Friday, February 12th, 2010
The Winter Olympics are going to get going tomorrow after tonight’s ceremony, but San Francisco doesn’t have an NBC affiliate so there you go. (I think the closest city of license for NBC is Fun Jose or Fresno or someplace Down South.) Here’s the rule – if you can’t see Mount San Bruno from your residence, chances are your rabbit ears won’t either.
All right then, you can always keep up at nbcolympics.com, and at the same time get your fill of ads for WalMart and the 2010 Census.
Or, alternatively, you can check out the less spammy website of the United State Olympic Committee complete with all the Web 2.0 connections you kids crave.
Your choice.
via Robert Sanzalone
Tags: 2010, antenna, canada, digital, KNTV, mount, mountain, nbc, Olympics, san bruno, San Francisco, san jose, TV, Vancouver, whistler, winter
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Monday, July 6th, 2009
There wasn’t all that much coverage of the incident back in the day, so the time that a United Airlines Boeing 747-400 out of SFO with 300 people aboard came super close to crashing into 1,576-foot-high San Bruno Mountain is worth remembering.
Did the pilot at the controls really forget how to steer the plane after one of the engines failed and lots of vibration began? Pretty much. But everybody treated this near miss as if it were an actual accident and procedures for pilot training are now better because of it.
The proper way to clear San Bruno:
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Some of the locals of San Mateo and San Francisco living around the mountain won’t ever forget hearing and feeling that particular flight.
That’s something to think about when you’re out and about near the mountain, huh?
Tags: 100 feet, 1998, 747, 863, accident, airport, australia, boeing, co-pilot, county, flight, flight 863, hill, international, mount, mountain, near miss, pilot, san bruno, San Francisco, San Mateo, SFO, sydney, united, united airlines
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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009
Look at this monster bus temporarily blocking San Francisco’s Market Street near 3rd Street Mayor Willie Brown Way - it’s must not be easy driving a 60-foot-long Neoplan AN460 on the 14 Mission or the 9 San Bruno lines.
Cause if you miss the acute turn from Willie to Market outbound, you got to back her up, and that means you need spotters to help you out. As here.
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I’d rather drive the shorter buses on the 37 Corbett, personally.
Tags: 14, 9, an460, articulated, bus, district, driver, financial, Kearny, Line, long, market, Muni, municipal, neoplan, railway, san bruno, San Francisco, street, thrid, trailer, willie brown
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