Mission Mission

According to this, the boy’s bathroom at the Knockout contains an hidden elevator to planet SR388. Remember to pick up the ice beam before you head over.

Mission DIY Hackerspace Noisebridge is at risk of shutting down early next year unless they get some financial help. If you haven’t checked it out, I strongly urge you to do so. They are at 18th and Mission and it’s a great place to work on any kind of DIY project you can think of be it hardware, software, or even cooking. If you dig the space, you should become a full-fledged member and use the facilities.

They have a cool 5-minute talk series every 3rd Thursday. It’s totally fun. It’s like TED‘s cocaine addicted, disorganized, less-influential little brother.

Noisebridge was also behind the hilarious Juggalo science fair at the Warfield this year. So if you don’t help them, this may be the future of San Francisco:

Hit up this link to donate or inquire about membership.

[via Uptown Almanac]

You really got to hand it to that Notch fellow.  I mean, this is really excellent viral advertising for that Minecraft game of his!  Or perhaps it’s for TRON?

Regardless, spotted on 23rd between Valencia and Guerrero.

At around 11pm on the night of the big win, Jina (also the taker of the above photo) said:

It’s actually amazingly beautiful tonight at top of Dolores Park, despite all the noise below.

I mean, of course it’s beautiful. It’s always beautiful up there. But, what gives? Why weren’t we all in the park? I smell CONSPIRACY.

Still can’t afford the Dolores Park castle? Bummer.

You have two options: overthrow an Argentinean cocaine baron and usurp his operations, or move to Chicago, where an equivalent residence can be had for one-tenth of the cost at $750K. If you ask me, this is a better-looking church-turned single family home. Plus, less people pee on it on weekends.

Sally at Curbed SF says:

Perfect for a new owner with a god-complex, this converted church boasts 39-foot ceilings, pine flooring, a dining nook on the altar, and a gaping central nave. Furnishing that cavern in any meaningful, never mind cost-efficient, way might be quite the challenge, but there’s plenty of space—and city approval—to divvy it up into multiple units.

You do have to move to Chicago, though. I hear it’s a great city and the bridges smell like chocolate.

Get the scoop over at Curbed SF.

Now this is a good use of public space, if you ask me.

Thanks, Rachel!

Wow, look at these old motion picture reels of the Sutro Bath ruins we discovered in the vault!  They must be super ancient, like from the 20s or something!  (Click the photos to view the shorts)

Wait, it says here that the facility didn’t even become ruins until it burned down in a fire in 1966!  Perhaps these are from the 60s then?  I don’t know, they seem kind of too old to be from the 60s.

Wait a minute, is that the Cliff House?  Stupid vault!  Anyway, should you find yourself with nothing to do on a nice sunny day, might I recommend that you bike out to Sutro Cave for some Goonies-style speulunking action?  Just be careful not to fall off the cliff!

Previously:

Get Thee to Heron’s Head Park

Mark Denton (aka swampzoid) used Google Earth to capture this image of the Hub (that circular on-ramp on S. Van Ness by 14th Street that leads to the 101).  I’ve always wondered what kind of seedy stuff goes on in the middle of that thing.

For maximum enjoyment on this abysmally rainy Sunday, we recommend a pairing with Sunny Day Real Estate:

Achieve Satori and receive a complimentary chocolate cake.

[Taken inside Hua Zang Si Temple on 22nd St. during Mission Bicycle's "10 Mission Secrets Bike Tour"]