Posts Tagged ‘up’
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
This shot shows the real steep block of northbound Masonic, just above Fulton.
Dude here uses the bizarrely-wide sidewalk, the way I and most other people do. Good times:
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And you should too, that’s what I’m saying.
Now, going south on Masonic is different. You should stay on the street ’til the cross-street Turk (which has a higher speed limit than Masonic, go figure). Then you go onto the sidewalk for one block (taking care to avoid the illegally parked cars put there by area homeowners who actually own garages, go figure). Then at Golden Gate, you cross and wait for the light to turn red.
Then you have two whole blocks all to yourself, if only for a few moments
Thusly:
That’s How I Go Up Masonic, How I Come Down Masonic.
Tags: 2013, avenue, bay area, bicycle, bike, boulevard, california, cars, cyclist, down, light, masonic, red, safety, sidewalk, up
Posted in bikes | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
This wasn’t a sidelined bus waiting for help to get back on the road. No no, this was an operating #6 Parnassus heading inbound on Market just the other day.
San Francisco’s infamous jaywalking* peds will now need to keep an eye out for this kind of thing:
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*Uh, jaywalking isn’t illegal because of Big Oil. No no, jaywalking is illegal because Big Government wants to protect you from killing yourself. Yet another conspiracy theory debunked…
Tags: 2013, 6, access, bay area, bus, california, driver, driving, illegal, jaywalkers, jaywalking, market, mta, Muni, open, panel, parnassus, propped, safety, San Francisco, SFMTA, unsafe, up
Posted in transit | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 4th, 2013
Which is probably true.
But the thing is I only left it there for two minutes
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After a brief examination of the doors of this obsolete newspaper pedmount, the bicycle thief ran off claiming that he wasn’t trying to steal this particular bike.
On it goes.
Tags: 2013, bay area, bicycle, bike, california, green, lock, locked, pedmount, pedmounts, San Francisco, stolen, thief, up
Posted in bikes | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Except this guy didn’t fly away using balloons. He stayed put and watched larger buildings go up around him.
Anytown, USA plopped down on busy, busy Oak Street, San Francisco:
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Tags: 2013, animated, balloons, bay area, california, carl fredrickson, Cartoon, film, fly, house, man, oak, old, Pixar, real, real life, San Francisco, star, stret, up, white
Posted in buildings | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012
Like this.
Celebrating another good year:
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Tink happy tots!
Tags: 2012, baseball, bay area, brown, california, celebrate, City Hall, civic center, color, colors, Dodgers, dome, giants, halloween, honor, led, light, lighted, lighting, lit, night, orange, playoffs, pumpkin, San Francisco, umber, up, why, why is city hall orange
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
This is the scene at the end of Dreamforce 2012, one of San Francisco’s largest events in recent memory.
89,999 registrants had moved on at this point last night – here’s the last one:
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Yes, the fifth biggest classical dome in the world and first biggest in the New World.
Yes, bigger than the U.S. Capitol. On purpose.
Tags: 000, annual, aqua, band, Benefit, Blue, Children's Hospital, City Hall, Colin Powell, concert, Dana Carvey, dj, DJ MC Hammer, Dreamforce Gala, ecosystem, general, General Colin Powell, hammer, Jeff Immelt, keynote, Lady Antebellum, larry ellison, light, lights, lit, Marc Benioff, mc, music, night, oracle, partner, philanthropy, pink, quiet, Red Hot Chili Peppers, richard branson, sir, Sir Richard Branson, software, Tony Robbins, ucsf, up, wOMAN
Posted in architecture, buildings | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 17th, 2012
Together forever, in Ignatius Heights from a few days back:
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PS: MUNI sucks. And San Francisco’s “strong Mayor” systems sucks as well. Perhaps there’s a relationship there…
PPS: Speaking of which, Mayor Ed Lee’s approval rating is now in the 40′s and MUNI’s on-time rating is down in the 50′s. Perhaps there’s a relationship there…
PPPS: An on-time rating is a fairly stupid way to keep track of MUNI, but it’s what we have so oh well.
And no one’s been lying
‘Cause we don’t lie any more
Tags: 2012, bay area, bunch, bunched, bus, buses, california, clayton, cole, college, DPT, ed lee, fulton, law, Mayor, mta, Muni, parker, San Francisco, school, SFMTA, shrader, street, together, transit, university of san francisco, up, USF, World War II, wwii
Posted in transit | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Park your ride on stair railings at the new Metreon and this is what will happen – you’ll get a note like this taped on:
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Here’s your mise-en-scene with legally parked bikes in the foreground and illegally parked bikes in the background:
See them all? Every bike has a note. (How many reams of paper does the Metreon go through in a week?)
Obviously, there’s no more parking spaces left on the north side, Metreon.
Why not put this on your list of things to do, Metreon? More bike parking near Mission where it’ll get used…
Tags: 2012, 4th, bay area, bicycles, bikes, california, cut, cyclists, guards, howard, illegal, illegally, jillians, legal, locked, metal, Metreon, mission, no bicycle parking, note, paper, patrol, rail, railings, San Francisco, security, sffd, Sony, stairs, street, up
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Plus $60 per night in hotel tax – don’t forget about that.
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Tags: 2011, bay area, body, dead, hotel, room, San Francisco, Surprise, tax, up, waking
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Friday, October 28th, 2011
Have you heard the Word on the Street? It’s that Halloween in the Castro is making a comeback in 2011. So get dressed up and go, if you want.
Now, they won’t shut down the streets and put up fences and charge admission the way they did just a few years back. Oh no. Castro in the Halloween is returning but as a smaller event. You know, the way it was before all the “bros and hos” from Santa Clara County started showing up.
I haven’t heard word one about Halloween being cancelled this year – perhaps a new Mayor has new priorities?
And do you think the cops might be busy raiding (or “training” for raiding) Occupy SF down in the Embarcadero?
Mmmmm…
Anyway, Halloween in the Castro 2011 will be a sedate affair, with delightfully-costumed people milling about.
Thusly.
It will be old-school, with plenty of elbow room, the way it was before the era when cops would shut down streets. Like these scenes from the smallish Halloween in the Castro 2010.
See you there!
Will the Queen of Hearts and the Queen of Diamonds return to the Castro this year?
The stage at 16th, Market, and Noe. A kid from one of San Francisco’s housing projects got mad and shot nine people a little later on this particular evening. Nobody died though:
The Raiders and Niners fan what show up are generally better behaved than the actual fans at the stadiums:
An ocean of people at 17th, Market and Castro, a few years back:
I don’t know if Halloween in the Castro will ever get this big again, but who knows…
Tags: 17th, 2011, bay area, california, castro, castro halloween, cops, costumes, department, dept., dress, ed lee, gavin newsom, Gay, gun, halloween, halloween in the castro, home, imnages, LGBT, market, Mayor, mta, Muni, occupy, officers, party, photos, police, San Francisco, sexy, SFMTA, SFPD, shooting, street, up
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