Sunday, October 17, 2010

Punks in the Haight

I certainly agree with this comment:

"The Haight punks may not be able to afford rent, but that is because they choose to do no work and mooch off those who do. Further, they are not looking for housing. They have no intention of settling down in San Francisco or anywhere else. The affordability or unaffordability of rent is thus irrelevant to their condition."

That comment from Heather Mac Donald, of the New York-based City Journal, a quarterly magazine about urban affairs, writing about San Francisco's sit/lie debate. Unfortunately, given the far left leanings of this city I doubt that much can be done.

Saturday, October 09, 2010

Boy stabbed repeatedly in New York restaurant - CNN.com

Boy stabbed repeatedly in New York restaurant - CNN.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

This is a good example of the sick society we live in today. This planet apparently needs "outside" help.

How about a walk?

Why oh why did the Giants batter, with the game tied, only one out, and with the bases loaded, why did he have to even swing at the ball. A walk would have forced in the winning run and I think the odds of that happening were quite good. But no, he has to swing at the ball and hits into a double-play thus ending the chances for a Giants win at that point. DAMN DAMN DAMN

Even if he had struck out perhaps the next batter could have walked in the winning run. Since the errant batter is one of the teams better players, I won't even mention his name here.

Friday, October 08, 2010

Gate fixed

Mr. Fixit returned and now our old gate is good as new as they say and it has even been re-hung so it opens outward. This would seem to be better from a security standpoint.

Yesterday the Blue Angles "surveyed" the city and today there will be practice runs which will sound the same as the ones yesterday.

Tim Lincecum pitched superbly yesterday as the Giants beat the Braves 1-0. Today Matt Cain will be on the mound.

Want to see the movie "The Town" but not sure when I am going to find time for it.

Wednesday, October 06, 2010

Mr. Fixit

What's with Mr. Fixit here at this apartment building? There were two guys here on Monday fixing, or trying to fix the front gate. Now the job remains unfinished and the gate is leaning against a post in the courtyard and nothing is protecting the building from intruders. What is going on? Doesn't anyone know how to fix a security gate? How long will this project go on anyway?

Tuesday, October 05, 2010

A check of the items thirty minutes later reveals that someone has moved the items to a slightly different location curbside...next to a microwave oven that someone else had placed curbside earlier in the week. Hmmm...I wonder how this will all work out.

Junk pick-up

For the first time ever I have placed a bunch of stuff curbside for pick-up in the morning by Recology, a division of Golden Gate Disposal. I just hope that the local scavengers don't run off with the stuff. Two items are absolutely no good (no power cord) the the other two items are falling apart. I realize that strange things happen late at night but it is literally out of my hands now as I have followed their instructions and it is up to them to pick things up.

Smoke

I would like to thank Patricia of San Francisco for her excellent letter to the editor this morning"

"You can't separate marijuana smoke from cigarette and cigar smoke.

For health reasons, we have smoke-free offices, restaurants and apartment buildings, but healthy people still have to walk through a gauntlet of smokers, including pot smokers, wherever they go, especially in the business district.

Cigarette butt trash litters our sidewalks, bus stops and beaches. Second-hand smoke kills many people every year. It's pretty scary that potheads can actually vote for their right to expose healthy people to the sickening stench of marijuana smoke wherever they go. Marijuana smoke is just as deadly as cigarette and cigar smoke, and healthy people have the right to smoke-free air. It's even more frightening that politicians are pushing taxing a toxic substance as a source of revenue."