May 2012
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April 2012
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bobster855:
Today is the 106th anniversary of the great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. ‘San Francisco’ is a great old-time movie starring Clark Gable and Jeannette MacDonald, famous for introducing the song it was named after. But the most unforgettable sequence is this one - the 1906 earthquake. The filmmakers took the trouble to make an exact replica of City Hall and show it crumbling to...
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WHEN I REALIZE I DID NOTHING OVER THE WEEKEND TO...
whatshouldwecallgradschool:
GPOY
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Anonymous asked: i remember you saying that you were asexual before. do you think that you are in love with san francisco? like that woman who is in love with the statue of liberty? i also really don't mean for this to be offensive, i am just curious.
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Read descriptive quote about San Francisco.
Suddenly in anxious tears over how I won’t be back there for nearly a month.
Every morning a great wall of fog descends upon the city of San Francisco. It...
– Jeffrey Eugenides, from Middlesex (via graydaynotes)
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Somehow the great cities of America have taken their places in a mythology that...
– Joe Flower (via stepheniedc)
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There are a bajillion posts of the Bay Bridge lightning pictures on my dash right now, and every time I scroll to one, I’m all, “Must favorite and reblog!” Even though they’re the same two pictures. Because they are awesome pictures.
Contact with H2O
shitmystudentswrite:
first aid for contact with H2O: flush eyes with water, rinse skin with water, if ingested, get medical help.
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A friend of mine just messaged me on Facebook to ask if I got her text at 3 AM about the Sumatra earthquakes. I told her I hadn’t. She then asked if I got any of her other texts, since she’s been messaging me whenever she hears about a big earthquake anywhere. Once again, I told her I hadn’t.
As it turns out, she’d been texting my old number, though I know she has my new...
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Edible Cupcake Map
sanfranciscomaps:
It was only a matter of time. In the fine foodie tradition of the San Francisco Meat Map, and perhaps as a logical next step from the gangs and cupcakes map, comes the ultimate San Francisco cupcake map:
The folks at Cups and Cakes bakery created this map by with edible tiles based on Maptiles from Stamen Design and data from Open Street Map.
(via SFist)
But there’s...