Posts Tagged ‘off’
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Tags: 2012, 5, bay area, bideo, bus, california, call, chinatown, driver, ejected, fight, fulton, Irate, kicked, kicks off, mta, Muni, off, phone, San Francisco, SFMTA, transit, youtube
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Thursday, June 28th, 2012
Hells yes!
For symbolic reasons, if for no other.
It’s like this every night:
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Tags: 2012, bay area, california, City Hall, electrical, electricity, lights, night, off, office, on, San Francisco, spending, waste, workers
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Just look at this monster, this Raptor from Miraloma Park:
1/6400th of a one second of Life via torbakhopper – click to expand
Craiglist Founder Craig Newmark lives on this same hill but further down, so he gets smaller backyard birds…
Tags: balcony, band, banded, big, bird, birds, camera, craig newmark, craiglist, feathers, founder, hawk, Hide Your Pets, launch, leaving, letting go, metal, Miraloma, Miraloma Park, off, park, pets, rail, railing, raptor, red, red-tailed, tail, tailed, taking, terrace, torbakhopper
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
[Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting and area muckraker Phil Matier both drive Priuseseses around town but they don't seem to drive like Prius drivers, AFAICS. It's uncanny. Consider them exceptions to the rule.]
Most of the time, when you see people driving at night without their headlights on, the car involved is a Toyota Prius. There are various reasons for that, but mostly it has to do with the lack of situation awareness possessed by the typical Prius driver.
So it was refreshing to see a non-Prius driver doing the same thing just yesterday. Thusly:
Now, if you want to get in on the fun, order a black Prius from Toyota. Then, when you go about at night without lights on, you’ll turn invisible. Thusly.
And oh yes, feel free to blame Toyota after you crash.
Hurray!
Tags: 2011, Assesso, Assessor-Recorder, bad, bay area, california, driver, drivers, headlights, hybrid, light, lights, night, off, on, phil matier, Phil Ting, prius, Recorder, San Francisco, toyota, worse, worst
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Monday, June 13th, 2011
So why did we give land to the Feds for them to take care of if we don’t want them to take care of it?
What makes us special that we need an exemption from federal rules, an exemption that nobody in America outside of the bay area expects?
That’s the Question of the Day.
A snowy plover on Ocean Beach _not_ being harassed by a dog:
Now, Ocean Beach Dog, ooh, somebody over there got an off-leash ticket from the Feds a looooong time ago. (Can you guess what year by looking at the website design? Sure you can.) Oh well. Well, the Feds don’t like Ocean Beach Dog and people what behave like Ocean Beach Dog. The Feds consider us Whacko City, USA because of outfits like OBD, oh well.
Most dogs don’t bother the boids, of course. Can you see the snowy plover?
But some dogs do harass the birds. (These aren’t actually snowy plovers near Lawton and the Great Highway but the dogs don’t know or care about that.)
(Get those Ocean Beach birds, good boy!)
And here’s the sitch up in Crissy Field:
See the birds, see the unleashed dog?
Is is surprising to you that an unleashed dog could find and chase these plovers?
Oh well.
On It Goes
Tags: baker, beach, bird, birds, citation, Crissy Field, dog, dogs, endangered, federal, fort, ft, funston, harassed, leash, ocean beach, off, plover, plovers, ranger, sf dog, sfdog, snowy, tickets, walkers, western
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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
What would you make of things if you were hanging out in the Presidio and came across this giant cartoonish button?
You’d get on the Yelp and award Five Stars, as so many others have done before you.
Check out what Serge has to say:
“YES! I am glad that I was not the only one to notice this. First time I walked around the Letterman Digital Arts Center these buttons stood out like a sore emo thumb. Has anyone ever pressed one? Will the creek flood with emo kids? Will the water run red from razor cut wrists? Will a dark cloud cover the park as the trees die and pigeons turn to black crows? WHO KNOWS!”
Via A.J.
Bon courage, giant cartoonish EMO buttons of the Presidio!
Tags: 2011, arts, bay area, black, buttons, california, center, digital, emergency, EMO, film, knob, knobs, Letterman, Letterman Digital Arts Center, lucas, lucasfilm, maintenance, off, red, San Francisco, yellow, yelp
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
Actually, I think that’s the problem, outfits like SFDog are worried that people will start to get (more) tickets for walking doggies off-leash on federal land.
A snowy plover on Ocean Beach not being harassed by a dog:
Now, Ocean Beach Dog, ooh, somebody over there got an off-leash ticket from the Feds a looooong time ago. (Can you guess what year by looking at the website design? Sure you can.) Oh well.
Most dogs don’t bother the boids, of course:
But some do. (These aren’t actually snowy plovers near Lawton and the Great Highway but the dogs don’t know or care about that.)
(Get those Ocean Beach birds, good boy!)
So why did we give land to the Feds for them to take care of if we don’t want them to take care of it?
What makes us special that we need an exemption from federal rules, an exemption that nobody outside of the bay area expects?
That’s the question of the day.
UPDATE: Here’s more from up in the Crissy Field area and here’s the recent bit from the Chronicle that has more details
Tags: baker, beach, bird, birds, citation, Crissy Field, dog, dogs, endangered, federal, fort, ft, funston, harassed, leash, ocean beach, off, plover, ranger, sf dog, sfdog, snowy, tickets, walkers, western
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Friday, December 17th, 2010
Is there some law that says AT&T is required to deliver waaaaaaay too many phone books to San Francisco households every year? Could be.
If there is, wouldn’t it be easier for all concerned if instead of leaving all these unwanted phone books out in the rain for day after day, week after week, AT&T could just have its workers deliver them directly to the recycling bins out back?
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What’s that, AT&T? People still love your phone books? No they don’t.
Obviously, there’s profit to be had, somehow, in this annual exercise, so oh well.
Tags: 2010, at&t, bay area, books, california, coupon, coupons, grocery, in, list, many, off, opt, out, paper, phone, phonebooks, rainbow, recycle, recycles, San Francisco, too, unused, unwanted, useless, waste
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Thursday, August 26th, 2010
This open-top sightseeing bus in Golden Gate Park has its steering wheel on the wrong side, cause it was made in merry olde Englande at the British Leyland factory.
Normally that kind of set-up a pain, but it’s a bonus when you’re stalled on Martin Luther King, Jr due to congestion near Music Concourse Drive. Just pull into the other lane and hope that the drivers coming the other way notice.
If you ever get pulled over by the SFPD or the Park police for driving the wrong way, address all concerned as “gov’ner” and feel free to throw in the phrase “me lorry” as much as possible. “See here, Gov’ner, me lorry is right hand drive, so….” That should get you off the hook.
Why waste your petrol waiting in line when you can just jump the queue?
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Cheers!
Tags: 2010, 9th, academy of sciences, avenue, bay area, british, bus, california, congestion, de Young, drive, driver, garage, golden gate park, hop, idling, inner sunset, jam, left hand drive, leyland, lhd, lorry, museum, music concourse, off, on, open, park, police, rhd, right hand drive, San Francisco, seeing, SFPD, sight, sightseeing, stalled, top, traffic, wrong
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Saturday, May 8th, 2010
Via BIKE NOPA word comes of San Francisco’s first continuously green bike lane, down there on Market inbound. It seems that Dan Nguyen-Tan thought it was so good this morning, he told two friends about it, and they told two friends, and so on and so on.
So tout de suite, tout le monde learned about it.
Will this greenery hold up better than the fast-fading beige of Market a little bit down the road?
Via Jamison, from today:
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Only Time Will Tell
Tags: 4th, 5th, andy thornley, beige, bicycle coalition, bicycle coallition, bikes, bus, fawn, geary, green, Greenway, inbound, market, mta, off, old navy, paint, pedestrians, peeling, Program Director, Ride Awa, ride away, Ride Away Greenway, Ride Away/Greenway, safety, safety zone, San Francisco, san francisco bicycle coalition, sfbc, sfcta, SFMTA, street, textured, traffic, Trail, west, zone
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