Fathers Day Moment

I don't get no respect from the big girl.

Concorso Italiano? Here?

The new venue is a serious downgrade from the previous golf course.

Google's Whip on My Street

The Google Streetview coverage is looking mighty impressive these days. Lots of signage visible from the most recent election.

And of course, Los Banos!

Chickenjoy!

On Death Row, I would order Popeye's chicken and dip it in Jollibee gravy.

Camino Restaurant - Open for Business

Woo-hoo! Can't wait to go eat.

Camino Restaurant
3917 Grand Avenue, Oakland

Hours:
Sunday - Thursday 5:00 - 10:00 (Closed Tuesdays)
Friday & Saturday 5:00 - 11:00

510-547-5035

Fine gift for mom: Free admission!

... at 24 Hours of LeMons this weekend, Altamont Speedway. Who wants to come watch?

(Discount ~ All-C) + Intercontinental Air Service = FAIL

Wow, they've all gone kaput while I wasn't looking. It's really too bad as the customer experience was said to be pretty satisfying all around.

MaxJet
EOS
Oasis Hong Kong

And, you know, songtitle.info for BGM ideas

Google TV Ads now available to all US advertisers. Nice work!

C'est Magnifique!

Dear Product Planner at Matchbox Division of Mattel, Inc: I salute you.

(It's a 1968 Citroen DS)

Ear Cleaning Parlors

Adding to the list of things you get in a parlor: Ear Cleaning.

Quick, where's my hoarding instinct?

Rice rationing at Costco! Aieeeee!

Great Moments in Corporate Missions

Old and Busted: Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
New Hotness: Everything should taste like bacon.

What? WHAT?!

Fifth eatery's diners, workers robbed in two weeks

Four robbers invaded Milano Restaurant on Grand Avenue on Sunday night, taking cash and valuables at gunpoint from diners and employees in the city's fifth takeover-style robbery of restaurants in two weeks and the second since Friday.

Pickin'-N-Pullin' in Newark

Smells like... victory!

In Baghdad, Drivers Shoot *You*

Action-packed. Pace picks up at around 1:30, driving in opposing lanes.

I Kiss You My Business

This local listings entry sounds not at all like it was written in a Romanian boiler room.

D & B Auto Brokers has done some good work of fast lane cars dealer and foreign and domestic cars dealers in our Redwood City neighbohood.D & B Auto Brokers has specialities in wholesale price car dealer and used and new car dealers. In summary, I refer you D & B Auto Brokers because I found it well connected and worth your loyalty.

Impromptu Vintage Rally!

The E-Type is intercepted by one of Zuffenhausen's finest, sounding brilliant in the Bay Bridge tunnel.

Flying the Friendly Skies

Note to self: VS or BA to Heathrow.

The alleged plan was to target a series of planes leaving from Heathrow Airport for North America. Police say they found a list of flights on a memory stick belonging to Mr Ali following his arrest. The memory stick allegedly listed scheduled flights from three carriers - America Airlines, United Airlines and Air Canada:

* 1415 UA931 LHR-SAN FRANCISCO (United Airlines)
* 1500 AC849 LHR-TORONTO (Air Canada)
* 1515 AC865 LHR-MONTREAL (Air Canada)
* 1540 UA959 LHR-CHICAGO (United)
* 1620 UA925 LHR-WASHINGTON
* 1635 AA131 LHR-NEW YORK (American Airlines)
* 1650 AA91 LHR-CHICAGO (American)

(・∀・)イイ! ！

グッジョブ！

Dangerous Liaisons

A new hotel opening in Washington DC with, erm, a timely name.

The Liaison Capitol Hill, An Affinia Hotel

That homepage is just begging for a special package offer...

80! 90! 100 percent off!

The world financial market appears to have become a Guitar Center radio commercial.
"We're having our BIGGEST SALE EVER!"
"Alitalia! 80% off!""
"Bear Stearns! 93% off!"

Hanky.

Monsterously Bad Branding

This just in via FriendFeed comment stream: Monster Park was supposed to make us think of that overpriced heavy-gauge audio cables company, not the job site!

English-lang Google Maps

... for non-ISO Latin-1 charset places like Bangkok. Brilliant.

Food Fight

Much more graphic than the Atari version.

Stag. Party.

Tokyo > (New York + Paris)

3 months after publication, NYT and Newsweek pick up on the multitude of Le Guide Michelin stars being doled out in Tokyo.

Many prominent figures of the Tokyo food world, however, are saying to Michelin, in effect, thanks for all the attention (which we deserve), but you still do not know us or our cuisine.

... hmm, reminiscent of when a yakiniku place ended up atop the Zagat Survey for that fine city.

McD + KFC = MCK

In other words, 麥當奴 + 肯德基 = 麥肯基

From the US West Coast, of course. I'm going to get me a franchise.

Taxpayer Rides, DUB Edition

I'm not sayin' that a broad-daylight carjacking in a decent neighborhood is any less shocking, or more justified.

But I do, um, understand it a bit better now. Check out dem wheels!

Matcha Salt and More

More cool stuff to do with all that food ingredient you find at Pusan Market.

Next Stop, Preschools!

Big middle-class break at Stanford, following similar announcements at Harvard and Yale.

Cal and others need help. And, maybe sometime after that, all those Montessori schools.

Starsky!

 

East Bay Embarassment on I-880

You've got to be f-ing kidding me.

I sold it on eeeeeBaaaaay!

Wow. Maybe I should take up daytrading in YHOO stock.

When Two Worlds Collide!

Whoa. This really is one of the oddest, wackiest photo shoots I'd ever seen done at the 'Plex. Very Zoolander.

It's all about that work-fashion balance.

iTunes U

My friend Eli pointed me to iTunes U. Most excellent source for in-flight video programming!

Lawsuits Are Forever

Great tip from our friend Dr. Sanj on the $300 million DeBeers class action site. Be sure to visit it if you bought diamond jewelry between 1994 (!) and 2006. Deadline to file is 5/19/2008.

Full story here.

M5 going V1

Note to self: No fast cars for the kids. Maybe a Mercury Topaz instead.

Flower Duet Redux

I should stop skipping commercials. No wonder the songtitle site updates are slow.

British Airways, 1989


Silverjet, 2007

Bzzzzzzt!

How is it possible that I missed out on this product release?!

Bullitt!

Next time your folks visit SF, take them on this nicely mapped grand tour. Bonus points for hooning their Hyundai rental.

WTF? This makes me angry.

Boy shot while taking lessons at Piedmont Piano Company.

(01-10) 21:27 PST Oakland -- A 10-year-old boy taking a piano lesson at a North Oakland studio was shot and critically injured today by a stray bullet when a robber opened fire at a gas station across the street, authorities said.

The boy, whose name was not released, was in critical and unstable condition and undergoing surgery tonight at Children's Hospital Oakland.

He was hit in the abdomen by at least one of three bullets fired at about 4:30 p.m. by a man who was robbing a the Chevron gas station at Piedmont and Pleasant Valley avenues, police said.

I love the city but Ron Dellum's mayorship is a disaster. Seriously.

Cooking with NYT

Great tips on taming that 875,000 BTU Viking stove.

Bad News for Telecommuters

Really neat findings on prediction markets.

Sigh.

I'm dead. That sucks, at least for me and my family and friends. But all the tears in the world aren't going to bring me back, so I would prefer that people remember the good things about me rather than mourning my loss. (If it turns out a specific number of tears will, in fact, bring me back to life, then by all means, break out the onions.)

Rails to Trail^H^H^H^H^H Parks

Say, are we keeping the original Bay Bridge structure for something really cool like this?

Free Systemwide Upgrade on United Airlines

Happy New Year!

... and it's that time of the year again. If you are...

* Flying on UA before 1/31/2008
* Going far (preferably over 6 hours, bonus points for overnight flights)

... I have a handful of systemwide upgrade certificates turning into pumpkins at the end of January. Contact me for a free upgrade.

(Edited 1/3/2008 -- Wow, that was fast; maybe this wacky search result had something to do with it. I think the certificates are all claimed now, but if they fall through the waitlists I'll reach out to you folks. Safe travels!)

51st & Shattuck! Mid-day!

Hey Mayor Dellums, now can we please get those police officers hired?

State Senate President Pro Tem Don Perata was carjacked at gunpoint from his state car in North Oakland Saturday.

Perata, 62, of Oakland was unharmed in the incident, which happened at about 1:45 p.m. as he was stopped in his state-leased red 2006 Dodge Charger at a red light at 51st Street and Shattuck Avenue.

Santa's Korean Helpers

It's 10:30pm Christmas Eve. 5 hours earlier, you made a tactical culinary error by using the last 4 cans of chicken broth for a risotto, when they were actually earmarked for the big osso buco dish tomorrow. What do you do?

You head on over to the best freakin' 24/365 supermarket in the Bay Area, that's what you do.

And then, you see the locked fine spirits cabinet and think: Last minute presents!

Manga Society

A company that I'm working with recently launched a pretty neat mini-blogging/social bookmarking service and I'm struck at the number of illustrations & doodles being created:



Reminds me of the whole episode with the Forza craftspeople; seems quite appropriate for the country that invented manga.