Posts from — November 2007

Some good quotes in some articles forwarded to me-

Although the woman who forwarded this article about SF parents to me was pointing out another line, I liked the vitriol directed at new moms

I forgot to mention the babies: it appears there are many of them. Commercial sidewalks in Noe Valley, Cole Valley, Hayes Valley, and beyond buzz with kitten-eyed freshies sucking the rubberized life out of pacifiers, frazzled mommies in yoga pants and camel toes pushing behemoth, double-wide prams …

I’m not a fan of the double-wide pram. Man, when we were kids, we had strollers made out of two pieces of aluminium tubing and lawnchair fabric. Whatever happened to those?

Another article/post about how it may be a good idea to set your ringtone to your mom’s voice because it’ll grab your attention faster in a crowd. I’m not so sure though- Cherry Pink And Apple Blossom White is enough to get my attention on the bus.

And to round things up- the best way to serve chocolate soft-serve ice cream. If I had two girlfriends, I’d take them for ice cream there- but they’d have to share. Two girls, one cup.

I thought I had written this up already, but I guess I forgot. My friend Eunice has opened up her acupuncture clinic down in Burlingame. I’m not sure if this lil’ wee blog can drum up some recommendations for her, but hopefully that will be the case.

Although I haven’t been to the new clinic yet, she has treated me before and I can recommend her, especially to those of you who haven’t had acupuncture before and fear the needles.

Live Well Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine

1860 El Camino Real, Suite 236

Burlingame , CA 94010

415-235-2710

I like how The Raw Feed keeps pointing out examples of Chinese IP theft or other similar stories.

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Hrm, something seems a bit off here. I was checking posts on SFist.com and then saw this:

on Monday the FBI just awarded SF as the city with the largest reported number of hate crimes in 2006. According to Bay City News (via SF Crime):



With a population of approximately 746,000, had a total of 94 reported hate crime incidents in 2006, including 25 that were race-based, 20 religion-based, 38 based on sexual orientation and 11 based on ethnicity, according to the FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics 2006 report.



The largest city in the Bay Area, San Jose, (much to our surprise) had a scant 29 reported hate crimes in 2006. And Oakland. Had two.

And the SF Chronicle reports that hate crimes dropped in ‘06:

In San Francisco, sexual orientation bias was a factor in more 38 of the 94 cases, the FBI said. Twenty-five victims were targeted because of their race, the FBI said, 20 because of religion and 11 because of their ethnicity.



Most Bay Area jurisdictions reported only one or two hate crimes in all of 2006, according to the FBI, though San Jose reported 29 incidents, up from 22 the year before. Oakland reported just two, compared with three in 2005.

That makes me wonder if SF is quick to categorize a crime as a hate crime. Is it a semantic argument, or something more substantial?

I thought that the iphone ad with the pilot was a bunch of hooey, but I don’t leave the room like this Salon author does.

Apparently, it’s already happening. On one of the frequent-flier blogs, an airline pilot writes that only moments after informing his passengers of a weather-related ground hold affecting their flight to Memphis, Tenn., he and his captain received a call from one of the flight attendants. Seems an iPhone-wielding customer in the back had a challenge. “Some guy with an iPhone says the weather is good,” the flight attendant says, “and wants to know what the real reason is for the delay. Is something wrong with the plane?”

full article – decent read

“Usually, traffic delays to Newark aren’t due to weather itself,” says another dispatcher, with 12 years’ experience at both regional and major airlines. “It’s about volume. Looking at a radar map on an iPhone will not help your chances at getting an early release. That commercial is total B.S.”

Thanks for the url, Cojones

I haven’t had a “good crack” post about Angie yet, and I’m overdue.
I went with Angie to Delfina last week. I had never been. It was my turn to pick for the monthly dinner and I had picked Delfina. I really traded an earlier pick for it (like a NBA trade for one of her picks) because I had reservations about their reservations.

Just so you kids know, Angie and I meet once a month to gossip about you bishes. That’s right. Get over it. We pick restaurants that we’ve bever been to and go. And we talk about you. Keep up the good work, we still have lots to talk about.

Anyway- a looooooong time ago I wanted to go to Delfina as I heard it was good. I was a bit wary, after all it’s a Mission place and we all know what baggage that brings. So I called to make a reservation for a few weeks out. I think my parents were coming to visit (this was years ago) and wanted Italian. They told me it’d take not two weeks to get a reservation, but two months. I said eff that and never went.

So I thought I’d give it a try and convinced Angie to go- actually,

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I’m going to pick up some wine on Saturday at Chaine d’Or. If any of you are interested in a roadtrip, let me know. I have to be back in the city by 5ish and am planning on going in the morning.

Ahh, another goofy wine post. I can almost anticipate the snarky comments from some of you. . . .

What a day to forget our cameras. Unlike today, Sunday was a beautiful and sunny day in the Bay Area. Cory, Andre, Christina and I hauled our butts along with 10 other people up to the Santa Cruz mountains to do some wine tasting organized by Paul.

We started the day off by meeting up at Ridge and tasted some of their wines and checked out the view. After that we went around to the other side of the hill (I think) and did a tasting at Cooper Garrod.

I really enjoyed the day. I’ve never been down to any of the Santa Cruz Mountain wineries, yet I’ve been enjoying their wines for a long time. In the past,

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I’m still on the Quakes/MLS email list and have been getting update about them returning to SJ. Today’s email was a link to a “funny” site: Cure Futbolitis.

According to their last marketing email, the Quakes will be playing the majority of their games at Buck Shaw (in Santa Clara). Hopefully they will release something soon that counters the previous rumor I had heard about them playing a lot of games up in Sacto.

Oh, and Yallop will be back as coach- that’s good news. He had a bum rap down in LA. Maybe he can get some of the Houston players to come back too.

My folks are leaving today for Argentina again. Except this time they’re going just a bit further south than they normally do.

Although I think they’ll be spending a bit of time in BA (and I hope they go to La Cabrera again), they’ll be traveling further on to check out the southlands and then the glaciers in the national park. Sounds fun. On this map, the top yellow arrow is BA, the bottom one is where my parents are.