5 posts tagged “wifi”

As I discovered during my move from Seattle to San Francisco, wifi in the car makes the trip -- and finding stuff along the way -- much, much easier. Tom set up his own wifi solution (a Sprint EVDO router), which is trivially easy to do. Since mobile wifi seems to be the sort of thing that is quite handy when traveling, it makes sense that Avis is now offering it with car rentals from SF International Airport.

SF Supervisor Aaron "sources say" Peskin is offering a ballot measure that he says will improve MUNI. The unions are already screaming a blue streak about it, which means it just might be effective, if approved by voters.

We're a little funny, a little kooky, here in California. One of our wacky beliefs is that the people who represent us at the city level should actually live in that city. The San Francisco City Attorney isn't quite sure if SF Supervisor Ed Jew (whose offices and home were searched by the FBI last Friday for clues in a corruption investigation) actually lives in the city. The Chronicle helpfully points out that water to his primary San Francisco residence wasn't turned on until 60 days after residency requirements kicked in, and that neighbors rarely, if ever, see him or his family in the neighborhood.

I can admit that sometimes I'm too self-conscious for my own good, and that I especially hate making mistakes or looking like a complete fool in public. Whenever I'm in a new place and situation, I tend to hang back and watch what other people are doing before I dive into the fray, so that's why I really like this quick list of San Francisco "guides for n00bs" as written by one Yelp contributor. I think I'll do my own Yelp reviews in this format from now on.

If that's not to your taste, perhaps you'll appreciate a subjective list of "REAL Chinese food in the Bay Area."

BBC discovers Web 2.0, thinks there might be something to it. Let's welcome them to 2005.

Time Warner Cable will "allow" its subscribers to use Fon's WiFi sharing routers. How, exactly, the company would have prevented such activity from happening without their official permission wasn't covered. Of course, it's all about the money and this deal gives TWC half the revenues Fon would get from reselling your connection. This sounds like the start of a PR disaster.

Stop and drop: Woman gives birth in an alley behind downtown San Francisco's Nordstrom, immediately ditches the kid. Police say Mom was easy to find; her blood-soaked attire was a dead giveaway.

Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw is pursuing a $25 million lawsuit against one of its former editors, Jerry Roberts. Coincidentally, that paper also ran an unsigned piece on Sunday alleging it found child porn on a work computer once used by Roberts. Hilarity may ensue. Some background reading on what's happening in Sta. Barbara.

March 3, 2006: Mark your calendars for the Chinese New Year Treasure Hunt in San Francisco. What fun!

American Airlines is more than happy to sell Trans States Airlines tickets as their own,and let that company brand AA on the fuselage of their jets, but when there's an actual problem they disclaim any responsibility. Talk about having your cake and eating it too.

Why can't these people just be honest and say they dislike cell phones? Although some legitimate concerns arise from "microcells" springing up everywhere in San Francisco, I recognize some of the names involved with this latest media push and I know their agenda all too well.

Send out the clones: USA's largest milk company says it will not use moo juice squeezed from cloned cows.

RIAA is having another tantrum, this time because they can't figure out open access WiFi. The incompetent nincompoops representing the nation's recording industry want to make people who run open access points liable for any copyright infringement.

Consumerist does Dilbert of the day, reminding me why I don't "do news" for a living anymore.

Culinary innovation costs the entrepreneur serious money, while dressing up the same-old-same-old as a maid and giving her a pair of handcuff only costs the customer serious money. It's the (*yawn*) Tokyo fetish restaurant scene.

Speaking of culinary innovation, heritage pork seems to be the animal protein equivalent of heirloom tomatoes. At $12.99/chop, it better be just as good.

On the other end of the spectrum: Oh my god. Rats in a NYC KFC/Taco Bell, oooh, lawd! (YouTube)

Yes, cargo cults are real. Are, as in still exists. The John Frum cargo cult is perhaps the last surviving one on earth. I've seen discussion of this cult elsewhere; perhaps my favorite part of those discussions are when the John Frum are made fun of by fine, upstanding Christian folk who can't understand why anyone would cling to useless rituals to summon forth a second appearance of a benevolent sky spirit in the light of overwhelming physical evidence that it won't work.

Ever wonder why there are so many hipsters winos in San Francisco's South Park? It's because alcohol is only forbidden in specific City parks, and that isn't one of them -- for now. Valleywag has the scoop.

QOTD: "The sight of a fat, naked white man flying over Introduction Island (because the game makes you complete a boring tutorial, to make sure you don't play the game if you want to have fun) aroused absolutely no suspicion, probably because most Second Life players see the same thing when they go in for their weekly sponge-baths." Toothpaste For Dinner does Second Life

SF Supes have voted on city wifi. Don't get too excited, they voted not to vote.

Everyone complains about the taxi situation in San Francisco.

While wondering if existing slumlord laws can apply to the projects, the city of Oakland sues the Oakland Housing Authority.

MUNI wants to be in the bike rental business. I suppose the working theory here is that you can bike to work when no buses on a busy route bother to show up for an hour?

King County to Governor: Go to hell and take the Sonics with you (PDF).

Meet Ms. Dewey. Go ahead and type in "failure" a few times. I like her.

Seattlest wants to know if the Mariners are bankrupt. Also, can you spare a pen?

Should employers have the ability to check your credit when you apply for a job? WA lawmakers say no -- unless you're applying for financial or public safety work. Here's to hoping this sort of law becomes a national trend.

Death threats and other pleasantries from an afternoon at the Wharf.

A day in the life of a "phone actress" and NSFW.

Oh, dear. Reporters and law enforcement are now beating the wireless networks are evil drums. The anti-free-hotspot quotes are hilariously sensational.

California's GOP hardliners are discovering the hard way that helping an amateur political hobbyist win the state's highest office was perhaps not the best idea.