lacking. Maybe I could have added some sauce, don’t know. They say there’s onion and peppers in there with the egg – couldn’t tell. Third place.
Sausage McMuffin:
The cheese is more solid on this one. It’s like eating a burger for breakfast. Adding in egg would make it a Sausage McMuffin with Egg, which is apparently quite a more expensive proposition. Second place.
Sausage Biscuit:
Tasty biscuit plus sausage, that’s all you get. A bit dry. In the parlance of our day, it is what it is. Doesn’t have American cheese and that’s probably a good thing. Pretty good deal for a dollar. I’d probably prefer an Egg McMuffin but the franchisees would most likely riot if corporate forced the Egg McM onto the Dollar Menu. Anyway, the Sausage Biscuit is the Dollar Menu Sausage Winner, by a nose.
Choose wisely.
Tags: biscuit, breakfast, burrito, cheese, dollar, dollar menu, egg, fast food, mc muffin, McDonalds, mcmuffin, menu, pig, piggy, quick service, San Francisco, sausage, showdoen
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Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
Brace yourself – the San Francisco Chronicle you stopped buying back in the 1990’s will soon cost 8 bits, per the San Francisco Peninsula Press Club.
Ouch, man
Tags: 1.00, 2009, chronicle, dollar, increase, monday, newspaper, newstand, price, San Francisco, Saturday, weekday
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
Look at this video of former San Francisco Supervisor Ed Jew counting tens of thousands of dollars in front of an FBI-provided video camera.
See? He’s doing it wrong. The correct way is shown at the end of the short video here - the Canada, U.S. and England method. The primary reason for counting dough properly is counterfeit detection. You gots to look at the faces of the dead white males in order to do it right. That’s the system, baby. Maybe in other countries the bills are different enough so that this doesn’t matter, but we’re talking U.S. folding money here.
What’s that? You can’t see the faces ’cause the money’s all upside-down and backwards? You’ll need to bankface the notes before you start, of course.
Here’s the thing – if you just look at the corners, then you will get taken in by a raised note sooner or later.
This is called an eleven dollar bill cause it’s a one with corners from tens attached.
Count American money the right way and then you’ll get good at it and go superfast.
Tags: 21 dollar bill, American, bank face, bank faced, bankface, bankfaced, banknotes, cash, count, counterfeit, dollar, ed jew, eleven dollar bill, FBI, how, method, money, notes, San Francisco, secret service, Supervisor, United States
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
Attorney General Jerry Brown thinks California should get a peek at how a court-appointed overseer plans to spend eight billion dollars to improve health care in the prison system.
“If public money is being spent,” Brown said, “the public has the right to know how it’s going to be spent.”
That sounds fair enough. Get his side of the story here:
Attorney General Brown Urges Reversal of Decision Forcing California to Make $250 million “Down-Payment” for Massive Prison Plan.
Our feisty AG:
via “Thomas Hawk’s” Photostream
Or just read the whole brief that was filed today and then decide for yourself here. Well, that’s a bit much to read, but here’s the crux:
“The State of California has acknowledged the need to provide constitutionally adequate healthcare. The state, however, argues that the Receiver has not complied with the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which requires that any prison remediation plan that a court orders “is narrowly drawn, extends no further than necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right, and is the least intrusive means necessary to correct the violation of the Federal right.” (18 U.S.C. § 3626(a)(1)(A)).”
Is that so crazy, wanting to see what the plans are before turning over a quarter billion dollar “down payment?”
We’ll see.
Tags: 250, Arnold Schwarzenegger, attorney general, billion, california, care, Clark Kelso, dollar, e, federal, health, henderson, jerry brown, Judge, MARCIANO PLATA, prison, receiver, San Francisco, Thelton, v
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Just what is this tiny figure embedded in the top corner of all one dollar bills in circulation in the United States?
Some people think it’s a Great Horned Owl, but others say it’s a spider. You can see for yourself but that might strain your eyes. Let’s take a look using a Canon Macro Photo MP-E 65mm f/2.8 1-5x lens at five times lifesize:
Not as owly-looking. Here’s a closer view:
You’d have to call that a spider. Or a spider/owl. Or a Spowl.
In this age of conspiracy theories, let’s assume a secret organization put on our currency a little figure, one that sometimes looks like an owl and sometimes looks like a spider.
Who cares about spiders and owls? The Bohemian Club, that’s who. Check out this scary two-hour movie, Dark Secrets Inside Bohemian Grove, to learn more. We’re through the looking glass here, people!
Beware the Spowl.
Tags: 65mm, bill, bohemian, california, canon, club, dollar, dollar bill, figure, global elite, grove, KRON, macro, new world order, owl, San Francisco, Sonoma., spider, spowl, summer fire festival
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