December 1st was World AIDS Day, so San Francisco landmarks were painted with red light last night.
Check the photos.
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San Francisco Goes Red for World AIDS Day
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Our New and Improved Sutro Tower Now Has New and Improved Digital Broadcasts
Thursday, November 19th, 2009Not that you’d really be able to tell, though. Sutro Tower Inc. has just finished a project that had some of the digital TV broadcast antennas (not “antennae” – that plural term is only used for bugs in our silly English language) gaining a higher altitude.
Not much howver, maybe a seven-percent increase, max. Does that make a big difference? No, not for most people, but at least STI is trying.
Here’s the antenna of KPIX-TV (OMG, that’s the home of Eye on Blogs – big ups, Brittney Gilbert!) a way up top, like 1700 feet above sea level. Now Channel 5 is as high as possible:
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The Future is Now, and what’s labeled “CURRENT” is history:
From this:
To this:
Well, they were still wrapping the KPIX, KRON, KTVU antenna assembly, but you get the idea.
So it looks like we’re all set with the Great Digital TV Conversion of 2009. As long as Sutro Tower doesn’t get hit by a shooting star….
…we’ll be all right.
Is Rec & Parks Spraying Herbicides on Twin Peaks this Month? You Bet
Monday, November 16th, 2009This 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.
The Constellation Sutro as It Appeared Last Night Over San Francisco
Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009You know that Autumn has come to San Francisco when you see a crescent moon inside of the nine red stars that make up the Sutro Constellation.
As seen from Duboce Park around 8:00 PM last night:
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Red stars at night, a Sailor’s delight
The Best Place to See San Francisco* is from the de Young Museum’s Hamon Tower
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009Here’s the Hamon Tower of the de young Museum (now, with more Tut!) from the outside….
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…and here it is from the inside:
Don’t skip The Tower the next time you’re in Golden Gate Park!
*If you’re in the west side already, and it’s a cold, windy day.
San Francisco’s Rocket Boat Approaches, But Doesn’t Hit, the Bay Bridge Delta Tower
Monday, August 17th, 2009OMG! It’s the San Francisco Rocket Boat! Does it really go over 40 MPH on San Francisco Bay? Yes it does.
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Oh noes! Now it’s heading right towards the Delta Tower of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge!
But, good thing there’s a bar pilot on board. What’s that? There’s not?
On second thought, maybe it’s a Good Thing there’s no half-million dollar a year pilot on board. Rocket Boat managed to clear the tower and proceed back to Fisherman’s Wharf.
Hurray!
Loveable I AM PABST Mural Has San Francisco Laughing. Squid + Tennis + Beer = ???
Thursday, July 16th, 2009This huge Pabst Blue Ribbon mural on 7th Street is arresting, no? (Do the people at the beloved and hugely-trafficked (hundreds of thousands of visitors monthly) Laughing Squid website know about this yet?)
Free public art, and yet, some scowl:
“Wow they finally figured out a way to combine the two of the things hipsters love most….Pabst and Cephalopods. If only they could have figured a way to get some yarn or felt in there?”
“I Am Pabst- by Jacob White, Los Gatos, CA.” Click to expand:
As seen in front of the McAllister Tower part of Hastings College of Law, University of California, which is a just a ”15 minute walk from Little Saigon.” (Ah yes, Hastings, where the “impoverished” students never drive German cars, and never power their marijuana grow lamps with unmetered electricity at the 100 McAllister dorms. Heavens no.)
Here’s a larger version for you to click on. How would you compare it with what they have in Kansas City? Or Minneapolis? Or Seattle? Or Boise? Is the artist referencing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums? Food for thought.
Actually, this is almost like a national ad campaign. Oh well. Check the gallery for 2007 and 2008. Enter the PBArt contest for next year, why not?
By now, you should feel like getting some smokes as well some ice-cold PBRs – after all, it’s a Pabst Summer:
As seen in Alamo, CA.
Digital TV: San Francisco Bay Areans Say Good-Bye Comcast Cable
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Here’s what you do, you get a free Digital to Analog TV Converter Box and then kick Comcast cable to the curb. (Of course, if you have a newer TV, you don’t even need the converter box.)
Get a sneak peek of the stations you’ll get here, based upon your specific location. And read a report from one San Francisco resident who seems pleased with the whole transition to digital.
It’s new, it’s you!
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If you like Spanish and Chinese language programming, you’ll love digi-TV. Plus, you can get KQED Channel 9 three ways.
What about NBC? Well, they left the 415 a while back and now base their operations out of San Jose. Consequently, they broadcast from San Mateo County. Consequently, you might have a little trouble tuning in the NBC.
Anyway, more and more people are saying good-bye to their local cable overlords. What have you got to lose?
3D Model Shows Just How Dwarfed San Francisco’s Ferry Building Has Become
Thursday, June 11th, 2009You can see it all in this photo of San Francisco’s Financial District and SoMA. Just how many structures rise above the Ferry Building these days?
It used to be the tallest in the City, back in the day.
See it, in the foreground at the foot of Market Street, in this model you can find at the SPUR Urban Center on Mission?
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Sic Transit Gloria Urbis
The New UC Hastings Law School Parking Garage is Finally Up in Civic Center
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Well, here it is. After all kinds of stress and strife, the University of California, Hastings College of the Law parking garage / multi-use building in the Civic Center / Tenderloin area (aka Little Saigon) looks done from the outside.
Soon the legal eaglets at the largest and oldest law school in the West (yes, older than vaunted Boalt Hall across the estuary in Berkeley) will be able to easily descend from their nests at historic 100 McAllister or the “Book Concern Building” to get to their small German cars - without hogging up spaces at the Civic Center Parking Garage (aka Victory Garden Basement).
Note the “sickly green tiling” put in by the Vanishing Construction Workers of San Francisco County.
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It’s up… and it’s good! Three points for UC Hastings.
