Here’s the specs:
Frame / Size / Year:
Livery Design Gruppe Black Sparkle Track / 53cm / 2010
Handlebars / Stem:
Nitto Classic 42cm 25.4mm Silver Road Bars / Nitto Lugged Threadless Stem
Fork / Headset:
Livery Design Gruppe Track Stem / Chris King Threadless Headset
Front Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire
Rear Wheel / Hub / Rim / Tire:
Origin8 Pro-Pulsion Track Hub / Velocity Deep V Rim / Vittoria Zaffiro Pro Tire
Crankset / Bottom Bracket:
Sugino RD2 Messenger Crankset Pearl White / Sugino Bottom Bracket
Saddle / Seat Post:
Brooks White Team Pro CMWC Tokyo / Nitto S-84 Lugged Seatpost
Pedals / Chain:
Origin8 Pro Track Light Pedal & Soma Fab Toe Cages
Brakes / Brake Levers:
Shimano Tiagra Brakes / Soma Fabrications Urban Cross Levers
Gearing / Chainring / Misc.:
Euro-Asia Deluxe Track Cog
Yeah, yeah, my seat angle is weird. I like it.
I just nominated my neighborhood,
Mission Dolores, for Google’s
Fiber Optic Trial. I knew my neighborhood was awesome, but now I’m even more excited about it. Here’s what I wrote after just a few minutes of research:
Alongside the obvious park and amazing religious architure (Catholic cathedral, Mennonite tabernacle and Lutheran church), we’ve got eight schools (including two high schools), two libraries, a large subsized housing complex, a police station, and good mix of awesome old townhouses, apartment buildings, and earthquake houses. I personally live right next to halfway house right down the street from Notre Dame plaza (a senior center facility).
Everything I’ve just described is located within a four-block radius.
I deliberately tried to avoid mentioning all the things that Mission Dolores is really well-known for (the foodie stuff, the gentrification, the young crowds). Those are things I also like about the neighborhood, but focusing on them alone ignores at least half the neighborhood. For example, so far as I can tell, the average resident age in my apartment building is much closer to fifty, and the average income closer to $50k, than the stereotype would suggest.
—Timoni
Brand-brand new tattoo. My design: the typeface is IM Fell Great Primer Pro. The quote is from a 1919 New York Times article pronouncing that the geodetic effect of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity had been proven:
LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS;
Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations.
EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS
Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.
I chose this quote because I thought it was funny and remarkably candid, but also because it’s a oddly perfect secular counterpoint to my favorite scripture, back when I was a Christian:
When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him?
-– Psalm 8:3-5
Whether Christian or agnostic, as I am now, I’ve always felt most reassured and peaceful when looking up into a clear night sky, seeing the heavens shine back down on me.
And yeah, this is a complicated nod towards Douglas Adams’ “DON’T PANIC”.
580 California Street is a high rise building in San Francisco, California…constructed in the Postmodern style, and mostly of steel. There are twelve statues by Muriel Castanis on the 23rd floor; Castanis described them as ‘Corporate Goddesses’.
580 California Street, via Wikipedia.
My coworkers and I have been wondering about the statues on that roof since we first noticed them this week. Despite the fact that they’re ‘corporate goddesses,’ they’re actually amazing-looking, sort of like hooded Muses or fates. Definitely adds a certain unexpected sense of mystical menace to the Financial District skyline.
TCB Courier: Pizza + Candy on Vimeo
These dudes rock. They weren’t sure if Taqueria Cancun took phone orders, so they offered to take our order down for us AND drop off our burritos. AND they delivered super-fast. AND they were super-nice.
A spokesman for the Asia Society confirmed that the organization canceled an event with New York superchef David Chang for Nov. 9, after Chang made disparaging remarks about chefs in San Francisco. …Chang, who was in conversation with Anthony Bourdain, dissed San Francisco restaurants: “Fuckin’ every restaurant in San Francisco is just serving figs on a plate. Do something with your food.”
Chang was supposed to appear at S.F.’s E&O Trading Co for an Asia Society food series event celebrating New Asian cooking…But Bullock said he received a note from an S.F. chef participating in the dinner…indicating a refusal to appear with Chang. “The note said, ‘I just can’t do this, this is now personal,’” Bullock said.
The Freeway Revolts (sometimes Expressway Revolts) were a phenomenon encountered in North America in the 1960s and 1970s, in which planned freeway construction in many cities was halted due to widespread public opposition; especially of those whose neighborhoods would be disrupted or displaced by the proposed freeways, and due to various other negative effects that freeways are considered to have.
Such “revolts” occurred in many American cities, such as Philadelphia, New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Cleveland, and Baltimore. In many cities, one can find unused highways, abruptly-terminating freeway alignments, and short stretches of freeway in the middle of nowhere, all of which are evidence of larger projects which were never completed.
via jonhall, via merlin: via Summer fog patterns, in SF Gate
From my apartment, we can sometimes see the fog streaming over Mt. Sutro. The Mission, however, is almost never ever ever foggy.
This is the worst car accident I have ever seen. Everything is in the wrong place. — sexpigeon
It occurs to me that, if Sexpigeon and Magic Molly got together, the resulting progeny would be (magically? sexily?) able to express any Ultimate Truth in three words or less.
So…get to it, kids.
