San Francisco and what to do in it

that's exactly what I want to do the next time I'm there, Steve. Little Star doesn't measure up for you, then?

dude, don't go to SF to get pizza. i mean, it's good for hood folx but i am trying to steer you towards something you can't get a zillion times better in NYC.

remy i am out of town til april.

i really enjoyed visiting burma superstar last week

ok, i just like to have all my espressos granita'd

ditto on the burma superstar....

if you're down with mindblowing pakistani/indian food, check lahore karahi in the tenderloin (o'farrell & leavenworth)...

pretty no frills service (if you can even call it that) but the food is the friggin megaton bomb and they play bollywood movies on the tv (and nusrat fateh ali khan if you get lucky)

i'm also really fond of fresca on fillmore in pac heights, its peruvian and their brunch is slammin.

i was also at the Boredoms show, but I was beyond baked and superfocused on the task at hand so all i saw were my smoking buddies. :) how could i have missed you guys?

if I attempt to go to burma superstar tomorrow around 7pm am I just asking for a four hour wait or something? we have a rare night away from the kid and no plans

Before you leave, call 415.350.7117 which is a non-listed number that allows you to put your name on the waiting list and when you show up at the door and get seated like you the mayor of the 'mond, your friends will be all <3.

i only have a wife and no friends, but maybe she will be all <3! i will make sure to credit you though.

I like Nopa but RNM is far better imho. I haven't been to Burma Superstar in ages. I should go back. Steve, have you heard of L'Ardoise?

I used to love love love Burma Superstar (seriously like fav restaurant in the city), but then I got horrible horrible horrible food poisoning from something there (seriously just near-hospitalized and shit) and haven't been back mostly cuz the taste of Samosa soup still haunts my dreams (but I have been to the new Little Burma or whatever restaurant down the street--it was still awesome.)

battags, steve shasta & I was hanging out w/yr smoking buddies. i got there right when tim came out of a smoke filled bathroom coughing his lungs out. he went from "guh, i don't like the boredoms, why'd you guys make me come" to "FUCK YEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHH!!!"

Is any SFer here on Meraki? Ad-supported P2P broadband, and they claim to have a lol hueg SF installation. I'm kinda curious whether it works.

waht

You put a little bug on the outside of yr pad and you get internet over distributed network. Self-healing, self-updating, etc. Only cost seems to be the bug.

http://sf.meraki.com/

See also http://sf.meraki.com/map/

Seems like massive coverage for my nbd (upper haight).

wau mine too

(western addition)

thanks for the burma superstar phone info, no problems getting a table (though there didn't look to be a huge line, maybe it's tapering down these days)...food was great, especially for the price

down the block from there is Q which i like for brunch they have FAT mamosa's.

If you can see Free the Net in yr list of wireless networks, then it seems you can join, and they might even send you a free repeater.

i wonder if it's accessible in the financial district at all, I need to be able to get access from outside of my office for extracurricular work...

Looks like there's some coverage near Union Square, but not much near Market + 2nd.

After reading more about this, it seems that there's no incentive to get a repeater at all. Access is wide-open for anyone who can get to the network. Also, bandwidth is 500kbit - 1mbit, not so great. Still, it seems like a cool idea and I'd put a repeater on my window if they sent me one.

It'd be ironic if the end result of this is SF-wide free internet, after Google, Earthlink, et al., pulled outta the deal after promising so much.

I still have an extra ticket for Vampire Weekend.

Okay, not anymore.

if you guys want to harass the 'lil n00b in amoeba's viddy room tomorrow's your first chance. if you really wanna fuck with me make sure to ask where some made-up title is.

I miss sf

I didn't go, but I entertained the thought and how they would entertain their audience. And if there is any place for old world apartments in the new world.

http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/03/june_primary_ca.html

Prop 98 is pure fucking evil.

yeah especially considering the economy >: (

I am so not down with abolishing rent control!

When people argue that the market is the best way to regulate housing rental prices, I like to remind them that their primary home is as susceptible to fire as their rental properties.

Looks like I've found a place! Off Valencia! With a pupuseria and a sushi place and an homemade ice cream joint across the street! And around the corner from Laughing Lotus!

Protesters scaling Golden Gate Bridge to protest China's Tibet policy.

My donation hard at work!

today i heard a really weird version of what is going on in tibet and i don't know what to make of it

So I'll be out there in the Aug. 19-26 range. Not sure how many days I'll be around, but that's the general vicinity.

i heard there's some concert then

Started in 1912 as a way to lift the city's spirits after the disastrous 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Bay to Breakers is the longest consecutively running footrace in the world (other races' courses and lengths have changed over time).

"For everyone's safety and enjoyment NO ALCOHOL or NUDITY is allowed."

No running, either. And no watching, breathing, or blinking.

I remember driving down Fell after BtB and off the Panhandle there was a girl with her number still on laying down on the sidewalk, with one hand clutching the base of a streetlamp as if to insure that she didn't fall off the face of the earth. On the stoop all of ten feet away, a group of people who I presumed to be her friends were swaying about around their empty keg. The whole street looked like an alcoholocaust.

L'OMG alcoholocaust!

Having a lolocaust here.

scott alcoholocaust is the dude thats puts on a ton of punk and metal shows in sf btw

Alcohol+ 'x' comes from Wilde doesn't it? Didin't he refer to his brother going on 'alcoholidays'?

its going to be like 95 degrees on thursday

Just in time for Bike To Work Day! (also this Thursday)