Now this is how you get good cell phone service.
A common scene in the Land of the Rising Sun. These antennas are all over the place:
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If San Francisco is the “World Capital of Innovation,” then every city in Japan is also The World Capital of Innovation.
I don’t know about manhole covers and I don’t know why it took four months to do something that should have taken one day.
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Anyway, I think this issue has been resolved…
This what what you would find on California Street in the Financial District since last year – a manhole* cover hole right in the path of cyclists on Davis Street:
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I don’t know, I thought that San Francisco could have handled things a different way. So I made this post.
But the next day? Nothing. And since then, nothing, until just a few days back when we got this solitary cone:
OK fine, I guess that’ll do, but I wondered why this half-assed solution took months and months.
Anyway, here’s the scene from just one day later, last night, actually:
See? Somebody actually cared enough to implement a better, temporary solution. Let’s call this a three-quarter-assed approach.
After four fucking months, that is.
Now down in Mexico City, a man in a sombrero would have looked at similar hole in the street and he would have said, “Mañana. We’ll fix it tomorrow.” And then, you know what? They would have actually fixed things the next day! They would have put up cones or safety sawhorses or whathaveyou.
Which, of course, is what eventually happened in the heart of San Francisco’s Financial District but only after months and months.
Let’s all look forward to Mayor Ed Lee’s next pronouncement about us being the Innovation Capital of the World…
*Person hole, people hole? C’mon, just tell me what to call it these days and I will, I don’t care about using the old term or some new term.
See, first the intersection of California and Davis was all like this.
Which I thought could be a little dangerous for cyclists, especially roadies, especially in the rain and whatnot.
But of course nothing happened for four months.
But now it’s all like this:
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What can I say but thanks to the SFMTA or the DPW or whomever for this “innovative” solution.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Ed Lee Gets It Done!
Run Ed Run!
Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.
Uh, did San Francisco Chronicle writer Jimmy Temple just move into town?
Let’s investigate:
“…on Friday and Saturday the city, California College of the Arts and Mix & Stir Studio are sponsoring an “unhackathon” to get designers, software engineers and others to tackle the clearly broken central dispatch system for San Francisco’s taxi system.“
But Jimmy, we don’t actually have “a central dispatch system* for San Francisco’s taxi system.”*
Therefore it’s not “broken.”
Therefore it’s not “clearly” broken.
Hey, now speaking of broken, why don’t all these college boys and girls take on San Francisco’s pension “system?” Shouldn’t it be reformed ‘n stuff? Like for real this time?
And hey, speaking of broken, why don’t all these college boys and girls take on the “system” what pays for pork-barrelly Bridges to Nowhere and Roads to Bridges to Nowhere and Central Subways?
Oh well, maybe next year.**
Leave us close with a typical SF cabbie:
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Well, maybe not typical, but she was a fully-licensed hack back in the day at least, back when she hijacked a meeting on the steps of City Hall. (Her “K” sticker shows her support for Prop K, but shhh, don’t tell the unhacksters about Prop K, oh no.)
The point is, Jimmy, is that you’re covering a political issue, one having to do with the Twitterloin and the sf.citi PAC and whatnot, as if it weren’t a political issue.
As if you don’t have a clue…
*System!
**Or never, how about never?
Get up to speed here and then see what Lois Beckett and Leanne Maxwell have to say about last night’s event.
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What are you plans for the night of Wednesday, March 24th, 2010?
Option One is Meet Your Mar featuring District One San Francisco Supervisor Eric Mar:
“The League of Young Voters presents…MEET YOUR MAR from 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM at Park Life (220 Clement @ 3rd) on Wednesday March 24th. FREE! There will be art, snacks, drinks, tunes, a bunch of fresh kids chillin…plus Eric Mar, chattin and getting schooled about his constituents (ie, you). Come play human bingo (to win Park Life gear!), ask Mar questions, and tell him what he should really be working on in your hood. It’s his job to listen.”
A recent Critical Mar bike rally on Clement the Richmond District:
That’s Option One.
Option Two will occur at about the same time. It’s an Inforum event at the Commonwealth Club: “If Not the Chronicle, Then What?” / “Who is the New Face of San Francisco Media?“
First up at 6:30 PM is a panel called ”If Not the Chronicle*, Then What?”
Jeff Hunt, Editor, Muni Diaries
Brock Keeling, Editor, SFist.com
Michael Maness, VP of Innovation and Design, Gannett Co. Inc.; Director, The Bold Italic
Robin Sloan, Media Partnerships, Twitter – Moderator
Then, after that, it’s “Who is the New Face of San Francisco Media?”
The voting’s all over on this one, but feel free to cheer loudly when they whip out a tiara for the crowning ceremony.
Deets below. See you there, who knows maybe at both places.
*I know what you’re thinking - petitio principii, right? Like, what if the San Francisco Chronicle is the new San Francisco Chronicle?
Anyway, the royal court of San Francisco new media:
Brock Keeling
SFist
Melissa Griffin (Blog)
Blogger/SF Examiner
Jaimal Yogis (Bio)
San Francisco Magazine
Markos Moulitsas Zתniga
DailyKos
Michael Bauer
SF Chronicle
Mark Frauenfedler
Boing Boing
Lea Troeh (Blog)
The Week Intro
Mac McClelland (Bio)
Mother Jones
Andy Wright (Articles)
SF Weekly
Vanessa Carr
Mission Local
Dyanna Pure and JT Paradox
The SF Style
Alexia Tsotsis
SF Weekly
Joe Eskenazi
SF Weekly
Lois Beckett
SF Weekly
Broke-ass Stuart
brokeassstuart.com
Jeff Hunt
munidiaries.com
Location: SF Club Office, 595 Market Street, The Blue Room
Time: 6 p.m. check-in, 6:30 p.m. program, 7:30 p.m. networking reception
Cost: $12 members, $20 non-members, $7 students (with valid ID)
