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by max on June 16th, 2010
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About a week back, I “spotted” WiMax 4G connection right here in San Francisco.  Although I couldn’t actually connect to the internet, it seems clear that WiMax 4G is coming reaaaaal soon to San Francisco with many HTC Evo 4G users reporting they are getting 4G signals. For those ...
by max on June 16th, 2010
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Here’s some radical movement by the city of San Francisco, all phone retailers in San Francisco must reveal cellphone radiation levels on each of their phones. I think this is a really great idea because so little has been known about the radiation levels in cellphones and how they could possi ...
by max on May 31st, 2010
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Last year, I was at Ocean Beach, a bunch of Japanese dudes decided to spit next to me and my kid, while we did nothing to offend them. They clearly spoke Japanese and it seemed like they were from Japan. Don’t get me wrong, I am Asian myself, I don’t hate Japanese people but that day was ...
by max on May 29th, 2010
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Recently, Obama’s lawyers filed for rejection of appeal for San Francisco’s health care law, which helps free health care for uninsured adults not covered by Medical. I am all for having free health care for the uninsured in San Francisco because personally, I have used it. Let me tell y ...
by max on March 4th, 2010
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As a former college student who did probably what every college student did, I can appreciate a good dance party. But what I cannot appreciate is students getting too messed up and starting a riot. Seriously, folks, don’t break retail store windows for no reason, there’s absolutely no ...
by max on March 4th, 2010
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Here’s an interesting news about a cyclist being hit by a muni bus and kept driving away: [5-Fulton passenger Mary] Chancey said around 10 bus riders implored the driver to stop following the 8:30 collision — but he instead left the scene. When SF Weekly arrived just before 8:40, the you ...
by max on March 3rd, 2010
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Mayor Gavin Newsom is going to try a new plan that will help city reduce its $522 million budget deficit by laying off 15,000 SF city workers and re-hired them for slightly shorter hours. This will cut their paycheck by 6.25 percent. I guess this is a deperate, last measures to collect some money f ...
by max on March 3rd, 2010
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Are you joking me? Has the city lawmakers gone nuts? They are proposing a new bill that will make sitting on sidewalks illegal. Of course, this is intended to solve the problems of drug addicts smoking crack on the sidewalks but come one, is this going to really solve those problems? San Francisco ...
by max on February 28th, 2010
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Bakers Beach is one of my favorite beaches in San Francisco on a sunny day.  Of course, it’s famous as a nudist hangout. I guess yesterday, when the tsunami warnings were in San Fran, some gun rights activists came out of nowhere to carry their guns visibly in Bakers Beach: The men – an ...
by max on February 27th, 2010
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David Perry just alerted me on raffle the city’s 2nd Annual Yerba Buena Center for the Arts “Dream House Raffle”. Basically each raffle ticket is $150 and odds of winning something (even if not the house itself) is 100 to 1. Not bad odds at all when you consider you can have a chance of w ...