Prop 8 Trial Judge: Yep, He's Gay

Prop 8 supporters don't care, as long as he never marries a man.



Why the "Green Police" Is So San Francisco

Mayor reacts to ad created by local agency.



Demon Sheep: California's Keyboard Cat?

If the aim of Carly Fiorina's "demon sheep" ad was to go viral, it worked -- all too well.



Worried that I'm only feeding the publicity beast, but I just had to do it: Play #demonsheep off, #keyboardcat! http://tinyurl.com/ybg6tbv


Surge in Cheating Reported at Stanford

Reporting, not students, may be the real culprit in rise of investigations.



Commented on Muni Joins Twitter For Real This Time, But Won't Offer Service Alerts in News


Four Barrel Coffee
@ Four Barrel Coffee

Watching the iPlayer Around The World: BBC, Meet VPN
Thanks to geographic restrictions, the BBC makes it difficult for Americans to tune in to Jeremy Clarkson's jokes on Top Gear about how fat Americans are.The British Broadcasting Corporation’s online video effort, the iPlayer, keeps setting viewership records with the youngest generation contributing to the UK dominating online video viewership in Europe. [...]

Man is it easy to spend $40 at the Bi-Rite, though getting those damp chanterelles was probably a mistake. A delicious, ten dollar mistake.


Commented on Hell on Two Wheels: Another Critical Mess in Culture/Entertainment


Commented on Hell on Two Wheels: Another Critical Mess in Culture/Entertainment


Posted Hell on Two Wheels: Another Critical Mess to Culture/Entertainment
Police Chief George Gascon has gotten a new round of controversy rolling around San Francisco by kicking the tires of Critical Mass. "If you...

Voted on Hell on Two Wheels: Another Critical Mess in Culture/Entertainment


Weir doing Poker Face at nationals with only 65k views on Youtube? Really? Sad. http://tinyurl.com/ybe9euz Support our sequins, America!


Haven't been able to catch Black Dynamite on its theater tour? http://tinyurl.com/yk26l8n Then buy some merch: http://tinyurl.com/y983ez7


Find myself using Google Reader comments as I imagine many use Tumblr. Example: Cracked "busted like Al Pacino's face" joke about TransLink.


Commented on The Bugs in Mayor's Open Source Software Announcement in Business/Tech/Real Estate


Commented on The Bugs in Mayor's Open Source Software Announcement in Business/Tech/Real Estate


Posted The Bugs in Mayor's Open Source Software Announcement to Business/Tech/Real Estate
Popular technology Web site Mashable took a break from rewriting press releases and just published one directly from San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom touting...

My bike rides to the Hat Factory and back today might have been the coldest I've ever been in San Francisco. Stay dry out there, California!


Pretty sure I aced the test to get a job taking the census, should know tomorrow. Then it's just a matter of passing the background check.


Posted Hell on Two Wheels: Winterize to Culture/Entertainment
It looks like we're going to have some wet and wild weather for at least the next week, if not two, or even three...

After new signage painted, a Prius was patiently waiting behind Scott street bike box at the light to let cyclists in. We can live together!


Left abusive relationship I've endured with Bank of America by opening account at Mission SF Federal Credit Union: http://www.mission.coop


Thee Parkside
@ Thee Parkside

Commented on Updated, With Onboard Video From All Angles: See The 19 Polk Accident Happen in News


Helped @sfappeal kind of beat everyone to the punch with edited footage of recent Muni crash: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtNb3aAVoLg


Commented on Updated: Prop 8 Trial To Be Posted On YouTube in The Alley


Sunshine, On My Shoulder, Makes Me Happy
So my good friend Eve Batey at the San Francisco Appeal shot me an email today with an idea so crazy it just might work. She suggested that I — me, Jackson West — might be a good candidate for San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. And right now, even if you live [...]

Commented on Today's Muni Accident Was Caught On Camera, But Will You Get To See It? in News


Commented on Muni Dead Pool: Will Your Line Be Cut Next? in News


Posted Hell on Two Wheels: Year End Clearance to Culture/Entertainment
So, that's over. The year, the decade, whatever it was. And it didn't entirely suck. In fact, if anything, it was pretty good times...

Trying pasta in my plug-in hotpot today, made whole wheat taglierini tossed with sweet cream butter and pecorino romano. Worked out nicely.


Blue Moon of the Happy New Year


Matthew Morrison kinda stole the Kennedy Center Honors show with "Springtime for Hitler," if you missed it: http://tinyurl.com/yj3lpqb


Nopa
@ Nopa

San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
@ San Francisco International Airport (SFO)

So far, so normally absurd security-wise flying Virgin from SEA to SFO. Sadly, no one's gotten anywhere near my crotch. #insecuritytheater


Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)
@ Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA)

Commented on Guerrilla Graffiti Temporarily Reveals Secret Bike Box in News


Rescued scared, lost puppy on Barlow Pass ten years to the week we rescued scared, lost Christian millenialists. Same difference, really.


Concerned Boxing Day brunch chatter in Silverton: "What are we going to start fires with when they stop printing newspapers?" #deathofprint


Dick's Drive-In
@ Dick's Drive-In

Twilight Exit
@ Twilight Exit

Typing a Google News query starting with "silicon valley" yields "silicon valley unemployment" as the top suggested search. #dotbomb2point0


Beautiful Granite Falls, Washington of the 'Propane Monday' tuna noodle casserole


Thanks to remote access via SSH, I can access everything on my computer in San Francisco from the family cabin up here in Silverton. Win!


Just finished dinner at the cabin in Silverton. Salmon cakes with pepper-vinegar slaw and a vegetable soup with kale, lima beans and bacon.


Another fantastic German word, this time from Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem:" Kadavergehorsam, "the obedience of corpses."


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