xp - we were at 6th most dangerous for several years. we're moving on up!
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link
ok, good point. for some reason in my mind the east bay is bounded by richmond and hayward on the N/S and the hayward fault / berkeley hills / contra costa range on the east
rodeo and all those random places like dublin and pleasanton and antioch fall into the same category in my mind as tracy and gilroy
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
antioch and gilroy are very similar. n.b. gilroy is where i spent the first 17 years of my life.
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
That must have been...something. (Folks are in Carmel, know San Juan Bautista well enough.)
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
home of garlic ice cream
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
xp - my parents are from Monterey; most of the extended family live there. My dad's dad, stepmom, and half-brother lived in Carmel when I was growing up. Carmel seemed really really boring.
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
Fwiw, good dining here: Plum
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
Carmel is indeed very somnolent. But as I have always had that somnolent side, no worries. Dad grew up there, he and mom moved there in 1994 so it's become home by default.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
It took Ytth about 2 hours total to get to SoMa this morning (including walking to bart and then walking home again).
― just1n3, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
Plum used to be a decent cheap chinese place. R.I.P.
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
xp Ned: so I don't need to ask if you went to Carmel High w/my dad's half-bro
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Hahah not I -- Dad was Navy, I mostly grew up in San Diego. My dad himself went to Carmel High, though, class of '58. His goal was to teach there but another position opened up elsewhere and he did his years of teaching work with them instead.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
ned i thought you mostly grew up in coronado, NOT san diego
i could probably deal w/ gilroy, you're real close to santa cruz and san jose
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
coronado aka NOT SAN DIEGO
My grandfather taught at the Navy School.
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Us versus the barbarian hinterlands of Not Coronado.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:39 (eleven years ago) link
Keep in mind that when I think of San Diego County these days I just think of Escondido fundamentalist racists.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
Navy School is great, BTW, love how they just took over a hotel in WWII and said 'fuck it, ours now.'
when I think of San Diego County, I think of Santee and El Cajon and the Unarians.
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
I wouldn't mind thinking of Julian more often, really.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
close in SoCal terms, maybe. It's at least 30 minutes by car to either.
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
Oh god, the Unarians. <3
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
the Unarian temple and a burrito place are the only good things about El Cajon iirc
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
heh, i commute every day from university heights to san marcos, which is 35 miles, almost exactly the same distance as san jose -> gilroy and santa cruz -> gilroy
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
anyway ... i will have been an oakland resident 15 years come November
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
I find Gilroy pleasant enough, but I'd probably feel differently if I had had to grow up there
― a dense custard of infinity (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Gilroy really <3's Wal-Mart
― sarahell, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:48 (eleven years ago) link
I will be 16 years in the east bay beginning in August, when I first moved into the Cal dorms and fell in love with the smell of eucalyptus trees.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
the unarians have all converted to galactic federation of light, i think
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
iirc i hated the dorms, but i was in unit 3, not foothill or wherever you were that was near enough to eucalyptus
i think i really fell in love w/ the bay area when i lived in between northside andronico's and the pacific school of religion and i would walk arch street each day to get to school
i pretty much live where i live in san diego because it reminds me of berkeley / palo alto / etc
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
also ned escondido is becoming quite nice and the poorer parts are mostly hispanic now, the racists seem to have been displaced to outer fallbrook and east ramona
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
it is actually amazing how fancy places like vista and san marcos and rancho bernardo are becoming as even homes in leucadia and carlsbad and oceanside are now routinely selling in the millions
― the late great, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
^here you go, enjoy!:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5654479510143537232#
― Chris S, Thursday, 14 June 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Yup. Have spent many an hour chopping up this stuff in Premiere only to not use it for anything.
― polyphonic, Thursday, 14 June 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
'i think i really fell in love w/ the bay area when i lived in between northside andronico's and the pacific school of religion and i would walk arch street each day to get to school"
right up in my old neighborhood!
I live in S. Berkeley now and I hear plenty of gunshots there as well. Someone got gunned down around the corner from my house.
anyway I casual carpooled into SF today, took 25 minutes. I hate BART in the morning.
― akm, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
heey I was also in unit 3
― iatee, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
like a decade later
i was in the one next to haste-channing facing south ... forget the name ... think it started with a p?
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
google sez priestley
I was in ida sproul in the 3-person suite at the bottom. we got our own kitchen and shower but were (for better or worse) isolated from the rest of the dorm.
― iatee, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
that's the one!
you really missed out on the coed bathrooms :-/
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
did the unit 3 cafeteria suck when you were there too?
― iatee, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
lunch and breakfast weren't that bad (veggie burgers or pbj and cereal or toast every day ftw) but dinner was absolutely dire
i ate an awful lot of rice and steamed vegetables w soy sauce
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
i guess it was bad enough that i'd often use my card on campus for those nasty steamed burritos at bechtel instead of dorm dinner
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 00:57 (eleven years ago) link
yeah other than that I felt the benefits of unit 3 (close to campus) outweighed the costs (fairly grungy)
― iatee, Friday, 15 June 2012 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
the units were definitely more fun than the other dorms but the co-ops where it's at! (cloyne, cz and the crazy one on southside)
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 01:05 (eleven years ago) link
the chateau!
― the late great, Friday, 15 June 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
yeah I sorta regret not having a co-op year
the chateau closed the year before I got there I think
― iatee, Friday, 15 June 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
one thing emeryville does have going for it is its support of public art, like those utility boxes.
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Friday, 15 June 2012 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
i like emeryville. I worked there for three years and now I miss it. the barren stretch of railroad track, and bay st is at least convenient. the utility boxes are cool. my recording studio is tucked away behind home depot.
― akm, Saturday, 16 June 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
And I hope they stay there. Anyway, Oakland et al.
It is not without the realm of possibility that, in the long term, I will end up somewhere in the Bay Area -- it's equidistant from my parents and my sweetie's parents in different directions, while my sis lives in SF itself. We shall see.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 June 2012 04:05 (eleven years ago) link