San Francisco Has a Budget, Sorta

Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors hammered out a budget agreement late last night after a tense battle leading up to a midnight deadline.


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Presidio Pout: Gap Founder Taking His Pictures and Going Home

A long, loud and sometimes personal battle over a proposed art museum in the Presidio has filled Gap founder Donald Fisher with "disappointment and sadness."


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@raquelita sent this about a clothing optional farm. http://tinyurl.com/ksgl8h Another friend: "The amount of lotion they must go through."


Have the cabin to myself for a bit. Well, myself, the dog, the robin couple nesting in the gazebo and hordes of horny hummingbirds hovering.


Called @eveb to compliment her and @mattymatt on their @sfappeal article regarding Muni, NextBus and the iPhone: http://bit.ly/FF5vv


Hit the five-fecta from Sausalito to Seattle today - bus, boat, train, plane, car. Next time need to add a bike ride. Or maybe a camel.


The land leased by the co-op farmers in Snohomish County my family shops at will be sold and become yet another exurban McMansion.


'68 convention riot cops reunion: http://tinyurl.com/m6dkqj My dad suggested 60s protest reenactments, like Civil War buffs do. Hilare!


Bought strawberries, rhubarb, heirloom beans, a ham hock, greens and some gorgeous pluots. Ran into a friend on the ferry. A fine day.


My high school paper, which I used to print, is now a WordPress site: http://tinyurl.com/l7gm7p Rather proud of my alma mater. Go Bulldogs!


If the slang for masturbating with your off-hand is "the stranger," washing dishes with your off-hand should be "the uninvited houseguest."


Smoking a chili-rubbed pork loin over mesquite, reading Jared Diamond's 'Guns, Germs, and Steel,' and keeping a wary eye on some ravens.


Latest in the ongoing bromance between SF Mayor Gavin Newsom and Twitter: http://tinyurl.com/ps3uou Tweet your pothole complaints to @sf311!


Dan Savage: "[H]eroin is like Twitter (fun at first, sure, but you'll regret it one day)." http://tinyurl.com/r8wjew


@MJ junior, AKA Amelia, is very cute. Currently sleeping while proud papa @JasonH is playing Warcraft. Me, I'm oddly craving cafeteria food.


Pols on Twitter et al. in three parts, made possible by @sfappeal and @spotus -- 1 http://tr.im/lntt 2 http://tr.im/lnu7 3 http://tr.im/lnub


How Much Would You Pay for a Robust, Reliable Yahoo Pipes?
I’ve been a fan of Yahoo Pipes since it was first released to the public. I first used it to combine a number of feeds1 from sites I contributed to so that my home page was constantly updated with recent work and personal updates. It allowed me to include only my just my [...]

"Lombard Street has the distinction of being the crookedest street in the world. Guess they never heard of Wall Street." http://tr.im/liCN


@fimoculous lead me to "The Girlfriend Experience" on Amazon VOD, wrote it up for NewTeeVee: http://tinyurl.com/ch9mtm Definitely worth $10.


Watched "The Train" last night: http://tinyurl.com/cpttuq Classic Frankenheimer, with Burt Lancaster protecting French art from the Nazis.


I’m Back, Just in Time for International Workers Day
Hilarious advertising, via my old comrade Nicholas Carlson. I can’t count how many times the vagaries of Soviet toilet paper (or lack there of) have been cited as an example of why anything besides unfettered free markets are doomed to fail. Anyway, have been quiet of late thanks to the collapse of said unfettered free [...]

Happy May Day! A day when we celebrate the workers who fought and died to bring you the weekend and other things we now take for granted.


@mj sent "The Think Big Revolution" to review. http://tinyurl.com/csx395 More for positivity junkies who dig inspiration porn than for me.


Seen on Muni: 'Hustling for Dummies' tee. 'If you don't grind, you don't shine' and other tips to 'grow your stack.' A win, if not an epic.


Breathtaking impromptu marriage rights march of the now


Long time coming, yes, but still a long way to go
If Barack Obama is really a progressive candidate and not just the new face of the business interests that truly rule Washington, then together with the Democrats that now reign as a party there are some clear goals I’d like to see worked toward: Stop the drug war: Obama can’t do anything about mandatory sentencing or [...]

You’d better have 300,000 absentees up your sleeve, Los Angeles
he numbers have certainly improved over the course of the night, but I have to say, I’m more than a little disappointed in the results for Proposition 8 in Los Angeles County. I mean, I’m really disappointed in Tulare county, yet that was to be expected — the Angelino vote was the heartbreaker. [...]

Ugly Betty of the installing Debian

MacBook with VLC playing Ugly Betty in Mac OS X, Debian installing in VMware Fusion full-screen on the external monitor. The old blue, bubble iMac has been retired to the closet. For now.

Shelter Cove of the dusk


The City is Poorer Without PJ Corkery
It’s been a month since journalist and author PJ Corkery died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma, but somehow I just found out today. He was incredibly kind and generous to me when I was an upstart punk of a blogger trying to make a name for SFist — responding to my emails, mentioning our work in [...]