I understand what you are saying, but as a fifty year old who has seen many of my favorite intangibles get smothered by change over time, it is hard to get any more worked up than a nostalgic twinge anymore. You have to move on.

That said, we saw plenty of that old soul while we were there. We just used the new…

We flew into Oakland since Spirit does not go to SFO, but the Uber to the Potrero Hill area was only $28.00. The reverse ended up being $42.00, but that was in the morning during rush hour (though ironically enough, it was of course going against the traffic so the drive went even more quickly than it did going in.)…

Thanks to the repetition of the GIF, I just noticed the insult to injury for the kid: the mascot wipes him out after he steps out of bounds — and then throws the taunt in for good measure. It might not be the most violent of the hits in that video, but points for really sticking it to the poor kid.

The Crane Stance taunt after wiping a kid out at the sideline remains the prime Mascot Hall of Fame moment in that whole video.

I found Land’s End because I was planning the next day and wanted to find a good place to hike, and when I pulled up the various photos on Google maps, I saw the Labyrinth, and as a fan of The Chronicles of Amber, I knew that I had to get a picture of myself in the center. But it ended up being one of our favorite…

If you want to go to Alcatraz in September, don’t. After the birds have migrated off the island, the flies have nothing to bother except for the visitors. And they were insanely bothersome. I took this picture of them on my wife’s back, but snapped it a second too late because there were twice as many when I swung…

If AirBnB & Uber are sufficient to “kill” San Francisco, then I submit to you that the city was already on life support.

Walking takes time, too. And if you are heading somewhere where you plan to, well, walk or hike, it takes some of the fun out of it when you reach your destination.

“This is the year of the Jets.”

As someone who just returned from my first-ever vacation to San Francisco, the two best things that you can do is AirBnB & Uber — especially if you are part of a group. I did download the Citymapper & Muni Mobile apps to try the public transportation system, but unless you are making a short hop, the money saved is…

“(Interestingly, Flanagan declines to use musical cues in the film’s horror sequences, letting silence build the dread instead.)“

“forget it...its kinjatown”

As a Vikings fan, thank you for that. It made the fact that Stefan Diggs damn near pulled the exact same boner feel not so bad after all. At least Diggs saw the threat in time and reacted to it.

For anyone who played the game when it first came out, those soldiers were a revelation that will always be burned into your memory. A.I. at the time simply did not do the kinds of things that they did. Not only would they lob grenades at you to get you out of hiding, but they would react if you tried the same…

EXACTLY what I was thinking.

I will have to give that a bash with my Oppo PM-3s. I have always been somewhat “immune” to the effects of binaural recordings. They rarely sound any different to me than standard recordings — the sound still feels like it is “in my head.”

That would actually be preferable.

Arpaio & Clarke, 2020. It is inevitable. This country would put them in office, too.

I would tell you two to get a room, but from the sounds of it, too late!

I knew someone decades ago who swore by peanut butter sandwiches with a single slice of onion on them, but he specified Vidalia for it. I think that it would only work with the sweetest, mildest onion. But I never tried it, so I cannot vouch for it.