Street Food

Yesterday was the S.F. Street Food fest. Billed as a benefit for La Cocina, a micro-enterprise incubator, it lined up its sponsors on a block of Folsom to sell street food. Plenty of people, half hour lines, and multi-cultys tweeting their thumbs away. All the food was pretty un-street, the carts and taco trucks having been banished for several blocks. A large police presence, half a block of wagons and a command center, made sure a cordon sanitaire was established between the neighborhood and the jeunesse dorée. Still, a chance to nosh a street style Crème Brûlée on a very nice day.

Carol

Yes folks, there was a time when hot sauce was a Cajun thing and salsa was a recipe in a little-used cookbook, not something on your table. Ask Carol, who turns ..um.. older tomorrow. Happy Birthday. Why, back in the day, we used to ... well, I'm sure you don't want to hear about that. Jim

An Augmented Cooperstown

Stinking Rose ... North Beach

Round-Up of the week's this and that. The augmented reality article made me think of Cooperstown and S.F. Both depend on tourists to a great extent, both have the infrastructure and tech base, and both have the Historical Societies to help with the initial modeling. S.F. could probably hitch on the local cloud, Cooperstown might have to install an extra server and some bandwidth, but it's going to have to do that anyway. The Cooperstown Opera might use it to enhance the superscript on stage and I'm sure S.F. will be a pioneer in the artistic (read less savory) uses. Put that cell phone to work at something besides being your e-leash.

• Augmented Reality
• Fiction Bruce Sterling
• Alcatraz Island
• Putting Man Before Descartes
• Hypercubes
• Indonesian Mimic Octopus

Hope you enjoy

Sign of the Times

I just know a political joke is in here somewhere.

Buddhas Hand

Buddhas Hand

Discover Magazine has a photo review of ten unusual fruit HERE. The Buddhas Hand (above) is a fruit we get around Christmas. The peel has a citron/lemon smell and flavor, so one fruit goes toward decoration, and any others go in cookies and drinks. They're still a bit hard to come by, but some groves in S. Cal are coming into maturity and the demand, while relatively small, is probably enough to start some more.

Oh .. That Secret

I wonder if the crew that installed the sign noticed anything unusual?

Candyland on Lombard

photo by Steve Rhodes

Yesterday, the twisty part of Lombard Street was closed off and made into a giant Candyland game. Children from UCSF Children's Hospital got to play and everyone had some cake after. The money collected went to the Children's Hospital through the non-profit Friends of the Children. More pictures here