Tag: cats
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In remembrance: KitKat, the bodega cat of 16th and Valencia
Nearly six years ago I broke the exciting news right here on this very blog that Randa’s Market, the hole in the wall liquor store next to Roxie Theater, had adopted a cat. During the years since, KitKat — who I later learned was a “he” despite one employee’s initial insistence to the contrary —…
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Recent movie review round-up (first half of 2020)
It certainly hasn’t been a great year for movies with the global pandemic so a handful of these are from last year. What can I say, it’s been a good year for streaming and catching up on good movies we missed in theaters. The order here is disjointed just like last time. Whatever, roll with…
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16th Street changes: Goodbye Katz, hello cat
As Eater SF reported today, Katz Bagels on 16th Street is preparing to close next month after 27 years in business. Once a local chain, this was their last outpost. This comes about seven years after the death of the founder, not to mention numerous attempts to rebrand as bagels waned in popularity over the…
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This cat is fine
A flyer for an open source account breach alert service from Mozilla parodies a typical “lost pet” flyer you’d expect to see taped to a utility pole like this. You can sign up for Firefox Monitor here, and they’ll let you know if your email address appears in any new breaches reported in the Have…
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Rome
From Florence I took a high speed train to Rome in late June. I stayed at a small Airbnb loft near Palatine Hill, the Colosseum, Circus Maximus, and many other historic locations. Since I was a kid I’d been fascinated by Rome, a small city that somehow became a vast empire through technological superiority and…
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I went to a cat cafe
Today I finally got around to visiting KitTea, San Francisco’s first (and only) cat cafe. The goals of KitTea are to provide adorable cat-based entertainment, but also to find permanent homes for the cats — all of which are rescue cats up for adoption. The basics are pretty simple: you can either walk in or…
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Solar Powered Cats
If conventional, cat food-powered cats aren’t green enough for your LEED Certified lifestyle, try a solar powered cat. Go ahead! But don’t say Philip K. Dick didn’t warn you about this particular dystopian future.
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U-Haul cats
You know that U-Haul lot by the central freeway? Did you know it’s home to a number of cats? They were initially interested in me, but when I failed to produce food they got into some civil unrest over who got to sit on which paper plate.
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