Tag: Rant
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Has Safeway gone too far?
While trapped at the Market St. Safeway during the rainstorm today, I made a shocking discovery: Safeway carries not one, but THREE brands of frozen chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs. Does this alarm anyone else? Why do we need to make food shaped like extinct animals? Are there children out there somewhere who refuse to…
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An American tourist’s reaction to visiting Mexico City, Toluca, and Metepec
This is part of a series about my trip to Mexico City and the surrounding area. Also see part 1, part 2 and part 3. There’s cultural differences between Mexico and the United States that surprised me during my recent visit. There were pleasant surprises, and not-so pleasant surprises. Let’s explore them all. The good…
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Muni needs signal priority
The SFMTA recently announced some big changes to the messy intersection at Church and Duboce, which is a notorious mess for Muni Metro, the 22 line, bicycles, private vehicles, and pedestrians. Streetsblog covered the changes in depth in an excellent article. One strange aspect to the renovation which Streetsblog mentions is that there will still…
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Things San Franciscans despise: sidewalk advertising
San Francisco is a city of people who are indecisive and disagreeable. We even manage to disagree about really basic things, to the point where basic issues like panhandling and slow public transportation go unsolved for decades. But when corporations use litter and graffiti as a form of advertising, San Franciscans have a rare moment…
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Muni’s repeated derailments
You’d think that the title of 6th best public transit system in the country would mean something. Or at the very least you’d think that at the point where you’re the 6th best at something, you’re not repeating your own mistakes. But you’d be wrong. Today’s Muni Metro derailment sounds awfully familiar. A train suddenly…
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Android: not the droids you were looking for
When Google first released Android, it was presented as a modern, open-source operating system for phones. It sounded great; all the hip buzzwords and you can write programs in Java? Who wouldn’t want this? But Google’s strategy for selling the OS was… odd. The OS would be sold through a chain of resellers. And Google’s…
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On purchasing a Muni FastPass
It used to be that buying a FastPass was a simple affair. There was only one type of adult pass available, and many places to buy one. But Muni screwed that all up. Let’s look at how my FastPass purchasing experiences have changed over the years. Here’s how I bought a Muni pass while I…
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Newspaper industry
There’s a lot of talk about how the newspaper industry is dying. And there’s some truth to this — NY Times is in debt, Seattle PI went out of business, etc. etc. And yet we have more sources for our news than ever before: 24 hour news networks, blogs, Twitter… Has our attention has shifted…
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