Posts from — June 2007

First, check this out.

Now look at this.

Fox sucks

via Slashfood-

the town of Churin’s second annual cuy festival took place earlier this week. There were plates of fried, grilled and baked cuy. There was even cuy au vin.

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I kind of expected a loss, but ouch. highlights of the goals. Arg 4 1 USA

I think Dateline is lame. I think Chris Hansen is a tool. I think a group should pretend to be pervys and pull a sting of their own on Dateline. Stalker the stalkers who think they’re stalking stalkers. story

I think more people should watch more Frontline and less Dateline

Well, I’m way behind on my movie write ups. I need another guest column from my secret columnist. It’s not that I haven’t been watching movies, it’s just that I haven’t really liked any of them.

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Damn- I saw this via one of the food blogs I keep in my google reader feeds.

Damn- it’s making me hungry and homesick.

I want to get in the car, get some Big Red and take a roadtrip due South East to good ol’ San Antonio and straight to Henry’s, Rolando’s, or that place on St Mary’s next to Joey’s that I’ve been to a million times for bean cups and forget the name of. . . mmm too many lunch options – Edit: Teka Molino (thanks Bryan)

I’m gonna have to subscribe to the original poster’s blog.

Actually- if my parents don’t fly out here soon, I’ll be trying to go to SA for reals in August. We’ll see.

They taste best with homemade corn tortillas, but even if you use store-bought tortillas what you create will be far superior to pre-fab shells. And if you want to get really fancy, you can make that San Antonio specialty-puffy tacos. link

mmm

I do a strip tease and a fiesta

a banana split, no no siesta

With your two shower

It’s happy hour

Mama Mia – gimme a Sangria



New Günther? In a word, caliente

thanks Derek – I will always be topless for you

In response to my previous post, Angie wrote:

please write a letter

the cafe in our ‘hood that lives under the wicked witch of the west is called Kape. it’s a great place for tables outside.



write to:

board of appeals

1660 mission street

3rd floor room #3036

sf, ca 94114

re: appeal #07-078

permit #176847, issued 5/10/07 3462

16th street, sf, ca, 94114


please support sidewalk cafes in san francisco! if this is truly a world-class city, why are we not allowed to enjoy our outdoor open spaces like this? ridiculous!


if you do write, please write soon. i believe they go before the board next week.

I should make this a longer post or revisit it at a later date, but I don’t have time right now. But I wanted to vent about how stupid San Francisco can be at times- especially the residents.

Ever been to my favorite restaurant in SF? You know how they have two tables outside on the sidewalk? You know that permit they have to post on the window behind the two tables? Do you know how hard it was for them to get that permit? Well, you should.

I forget about stuff like that- but the other day I was walking with Angie and Mike in the gayborhood and Mike wanted some coffee. We stopped by a cute cafe on the sunny side of the street and went in. I don’t remember how the topic came up, but we asked about tables outside.

That set the owner off on a tirade about how he initially filed to get the permits for some tables out front back in January. They’ve already had two hearings about it (what a great bureaucratic mess) and either at one or both hearings they were turned down because a neighbor who lives (not directly) above the cafe towards the back complained.

I’m sure there’s a bit more to the story, but even though she lives above commercial space at the back, she thinks the outdoor tables would lead to her getting sick from second hand smoke, the patrons would block the (dead end) alley’s access to emergency vehicles (which don’t get called there that often if at all) and her not being able to sleep (even though the cafe closes at or before 8).

Anyway, the owner asked Angie and Mike if they wouldn’t mind writing a letter to the board as they live in the ‘hood. What a pain in the ass.

There was a good article about the whole process that a restaurant needs to go through to get one small table outside on sfgate.com but I can’t find it. I’m also looking for another one lamenting the lack of outdoor tables and describing how SF isn’t as tourist friendly as people think and then goes on to talk about sipping coffee outside in Paris, in Italy, but no, don’t bother with that here.

Bah, I’ll stop ranting for now.

Hrm here’s an article about a cafe in Berkeley- but it’s not the same one I was talking about. . .

Not that any of you care, but my playing around with sites like Basecamp, Stikki
t and now Google Notebook continue.

I still like stikkit.com although I don’t use it as much anymore. I really like to use it on my laptop and when I get home to my tired old linux box it’s slow for me so I tend to forget about it at times.

Basecamp’s been fine but I’m don’t like very nitpicky things- like not being able to print my project milestones in the calendar view. I’m using that site to try to manage a small project at work, and letting people see the calendar view of the milestones can get them off my back (not that they’re on it) – yet I can’t print it and stick it (ha, no pun) outside of my cube.

But Google Notebook has been pretty nice to use and seems to have TONS of potential.

I was basically using it to stay on top of apartment searches. I downloaded a browser extension for GN and set up a custom RSS search feed for apartment listings. Using either a new notebook or one notebook let me add more detail or “clip” the listing which was pretty handy.

You can clip things and make them public, let others add/collaborate to the shared notebook, or keep them private and add your own dirtly little notes to your own clippings. Here’s an example of a clipped article on a public notebook.

You can see some information about not only what I clipped, but where it came from as well. In your private notebooks it comes in handy- especially when you forget to add comments to yourself about why you clipped that thing to begin with.

Give it a try when you’re working remotely on a late-running patch upgrade- like me!