living like this...is a full-time business

Jun 01

Call me a prude here

but if I were on Jeopardy! I don’t think my first story would be about the time I was a teenager staying at a hotel in Buenos Aires and discovered what a bidet was

I’m looking at you, Rene Cardenas

Beach Boys

Who is your favorite Bay Area band from the ’90s? | SFGate.com -

reaganing:

Ugh, Smashmouth is from San Jose? Figures.

If loving smashmouth is wrong, I don’t need to be right

May 30

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McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Interviews With People Who Have Interesting or Unusual Jobs

Moving to San Francisco: breaking down neighborhood stereotypes for apartment hunters (via The Bold Italic)

gpoyw and for the record i’ve gotten now THREE WEARS (and counting!?) out of this child’s dinosaur halloween costume

Facebook, George Lucas, and NIMBYism: The idiotic rules preventing Silicon Valley from building the houses and offices we need to power American innovation. - Slate Magazine -

Farther south in Menlo Park, Facebook raised billions of dollars in an IPO, instantly putting millions of dollars in the hands of early employees and investors. But as Trulia’s economist Jed Kolko notes, the surge of cash will create losers, by bidding up the cost of local housing. “If Facebook were in Texas or North Carolina,” he observes, “developers would have been building new homes in anticipation of this day,” but in Silicon Valley—as in San Francisco and Marin County farther north—it’s essentially impossible for new construction to meet rising demand for living space. So some of the people living in the area who didn’tjust reap a financial windfall are poised to be priced out of their homes as high rents get even higher.