Posts Tagged ‘san-francisco’

by max on September 4th, 2010
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I have always been wondering this year when summer weather will actually be here. Well, we did get it and we got it almost after summer.  It’s been pretty hot on and off for the last 2 weeks or so and I’ve hit up Ocean Beach couple times but seriously, I am hoping this late summer weath ...
by max on July 17th, 2010
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Barbie is having a special Barbie scavenger Hunt on July 20th, this upcoming Tuesday.  For those of you with a smartphone, you can participate by using the Foursquare app and getting clues from where the Barbie video girl checks in. You can win a Barbie Video Girl, a barbie doll that’s also ...
by max on June 30th, 2010
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Engadget, probably the biggest tech blog (and one of the biggest blogs in the world), is offering a job for blogger position to anyone living in San Francisco.  For those of you with some writing skills, you might want to apply and who knows?  You can thank me if you get the job. Oh sure, you love ...
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 26th, 2010
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Today I read about how Muni can’t make fare cheats pay over at SFAppeal.com. Well, the truth is, San Francisco has probably the “worst” fare system in the world that I have ever seen (nevermind 3rd world countries). Why? Because countless times (or like every time I took Muni from ...
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 ...
by max on February 27th, 2010
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Well, I got summoned for jury duty here in San Francisco.  Not surprisingly parking is NOT provided for jurors nor are they reimbursed.  I think the city should at least pay for parking, especially for people like me who don’t live near the City Hall.  Oh well, that’s one thing I wou ...
by max on February 27th, 2010
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San Francisco gets its Tsunami warning due to Chile’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake earlier today.  I can actually see ocean beach from my apartment here and starting to see some really huge waves. Forecasted waves are going to be 2.5 feet in height so it shouldn’t really affect San Francis ...
by max on February 26th, 2010
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Here’s some great news for gadget lovers out there, Sprint will be rolling out 4G (WiMax) in San Francisco by the end of this year.  For one, I have experienced 4G speeds at CES 2010 this year in Las Vegas and it certainly is about 10-20 times faster than regular 4G. What does this mean for ...
by max on February 26th, 2010
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It seems like one of San Francisco’s favorite review sites Yelp, has been sued for fraud by local business that claim Yelp would remove negative reviews for paying advertisers. I have been using Yelp for several years now and I would have to say in general Yelp is pretty darn accurate when i ...