UPDATE: I uploaded the .mov file earlier for this post and noticed that there were some artifacts in the video when watching it on Posterous versus in QuickTime. To see the .mov click the download link below the Posterous video player. I've also uploaded the same video to YouTube to see if there were any artifacts. What do you think?
I think it's safe to say that the 16th Street Station in San Francisco is one of the fugliest BART stations in the network; however, one of the highlights of my FABULOUS weekend was snapping this shot during our wait for the train to Berkeley in said station.
Also this weekend I came across this wonderful troupe of street performers in front of Cliff's Variety in the Castro District. Here is one of their songs.
Finally, I highly recommend scoping out the margaritas at Velvet Cantina. The bartenders alone are worth the visit.
I recently got off veggie (had a couple of make-good days). One of the first places I headed to was Vien Huong in Oakland. After reading fellow Posterous-er Maggie Cheung's post about ramen, I was seriously craving noodles. My comment on Maggie's blog was that I'm still looking for a good ramen place in the Bay Area. However, for hu tieu (or ho fun for my Chinese readers), I stopped looking about 25-30 years ago. This was the place that my parents took me when I was a kid, this was the place I cut class and took BART all the way from El Cerrito for, this was the place I took dates to and if I noticed they didn't want to eat here more than once week I quickly dropped, this is the place my wife and I eat at most frequently, and this is the place I'll take my future children to eat every weekend. I won't go into detail regarding the food. Suffice it to say, it's good and I pretty much never eat hu tieu anywhere else save at my mom's. And lest you think I've overhyped the place and you end up going there and feel disappointed, that's ok. That means you won't come back and they'll be less of a wait for us regulars. If you do go, it's light on service and cash only.
If all goes as planned, the TransLink regional fare card should be available to BART riders starting this summer.
I'm not going to hold my breath, but I've been seriously waiting for this for a long time, especially now that I no longer live in AC Transit territory. I really, really hope they make their date this time, my translink card has been getting lonely.
Beautiful sf sunset to the left. Mountains to the right.
On a side note, we stopped at the rockridge trader joes. Not impressed at all. We struggled to find 5 things to buy. Selection is very limited
What we did find was high quality and reasonably priced (cheese, frozen burritos, pizza dough). But it's nothing like what you can get at costco. I just don't get the appeal of joes anymore.
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This is extra awesome. I think I need to write a little app so I can get this data on my phone. (Found via friendfeed)
Now if only the contractor doing the Translink stuff would stop being incompetent and finish up so I can use my Translink card on BART sometime this century.
