San Francisco and what to do in it

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/09/MNEI1A2O16.DTL&tsp=1

this is kinda a weird story - I mean, I'm not saying the dude should have been beaten up (obviously that's ridiculous) but dude is a young latino guy, playing a street thug, and he doesn't know norteno gang colors/territory? wtf

there's been a bunch of dumb gang shit lately. thanks for releasing all those prisoners, CA budget battle!

fucking republicans.

er isn't a lot of the prisoner release stuff due to a court decision and vehemently opposed by the pubbies?

although I don't doubt that budget concerns come into play with a lot of frequent early releases, maybe the the guy involved with the shooting at 24th/shotwell the other weekend.

"like the" not "the the"

i await the arrival of the Joker to organize all these felons and wage war on the fine citizen of CA

I believe both are true (releasing 40k prisoners was part of der Governator's budget reconciliation plan)

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this was a Papa Potrero's, 1 block from my house. Perps were 20 and 16, victims were 40-something and 26. Perps were picked up within minutes, whole thing is caught on multiple videocameras. those dudes' lives are ruined.

also 24th and Potrero, not Shotwell

CA budget releasing prisoners & encouraging cops to give me arguable tickets

xpost the papa potreros shooting was supposed to be retaliatory for the one at shotwell. apparently it's a norteno on norteno thing. the guys (inc. the 'guy' I was referring to above) were celebrating a GED in a limo and got rowdy with some other faction, shots were fired etc. the 'other faction' are the ones who I think were hit at the pizza place on sunday

xp ive recently seen dudes arguing outside guadalajara at 24&shot on friday nights too FWIW

pretty ugly. hoping the heavy police presence & change in weather kinda kills this.

oh I thought the Shotwell thing was a couple blocks further north, not on 24th...? (some guy nicknamed "monster"?)

Although this would explain the impromptu RIP shrine at Shotwell/24th (which was being watched over by a paddywagon most of last week)

Friday 10/9 @ Hemlock Tavern - SubArachnoid Space, OvO (from Italy), Worm Ouroboros
Saturday 10/10 @ Gilman St - Ludicra, SubArachnoid Space, OvO, The Family Curse, Megaton Leviathan

this thread is such a San Francisco tourism booster lately!

this city's awesome, really!

maybe we should stick to talking about restaurants

here's my gift to this thread and to the city and county of san francisco:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3615/3395238911_5041b19d10_b.jpg

can someone tell me which gang is winning? can I join it? are they having rush anytime soon? kewl thnkx

my gang is winning! we are signing the contracts for a townhome at 20th and Bryant tonight!

San Francisco and what to do in it: Drown.

yeah. but we need the rain! otherwise LA won't be able to fill their pools

San Francisco and what to do in it: Drown.

Yeah, I was talking to my boss a little while ago and she said she wanted to touch base before the mudslides start. (She's south of San Jose.) Good luck, you drowned rats!

my waterproof Vans slip-ons are no match for the huge water puddles I had to run through to get to the train stop this morning. Socks are still damp.

yeah I had soaked coworker come in and say he couldn't take it and was going to buy a car. My response: "why? so you can drive downtown in the rain during commuting hours? are you fucking insane?"

i know! the time i feel luckiest not to have a car is on days like this. my commute was wet, but quick and with way less people than usual packing the train.

"why? so you can drive downtown in the rain during commuting hours? are you fucking insane?"

Ha ha ha! And still have to walk just as far in the rain unless he likes spending $30+/day, if your bldg has a garage.

Hearing SFers whinge about the rain never fails to make me chortle. We barely have ANY "real" weather so a couple of inches of rain makes us feel positively ALIVE!

Listening to my building creak in the wind is a little unsettling, though.

60 mph winds!

I brought an old overcoat to work and I may just forego deploying my cheap little umbrella and getting a little wet on my way home.

i drove from west oakland. hell and a half. problem is that i don't have any clean jeans, and i didn't want to besog the ones i'm wearing. etc.

first time riding my bike in the rain. forgot about the issue of not having a fender - drenched from head to toe by the time i arrived at work.

bay bridge toll chronology
1936: $0.50 (bi-directional)
1969: $1.00 (westbound only heretofore)
1998: $2.00
2004: $3.00
2009: $4.00
2010: $6.00

Don't forget $3 for carpools.

is this the most expensive bridge in the country?

ggb is also $6, so it can't be

lol have yall ever driven in New York? the Goethals is $8. The Verrazano Narrows is $11.

granted, one hardly needs a car in these areas. so it's a bit more excuseable.

those seem to be two very good reasons why not to drive in ny

Going from 0 to 3$ for carpools is going to make casual carpool pretty awkward, I think. (Or even more awkward...)

in the market for an awesome 2-br apt if anyone knows of a great deal - it's gotta be awesome for us to move from our 13-year rent-controlled 1br but i'm trying to put some feelers out. anybody?

we're probably moving out of our 2-br on Dec 15th. Our current rent is $1,400, but I expect the landlord to jack it up to at least $2k when we leave

Mirkarimi wants to ban paper bags...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/21/MNUT1A8DSG.DTL

sfgate comment crazies are crazier than usual about this story lol

is he trying to one-up Gavvy Gav for his soda tax?

if I didn't have paper grocery bags to use, I'd end up using more plastic garbage bags instead...

paper grocery bags are convenient for putting all the mixed paper recycling in.

yeah it could be a real pain for many people. for me, I try to use my little ultra-compact reusable whenever possible, and it works for most types of groceries. I found this site while looking around for more options: http://www.reusablebags.com/

I don't think it's a bad thing, but I can totally see it pissing a lot of people off. It basically means people will have to buy their own bags and reuse them. To me it's worth it. It's a small step toward reducing waste, cutting down less trees, and it's inevitable anyway.

We use paper bags for our recycling as well. Though the same store that we get most of them from also sells those biobags which are on that site I just linked. they are surprisingly sturdy, too.

there are tons and tons of reusable bag options most of them are very cheap

and last quite awhile. some are even compostable!

I bring a reusable bag to the grocery store most of the time, and because I'm usually only getting a few things at a time, it works out. But sometimes I get groceries on the way home from work, or am getting more stuff than I have reusable bags, or realize I need to get something from the store in the middle of a bunch of other errands. This legislation - along with a bunch of other SF laws - just seems to assume a certain lifestyle that often is associated with affluent people.

yeah no real argument there