san francisco

Rude dude deserves detainment.

September 15, 2010

Yesterday we caught wind of Paul Karl Lukacs getting detained at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) after returning from China this past April. It began with a simple question and answer. “Why were you in China?” asked the passport control officer, a woman with the appearance and disposition of a prison matron. “None of your [...]

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The re-emergence of Bones Wiley.

August 12, 2008

We’ve been urging Bones Wiley to update his website, as we know he’s been hard at work coming up with lyrics and new tunes now that he’s back in the United States. While there’s no update just yet, there’s a new video up on YouTube under the name FolkClouds. The video shows a dark figure [...]

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AT&T a pain-in-the-ass for T-Mobile customers.

August 12, 2008

It seems like every few weeks, T-Mobile HotSpot subscribers are getting the shaft from AT&T at Starbucks, thanks to AT&T taking over the infrastructure for wireless Internet access at Starbucks locations. According to the transition, while AT&T will be taking over the hardware and maintenance of these hotspots, T-Mobile HotSpot subscribers should still have full [...]

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Why Starbucks is cooling down.

July 7, 2008

When news exploded about Starbucks shutting down 600 stores in the near future, we weren’t particularly surprised. That’s because since our patronage of Starbucks some five years ago, we’ve seen a general lack of consistency in the brand. Even in the same city, albeit the considerable city of San Francisco, consistency among Starbucks stores has [...]

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Nintendo must be high.

May 4, 2008

The rumour band-wagon is hastily moving forward that a gyroscopic controller from Microsoft will fulfill the role of the Wii’s innovative control scheme. Nintendo doesn’t feel particularly threatened, however, because they’re keen on pointing out how they did it first, and somehow, this first-to-market strategy is what they believe to be key to market success. [...]

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Carbonating water at home.

May 2, 2008

We’ve had an article from MAKE Magazine starred in Google Reader forever, and only recently got around to seriously looking into building a home carbonation system ourselves. The Cool Tools article linked to by MAKE describes a simple system for carbonating beverages at home, and is pretty dead on in regards to its description of [...]

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