Pages Tagged “San Francisco”
Reviews
- Automatic Noodle
A short but joyful tale of creating the future you want out of the present you’ve been stuck with, told by robots who would rather make noodles than war. - Mark Twain Hotel (Closed) ★★★★☆ Classic hotel, small rooms, right on the line between the financial district and Tenderloin. Now the Tilden Hotel, closed since 2020.
- Mosser Hotel (San Francisco)
Blog Posts
- Eye of the Mall
In downtown San Francisco, there’s a multi-level shopping mall with an atrium and a skylight. If you stand in the dead center of the atrium and look up, it resembles an eye, looking down at you through a giant microscope. This was taken during WonderCon 2009. Years later, I posted it for a February 2015 […]
- Airplane, leaving me to my own devices
Between my outbound and return flight, new policy allowed me to start writing during takeoff. Thoughts on flying over cities, water and open space at night.
- Nighttime HDR Test: Yerba Buena Gardens
While in San Francisco on business, I wandered into the Yerba Buena Gardens and around the Moscone center. My phone took better pictures than I expected.
- I Left my Trash in San Francisco
San Francisco makes you think about just where your trash is going, both by offering options and by labeling them.
- WonderCon 2010 Experience
Photos and write-up of a day at WonderCon in San Francisco. It’s still fun, but it’s beginning to get more crowded – if nowhere near San Diego Comic-Con levels!
- Overheard on the Bus (Only in San Francisco)
Other passengers react to a bizarre conversation between two strangers comparing notes on all the drugs they used to do.
- I Left My Tire in San Francisco
I already hated driving in SF, but getting a flat tire in the rain on the way to the hotel while late? Not fun, and it kept us out of Wondercon on Friday.
- WonderCon 2009: Saturday Con Report
Saturday at WonderCon: crowds, BSG, DCU, Star Trek, 9, cosplayers and more in San Francisco.
- WonderCon 2009: Friday Con Report
Friday at WonderCon: Farscape, David Mack, Indiana Jones, DC, BOOM!, crowds, Wonder Woman, cosplayers and more in San Francisco.
- Coastal California
Last weekend was spent in Northern California. During the trip I wrote up Wednesday and Thursday, when we drove up to Cambria and then San Jose for Hearst Castle, the Winchester Mystery House, and visiting friends, spending the night in Sunnyvale. Friday morning, we checked out of the motel as quickly as we could, then […]
- Con Report: WonderCon 2008
My first trip to WonderCon in San Francisco. A lot like SDCC, mostly comics with movies and TV thrown in, but I could walk, and I could get autographs!