At this year’s Santacon, someone Brody dressed up as a grayscale Santa. Here is a picture by NV6V:
Update: more info in the description of this pic:
“Custom gray & white Santa suit, made by me. Wig + contacts + Kryolan body paint”
Unreal…
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I just picked up the latest issue of the San Francisco Panorama today from Green Apple. McSweeney’s has proven that the American newspaper is still viable. It just takes a team of writers five months to produce a single issue, which sells for $17.52 :)
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This was a good week for bicycling in San Francisco! We got our first new bike lane in 3 years, our first physically-separated bike lane, and our very first bike box! Streetfilms has a video covering the Bike Celebration Press Conference:
In other transportation news, several Muni routes will be discontinued tomorrow. Mission Local has made a farewell video to to the 26 Valencia, which is ending its 108-year run:
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There was a terrible fire down by the RaNCh this weekend. Five neighboring warehouses burned to the ground. Somehow the ranch survived. dreameleven has a writeup of what happened. Craig started a flickr pool of photos of the fire:
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Pink Saturday was amazing.. there were at least a trillion people there!
Peliom took this picture of TikiTV VJ’ing on the main stage at Castro and Market:
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Here are some old pics of Sam and Peliom vj-ing with the open source TikiTV software at the Timothy Leary Archives event at 111 Minna. Way fun!
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Stopped in at Eastwind Books at Columbus & Stockton in SF the other day, and discovered to my delight an unannounced 30% off sale on all books in the store. Normally a random bookstore sale would not be blog-worthy, but Eastwind is not merely a random bookstore. They are like the Kinokuniya of Chinese bookstores, and have one of the best selections of Traditional Chinese Medicine texts of any retail bookstore in the U.S, along with a selection of Chinese philosophy, literature, and language texts.
Some gems that were still on the shelves as I was leaving were Bensky’s Formulas and Strategies, Chen’s Chinese Medical Herbology & Pharmacology, and the English version of the Commission E Monographs. With the sale taken into account, all three were priced significantly below BookFinder prices…
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Timmmii and crew changed all the Bush St. signs to read OBAMA St. They got the *entire* street before the cops stopped them!
Satisfied Clients
Originally uploaded by Matthew Williams Design
This pic is awesome:
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TikiRobot is donating $100 to the SF Food Bank this winter. They feed 132,000 people every year, and this year their dry good supplies are down 15%. If you are in town over the holidays, they need volunteers.
Every time we get a check from Amazon for having their widget in our sidebar, we’re rounding it up to $100 and donating to a worthy cause.
cc by-nc picture by Veronica Belmont
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I took this pic at Furry’s bday party..
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Since 2001, we’ve spent Halloween morning with a few hundred of our freaky friends. This year we had a spectacular new location and plenty of donuts and bacon. Thanks for another crazy year, Brass Tax crew!
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Sign of the times: following the Bay Area D&B float with a stroller and chillin in the civic center playground while craziness swirled all around us.
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We went to a ridiculous event put on by the GitHib crew. It was like dorkbot but with version control instead of electrons.
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Parking Day was a while ago, but I still haven’t posted pics. Now that I have a worspress client on my iPod, I have no excuse to not post!
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Click play to start!
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A few weeks ago, we hosted wine tasting at our house.
50 bottles of wine were consumed.
This is the only picture I took:
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We are on the second day of our KenFlix subscription, and loving it! I was wondering if KenFlix was limited to just one movie per day, or if you could get a movie, watch it, and then immediately walk back to Four Star Video and get a new one. I told the folks at 4star we were going to have a KenFlix weekend where we would see how many movies we could watch in two days, and all three people working behind the counter said that was a perfectly great idea. Ridiculous!
So anyway:
(11 hours open per day) * (30 days per month) / (2 hours per movie) = 165 movies a month!
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Four Star Video has launched a subscription plan called KenFlix, and it appears NetFlix is about to lose the important Bernal Heights demographic.
The deal: $20/month for unlimited rentals, one out at a time.
Advantages of KenFlix: No waiting for DVDs to arrive in the mail. Video nerds can get 30 rentals a month if they go to 4star every day..
Disadvantages of KenFlix: 4star DVDs usually play in my player, unlike Netflix discs, which usually start to skip about half way through. This means whenever we pick a bad movie, we’ll actually have to watch the whole thing.
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The Silver Crest is so sketchy. It’s like Sketch Central. I’ve lived next to it for six years and had never been inside. But look at all that great neon! Their sign proclaims: “We Never Close”. We decide we have to go.
Friday night Sam was driving us back from the spaz party at the Li Po Lounge, and we pass the Silver Crest. We’re full of Mai Tais and thumpy beats, but Bob and I have the same thought. We have to go.
We walk in and transported fifty years into the past. There is a bar in the back with a crowded pool table, but it’s 2am and the bar is just closing. We grab a booth in the front. These jukebox things on every table:
It doesn’t work and and eats Bob’s quarter. That probably for the best, since the jukebox is full of with Greek waltzes.
The menu is written on the wall. The food isn’t cheap, but we hope it’s good. The coffee is a ridiculous $2.75. Even for diner coffee, it tastes like crap.
They have these old pinball machines, which mang decides to check out while we wait for the food. There is a sign saying you have to be over 21 to play. We ask the server why, and she says they don’t want to encourage the kids to gamble. Whatever. The kids are all at Li Po, anyway, playing dice for drinks.
The food comes out. I’m surprised by how bad it is, but I don’t know why. I guess I expect shitty diners to have great food. That is not the case tonight. My hotcakes arrive with an entire stick of “butter” on top, which promptly slides off onto the table as soon as the server sets them down.
I’m disgusted but Bob thinks we need to come back. The Silver Crest has donuts, and they might actually be good. Maybe we’ll bring our own coffee next time.
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The Internet Archive, a San Francisco-based organization dedicated to preserving a record of the Internet and to increasing access to the Internet, today began offering free Internet service to public housing projects at speeds far greater than any other city resident can receive.
Valencia Gardens Housing, with 240 units, is the first area to be connected in a pilot project that expects to wire more than 2,500 units in the city in the next eight months, according to Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle.
What makes the project unique is that the apartments will be connected to the Internet, and to the educational resources at the Internet Archive, at 100 megabits per second (Mbits/second). That speed contrasts sharply with the normal Internet service offered by telephone companies, which is usually less than 6 Mbits/second.
The residents can instantly view DVD-quality videos of the thousands of lectures and other educational information from the Internet Archive’s collections, as well as traditional Internet access.
The Internet Archive is able to achieve this high speed by connecting the San Francisco municipal fiber optic network, which runs through the public housing developments, to an Archive switching center, which connects to the Internet.
“We are pleased to be the first non-profit organization to bring public housing online,” Kahle said.
He added: “We are excited to see much faster access to the Internet as a way to experiment with advanced applications, and are pleased that the underserved get first access to advanced technology.”
See also: NYTimes Bits Blog, The Reg, Cnet article by Greeter Dan.
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Last year a small crew showed up at Vermont St. after the official races ended, and we had an absolute blast. This year, the official races were on Vermont St., and it was awesome:
(click play to start) (link to other sizes)
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We went to see modeselektor last night at Mighty! It was super-packed.. a huge crowd for a Wednesday:
The Camo Bus was rockin outside… I love the fact that no one complains that there is an absolutely thunderous soundsystem set up on the street :)
Here is a short video of modeselektor being introduced. The Mighty soundsystem absolutely crushes the little microphone in my camera, so this video is kind of pointless but still fun. What you can’t hear in the video is an insane amount of soul-destroying bass:
(click play to start video)
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This year’s Burnal Equinox event (called Whispered Dream) is going to be held at the Whisper Ultralounge, which sounds like one of the worst venues in SF for a burning man event.
Their webpage lists the “upscale dress code” as follows:
NO; Athletic/Sports Attire of any kind including expensive designer court shoes, Timberland and/or similar style Boots, Excessively Baggy Jeans, Dark Sunglasses, T-shirts, Athletic Apparel, and Most Hats (Fedora style top hats are acceptable). You’ll have to step it up if you wana step in.
Bwahahahaha… BM keeps getting less and less interesting to me.
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