Category: San Francisco

  • Tom Stienstra's list of the top 20 Bay Area peaks and ridge-tops: Marin Mount Wittenberg, Point Reyes National Seashore Barnabe Peak, Samuel P. Taylor State Park: May 14, 2006 East Peak, Mount Tamalpais State Park Mount Livermore, Angel Island State Park Peninsula San Bruno Mountain (state and county park): April 23, 2004 Montara Mountain, San…

  • December 30, 2008. 

  • Bay Area speed freaks, represent! This defines crazy.  I have an adrenaline rush just from watching it.  If you’re not feeling it when one of them screams “WHOOOOOO!  DIG IT!!  DIG IT!!!” at 6:59, you need a heart transplant. Thanks to SFist.  Check out the topo map of the route.

  • The Giants said goodbye to J.T. Snow, and he'll be missed.  Even though I'm a fan who appreciates a) athletes who act like grown-ups and b) long-time contributors who provide continuity with a team's history, I understand that Snow's time in San Francisco is up.  His maturity and defense will make him an asset wherever…

  • Grant of Waiting for Boof, my old favorite S.F. Giants blog, has moved over to swanky new space at the McCovey Chronicles, my new favorite Giants blog.  From his first post a few days ago: Welcome to McCovey Chronicles, all.  Perhaps you are the type who picks up the San Francisco Chronicle each morning, hoping…

  • Golden Gate Bridge, Up Close,originally uploaded by edbatista. Another Flickr upload (see the previous post). Worked well again, although it doesn’t appear that I can categorize photos when posting from within Flickr–I had to log in to TypePad again.  Ah, well.  One nice thing is that posting to a blog apparently doesn’t count toward the…

  • United States of Apple,originally uploaded by edbatista. I’m trying out Flickr, a photo-sharing service that’s getting increasingly popular. Plenty of not-really-useful features (captions and that sort of thing), but what I’m really interested in is the ability to tag photos, search for and identify photos using tags (yours and others’), and create an community that…