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Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
Oh, you are a sucker. Well, then be my guest – pay $48 for a number. And actually, and you’ll enjoy this, sucker, it’s already too late to get a good deal on registration for 2013. Prices be higher now.
Most people who aren’t professional runners don’t pay and here’s a good reason not to pay:
Your money goes directly to “Christian Billionaire” Philip Anschutz.
And then he takes your $$$$$ and uses it to, over the years, oppose the concept of evolution and fund anti-gay efforts.
(It’s funny that he even took an interest in this historic fun run and street party but he likes running so there y0u go.)
The reason that organizers won’t say how many “bandits” show up for the party is because they don’t want you to think that most people don’t pay.
But, IRL, most people don’t pay.
If you don’t believe me then take a NSFW look right here.
How many bibs do you see? Every year they say they will eject all these people and every year they don’t actually do it.
Now the San Francisco Nike Womens Marathon is different. You see, they give out coveted awards and people just can’t help themselves. And then stuff like this happens; “NO BIB NO BIB NO BIB!”
But B2B aint like that.
One difference this year will be a limit on the size of the bags you might carry.
It’s like the size of Fook Mi’s backpack, best I can imagine.
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All right, have a great 2013 B2B.
And if you want to pay money to somebody, just take whatever your reg fee is and give it to Pride or whatever.
End Of Line.
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Monday, November 7th, 2011
Poor Cindy Carcamo. All she wanted to do was to run our Nike Womens Marathon last year. Check it:
“Cindy Carcamo paid $115 to enter the half-marathon portion of last year’s Nike Women’s Marathon. After months of training hard, she flew to San Francisco to run the race, only to be kicked out 40 yards short of the finish line. Her mistake? Losing her bib the morning of the race. An Orange County Register reporter, Ms. Carcamo wrote an article called, ‘My half marathon comes to a bitter end.’”
How wude! Now let’s catch the action on the Great Highway near Ocean Beach:
“A brunette in gray popped up in front of me, crashing through that daydream.
“Where’s your bib number?” she asked.
“No bib! No bib! No bib!” she yelled out to others.
In a scene worthy of a “Seinfeld” episode, I was intercepted.
I repeated my argument about the chip and the number.
Still, they wouldn’t budge and they put their hands on my shoulders.
“I’ve trained months for this race. Please let me finish,” I pleaded.
No response. Instead, they physically pushed me off the course and past the railings, casting me out like a criminal.
No official time. No finisher’s medal. No warning.”
Cindy thought her back-up mini-bib would be good enough, but no dice. Here she was during happier times, stretching in Union Square pre-race:
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Apparently, Nike doesn’t want to publicize how they fight biblesss “bandits” because that gives people the idea that it’s not really necessary to pay.
Oh well.
Thank goodness there’s no harsh penalty like that for the Bay to Breakers Civic Party and Fun Run, right? I mean, if a one-percenter like the Mayor doesn’t need a bib, then a nobody like you certainly shouldn’t need one either, right?
Plus your registration money would just go to a hateful billionaire in Colorado anyway.
All right, train hard.
Tags: 2011, b2b, bay area, bay to breakers, bib, bibless, btob, california, Cindy Carcamo, ejected, Half, Half Marathon, jogger, kicked, marathon, nike, out, runner, San Francisco, stolen
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Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
How many hills do you know of what come with their own Yelp entry?
You ought to get on up there sometime to check it out:
“Hill 88 is a wild ghost town in the sky, hidden way up high in the Marin Headlands. It’s on Wolf Ridge, between Fort Cronkhite/Rodeo Beach and Tennessee Valley. You can barely see it from below, and it’s nothing like most of the old little rusty lifeless bunker sites. This is a crazy Cold War mega-complex teeming with tons of crows dancing in the whipping wind above huge expanses of the bay and SF. It’s part of the old Nike Missile program, officially SF-88C. Was apparently the radar and control center (aka the IFC, or Integrated Fire Control area) of the Nike Missile launch site that’s further down the hill to the east.”
So, those are some of the remnants of Project Nike on top of now-flattened Hill 88 in the foreground along with the three peaks of Mount Tam (with the West Peak also flattened by the Air Force) in the background.
As seen from San Francisco:
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Now, you Know Better Your Marin County.
Tags: 2010, 2011, 88, air force, ajax, area, army, atomic, base, bay area, beach, bombers, bombs, california, Cold War, county, Fort Cronkhite, ghost town, headlands, hercules, hiking, hill, Hill 88, Integrated Fire Control, marin, Marin Headlands, military, missile, mount, mount tam, nike, nike b, nuclear, photo, pics, presidio, rodeo, rodeo beach, San Francisco, sf-88, sf-88c, sf-89, sutro, tam, tamalpais, tennessee valley, Wild Ghost Town in the Sky, Wolf Ridge, wolfback ridge
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Somewhere down there in Silicon Valley / San Jose is California’s 15th Congressional District, represented by Congressman Mike Honda, O.K. fine.
Now, this is, or used to be, or still sort of is his official photo, possibly taken in Washington D.C., possibly a digital image that got scanned in, O.K. fine.
Now, was he wearing a white shirt that day? Honda in Bleu:
Can’t tell.
Oh, here were go. This alteration assumes he was wearing a white shirt and that his white hairs are, in fact, white, or colorless or whatever you want to call it. A few clicks yields:
Probably a bit on the purple side but oh well.
But this is what a professional illustrator did, taking things a bit further, white balance-wise and clicks-wise:
Point being, you can’t just scan in a photo and call it day, you gots to make sure that white is still white.
That is all.
Tags: 15th, Blue, congress, congressional, district, hair, Honda, images, Mike Honda, nike, official, photo, photos, photoshop, pics, san jose, scanned, scanner, silicon valley, south bay, tone, white, white balance
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Friday, July 30th, 2010
The way things are going, the old missile magazines (horizontal silos, basically) up at the Presidio will soon be covered over with mulch or something.
The scene today at the former SF-89 Nike Ajax missile launch complex:
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A closer look:
Sic transit gloria mundi…
Tags: 2010, 740th AAA Battalion, ajax, army, bay area, california, compost, fort winfield scott, hercules, ifc, missile, mount sutro, mulch, nike, presidio, San Francisco, sf-88, sf-88c, sf-88l, sf-89, sf-89c, sf-89l, site, sutro tower, u. s., ucsf
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Thursday, November 12th, 2009
This is the view from San Francisco over the Golden Gate – can you see the defunct buildings of Hill 88 in front of the East Peak of Mount Tamalpais? Those buildings were the eyes and ears of SF-88, southern Marin’s very own Nike Hercules missile complex.
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The actual nuclear warheads and missiles were stored at another facility down the hill – you can visit that place Wednesday through Saturday.
What’s shown in this photo above is the radar station part of the base, on the summit, where they had German shepherd guard dogs, machine guns, the whole magilla until the 1970′s. San Francisco also had a similar setup back in the day using the Presidio and Mount Sutro, but that was the smaller, non-nuclear Nike Ajax system and there’s really nothing left to visit anymore.
But in Marin, you can climb up to the hilltop facility of SF-88 whenever you want - you’ll get nice views and you’ll have a chance to see the graffiti.
Come visit Marin’s Wild Ghost Town in the Sky.
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
Here’s what’s just north of the old Public Health Service Hospital in the Presidio – San Francisco’s very own SF-89 Nike missile launch complex. Of course the bay area has other similar sites, such as Marin County’s preserved SF-88 location captured in photographs from Telstar Logistics here (it’s a “must-see“), but San Francisco’s old missile bases are not as well-known.
Look below to see a missile magazine at SF-89L Presidio (the “L” stands for “launch”). The bay doors used to open downwards to reveal an elevator shaft. The complementary Site SF-89C Mount Sutro (the “C” stands for “control”) can be seen near Sutro Tower on the right, two and a half miles to the south. Click to expand:
And here’s all that’s left of the the Mount Sutro site near UCSF:
Now don’t go exploring around, the way you used to at the PHSH before restoration got started.
C – Mount Sutro (Twin Peaks) ((P) TV tower)
Jef Poskanzer’s detailed web page
L – Battery Caulfield Rd. ((P) Golden Gate NRA (National Recreation Area))
the pads abandoned and used for open air storage. The adjacent buildings are used by an EOD unit. An Ajax site featured in Nike promotional photos, it closed in 1963 (07 May 89). ]
You can almost make out the words “Nike Facility” next to the big red area in the upper right.
Tags: 740th AAA Battalion, ajax, army, fort winfield scott, hercules, ifc, missile, mount sutro, nike, presidio, San Francisco, sf-88, sf-88c, sf-88l, sf-89, sf-89c, sf-89l, site, sutro tower, U.S., ucsf
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