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View from the front seat on the cable car

San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom on Market St., shortly after the ceremony where they turn on the Christmas lights.

Frank Chu, San Francisco’s most dedicated & eccentric protester

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At North Point & Van Ness in SF

A great thrift store, as seen from the window of the Climate Theater in SOMA

Isn’t that gorgeous?

Val Esway, of the band El Mirage

Inside the Exploratorium… I was there to see the premiere of the short film Nightsoil, which features music by your friend and mine, Lucio Menegon.

Videos and photos from a little jaunt to the San Francisco Cable Car Museum…

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Small crowd of pretty people watching some sort of athletics on the tee-vee. Rouge is a bar that’s butt-up against and opens up into Nick’s Crispy Tacos, the best Mexican-food joint in my neighborhood. I don’t mean to be a hater but the place gets overrun every weekend with drunk & obnoxious fratboys and their flip-flop wearin’ girlfriends. This picture isn’t a very good example of that phenomenon but whatever.

Not that you can see the crookedey part or anything. I need a helicopter.

Powell cable car

I’m going to have to be waiting in this line repeatedly for a very long time, due to the hilltop location of my new apartment. I sure hope it moves fast. The line I mean… I already know the cars are slow as hell! But it sure beats hoofing it over Nob Hill. :-|

At the Musee Mechanique in San Francisco

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• How did I not know that Journey is from San Francisco? Guess I never gave it much of a thought. http://tinyurl.com/38poll #

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• @Theory: I’ve been to the SF Zoo and the lack of fences freaked me out a bit. A tiger can jump 15-30 feet. Moat is 20 feet. Hmmm. #
• Andy Lester went public! @petdance Sorry for taunting you into it dude, but you are as good a tweeter as anybody. & now I can reply openly. #
• @rael: Crap! I had unfollowed you (among many others) awhile back due to info overload. Now I’m back w/ tail between my legs. Yr too nice. #
• ARGH I got a jury duty summons in the mail. Oh well. God bless America. #
• I’ve been so busy today… feels like a Monday doesn’t it. #

• Why is it that whenever I have a plane-crash dream, I’m always in the cockpit getting the worst possible view? #
• If there’s no food or drink allowed on BART, how are you supposed to shop for groceries outside your home turf? I’m overthinking this, yes. #
• I want a Kindle! Even though it’s way overpriced, and buglier than a Mattel electronic-football game from 1977… http://tinyurl.com/taxq7 #
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• The sock has been found. No thanks to you people! #
• I soo wanna insinuate myself onto someone’s roundtable tech podcast, so I can bitch about Macs/gadgets/webstuff. Role model: @ambermacarthur #
• So ashamed I could only name 35 HTML elements! Wasted a full minute not realizing the clock had already started. http://tinyurl.com/2492aa #
• EMI to Cut RIAA Funding; Death of RIAA Near? (from Mashable’s lips to God’s ears!)