In which another Bay Area news van is ripped off, security guard's car is broken into, and thieves flee in Jaguar.
blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/05/…
Spotted this hawk silhouetted against the
#sf skyline this morning at dawn in Dolores Park.
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Hawk on the horizon at dawn.
Power of Okla. tornado estimated by meteorologists at from 8 times to 600 times power of Hiroshima atomic bomb.
sfgate.com/news/science/a… Ouch. MT
@henryklee: Thieves not only broke into
@abc7newsBayArea news van but also burglarized car of security guard assigned to crew
Teen Twitter use way up since 2011. Fascinating: Many migrate from Facebook seeking privacy - from adults they know.
pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/T… Bay Area to host Super Bowl L in 2016 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara. At least $300M typically flows into region.
blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/20… It’s official: Super Bowl L in 2016 will be held at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.
#49ers How to help Oklahoma tornado victims.
storify.com/tsciacqua/how-… via
@TSciacqua How streamlining at IRS left nonprofits oversight in hands of isolated Cincinnati office.
motherjones.com/politics/2013/… via
@MotherJones Some of these Gatsby projects should not have been green-lighted, but left a distant longing.
#SFSuperBowl decision time.
#SF vows to "completely transform the way people experience a Super Bowl":
sfchronicle.com/49ers/article/… @JeffElder
Pence, Pagan, Posey, Panda - Ladies & Gentlemen, introducing the
#KillerPeas pic.twitter.com/Ma4gakDroh California teen invents device that could charge a cell phone in 20 seconds.
blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2013/05… Ryan has a dislocated joint in the pinky finger of his pitching hand. It's broken above & below finger. Surgery tomorrow, out 6 weeks.
Not in a children's book mood, so I'm reading
@Medium to my daughter. Tonight: "The best story I know" by
@JeffElder medium.com/look-what-i-ma… It's like a Tracy-Hepburn movie on Twitter: Spouses
@susanslusser and
@mercbrownie tweeting
#SFGiants tonight for rival publications.
We have quite an event tonight.
@susanslusser is covering for me,
@mercbrownie for the Merc. They cohabitate. Legally.
#sfgiants.
You can always text "Red Cross" to 90999 and give $10 right away to help disaster victims.
Chilling
@vineapp from tornado-leveled OK neighborhood.
vine.co/v/b9179Ljq1zq Much more here:
blog.chron.com/weather/2013/0… National Weather Service says winds from Oklahoma tornado may have reached 200 mph.
Very cool: a deconstructed iPad 2, from “Things Come Apart,” by
@Todd_McLellan.
pic.twitter.com/1fhEatTE3B On this day in 1873, patent for "Improvement in Fastening Pocket-Openings" granted to Jacob Davis & Levi Strauss, and blue jeans were born.
Yumblr/Tumboo unrelated, has Tumblr recently made it more difficult to embed -- as in the code is no longer under Settings?
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@daveperlman gets some love from
@KCBSNews/
@msug. Still going strong after 61 yrs at the Chronicle.
sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/05/20/abo… Told how police found them, butt-dialing suspect asks, "We really called 911?"
sfgate.com/news/crime/art… “I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous." -Queen Victoria
In which it is speculated that the Great Gatsby was, in fact, a weed dealer. Seems way too well-dressed.
blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/… .
@JerryBrownGov says was 'kind of embarrassing' when his father handed him his degree
"I love cancellation high." --
@kroqin Psyched for
@PopUpMag tonight at Davies! Anyone else going?
#popupmag popupmagazine.com
My gym gets dinged on Yelp for the ripped carpet and '80s equipment. I love it.
pic.twitter.com/bekDq09B4L On this day in 1897, Oscar Wilde was freed after 2 years of imprisoned labor. He died 3 years later at 46 of an illness from prison.
Popes, sharks, Star Wars, Bender, fake Segways, and guys in monocles. It's the best
#BaytoBreakers pics.
blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/05/1…
Services at The Church Of Brunch.
Listen to this: It's like Billie Holiday + hip hop. ♫ Plenty - Feat. Erykah Badu – Guru's Jazzmatazz, Erykah Badu
spoti.fi/JJQ2sL $590 million slip of paper somebody bought for 2 bucks. 1 winning ticket sold in Fla. for
#Powerball.
sfgate.com/news/texas/art… In one turn of
#SFGiants starting rotation on this trip, starters surrendered 8, 8, 6, 9 and 6 runs.
@hankschulman blog.sfgate.com/giants/2013/05… Everyone's getting their
#BaytoBreakers costumes ready! Check out the pics and show us yours.
blog.sfgate.com/stew/2013/05/1… You are twice as likely to win the $600M Powerball jackpot tonight as you are to be killed in a shark attack. So there's that.
This week I started compiling a dictionary of the Bay Area's dialect. Additions welcome.
sfchronicle.com/entertainment/…