Posts Tagged ‘light’
Thursday, January 7th, 2010
It felt like a quick initial jolt followed up by three seconds of shaking to those of us in San Francisco. See what people thought about the latest rumblings of our San Andreas Fault over at SFist.com.
The updated report from the USGS indicates a 4.2 near the city of Milpitas.
Right here, “A” marks the spot:
A light earthquake occurred at 10:09:35 AM (PST) on Thursday, January 7, 2010.
The magnitude 4.2 event occurred 10 km (6 miles) ENE of Milpitas, CA.
The hypocentral depth is 9 km ( 6 miles).
| Magnitude |
4.2 – local magnitude (ML) |
| Time |
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 10:09:35 AM (PST)
Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 18:09:35 (UTC) |
| Distance from |
Milpitas, CA – 10 km (6 miles) ENE (62 degrees)
Alum Rock, CA – 12 km (8 miles) NNE (12 degrees)
Sunol, CA – 16 km (10 miles) SSE (150 degrees)
San Jose City Hall, CA – 17 km (11 miles) NNE (29 degrees)
|
| Coordinates |
37 deg. 28.6 min. N (37.477N), 121 deg. 47.8 min. W (121.797W) |
| Depth |
9 km (5.6 miles) |
| Location Quality |
Excellent |
| Location Quality Parameters |
Nst= 89, Nph= 89, Dmin=3 km, Rmss=0.08 sec, Erho=0.1 km, Erzz=0.4 km, Gp=36 degrees |
| Event ID# |
nc71336726 |
| Additional Information |
map with fault names
Google Earth KML (Requires Google Earth.)
ShakeMap shaking intensity maps
NCSS First Motion Mechanism 1 |
As per usual, t’was the Northern Calaveras (it means “skulls”) branch of the San Andreas. Alum Rock, will you ever win?
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
He’s back, baby! San Francisco’s Mayor Gavin Newsom is back in town, both physically and mentally. So, he’ll (OMG, is Gavin channelling giddy, laughing Tom Cruise?) once again have to deal with the so-called “delusional” media, but that won’t stop him from continuing to Take It Directly to the People, GWB-style. As here, with last night’s lighting ceremony for the Market Street Snowflakes.
Our mayor with the Snowflake Girls near the Powell Street Cable Car Turnaround at the dramatic Moment of Lighting. Dixitque Gavin fiat lux, et facta est lux:
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But let’s start earlier on in the evening. This was Market Street a little before the ceremony. It’s the darkest I’ve ever seen it, cause they turned off all the LED snowflakes (which have been burning the midnight oil quite a bit recently, as they were last summer, when they were being installed and tested) plus the streetlamps of the “Path of Gold” too.
Even a Toyota Prius driver would turn on the headlights with on a street this dark:
The streetlights and snowflakes are wired in together? That would make sense:
Anywho, back to the ceremony, apres-lux - can you see all them signs? Show Your Zip is the new “locals only” holiday shopping program. (It would appear that the San Francisco Ballet (nice new video they have on the homepage now) would have this program’s best discounts.) Scott Beale’s Laughing Squid is celebrating its 14th Anniversary as a local business with the help of famous Frank Chu. And The Jesus Loves You Guy was on the scene as well. Natch:
The mise-en-scene last night. Aside from almost always appearing bored while waiting for others to finish speaking (looking left, looking right, looking left, looking up….), Gavin Newsom always handles these kinds of public events very well, as you would expect a charismatic leader to do:
The Least-Yellowest Teeth in all Christendom. In fact, nowadays, they’re so white that they’re on the blue side, as if flourescent. Amazing:
President of the Board of Supervisors David Chiu, taking time out of his interview with KGO-TV’s Lilian Kim to greet Frank Chu in front of The Gap, which is doing better these days, don’t you know.
And this is how I left it, with the lights on ’til January 2010:
Enjoy.
Tags: 19, 19th, 2009, 7, ABC, association, bay area, black friday, board of supervisors, cable car, ceremony, christmas, county, David Chiu, delusional, discount, electricity, frank chu, gavin newsom, girls, holiday, jesus loves you, jesus loves you guy, kgo, led, light, lighting, lilian kim, locals, market, Mayor, media, Merchants, November, president, San Francisco, shopping, show your zip, sign, snowflake, snowflakes, street, streetlamps, streetlights, turnaround, TV, union square
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
As here, on Grove betwixt Divisidero and Scott.
Would you call this block a part of Alamo Square (after all, you can see the wide, wide steps of A.S. right there), or the Western Addition(literally, this block was added as part of the western addtion to San Francisco, which used to have its north-south border on Larkin in the Tenderloin) or the North of Panhandle (NOPA) District (the grass-fed burgers of NOPA restaurant are just a block away!), or something else? No matter.
The point is that this block is right near where conspiracy theorist Crazy Rob Anderson (go ahead, ask him about the truth behind the death of JFK) lives. Check it:
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(Man, I’ve seen people freak out over just one truck working a block. Can you imagine how the NIMBYs felt about this disruption to their day?)
I was going to try to get on my HAM radio to see if I could warn Rob about this overt operation, tell him about how undercover agents from the FBI, CIA, NSA, ETC could be laying in their own cables right along with friendly PGE.
But then I thought, well, that’s just what THEY would want me to do, probably triangulate on my broadcast equipment in a New York minute. Then they’d find my chemtrails videos and everything. So, I didn’t do nothing.
But remember, The Truth Is Out There. We’re through the looking glass, people!
Tags: "Crazy Rob" Anderson, alamo square, area, Blue, chemtrails, conspiracy, crazy, district, divisidero, electricty, grove, jfk, light, NOPA, north of panhandle, oliver stone, pacific gas and electric, pg&e, rob anderson, San Francisco, scott, street, theory, trucks, truth is out there, utlilty, western addition
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
I says, “Don’t eat that little blue pill, squirrelly!” But s/he went up a tree and away from view with a quickness.
What was in the capsule and whether squirrelly had no reaction, some reaction with humourous antics, or a massive OD resulting in death – that info is lost to History.
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People, try not to drop too many doses when you’re popping your pills at Golden Gate Park’s Strybing Arboretum, mkay?
Tags: arboretum, Blue, capsule, drugs, golden gate park, light, O.D., pill, reaction, San Francisco, sqirel, sqirell, squirrel, strybing, tree
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Hours after yesterday’s collision and brouhaha in the Castro involving two historic F-Line streetcars (making up the bread part of an SUV sandwich), MUNI workers were still on the job about a half-mile away near the Duboce Yard in the back of the Church Street Safeway.
In technical terms, them wires up there done fell down. So the crew of an awesome yellow truck (with a scissors lift in the middle) came along and started winching things back together high above Market Street, with a quickness. Hurray!
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To the MUNI recovery crew:
For all you do/
This Bud’s for you
Tags: 162, accident, agency, authority, car, castro, circling, cream, district, duboce, F, f-line, helicopters, historic, lift, light, Line, market, Muni, municipal, nissan, noe, pathfinder, rail, railway, recovery, safeway, San Francisco, sandwich, scissors, SFMTA, street, streetcar, suv, transporation, truck, workers, yard, yellow
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Now you can a bunch of research by reading up on tomes of yore but if you want to search for buried treasure in Golden Gate Park, the best place to start must be at Stow Lake near Yelp-rated Strawberry Hill island.
Why? Well, just look at this recent photo. Something must be down there, ‘neath the spotlight:
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Happy hunting!
Tags: buried, diffraction, golden gate park, hunt, island, lake, light, San Francisco, sparkletack, stow, Stow lake, strawberry hill, sun, treasure
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
See yesterday’s news conference in the “crime-ridden” Tenderloin / Adam’s Block area concerning Light Emitting Diode (LED) streetlights here with photos taken by Bill Wilson, and read all about this new technology here. The United States Department of Energy and PG&E have recently helped San Francisco conduct a beauty contest of competing brands of LED lights – read the gritty nitty here (.pdf, you might need to right click, Save File As… or whatever).
The upshot is that it’s not really worth pulling out existing street lighting to install LED lights. You can save a few bucks a month in electricity by converting a streetlight to LED and there are other benefits as well, so it appears we’ll eventually, slowly convert over with the hope that prices of these new kind of bulbs will go down.
Take a look at the Before and After:
That’s a scene from the test in Outer Sunset. The first shot is lit with your typical High Pressure Sodium (HPS) streetlight. See how everything looks yellow, just like the background of all your nighttime photos taken outside? That’s due to sodium’s low color temperature, around 2000K or so. The same area lit by LED shows a more natural look, probably 4000-something Kelvin. If LED’s do nothing else, they’ll improve night photography in San Francisco.
And here are the LEDs in action:
Hello lamppost,
What cha knowing?
I’ve come to watch your diodes glowing.
And speaking of the DoE, big ups to America’s new Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu. He just recently labored as a professor of physics and molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Berkeley and he used to be the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
More deets about the new lights in San Francisco after the jump.
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Tags: 59th Street Bridge, adam's block, bulb, Co., company, crime, department of energy, electric, feelin, feeling, Gavin, groovy, inc, intersection, jones, lamppost, led, light, light emitting diode, lighting, Mayor, Newsom, outer, pacific gas, pg&e, San Francisco, song, street, streetlight, sunset, taylor, tenderloin, test, turk, U.S., United States
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
A crowd of about 400 (300 per AP, seemed a bit more than that though) is marching all around San Francisco today – see them in front of the always-busy Chinese Consulate below. To get up to speed, here’s a nice bit from Matt O’Brien about the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that led to the exile of the Dalai Lama.
Keep up on developments at SF Team Tibet, the International Support Tibet Network, Save Tibet, the Tibetan Association of Northern California, and Students for a Free Tibet. The candlelight vigil will start at 5:00 PM in Union Square.
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WHEN & WHERE:
8:00-9:00am Tibetan Flag Raising Ceremony @ Berkeley City Hall, Berkeley
10:00-10:30am Rally at @ Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco
10:30-11:30am March from Justin Herman Plaza to City Hall, San Francisco
11:30am-12:45pm Rally & Political Theater @ City Hall, San Francisco
12:45-1:30pm March from City Hall to Chinese Consulate, San Francisco
1:30-3:30pm Protest & Rally @ Chinese Consulate, Laguna & Geary, San Francisco
5:00-9:00pm Rangzen Concert and Candlelight Vigil @ Union Square, San Francisco
The protesters always make sure to carry American flags..
…as well as Tibetan:
The SFPD didn’t bring the S.W.A.T. team along this time the way they did last year with the Olympic protests.
The Feds, fresh from the Sunglass Hut. Apparently, one of them lost a bet so he had to shave off his facial hair:
Not sure what this means:
The next big day appears to be March 28, 2009.
To be continued…
Tags: $10, 10th, 1959, 2009, 50, anniversary, candle, candlelight, China, chinese, consulate, dalai, department, dept., embassy, federal, feds, fps, lama, light, march, police, protective, protest, San Francisco, service, SFPD, Tibet, union square, vigil, year's
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
A Great Blue Heron spotted this waterlogged Coors Light Beer can floating just ‘neath the surface of the Wildfowl Pond at San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park and then lunged at the Silver Bullet as if it were something edible. Then all the water drained out of it [cue sad trombone]. Poor little feller.
(Now this was a few years back – could the aluminum can have come from a rowdy pre-ING Group era Bay to Breakers? There’s no way to tell.)
Maybe we’ll be counting on animals more and more to keep GGP clean?
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Anything’s possible.
Poor little feller.
Tags: arboretum, beer, bird, botanical garden, can, coors, department, golden gate park, great blue heron, light, miller, millerCoors, parks, recreation, San Francisco, silver bullet, strybing
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