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tagclouds

Posted by banane on June 13th, 2008 — in fitness, local color, technology, walk to work

Ah, very cool. Created from here:

Get your NSID from Flickr (view source on a photo page, search for “nsid”)
Paste it into here,
It will generate all of your tags, then it submits it to another site that generates the tagCloud.
Neat!

Good Writing

Posted by banane on May 5th, 2008 — in about writing, annaboka, walk to work

I cleaned out my bookshelf, dusted off some old books I have kept around but haven’t read. Namely, Howards End (no apostrophe, just discovered that).
I really enjoy the website GoodReads, and hope Annaboka will someday be as useful. One of the reviews on there of Howard’s End lauds the third chapter as the best chapter [...]

Walking to BART

Posted by banane on August 30th, 2007 — in walk to work

I’ve been trying to transit (walk/bart/shuttle) to my client’s at least once a week. This week it’ll be two out of three. I walk down to Market Street, about 20-25 minutes, then BART for 20, then Emery Go Round shuttle for 20. For someone with acute motion sickness that’s three nauseas in one morning. It [...]

Napping, Writing on BART

Posted by banane on August 21st, 2007 — in about writing, local color, walk to work

My sleeping schedule is wacked. I stopped drinking coffee, then had a double cappuccino at 10pm and stayed up until 4:30. Woke up at 7:00am-ish for three nights in a row, camping. Now back in the real world, woke up at 7am again. North Beach is nice in the morning- folks hosing down the sidewalks [...]

time to haiku

Posted by banane on June 28th, 2005 — in walk to work

SF weather update: (because this information is nowhere on the internet?) misty, no salt water air. Muggy, cold winds, warm (you want to take your hoodie off). Little sprinkles on Montgomery and California intersection. Glare at Sansome and Sutter. Tourists confused, locals mumbling to each other “here comes summer.” We start remembering earlier winter months [...]

friday afternoon

Posted by banane on June 24th, 2005 — in walk to work

People are sitting at Ozumo’s early this afternoon (3pm?) and the sun is super shining. Saw a woman walk into the Jewish Museum on Steuart, with a big bag from Imperial Tea House- had this riff in my mind about how she was visiting from some suburban city for her “day in the City.”
Walked to [...]

Summer days

Posted by banane on June 22nd, 2005 — in walk to work

Wearing a t-shirt to work, that is a kind of freedom in general. Flip flops abound. No nylons in sight, all good signs of summer. Lots of roof parties. Wore loud squeaky shoes to work today, and they really are loud. May go out at lunch and invest in some new ones. OK my day [...]

Sunny day, summer solstice

Posted by banane on June 21st, 2005 — in north beach, walk to work

Trying to catch the bus, finally got a 30 going downtown after walking up “the hill”. This is the new technique, halfway bus riding to work and back. Mostly to coddle my foot, but also because I woke up late, and to walk to work, get coffee, and head to massage appt., I didn’t have [...]

30 stockton day 2

Posted by banane on June 15th, 2005 — in north beach, walk to work

Man on the bus, old guy, disheveled hair, tweed coat, a bit of a head tremor. “Show the man your pass!” He yells to everyone boarding the Stockton. First it was just another old guy who looked kind of scared and walked down the bus towards the driver. I thought both old guys knew each [...]

30 Stockton

Posted by banane on June 14th, 2005 — in china, walk to work

Sat in front of Ricos “where tourists meet the locals” and “english spoken here” signage. It’s a popular bar but I kind of hate it. I mean, what a sellout, and there’s a big sign that posts the most recent military ship to further cater to tourist traffic! Anyways, stood with two locals, an elderly [...]