San Francisco and what to do in it

this sounds kind of made up:

http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2014/04/14/another-google-glass-wearer-attacked-in-s-f/

"Glass!"

also lol sarahell

xp

sarahell sent Leee to the Gold Club?! It must be a riff on milo z's suggestion...

was it Dave Eggers who used to do cartoons about the "Gold Club Guy" from the weekly ads? This was back in the 90s so i may not rc

I miss that guy

dave eggers or the gold club guy?

Yeah I was kind of looking for a cafe or a bookstore.

The Gold Club Guy! who cares about dave eggers?

True story: I have been kicked out of the Gold Club.

Embarcadero BART most nuts I've ever seen it in my five+ years of commuting to the east bay. Lines up all the escalators and through the entrances.

I blame the technology people

some got run over at montgomery station

When I got to Montgomery station, BART cops were telling everybody the station was closed and to leave. As they were doing so, someone came on the PA system and said the station was open. The cops didn't seem to hear, so there was this weird brief moment where we were starting to push toward the gates while the cops were shaking their heads and trying to walk us back. Someone with a video camera filmed me and a few others going through the gates. Went downstairs and my train rolled up with hardly anybody on it. Impeccable timing! Once everybody piled on from Embarc station, it got hot and sweaty, though.

Cool story, huh.

Seems like a lot of people have been getting hit by trains lately.

currently having a FB argument with a friend who thinks SF's housing supply problem is caused by rent control :/

a guy I went to college with got hit and killed by the caltrain a couple months ago trying to convince someone to get off the tracks

Interesting in-depth look at SF's housing problems:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/14/sf-housing/

^^^really good piece

holy data, the detail

Wow o nate to the rescue

it's been freaking me out all day that the most thorough and thoughtful coverage i've seen in the last year was in freakin' TechCrunch

That's a great article

It is great, but also highlights (in a million different ways) how difficult it will be to fix this problem.

Best article on the topic I've read yet. Thanks for sharing.

“…the war on tech workers—as opposed to tech companies or policies— is not really a “class war.” Rather, it is about one group of predominately white people complaining about a similar demographic group that likes many of the same restaurants, bars, street festivals, and Samba classes that they do—but who makes more money.”

randy shaw otm, it always seemed weird to me that tech workers have become this villain down there but it seems like it's been a pretty effective tactic? at least w/r/t the ellis act compensation, getting the mayor's attention, other promising legislation being proposed, etc

please please someone turn this into a political reality

Any idea how much added revenue that would generate?

I have no idea. at the same time anything that chips away at that stupid law has to be a good thing.

yep.

i guess that would be better than nothing, but yeah what a terrible law. has anyone ever come up with a reasonable transition strategy for a repeal? seems like it would be incredibly difficult to pull off both logistically and politically

upthread someone mentioned something about having it only supply to someone's primary residence, which makes a ton of sense to me. i'm politically naive, but what does the counter-argument look like? "but what about the millionaires with second homes in Carmel?"

supply -> apply

brauch Kaffee

I think you'd need to have some pretty long (20 year?) transition period.

"but what about the millionaires with second homes in Carmel?"

when you have pissed off millionaires and property rights advocates you don't need a rational argument

upthread someone mentioned something about having it only supply to someone's primary residence, which makes a ton of sense to me.

the more i think about this the less it makes sense. why would this not just result in massive, widespread rent hikes?

my assumption is that landlords are already gouging market rate renters as much as they can? idk though, good point.

yeah, even with the passing of prop 13 certain landlords hiked up rents for some reason! i could only imagine what it would be like if they took an actual financial hit

To the extent it equalizes the tax base between newer and older buildings, I guess it would lower the rent on newer buildings and raise it on older ones, assuming the total amount raised from property taxes is held constant. If the amount raised from property taxes is increased, then presumably other forms of income such as sales taxes could be decreased.

landlords are already gouging market rate renters as much as they can? Gouging is a leading word but, yes, of course, landlords are maximising their profits as much as the market allows.

The counter-argument might be made by the building trades and their overlords but the public good of having a saner tax base and investing it in education is insuperable.

When you have a general consensus across party (and ind) lines, why tf would you not do this? Oligarchy?

sales taxes could be decreased.

So not going to happen

kinda wanna poll these but there's too many
http://judgmentalmaps.com/post/83644463249/sanfrancisco

just glad we finally got our own judgmental map

so many hobo blowjobs

As usual my neighborhood is completely overlooked...

So I'm having a gettin'-hitched party this fall, and want to get a taco truck. Any faves? I like Tonayense...

Tonayense def top choice taco truck at my house

stay classy San Francisco!
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/files/2014/05/reality-in-sf-600x450.jpg

so so many hobo hobo blowjobs!

lol @ jesuit jailbait

so my daughter's kindergarten teacher (who we have not had the best relationship with tbf) just told us she is leaving the school/moving out of town at the end of this year, because she can't afford to live here anymore. she had been forced to move/had her rent raised three times in the past year.

>:(

On a lighter note, my buddy's movie doc is showing in the San Francisco area as part of a film festival:

Catch "Led Zeppelin Played Here" at Oakland School for the Arts on June 8th at 5pm or at Roxy Theater in SF on June 14th at 9pm.

Directed by Jeff Krulik (Heavy Metal Parking Lot), this documentary takes a look at the epic and possibly mythical 1969 performance Led Zeppelin gave in the gym of the Wheaton, MD Youth Center in front of 50 confused teenagers. Krulik tracks down just about everyone who might have been there that Monday night, which also happened to be the evening of Richard Nixon's Presidential Inauguration.