January 2009
41 posts
“If the Mayor is serious about his commitment to increasing the number of trips...”
– Streetsblog » The Impending Failure of San Francisco’s Pilot Bike Share Program
Matthew Roth is my new bicycle.
“Yet the result of relying on this poor methodology to shape the growth of cities...”
– Streetsblog » Paradise LOSt (Part I): How Long Will the City Keep Us Stuck in Our Cars?
Sometimes I am so proud and happy to be of and... →
SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera just filed suit in CA to stop discriminatory pricing on health insurance for women. Link is the report (warning, a pdf.)
Children of the Left, Unite! →
magicmolly:
“Marxist principles have been dripping steadily into the minds of American youth for more than a century. This isn’t altogether surprising. After all, most parents want their children to be far left in their early years — to share toys, to eschew the torture of siblings, to leave a clean environment behind them, to refrain from causing the extinction of the dog, to rise above coveting...
Apparently now they're "getting to the bottom of... →
katelosse:
bro economy government agency economy
2K9 will be about government agencies competing to see who has the most meaningful and relevant brand/service.
WPA, miss u. You had the best government agency brand by far. Very sexy and meaningful. You were about ‘the people’ and ‘art’ and ‘making things’. Homeland Security, tho, never felt u. Your brand perception is about ‘harassing...
WatchA snippet of local DC news about the inauguration ticket line fiasco. If you look closely, you can spot me & bstriddy; of course they cut out all the complicated things we had to say about it in favor of whiny sound bites. Terry Gainer is just a fucking insult. A tour of the capitol to hopefully give them a sense of what they missed?
Another great commute on the MBTA
superawesomefantastic:
Today I am fortunate enough to work at our satellite office in Needham, which is usually nice and quiet, and the commute is actually enjoyable.. usually. This lovely 5 degree morning, I checked MBTA.com at 7am before leaving my house, like always, to see if there were any delay advisories, and although pretty much all the other routes on the purple line were delayed, the...
“All my life, I have been stitching together a family, through stories or...”
– Portfolio by Mariana Cook: A Couple in Chicago: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
Barack Obama totally feels me.
I like new landmarks, coast to coast. →
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Lazy weekend morning 2.0
Me: is that, like, the third kitty antics video you've watched on YouTube this morning?
Him: lay off, it's Caturday!!
How to be old, rich, white and clueless in my... →
Found this article via emptyage; thanks neighbor!
A few notes:
“The Haight doesn’t look like any other neighborhood in San Francisco because its houses survived the 1906 earthquake, which leveled most of the city.”
Okay. (1.) The architecture of the upper Haight, while beautiful and special and precious and I the preservationist relish living among it even though it’s not...
G-chat moment of the day, part deux
michael: we're going to big sur this weekend, yessss
me: oh nice!!
how romantical
michael: she is kinda dreamy I think
me: she is really adorable, as I recall, and seems cool
glad to hear it's going well
we are going to the inauguration for our romantical weekend in Jan
michael: ooooooh awesome!
dems be gettin laid that night
G-chat moment of the day.
me: oh seriously
did you see tom's facebook status?
about the fart machine app?
Maria: no!
me: haha
Maria: oh yeah, that's the number one app
crazy
me: it's all, "the #1 iphone app is a fart machine and it's making the developer $9,000/day"
Maria: that's what happens when you start selling the iphone at best buy and walmart.
“Last summer in Toledo, former mayoral candidate Keith Wilkowski handed Barack...”
– Obama Knows Jane Jacobs
and
Be Still My Beating Heart!
A story about the great aunts, from cousin Rob.
“I suppose this should be written down for posterity or something, being as it’s such a good story.
As you may or may not know, back in the day when Ethel had money, she would take all her sisters on trips overseas. Most often it was to Ireland but I know once they went to Greece. I also know of a memorable event that took place in Greece, that will come later, but this particular...
Today will be an ode to great-aunts.
Great aunts are special in that they are not closely enough related to be oppressive, but just closely enough to observe the magical workings of genetics. You can observe and appreciate genetic similarities in appearance, personality, even sometimes life course and actions, without the uncomfortable pressure that comes with closer generational relations. My grandfather’s handful of sisters...
Stacey's Bookstore closing down in S.F. →
Tragic, horrible and wrong. There is no justice.