Owing to Program 4 at the San Francisco Ballet, I missed my chance to see Steve Wozniak emcee the Bay City Bombers’ season opener last weekend. But this short vid eases the pain. Will this Apple co-founder join in on the fun in the near future?
You Make The Call.
The Woz at Kezar Pavilion on Stanyan last Saturday:
Your next chance to pay $10 to see banked tracked roller derby comes up May 1st, 2010, when Orlando’s finest rollers come to town.
See you there!
Via SFist comes the news of Steve “The Woz” Wozniak starting up the Roller Derby game at Kezar Pavillion at 775 Stanyan Street just up from Haight this Saturday, March 6th, 2010.
Will he bring his Segway along, or maybe Steve Jobs too? We Can Only Hope. Tickets still on sale.
After this, maybe San Francisco will get it’s own ‘Woz Way” the way they have it down in San Hoser.
Your Bay City Bombers in action on the banked track. Ask yourselves, if it’s not on a banked track is it really Roller Derby?
See you there!
San Mateo County’s famous all-electric Telsa Motors seems to have yet another problem these days. Tesla 20% Founder and CEO Elon Musk is now saying he expects to launch the Model S sedan “within two and a half years.”
So what’s that, the third quarter of 2012?
O.K., but this is what the Tesla website shows currently - it goes, “Deliveries start 2011.” See?
Would you consider that a delay? Others do.
But weren’t these cars supposed to be running around already? Yes:
“Tesla is building an assembly plant in Albuquerque, N.M., which is slotted for completion by the end of 2008. The company says it plans to build 10,000 WhiteStar sedans annually starting in 2009.”
That’s what you can expect from Tesla, aka Government Motors West.
The three-day Women in Leadership Summit is coming soon to San Francisco. In some ways, it’s similar to and slightly cheaper than our recent Avon Cancer Walk.
Just think, when you get famous, you can go around the world giving speeches at events like this. But one odd thing: the Founder of this event, it’s a man, baby!
Anyway, the draw is going to be Betsy Myers, Chief Operating Officer for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign. That’s part of what your 1800 clams will get you. Deets below.
Linkage,a global leadership development company, announced today details of the final program for the Women in Leadership Summit taking place November 2-4, 2009 in San Francisco. Now in its 11th year, the Summit boasts over 6,000 alumni and is the world’s most effective leadership development program for women in business.
The conference’s keynote line-up includes high-profile women leaders from a range of settings including Betsy Myers, Chief Operating Officer for Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign; Gail Evans, former Executive Vice President of CNN and best-selling author of Play Like A Man, Win Like A Woman; Sandra Taylor, former Senior Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility with Starbucks Coffee Company; Marilyn Tam, former CEO of Aveda, President of Reebok Apparel & Retail Group, and Vice President of Nike; and Marilyn King, two-time Olympian, peak performance and self-development expert.
“We built this year’s research-based program around women business leaders’ level of interest in specific leadership competencies,” said Phil Harkins, CEO and Founder of Linkage. “To identify the most important issues, we conducted a survey among presidents, VPs, directors, and managers. The message was clear: 96% of respondents indicated the highest level of interest in ‘Understanding Your Personal Leadership Edge.’ Based on these findings, we built the 2009 program to give attendees the tools they need to make the greatest leadership impact on their careers, their teams, and their organizations.”
In addition, attendees will benefit from 16 skill-building breakout sessions, a free Hogan personality assessment [don't lie!], and facilitator-led learning teams.
For more information on The Women in Leadership Summit, visit our Website at www.linkageinc.com/wil.
Linkage is a global organizational development company that specializes in leadership development. Linkage provides clients around the globe with integrated solutions that include strategic consulting services, customized leadership development and training experiences, assessment services, and benchmark research. Linkage is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts with operations in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and outside the U.S. in Athens, Bangalore, Brussels, Bucharest, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Kuwait City, Seoul, Singapore, and Sydney.
San Francisco’s 311 telephone service, which you already know all about, now can be accessed through Twitter. Read all about it in the press release, after the jump.
Here’s a straight take of today’s press conferenceat the 311 Call Center near Van Ness and Market. And here’s writer Jackson West’s perspective. The thing about today’s announcement is that it doesn’t come with all that much of a bill, so that’s good. For what it’s worth, Washington D.C. is taking a different path with its 311 service.
Twitter co-founder Christopher Isaac Stone yucking it up with San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at today’s presser.
Throwing in Nancy Alfaro, “Director of 311″ and Chris Vein, City CIO and Executive Director, San Francisco Department of Technology
And also signed in and on the scene, for some reason, were the “Virgin America Inflight Teammates”, who wanted credit for being there. Here are a couple of the friends of Oprah - there was something like six of them there today, all told. Let’s hear it for San Francisco’s little hometown airline, still around despite getting pushed around by the big boys all the time.
One of the things brought to the attention of 311 today via Twitter was the “illegal” viral campaign promoting the new “District 9″ film. No idea how that ticket will get resolved.
Anyway, as promised, all the deets, after the jump.
As promised, the 2009 edition of the How Weird (aka Howard) Street Faire yesterday had a big turnout and it went off without a hitch. Founder Brad Olsen has had to deal with a few hassles having to do with police fees but things all worked out, it appears.
So pull up a chair and watch the slide show.
Second Street in the SoMA:
The San Francisco Atheists were back again this year:
Getting help with those hard-to-paint areas:
The largest boombox in the world. These go to twelve:
Open air hookah on Howard Street:
Kate O’Brien’s Irish Bar & Grill did land office business, what with the food, booze and sexy ladies.
See you next year!
You all loved it back in aught-seven, and aught-eight as well. Well brace yourself for the 2009 edition of the How Weird Street Faire coming up on May 10, starting at the crack of noon. Of course Founder Brad Olsen has had to deal with a few hassles having to do with police fees, but isn’t it always like that?
View the slideshow of How Weird / Howard Street faires of years past and then mark your calendar. Bring Mom, why not?
DJ BayBe, click to expand:
Gay Robot always makes the scene:
Will Butterfly Guy return for oh nine? That’s affirmative, good buddy.
The 10th annual
How Weird Street Faire
Sunday May 10th
from Noon to 7pm
Centered at Howard and 2nd Sts.:
37° 47′ 12.4″ N. x 122° 23′53.7″ W.
San Francisco, Earth
Ten blocks of art and celebration, and ten stages of music. Plus performances and colorful costumes, vendors from around the world, food and drinks, and much more!
The How Weird Street Faire is an experiment in creating peace, bringing together a wide range of eclectic styles and communities.
Come join the fun! All ages welcome.
And in honor of our 10th anniversary, we’re introducing…
THE MAGIC STICKER!
Only $10 donation, or $5 in costume!
When you enter the faire, you will have an opportunity to purchase a MAGIC STICKER!. The sticker gets discounts and specials throughout the faire: including $1 off each drink, discounts at vendors and local merchants, $2 off each after party, and most importantly you help keep the faire going. It’s our way of thanking you for supporting us.
When the day ends, the celebration continues indoors with a variety of music styles represented during the day.
How Weird @ Night is from 7pm to 2am
So plan accordingly, and bring something warm to wear. The tall buildings in our new location take away sunlight later in the day.
More deets after the jump.
How many Tesla Roadsters have been delivered to paying customers so far, after a half decade of development and at least four production delays? A handful, so far.
How many Tesla Motors products have suffered accidents already? Well, let’s see, there was that one involving the car of a “Founder,” and then there was that other one that no one’s supposed to know about, and… Pictures or it didn’t happen, right?
Pictures! Now really, is an advanced air bag waiver appropriate for the typical driver of the Tesla Roadster? Is it true this particular car crashed something like ten minutes after delivery? Is it true that Tesla is trying to make the Roadster faster than the somewhat similar gasoline-powered Lotus Elise? Is it true that you could get a Lotus Elise for something like $30K and then have something like almost $100k left over to buy massive carbon offsets? Is it true that you can actually get a Lotus sports car with a manual transmission? So many questions.
Shouldn’t Tesla work on something practical like increasing the Roadster’s abysmal range instead of trying so hard to make it accelerate faster?
Here’s a Tesla in San Francisco that managed not to crash, on a least one day, anyway:
Noblesse oblige is nothing to kill yourself over.
