Entries from SFist tagged with 'missedconnections'
August 14, 2007
Send your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful info. SFist reader The Default Attorney sent us this item, which s/he found taped to an N-Judah stop at Arguello and Irving at the end of June. The note sounds like your typical missed connection, but it was taken a step......
Continue Reading "SFist Finds: A Rather Persistent Missed Connection"May 1, 2007
So those stories out there saying the commute this morning wasn't so bad didn’t quite tell the whole story . Turns out there were some problem spots out there, just not throughout the entire maze and a blogger reports that BART was a lot more crowded than it was yesterday. ...
Continue Reading "Your Commute: Oy Vey Part Deux"March 8, 2007
Listen, we are here for you. It is important that you ask Questions that you desire us to Answer. So, hey; what would you have us answer? We are your tea-sipping Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all. As all-encompassing as fuzzy blanket... As omni-present as that one tie of Gavin's... As multi-functional as your winter sweatpants... Whatever you've got, we can answer. So let fly! Do you have some answer that has eluded you......
Continue Reading "SFist Answers: Bring It."December 18, 2006
This would be your weekly reminder for you to ask us Questions that you desire us to Answer. 'Cause that's what we do, here at SFist Answers. So, hey; what would you have us answer? We are your purely awesome Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all....
Continue Reading "SFist Answers: Unlike Some People, We Will Not Shirk Your Questions"December 13, 2006
It's time for SFist Answers! Now that you've asked Questions, we give you Answers. This week we cover hard drugs, bodily functions, and most agonizing of all -- MUNI. Keep those questions flowin' to sfistanswers@gmail.com. Include your question, your name, and your city/neighborhood – just like when you were filling out your craigslist Missed Connections post....
Continue Reading "SFist Answers: Crack Cocaine, MUNI, And Bettie Page"December 11, 2006
As promised, we're a-reminding you to ask us Questions that you desire us to Answer. What would you have us answer? We are your grenadine-swilling Bay Area oracle of the internets, y'all. ...
Continue Reading "SFist Answers: We Can Do This Together"December 8, 2006
In the spirit of Gavin's Question Time avoidance, and Rita's joyous/ugh mental image of Supervisor McGoldrick dancin' like a tutu-ed circus bear, we're bringing back SFist Answers.
So!
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Do you feel that you need some sort of advice?
Do you need help with something?
Would you like to know what not to do?
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November 2, 2006
SFist interviews Craig Newmark founder of craigslist...
Continue Reading "Interview: Craig Newmark "October 12, 2006
Who's that man -- in the District 6 election? This week's episode: Everybody Hates A Missed Connection. There's something so poignant about Craigslist Missed Connections -- "I saw you on the MUNI. You had a sad smile and a book about Camus. Call me?" So we're happy to say we've managed to make a match between two people trying to find each other! The anti-Chris Daly website The Daly Show (nice title!), which features photographs......
Continue Reading "Everybody Hates Chris: The District 6 Election"July 5, 2006
This week's BART breakdown is brought to you by the letter "T," as in Truck. As in truck stuck on a ruck. Or more like stuck on one of those track switercheroo things that lets trains move from one track to another. D'oh!. No word yet as to whether or not there were any mother------ snakes on the goddamn truck. ...
Continue Reading "Your BART Breakdown of the Week"May 21, 2006
LAist has so much fun this week! They go to E3, where they overhear the timeless remark "Man, this is where nerdy girls get laid." Is that a promise? They also give us this week's best CDs and make us realize that LA is the best place to use Zillow. Ah, Houstonist. They're biking to work, that is, if they can figure out how to get there. That's right, Mapquest says "Houston had the......
Continue Reading "Across The -ist Network"May 15, 2006
Sad as it may seem, a great deal of joy comes into of our lives by browsing missed connections. While we like to say that it is simply good clean fun to see people's hearts and thoughts scattering across what might have been, the fact remains that we are just just hoping someone writes about us (Cute? At Trader Joe's? Buying Pasta? That could be us!). Despite the smatterings of missed connection success stories that......
Continue Reading "Craigslist Encounters: One Actual Connection. Please?"July 18, 2005
SFist is sending out an APB to the world: are you a ravishing young woman? Do you drive a Jeep? Were you driving it around in the Sunset last month? If so, a young man named Luke really, really really wants to speak to you. Consider the dozens of missed connections that have been posted in the past few weeks by the local 30-year-old to be a series of love letters. True, he only......
Continue Reading "Life Imitates Dharma & Greg"February 15, 2005
We have that cold that's going around (sniffle), so maybe that's why we find this decongesting plan so intriguing -- but Jake McGoldrick, chair of the SF Transportation Authority (and Chris Daly confrontation survivor), has proposed that San Francisco, like London and Singapore, start charging people tolls to drive into downtown during rush hour. Under McGoldrick's plan, drivers would buy a one-day pass to drive on the busiest streets downtown, and the money would go to MUNI. (Though it does seem like BART and Caltrain should get some cash too, if we're cutting down on East and South Bay drivers as well.)
Congestion charging, say its advocates, clears the streets, keeps the smog levels down, makes public transportation more efficient, makes certain areas more pedestrian-friendly, and lets people prioritize how they want to get to work. We'd be the first city in the country to adopt such a plan if we actually decide to do it.
Of course, AAA says they think it's a terrible idea, and the chamber of commerce worries that no one would come downtown anymore. But, and maybe this is our bias showing, but honestly, who'd drive anywhere if they didn't have to? Additional bonus: more missed connections to read on Craigslist!
We honestly can't see anything bad about this proposal (but welcome enlightenment in the comments). Londonists, we'd love to hear what you guys think of the system too! ...
January 25, 2005
It's no big surprise when we here at SFist announce that craigslist has changed all of our lives in some way. Heck, it's even one of our interview questions: "I have found/sold/bought the following on craigslist:". Even if you've somehow managed to navigate the Bay Area without calling on craigslist for an apartment, car, or "casual encounter", craigslist has improved your life by giving you something fun to do on the internet. If you haven't......
Continue Reading "SFist Wants your CL Picks!"September 29, 2004
All those long waits on the N Judah for no forseeable reason have made SFist a big fan of our fine local bookstores and from the San Francisco Public Library. After all, how will we recognize ourselves in missed connections, if not by a mention of the book we're reading?...
Continue Reading "SFist Reads"August 16, 2004
SFist passes the craigslist corporate headquarters every day on our way out of the Sunset and into the rest of the world. Behind an unassuming storefront on 9th Ave between Irving and Judah churns a world of missed connections, fabulous new careers, and other people's junk. SFist has found roommates, cars, freaky stalkers, and our present apartment on craigslist, so we're more than a bit emotionally invested in their future. That's why we were......
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