Posts Tagged ‘notice’
Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
Why on earth are we subsidizing the totally crummy CODA Automotive electric car company? It baffles me. What makes it a good company, what makes it worthy? Nothing.
Anyway, here’s the latest, as expected, the first recall notice has come early, before CODA even delivered 100 cars worldwide.
Here’s their “Statement” about the matter:
“CODA Automotive is committed to safety and has voluntarily recalled* 78 of its 2012 CODA model year vehicles within the VIN range of 53G1U4A48CB000026 to 53G1U4A48CB000260. The recall campaign was issued because of the potential that the side curtain airbags in certain vehicles may not deploy as intended due to an improper installation. Certain 2012 model year CODA vehicles may have this condition. There are no known injuries related to this recent discovery. CODA Automotive holds itself to the highest safety standards and continually strives to offer the most reliable product for its consumers.”
Now, I’ll ask you, how many tens of thousands of these vehicles were supposed to have been sold by now? Well, I’ll answer you: SEVERAL! And yet this recall notice shows just how unpopular this product is, even though I can think of at least four huge subsidies the government grants to its owners.
Oh, but what’s this, it’s a non-crappy electric car what’s cheaper than anything from Coda. It’s a Nissan Leaf, which the Coda people have been criticizing for years. Oh well. Anyway, adorable, non?
BTW, 35,000 LEAFs have been sold so far, worldwide.
So, CODA, why don’t you take your assets and try to give them to the govmint to make up for all that you have cost us?
Solyndra shut itself down, so can you!
*This recall is a nothingburger, really. I mean, my giant Toyota doesn’t have side-curtain airbags and nobody’s recalling it, right? The recall notice is important because it gives us a clue to CODA’s abysmal sales….
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Monday, August 13th, 2012
This new tax is a done deal.
Check it:
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
The 7-11 store across the street from the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero won’t let you loiter on Drumm Street?
And this 7-11 has “customer parking?”
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Tags: 2012, 43, 7-ELEVEN, 7-ELEVEN NOTICE, bay area, california, customer, drumm, Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, loitering, lot, notice, parking, San Francisco, sign
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
It begins, on January 19th at 11:00 AM, actually:
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Since I oppose Rose Pak-style corruption, I suppose that makes me an “opponent of 8 Washington.” Learn about me here, from a very-well financed “grass-roots” campaign:
All right, in answer to the first graf:
Uh no, not actually, I just oppose Rose Pak-style corruption in San Francisco, that’s all. Isn’t she behind this or something? Isn’t she the worst person in San Francisco, a cancer on Chinatown?
In answer to the second graf:
Uh, no, I don’t care about swim and fitness. Maybe your anonymous campaign needs to broaden its scope? I mean, lots of people oppose corruption in San Francisco – they don’t have to live near 8 Washington to oppose 8 Washington, right?
In answer to the third graf:
Uh, how can a parking lot be “blight?” Actually, it probably looks like Heaven to our hassled tourists. And arent’ the people closely connected enough to SFGov to have a shot at this deal “elites.” by definition? #potkettleblack
Hey, how about this, why not change “opponents” to “some opponents?” Then you’d have a chance of being correct.
Enjoy your corruption, backers of 8 Washington.
Tags: 2011, 2012, 8, 8 Washington, bay area, building, california, car, Development, ed lee, financial district, hearing, january 19, lot, Mayor, notice, park, parking lot, planning commission, public, room 400, Rose Pak, San Francisco, sewall, street, Washington
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
First it was all like this, then it was all like this (but that was a false alarm), then, just recently, it was all like this.
But then, T2, Judgement Day, Rise of the Tree Chipper Machines.
That was yesterday on McAllister. See?
The Chipperman Cometh:
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It was just like the end of that Fargo movie, except with trees.
At the end of the day, some of the 14 trees on death row were spared, some, like these, were not:
Maybe the unhealthy trees were destroyed and the healthy ones were left alone?
That’s one theory, anyway.
Courage.
Tags: 1300, 2010, 2011, alamo square, bay area, california, canopy, chinese, department, dept., dpw, elm, elms, forestry, mcallister, notice, pierce, public works, removal, San Francisco, scott, steiner, street, tree, trees, urban This entry was posted o
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Remember last year, when these “13 or 14″ Ulmus parvifolia got death notices wrapped around their trunks?
Well, they’re still here in 2011, which is well past they date that they were supposed to be turned into woodchips. See?
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Now, I’m not a big fan of trees in the City personally, as they cause a lot of trouble and, occasionally, kill people. But Trees First, People Second is the Law of the Land, so once a tree goes in, it can never ever ever come out, regardless of the circumstances. Oh well.
Anyway, as far as the Chinese Elms of McAllister are concerned:
Ha ha!
It’s your move, City. Care to try again?
Tags: 1300, 2010, 2011, alamo square, bay area, california, canopy, chinese, department, dept., dpw, elm, elms, forestry, mcallister, notice, pierce, public works, removal, San Francisco, scott, steiner, street, tree, trees, urban
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Don’t know if this is what the tree removal crew looks like but late last year all these trees were scheduled for destruction, so you don’t know what to expect.
Oh well.
As seen yesterday:
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Tags: 1300, 2010, 2011, alamo square, bay area, california, canopy, chinese, department, dept., dpw, elm, elms, forestry, mcallister, notice, pierce, public works, removal, San Francisco, scott, steiner, street, tree, trees, urban
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Thursday, August 5th, 2010
This tenth of a mile of Chinese Elms on the 1300 block of McAllister Street just got scheduled to walk the green mile next month.
Why? “Weak canopy vigor” ‘n stuff.
Check it:
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All the deets:
The response from one resident? “Fuck that.” Actually, that phrase got repeated several times until this closing line: “I know an arborist.” Well, I guess if you want to fight a tree removal, that’s the first person you’d want to talk with.
But I think the Bureau of Urban Forestry already has its mind set on chopping these trees down by the end of summer and entmoots can take months to set up…
Oh well.
There is unrest in the NoPA/ There is trouble with the trees…
Tags: 1300, 2010, alamo square, bay area, california, canopy, chinese, department, dept., dpw, elm, elms, forestry, mcallister, notice, pierce, public works, removal, San Francisco, scott, steiner, street, tree, trees, urban
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Laboring in the 415 for the U.S. Census isn’t half-bad.
The workers make more than a mosquito abatement courier, anyway.
When you see them walking around, just yell out, “Go home, G-Man!” They’ll love it.
As seen on McAllister:
Actually, I’ve let our local census taker into the building twice. You should too, why not?
From 1790:
- Name of head of family
- Number of free white males 16 and up, including heads of families
- Number of free white males under 16
- Number of free white females including heads of families
- Number of all other free persons, except Indians not taxed
- Number of slaves
To 2010, things haven’t changed a whole bunch.
The census has been updated to reflect all the amendments to the U.S. Consitution of course, but things haven’t changed a whole bunch.
So, answer the door when your Census worker drops by, huh?
Tags: (415), 1790, 2010, 22-Inch, canvasser, census, notice, pay, per hour, San Francisco, slaves, taker, u. s., United States, western addition, worker
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
This is what a Notice of Pesticide* Application looks like – it’s from our oddly-named San Francisco Recreation and Park Department. They’re spraying herbicides, like Roundup ProDry from Monsanto and Garlon 4 Ultra from Dow, on 15 hilly acres up there, right above the Midtown Terrace. That’s what Rec and Park is doing this month.
Why? Well, why not?
Targeted for extermination are Cotoneaster, Pittosporum, and Arctotheca calendula. See?
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Maybe it’s that stimulus money they’re spending.
Now, while the impoverished R&P is doing that, they’re also sprucing up, wait for it, the HQ building for the R&P.
See?
Maybe it’s that stimulus money they’re spending.
Oh well.
*Or “herbicide” – sometimes people call herbicides “herbicides” instead of pesticides. Sometimes.
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