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Muni Exacts Revenge

OK, so we know we've been bitching about MUNI more than usual for the past few days. But personal revenge? So unlike you. See, we happened to be on the T

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Muni update - with Gavin!

"We're at the point now where we can't get down to zero (deficit) without tough decisions," Newsom said. "I hate the idea of raising fares. I

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Your Obligatory Muni-Going-To-Hell Post

Sure, we knew it was coming, but it was still a bit of a shock to see in this morning's Chron that MUNI is going to bump fares up to two

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Geeks, Tweakers and Hipsters unite!

We practically spit our shade-grown fair-trade Bolivian all over our copy of Giant Size X-Men #1 when we caught wind of San Francisco's newest completely great business: Caffeinated

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Don Fisher's Ego to kill Presidio Bowl

Everyone knows about local billionaire Don Fisher's plan to rule the world by putting a museum for his personal art collection in the Presidio. What we (and, probably you) didn'

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Translink - still a few bugs

Now that there are working Translink readers on all Muni busses and trains, we decided to get a card. The card-getting process is easy - just sign up on the site as a

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Sad: Scharffenberger Soon to Suck

Bad news this morning from across the Bay, as big conglomerate Hershey's announced that they're closing the Scharffenberger plant in West Berkeley. This comes, of course, after Hershey made

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BBB in...Malaysia?

We were on vacation over the holidays (what, you didn't notice? Shame!), tooling around southeast Asia, and we saw the above. Who knew that everyone's favorite tourist show was

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Two Interesting Signs

We were out running today, and came across two signs. No photos (we don't carry a camera in such situations), but they both are begging for some explanations. Sign 1: On

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Stimulate Yourself. Eat Cheap.

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Hot Night = Shooting in Lower Haight

Dammit. We were really getting used to the quiet. We hope that nobody was killed, and we'll try to update this as we hear more information.

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Today in Angioplasty

On the recommendation of some friends, we headed over to the Buckshot last night. There were rumors of a metal-centric musical bent, shuffleboard, and ski-ball (yes!). All true. But what really

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And...Wow

So where were you last night? We were going to go to a bar, but everywhere was so packed that we ended up at home with burritos when it was called. We didn&

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Your Morning Street Art

We went out for our normal Election Day run this morning, and were pleased to see this bit on the sidewalk near our house. Then, as we cruised up towards the Panhandle, we

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Did They Catch The Miscreants?

We were biking down Duboce this at around nine this evening on our way to Classical Revolution; we stopped at Valencia upon hearing sirens. A gray sporty car (we think it was a

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What Not To Do With Your Crap

We were headed out to work this morning, and we saw the above Mesozoic-era monitor, right there in the middle of the sidewalk. A lazy person would have left it next to

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Really Dangerous Intersection Gets A Fix

We've been interested in the Fell and Masonic deathtrap for a while. So, it was with incredible glee that we saw this, above, on our morning run. It's pretty

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A Harbinger?

For every Johnny, there is a Daniel-san. For every Federer, a Nadal. Every Billy Mitchell must eventually face his Steve Wiebe. And so it was at the Transfer this weekend. The cool

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Your Friday Muni Delay

According to the L train driver this morning, there are switching problems right now in the subway. This means that trains to downtown from West Portal are s...l...o...w (ten minutes

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Rockin' Out at the Renaissance Faire

We checked out the Renaissance Faire on Sunday in Golden Gate Park, and...it was a complete and total blast. We saw live jousting, a group of people re-enacting The Merry Wives

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Security Cameras - A Help or a Boondoggle?

Our experience with the cameras in the Lower Haight has been, well, mixed. When they went up, one of the locals told us we couldn't take photos of the cameras. Not

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Shocker - Muni slow this morning

We caught a 71 to downtown this morning, headed to around the ballpark. Hopped off at Van Ness to catch a T or an N. Then we waited for five minutes while a

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Translink, Where Are You?

We roll our eyes whenever politicians whine about Muni losing money (public transportation is not a for-profit enterprise anywhere), we do get frustrated when we see pass-fakers, gate-crashers, and other

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Ryan Jones, Rest in Peace

The article in yesterday's Chronicle is a snippet, a notice, a little bit of writing that doesn't do justice to the life of the late Ryan Jones. Ryan was

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Google's Street-Level Team is Out There...

We were out running this morning, and caught a weird site cruising up Masonic. A bright red Toyota Prius with what looked like a conning tower on top. We followed it for nearly