San Francisco and what to do in it

I'm just going off what a coworker (former transit official, masters in urban transit etc) told me

b46 was 16,816,652 in 2009

38 geary had weekday numbers of 52,800 (all I can find) - which would be 19,272,000 if weekend numbers were the same as weekday. but they're gonna be much less. so I dunno. but regardless 16-17 mil people means a lot more in sf than nyc.

(^ annual ridership, I meant)

maybe he was referring to highest daily ridership? I dunno, I can ask if we really care lol

ask! not a sf-nyc pissing contest, I'd just be curious to see the #s

okeedoke - I'll get back to ya on this

anyone been to Candlestick Point State Recreation Area? what's over there?

since they're closing this and 69 other parks come september, thought maybe i'd check it out first

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/05/13/BAL61JG0QO.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea

my dad was just there yesterday, oddly. I haven't been in a few years. it's big! pretty nice - rolling hills, wetlands. lots of birds to see, if yr into that kind of thing

How do Parks "close" btw?

(srs q)

the gates get locked

What about the bigger parks that don't have gates?

they are replaced by black holes

stinging nettle seeds sprayed out of a cropduster

park surrounded by dogs that shoot bees out of their mouths

i guess what i'm getting at is are they going to replace park rangers with cops enforcing the closure of the parks rather than preserving them?

cops are too expensive, outsource that shit!

i'm guessing they don't have people cleaning up shit or toilets cleaned? and gates locked. dunno

i ask mostly because i pass that area every day on the way to work down 101 and i've always been curious

seems like a vast toxic wasteland to me, had no idea it was a park

I'd be a lot more supportive of MUNI trains getting built all over the place if the trains themselves weren't so slow and unpleasant to ride above ground.

Not that the 38 Geary is any great shakes.

the SFPD, ladies and gentlemen

seems like a vast toxic wasteland to me, had no idea it was a park

it's not toxic at all!!

uh... how far away from Hunter's Point is it? Because that is the most toxic area in the bay area iirc.

well, I'm glad the Cliff House has been renovated and all. I like that part of town.

it's on the other side of the stadium - all the toxic stuff stays within it's well defined borders dontchaknow

W T F

The confiscated mosaic tiles measure as small as 1-inch-by-1-inch, Suhr said. Many contain photographic negatives, inlaid behind glass. Others are drawings. Some were installed high above normal viewing levels.

"I think as an adult you look at these tiles and see possibly some sort of sexual connotation to them," said Commander Mike Biel,who declined to describe the offensive images in detail.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/06/24/BA2U1K2CHO.DTL#ixzz1QEOwecKi

are we sure it's not kids scrawling penises on them

So far, no evidence suggests that children were harmed in the making of the murals.

this is the part I don't get... if they're photographic negatives, that would imply that he took the photos, which would imply that kids were harmed...? or am I missing something

yeah, you're missing any information whatsoever about what the photos were of, other than that someone could potentially see a sexual connotation to them and they were "inappropriate". Whole thing is WTF but kind of a dumb report.

I assume they're all just pictures of his o-face or somethign

photographic negatives of penis drawings?

Are there any updates on the mural dude?

Meanwhile there is this Ritual Roasters vs. art thing

megalol at "tapestries of heavy metal lyrics" being appropriate art for a coffeehouse

DARKNESS IMPRISONING ME ANGEL OF DEAAAATH CALCIFYING MEMBRANES OF THE TORTURED NAMELESSSS

let me know if I've missed anything, looks like next week will be bars + museums + Neko Case (possibly) + two ballgames

Morbz, if you wanna go to the SF MoMA I can hook you up with free tickets.

thanks, but I think I'm going Tuesday, which is a free day anyway.

prepare for large crowds

yeah, used to them from NY MoMA, any day or night!

haha, though I can vouch for the presence of hot guys on 1/2 off Thursday evenings.

well, does me no good, Sat-Tue.

Also, you guys need deadly 80 mph express bus lines to LA.

hey, I'm in town with a dead laptop and no phone for 4 days! M White knows where to find me.

(69, I will call you Tuesday.)

my mom got me an Academy of Sciences membership for father's day. I hadn't been since the remodel - holy shit that building is amazing, easily one of my favorite design spaces in the city

The rainforest tower thing is pretty awesome. I like how you have to go though an airlock to get in.

I know right? The way you can look up from underneath the aquarium through the jungle and see the sun coming through the roof whoah

The roof is pretty cool, too.