A resident addressed me: "It would be interesting to set up a time-lapse camera here." I was walking at Waldo Point Harbor in Sausalito, a big houseboat area. Specifically, I was stepping off a temporary ramp that connected two parking lots, the old path being covered up with construction tape. What kind of construction goes on at a parking lot? I couldn't think of anything to build. But the resident gave me the skinny: During winter storms, waves had lapped at the tires of vehicles in the lots. Since then, one of the lots had been raised; soon, the other would be, too. Folks were thinking about next year's storm; folks were thinking about rising sea levels in the next few years. So it was time to shore up the shore.
It would be interesting to set up a time-lapse camera at the edge of the parking lot for a few days to watch it rise. It would be interesting to set up a time-lapse camera at the shore to watch the sea level rise year after year. It would be interesting to point a time lapse camera at human civilization as we try to figure out what we can hang onto and what we must return to the sea.
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The people of Brisbane, California, decorate the town's fire plugs. When a fire plug wears out, they don't want to discard their art, so they have a plug preserve.
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New-to-me Golden Gate Bridge overlook by Battery Godfrey
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The @Shinteki logo, before it was a triangle, was a seated discus thrower. (Specifically, it was a mash-up of Rodin's Thinker and Discus Thrower statues.) That was pretty funny because ha ha who thinks about other stuff while throwing a discus and ha ha who would try to throw a discus while sitting down and if you did who would sculpt it, right? Except I was on a walk in Daly City and whoa whoa
I guess some discus throwers were just lazy.
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If you walk from San Francisco to the Daly City BART station, you could pass this.
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Saw a Hash House Harriers pack run past, my first time seeing a live pack instead of just leftover chalk marks on the ground. At first I was kind of disappointed. I thought "If I were the hare, I wo...
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Windows Phone event setting up at San Francisco @BillGrahamCivic, preparing for major crowd control. ...
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Link: SpliceVine interview with Sara Thacher
@thacher is a big name in the @jejuneinstitute game and other TransMedia experience/game/thingies. This site about video editing(?!) interviewed her, and she mentions an early influence: Janet Cardif...
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My high school chums and I used to go to the No-Name Sushi restaurant every so often. We stopped going after it caught fire. (How does a restaurant specializing in raw fish catch fire? Anyhow.) I wal...
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@HollowSF now has @DandelionChoco. nextdoorsweets.com is open and serving boba and gelato. I'm gonna get fat. ...
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I used to stop in at the Roastery for the decor. They used Papyrus font despite being across the street from an art school. I always wondered what woke the art students up more: the coffee or the gra...
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People are surprised that Barefoot Contessa's at @sfcarts Stanyan/Waller. But "no shoes, no service" law sez she's gotta eat outdoors. ...
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Each morning, a food truck pulls up behind the San Francisco opera house. Its car horn plays the bugle tune First Call. A night at the opera meets a day at the races. ...
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I walked home a different way yesterday and bumped into #OccupySF . It's a real thing. You know how sometimes you read a news report of a protest, but eventually figure out it was just a half-dozen p...
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I walked south and took some photos http://goo.gl/nQMb5 ...
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Puzzle Hunts were everywhere, even the Magic Mountain area at Coyote Point park
I went for a walk partway down the peninsula this morning. At one point, I realized I was walking past the Coyote Point playground, the one with the big castle-themed play structure. This site was th...
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I went on a walk this morning. I took a few photos. ...
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Wooly Pig Cafe
There's a Wooly Pig Cafe 3rd Ave and Hugo in San Francisco. I feel like I scored some kind of "scoop" by discovering this cafe by walking around instead of by reading Heath Putnam's Wooly Pig blog. ...
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In the Haight, trading words with a tattooed dope fiend is old news; but shopping in a supermarket is novel. ...
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Art Hunts are Everywhere, even the Presidio
I was just reminded of a walk I recently took in San Francisco's Presidio. There was an art event going on around the Fort Winfield Scott area; exhibits scattered around outside. You could approach...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, but the Edges are Fuzzy
On my way to Saturday's excellent Shinteki Decathlon game, I swung by a few places to take care of a few things. E.g., I stopped to take an unhurried look at that worn-down Jejune sticker I'd spotte...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, Even the Marin Headlands and maybe the Seat in Front of me on the Bus
There was that awesome Shinteki Decathlon game a couple of weeks ago. One of the clue sites was Hawk Hill, a high hill in the Marin Headlands. It seemed like a neat site, so... yesterday I went bac...
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Link: Ken Jennings roolz San Francisco
City Hall runs this town. And who runs city hall? Not Gavin Newsom--he's bumbling around, grooming himself for a gubernatorial run. Fortunately Jeopardy star Ken Jennings stepped in to keep city ha...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, even San Jose
I like The Game. I like the puzzles, but in between puzzles, I like hopping into a van and zipping around, visiting interesting places. Even though... all too often we don't really linger at the in...
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Follow-up: SFZero Suggestion Box
You may recall that last month, I stumbled onto a suggestion box on Waller and Steiner streets. This suggestion box, as it turned out, was part of a game. This game, SF0, is a sort of mutual-dare c...
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Not-Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere, but especiially at Waller and Steiner
On my way back home from the library, I encountered a nicely-made suggestion box at the Northeast corner of Waller and Steiner. Signage encouraged passers-by to write suggestions on index cards and ...
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Book Report: The Roads to Sata
In this travelog, our hero walks the length of Japan, from the tippy-top of Hokkaido, the length of Honshu, down south past Sakurajima. This was in the 1980s, and gaijin were mysterious; he encounte...
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Can I Mooch a Ride from San Francisco to Mars Saturday Morning?
Dear Lazyweb-- I'm volunteering at the Googol Conglomerate tomorrow, i.e., Saturday. I could spend three hours getting there from San Francisco on CalTrain. But I'd much rather mooch a ride with y...
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Book Report: New Yorker Feb 14 & 21 2005
I read the New Yorker in stack order; magazines are not pushed on the stack at publish-time, but are queued elsewhere for a nontrivial time; that is, I don't read them in chronological order. So you ...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere
I stepped off the streetcar two stops early tonight. I wanted to walk a ways. I had recovered from my wild and crazy weekend. I was no longer hobbling around--I could walk. So I wanted to walk, g...
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Puzzle Hunts are Everywhere
Peter Tang just rented a new apartment. Today Steven, 'Lene and I went over to paint some of the walls. Watching paint dry is not interesting. So between coats we headed out for lunch. As we walk...
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Park Challenge
Today Team Unwavering Resolve (a.k.a. Steven Pitsenbarger, Paul du Bois, and I) played in Park Challenge, a puzzle hunt game organized by the Desert Taxi folks. It was a fun stroll in Golden Gate Pa...
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Book Report: A Walk In the Woods
Bill Bryson confirms that hiking is difficult. This book was OK. Tags: book | Appalachian Trail |Labels: book, ok, pedestrian...
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