NotesIt’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesMission Statement: The Pacific Pinball Museum (PPM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching science, art and history through pinball, and to preserve and promote one of America's great pastimes.FeedUnfurl
Notes"Caltrain has gone broke and will likely need to wipe out half its service — including weekend, nighttime and midday trains — officials warned Thursday, bracing passengers for a major shake-up to the popular commuter line that links San Francisco to the South Bay.<br />
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"This is not an April Fools' joke," Caltrain CEO Mike Scanlon told the agency's board of directors. "This is real. We're at a watershed moment where there's a possibility this railroad could go away.""Unfurl
NotesHuh. I wondered why I'd never heard of it before we lived out there, or seen it since. That's some tasty stuff. "It is sold as "Dutch crunch" in delis throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, but is little known in the United States outside that region."FeedUnfurl
Notes"When Steven Peterson created Routesy, an iPhone app that lets riders see Muni arrival times, the last thing he expected was to hear was that Muni's real-time arrival times were actually the property of a private company located in the East Bay. But that's exactly what happened, when Alex Orloff, COO of a company calling itself NextBus Information Systems, contacted him in August, 2008, demanding a "straight revenue split" or a "data licensing agreement" from Peterson. "Unfurl
Notes"In response to the stunning public embrace of the warm and cuddly Snuggie™, the SnuggiePubCrawl.com Team is hosting the first-ever Snuggie™ Pub Crawl in San Francisco, CA. Even though it's just a blanket with sleeves, we're sure that you'll enjoy a winter evening spent drinking with friends and the Snuggie™."Unfurl
NotesManaged to do quite a few of these things while I was out in California. "Summer is the time for family and friends to come and visit, so I took a little while and tried to think about things to do and places to eat."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"The other big problem is that San Francisco is fairly shallow. When I go to coffee shops or restaurants I can't avoid people talking about load balancers or databases. The conversations are boring and obsessed with technical trivia, or worse, business anUnfurl
Notes"The Japanese siphon bar, which makes brewed coffee, at the Blue Bottle Café in San Francisco. The only halogen-powered model in the United States, the siphon bar was imported from Japan at a cost of more than $20,000."Unfurl
Notes"Attention (hackers? Programmers?): If you live in San Francisco, or if you’ll be in town for Macworld next week, you’re invited to join an OpenSocial hackathon at the Six Apart offices in San Francisco."Unfurl
Notes"In a country where the median HOUSEHOLD income is $48k, the average SF engineer in his late 20s making $130k might want to read a little more about how the rest of the country is split up."Unfurl
Notes"But in general, the nerds with minimal social lives like me are well down in the Valley, and the cool kids with the trendy glasses and Prada shoes who like to go to parties are in San Francisco"Unfurl
Notes"The company's loft, in the trendy South of Market district, has been painstakingly outfitted to resemble The Nautilus from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."Unfurl
Notes"A section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire beneath it, authorities said."Unfurl
Notes"I felt that by living in Detroit, I was working harder than I would in other cities to connect with people who understood the sorts of projects that I love to build, and that it was really hard to find audiences and collaborators for, well, most things iUnfurl
Notes"Since O'Reilly boycotts everything he hates, I look forward to his boycott of all Bay Area-origin products. Same with every conservative who bashes San Francisco and the Bay Area."Unfurl
Notes"There are bars all over the city which participate in the nationally-run Brainstormer Pub Quiz trivia nights and there are also bars which forego national affiliation for creating their own quiz nights."Unfurl
Notes"TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace."Unfurl
Notes"Even if all of the pre-WWDC activity at work wasn’t enough to remind me that my favorite hot weather nerd confab is rapidly approaching, I would definitely not have forgotten because of the many emails and personal queries I’ve been getting from youUnfurl
Notes"They have a plethora of writing utensils, cards, stationary, and Sanrio-like gifts. I adore their notebook section. It's definitely worth a look through if you're into that cutesy stuff."Unfurl
Notes"I really like that this place *cares* about good coffee, even if they don't always hit the mark. Caring is half the battle...My first coffee experience here was pretty good - not as good as Blue Bottle or my beloved Cafe Organica (RIP) - but pretty goodUnfurl
Notes"A hands-on museum with dozens of interactive exhibits explaining how and why things work. Even those with little or no interest in science will find themselves fascinated by a lot of the facts and figures told in simple laymen's terms."Unfurl
Notes"Welcome to Green Apple Books and Music. Our store on Clement Street in San Francisco has been a destination for bibliophiles for over 38 years. We buy, sell, and trade new and used books, CDs, and DVDs seven days a week."Unfurl
Notes"I have a thing, a relationship you may say, with their Texas BBQ wrap- affectionately known to me as the mashed potato burrito, aka an orgasm in a tortilla, aka a disgrace to my family and friends."Unfurl
Notes"A small but well-chosen and obscure comix section, strange and beautiful art books, constant art exhibits, and the beautiful-and-cuddly people who shop here. More than being Asian, Giant Robot is about being awesome."Unfurl
Notes"The Isotope is the first of its kind, combining a comic store, an original comic art gallery, an active workshop/meeting place for creative individuals, and a relaxing get-away from the pressures of life."Unfurl
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