Wait, you consider Tahoe and Paradise urban?  

It doesn’t sound like he has the most expansive or exclusive collection, but it’s good enough to qualify him as a sneakerhead.  

Yes, ahead of the Niners cutting him, which is what they were going to do.

1. Giants

Fuck the Dodgers!  

Aw nuts.  

The building I live in in SF is valet only.  

The building I live in is valet parking only.  So while it sucks that you have to trust your car to a stranger for the last few hundred feet, I think it is mitigated by the fact that each “customer” is a regular, and because we see each other everyday, both sides are far less likely to screw with the other.  

The thing about PacBell and South of Market/China Basin/Mission Bay is 100% true. I love the Giants. I love PacBell—when it was being built, I would go to the site once a week just to watch it rise. But the myth that PacBell spurred the growth in the area is one thing I can not stand.  

No, I’m quite sure you missed my point.  Even if it looks like a $70,000 car, it performs as well as a car twice its actual price without the hassle of dealing with the attention that comes with cars twice its actual price.  So you get a car that can perform like a $200K+ car for $130K, and get the attention of a car…

Isn’t that part of the appeal of a 911? It’s a car that can hang with cars twice its price, but isn’t flashy like them. They’re recognized and rare enough to be a “nice” car, but common enough for people to not make a big deal out of them. To me, that would be a selling point.

I went to NYC for the pizza and the fancy restaurants, but the only thing I left with was a jones for the halal food carts.  

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You’re right that promotion/relegation isn’t the sole reason that America sucks at soccer and isn’t the sole reason that the MLS is a joke, but it also isn’t hard to see the benefits of pro-rel. For one, it requires owners to invest in their teams. A bottom feeder team can’t be content to ride the coattails of the…

I’ve found that steakhouses generally serve the steak ever-so-slightly rarer than asked for. I think this is because a rarer steak can be sent back to be cooked a bit longer, but a steak that is served more well-done than asked for can’t be made more rare. On the other hand, steaks ordered rare tend to come out…

In an Uber ride I recently took in a new Civic, whenever the driver turned on the turn signal, a camera on that side would be activated and the view would be displayed on the center mounted screen.  I was just a passenger, so I don’t know how much it helped the driver or not, but I thought it was a pretty good idea,…

It’s incredible how normal the following sentence has become: There’s a Black Mirror episode about this.

+1!

She’s a dual citizen of Japan and the US.  

Like I said, I have no idea if the rule is enforced or not, but the consensus view is that it isn’t. That’s all.  Do you know if it is?