Posts Tagged ‘up’
Thursday, December 17th, 2009
When parking in San Francisco, you should always curb your wheels. If you can’t tell whether you’re pointing uphill or down, just pour out a little water from your bottle into the gutter.
The way the water goes tells you which way the hill goes. Or just look at what all the other drivers on the block did. Easy peasy, right?
The driver of this VW Cabrio made the wrong choice, so a ticket from SFMTA was the result. Parking Control Officers will spot this infraction from a block away and then make a special trip just for you.
Oh well.
Tags: accident, angle, away, curb, degrees, down, downhill, DPT, hill, illegal, law, legal, meter maids, mta, parking, pco, roll, rule, San Francisco, sfdpt, SFMTA, slope, ticket, tires, up, uphill, Wheels
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
The news of the day from the Associated Press: “Coast Guard scoops up oil in San Francisco Bay“
Except that the smallest branch of the United States military doesn’t actually scoop up spilled oil in San Francisco Bay - there’s a whole industry dedicated to doing that. And if you listen to the Coast Guard, they’ll tell you that, ad nauseum. Oh well.
The Coasties are handling this spill better than that one from the Cosco Busan. Hurray! That’s good practice for The Big Oil Spill in our future:
The Pacific Responder and the Ocean Liberty, along with smaller vessels, are out there right now, between San Francisco and the tip of Alameda Island that’s, oddly enough, also part of the City of San Francisco.
Anyway, the USCG don’t scoop up oil.
And keep up the good work, 11th District. Just try to resist the urge to lie to us for no reason, and you’ll do fine.
Carry on…
Tags: "Coast Guard Scoops, 9, anchorage, ap, associated press, Bay, bay area, cleanup, Coast Guard, Coast Guard Scoops Up Oil in San Francisco Bay, district 11, Dubai Star, error, flagged, oil, Panamanian, San Francisco, spill, U.S., United States, up, USCG
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Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
NASA is now using the largest Zeppelin in the world to conduct scientific journeys – read all ab0ut it.
Get up to speed about this monstrous thing here and see where it’s been lately by clicking here.
And this is what it’s like UP there.
As seen over the Golden Gate Bridge last week, on a nice, sunny day. Click to expand.
Tags: 23, 23 and me, ad, ad advertising, advertising, airship, airship ventures, Alexandra Hall, balloon, bay area, blimp, Carl Fredricksen, CEO, dirigible, Disney, eureka, film, fly, Golden Gate Bridge, la, learn, los angeles, me, monterey, mountain view, movie, Napa, nasa, nt, pilot, Pixar, ride, Russell, salinas, San Francisco, scientists, up, ventures, zeppelin
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Monday, September 14th, 2009
See all these people heading up the 1200 block of San Francisco’s Lombard Street? They’re on their way to the Crookedest Street in the World, just a short drive away. But, en realidad, these people will have a long wait to get up this hill. Why? Because they have to take their turn. And that causes problems:
“I live one block from Lombard and Polk and every Sat and Sun Lombard is full of tourists who burn up their clutches trying to get up Lombard street….”
This is gridlock. Perhaps it will take a half hour to get to the curvy part?
Here’s the block of Clutch Sorrow:
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Now, if you’re on this street trying to get to the good part of Lombard, you should just jink on over to Filbert via Polk and then get Hyde. Then you go north on Hyde and hang a righty to go down the famous block.
That way, you avoid this situation:
“Driving up Lombard Street in San Francisco takes patience and a quick foot. If you have a manual transmission you’ll need to exercise care when releasing the clutch. Even cars with automatic transmissions squeal tires driving up Lombard Street. Every time you go from gas to brake the car rolls back until the motor moves the car forwards. On Lombard Street its quite normal to smell burning rubber from tires and clutches. Lombard Street is best driven in a rental car.”
So, don’t follow the crowd up Lombard and don’t follow the 49 Mile Scenic Drive (which doesn’t even hit the crooked part of the street), just follow the cable cars on Hyde from Nob Hill.
You’ll do fine.
Tags: 49, brakes, burn, burning, cluth, crooked, crookedest, drive, filbert, hyde, lombard, lombard street, mile, Polk, russian hill, San Francisco, scenic, street, up, wait, Waiting
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
This is what the the Bay Area’s Eureka Zeppelin looks like above San Francisco’s Ferry Building these days. Read all about the new colorful ad for the straight-out-of-Emeryville film Up, after the jump.
And if you live in Los Angeles, like Frank Black, then you’ll see this very same airship above your skies over the weekend. Look for it under the pouring sun.
Click to expand.
Read all about it, after the jump:
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Tags: ad, ad advertising, advertising, airship, airship ventures, Alexandra Hall, balloon, bay area, blimp, Carl Fredricksen, CEO, dirigible, Disney, eureka, film, fly, la, learn, los angeles, monterey, mountain view, movie, Napa, nt, pilot, Pixar, ride, Russell, salinas, San Francisco, up, ventures, zeppelin
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Before…
…and after:
Not the best clean-up job in the world, but it will have to suffice until the little monsters act up again.
Anyway, it’s certainly good enough to pass muster with the Broken Windows Theory crowd.
Hurray.
Tags: assassination, baker, clean, dmv, fell, golden gate park, graffiti, love, oak, paint, panhandle, president, removal, spray, statue, street, tagging, up, william mckinley
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