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Gaslamp Walking Tour
During my first visit to San Diego I remember walking across a busy street and set of train tracks from the Convention Center to the Gaslamp Quarter (or Gaslamp District, depending who you ask.) According to the big sign crossing Fifth Avenue the Gaslamp is the self-proclaimed “Historic Heart of San Diego.” The neighborhood’s promotional…
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San Diego Central Library
From certain angles the San Diego downtown skyline has a strange feature; an egg-shaped dome. Even from a distance the dome doesn’t appear solid but more like the skeleton of a dome. Perhaps someone’s building a government capitol or a large church? Wrong on all counts — not only is the dome complete, it’s part…
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Spruce Street Suspension Bridge at night
Every old city has its unique elements, but San Diego’s Spruce Street Suspension Bridge is a particularly peculiar element of its early 20th century heritage. This pedestrian-only bridge crosses a ravine between two residential areas with a shaky, unstable footpath. Before modern times most city bridges were built with rigidity in mind. The first suspension…
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San Diego first impressions… again
It’s been over a decade since my last visit to San Diego — and that was for a conference so it doesn’t count. (Especially if I leave out the part where I spent time at the beach and visited the zoo.) Today I arrived in San Diego for a little post-Christmas vacation. Stepping off the…
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Last Stop / First Stop
While hanging out at Ocean Beach and the west end of Golden Gate Park today I happened to notice something new; the funny little building at the N-Judah turnaround received an updated design recently. If you never noticed this small building before it’s located directly across Judah Street from Java Beach Cafe. The new design…
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Sandbox VR
This week I got to try Sandbox VR, a shared virtual reality experience for a group of people in the same room. Currently Sandbox VR has only two locations in the United States, a local one in “San Francisco” (actually at the Hillsdale Mall in San Mateo) and the other in Los Angeles. All their…
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Magritte exhibit at SFMOMA
The Rene Magritte exhibit at SFMOMA, “The Fifth Season,” wraps up at the end of October. If you haven’t seen it yet now is the time. This isn’t the largest exhibit with only around 70 works, but what’s there is impressive. I finally went to see it last weekend and strongly recommend it, with some…
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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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Tenderloin National Forest
Next door to 509 Ellis Street in the Tenderloin are a big pair of gates with a peaceful little garden behind them. This garden is known as the Tenderloin National Forest. A non-profit art gallery next door called Luggage Store Gallery operates this particular “National Forest.” As with any volunteer driven art project it’s open…
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Salesforce Transit Center, opening day
After years of construction it seemed like the new Transbay Salesforce Transit Terminal Center would never open; and yet today, it finally did… sort of. It’s clearly unfinished, and construction workers were still there today (a Saturday) working on the gondola. The underground train platforms weren’t open, and no physical work has been done to…
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