Mission Mission

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]

Do you drop your beers and reach for your keys so you can get in out of the rain? Or do you sit tight and pray one of your neighbors happens by (at 2:20 in the morning) and offers a helping hand?

Wait, how the hell did you come to find yourself in this predicament in the first place?

All you people from the Midwest are always like, “I miss the seasons; you guys don’t know what fall colors are like; etc.” But how about the brilliance of this ginkgo biloba tree on 25th street, in the dead of night — in the dead of December?

Don’t get that in Michigan.

Lit by gray old street lights and photographed by a crummy cellphone no less, and still, gorgeous.

Sorry about the resolution here, but I was momentarily struck stupefied by the coloring on this critter, so I didn’t snap a pic until he was a half mile away.

Anyway, I’m sitting there enjoying a banh mi and a Vernor’s in Civic Center Plaza when a jet-black squirrel with white stripes and speckles sprints past me and off into a flower bed. What!? I thought I was in China or something. Has anybody ever seen such a thing? Where’d he come from?

My theory is that he stowed away on this big dumb Christmas tree they trucked in from somewheres:

Perhaps it had something to do with that weird one-day mid-December heatwave we had yesterday, but for a few hours between 4 and 5pm, the sunset was definitely something to behold.  And it wasn’t just restricted to our wonderful Mission neighborhood, as our (GWAR-demystifying) pal Trevor demonstrates:

Woah, his camera phone is waaaaaay better than mine!

Previously:

Sunset from the Sunset

Sunset from the Five

Sunset from Dragon Calvalry

Sunset Lagoon

What is happening here? What is this curious body and how was somebody able to tag it?

[Photo by SF Gov]

Holy smokes, that’s like something out of Alien Vs. Predator! And Bernalwood says they’re all up in Bernal every winter! Holy smokes!

I hope they don’t venture down the hill.

Like, are Christian Bale and Matthew McConaughey going to soar out of that blaze on the backs of a couple of flying dragons being chased by more flying dragons and they all rain fire down upon the city? Because that’s what it looks like is going to happen.

[Photo by myarea]

Previously:

Lagoon in the Sky

These Sunsets

Our pal Nico (who you may remember for creating the best Giants riot video so far) recently returned from a trip to South America, where he Fitzcarraldo’d his way down a river on his way to Angel Falls.  Luckily for the rest of us, he resisted embracing any godhead and managed to shoot some amazing hi-def video throughout the whole journey that really captures the immensity of the natural landscape there, complete with raging rivers, luscious rain forests, and cloud-nestled peaks.  Oh yeah, and there’s this waterfall too.  You may have heard of it.  It’s huuuuuuuuuuuuge.

Check it out here.

What do you get when you put a hipster in a lab?  A labster–identifiable only by a penchant for tight lab coats, thick-rimmed safety goggles, and a refusal to do experiments on anything other than tofu mice.

Ah, memories!  The only thing they left out is a propensity to “borrow” some ether from the stockroom and enact favorite scenes from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.