Tsunami Waves At Ocean Beach, SF
Posted by Dave | March 1st, 2010 | Filed under San Francisco
Well, looks like the normal surf to me…
“Tsunami” Waves at Ocean Beach, Feb. 27, 2010 from Richmond SF Blog on Vimeo.
New Bay Bridge Connector
Posted by Dave | September 9th, 2009 | Filed under San Francisco
After we heard on the radio that the Bay Bridge was re-opening this morning, Dru and I decided to use the excuse of a getting a cup of coffee in SF so we could drive the Smart Car over the new Bay Bridge Connector. We brought a camera and I recorded our little journey, you can see that there is a CHP escort in our group of cars.
It was a surprise that CalTrans opened the bridge early this morning as there were some “issues” that were going to delay the re-opening, like a big crack found in one of the support spans.
New Section of Bay Bridge Moved In!
Posted by Dave | September 6th, 2009 | Filed under Oakland, San Francisco
Some great time-lapse photography of the labor day weekend Bay Bridge repair.
Colbert Talks to the Newspaper’s Lobbyist
Posted by Dave | April 8th, 2009 | Filed under Humor, San Francisco
It is sad that our daily newspapers are shrinking or disappearing altogether. It makes me wonder though, in the case of our local San Francisco Chronicle, how much of this was an intentional neglect so they can get co-publishing mergers approved in Washington? The Chronicle was bought a few years ago by the Hearst Corporation and they are now losing over a million dollars a week.
Suggestion to the Chronicle’s Managers; making the paper smaller, with uglier typesetting and putting the business section on the back of another section isn’t going to help.
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-dB appears in Macworld report
Posted by Dave | February 24th, 2009 | Filed under San Francisco, Tech
Irina Slutsky covered Macworld as only she can with her humorous coverage of last January’s event.
Smart Cars
Posted by Dave | January 31st, 2009 | Filed under San Francisco
Testing remote posting via iPhone from the Smart Car dealership~
How the Bush Street Was Renamed Obama Street in SF
Posted by Dave | January 23rd, 2009 | Filed under Culture, Humor, San Francisco
This is a great little video from the team behind the transformation of Bush St. to Obama St. in San Francisco on Inauguration Eve.
Begin Obama!
Posted by Dave | January 21st, 2009 | Filed under Culture, Humor, San Francisco
Photo by Jef Poskanzer
All the street signs on San Franciso’a Bush Street were renamed Obama Street by some Pranksters Monday night – just in time for the Inauguration!
Obama on “Check Please…”!!
Posted by Dave | January 19th, 2009 | Filed under Culture, Food, Politics, San Francisco
I just discovered that Barack Obama, then a little known Illinois State Senator, was on a pilot episode of the Chicago [original] version of Check Please… The San Francisco version on KQED is one of my favorite shows. The show features three regular people that share their favorite restaurants and the other two guests check it out and share their opinions.
No Pants on the Subway a Success!
Posted by Dave | January 14th, 2009 | Filed under Culture, Humor, Oakland, San Francisco, Uncategorized
I was wondering if this was going to happen in SF. A lot of Gaza protesters were riding BART to SF on Saturday morning. Seeing the two groups together would have been interesting. I was taking BART from Oakland to SF on this morning so Dru could pick me up at the Balboa station so we could get the heck out of town. Everyone had pants.
Macworld
Posted by Dave | January 7th, 2009 | Filed under Oakland, San Francisco
Had a good time at Macword. Ran into Irina Slutsky of GETV and was interviewed about cosmic subjects! Saw demos of Apple’s iLife updates and was impressed with the updates to iPhoto and iMovie. Glad to see that iMovie got back many lost features from iMovies 6 and more.
Surprised I didn’t see as many people I knew then I ran into a Howie from my MaCruzer (a MUG) days in Santa Cruz. He sold me my second Mac, a IIcx back in the early 90′s.
Near the end of the day I saw Merlin Mann, who was very funny on MacBreak Weekly and then my favorite conspiracist and curmudgeon, John C. Dvorak.
RIP Ron Asheton of the Stooges
Posted by Dave | January 6th, 2009 | Filed under Culture, Music, Oakland, San Francisco
From Rolling Stone Magazine today:
“Ron Asheton, guitarist and founding member of the Stooges, was reportedly found dead at his home in Ann Arbor, Michigan this morning. He was 60.”
“As the guitarist for the Stooges, Asheton crafted some of rock’s most memorable riffs, including “I Wanna Be Your Dog,” “No Fun” and “TV Eye.” Guitarist Asheton, along with his brother Scott, Iggy Pop and original bassist Dave Alexander formed the Stooges in Detroit in 1967. The original lineup released two albums, The Stooges and Fun House, before Ron Asheton shifted over to bass guitar for 1973’s Raw Power. All three LPs made Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, ranking at Number 185, 191 and 125 respectively. Asheton was also Number 29 on Rolling Stone’s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
In the late 80s, when I played guitar with friends, my favorite songs to play were frequently Stooges longs. The Stooges were also probably the biggest influence of one of my all time fave bands, The Ramones.
Dark Sparkle
Posted by -dB | November 4th, 2005 | Filed under Culture, Music, San Francisco
Michelle, Dave & Dru
I miss going to Dark Sparkle. This is my favorite Darkwave/Goth club event since I’ve moved up to the SF Bay Area. It’s usually held at either the elegantl Café Du Nord or the DNA Lounge. Lately they’ve been moving around other SOMA locations. It’s the spooky music with out the VNV synth gop that’s permeated the goth scene the last five or so years.
Selia
Posted by -dB | October 24th, 2005 | Filed under Culture, Music, San Francisco
When I was in Japan back in April, I went to an evening of Tokyo Dark Castle in the Shibuya district. One unforgettable performance was by a group called Selia with an amazing altino countertenor.
I just extracted this little video clip from one of my DV tapes. It’s in encoded in H.264 and formatted the new iPod (video).
