tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71639842024-03-07T14:20:50.508-05:00heyhey's wordI am a music enthusiast who teaches ESL to graduate students at an art school in San Francisco.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.comBlogger266125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-23200895197250129172015-04-05T00:18:00.000-04:002015-04-05T00:18:10.209-04:00Resurrection Fairy Tale<div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;">
Once upon a time, I posted to this blog on a regular basis. It was mostly a journal about my life in Japan and all the extraordinary people I met there. Then, after moving back to the US to attend graduate school at the <a href="http://www.sit.edu/" target="_blank">School for International Training</a> (SIT) in Brattleboro, VT, this blog started to lose some momentum, but posts continued to slowly trickle out. When I moved to San Francisco in 2008, the posts… just kinda… stopped.</div>
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Now, after many years of silence, I’m ready to resurrect this sucker with a new goal and focus. I want to use this online space to connect with other educators, music lovers, art aficionados, pranksters, and anyone else who takes the time to read whatever dribble I put here. </div>
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I credit my interest in this resurgence to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Richardson" target="_blank">Will Richardson</a>, an author and advocate for personal learning networks. A few years ago, I read his TED Book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Why-School-Education-Information-Everywhere-ebook/dp/B00998J5YQ" target="_blank">Why School?</a>, which caused me to take a step back and examine the methodologies I was using with my students. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in 21st century education. More recently, I read his book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Personal-Learning-Networks-Connections-Transform-ebook/dp/B005LW3GR6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428207061&sr=1-1&keywords=personal+learning+networks" target="_blank">Personal Learning Networks</a>, which has really lit a fire in me to be more active online to make useful connections around my passions.</div>
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Hence, I plan to post some of my lesson plans and materials, in hopes of connecting and collaborating with other educators. There’s no sense in teaching in an isolated classroom while the bulk of human knowledge is accessible online. I also want to share some of my favorite musical discoveries. I’ve been an avid listener my entire life, and I’m sure someone out there has similar tuneful tastes. My day job affords me the opportunity to join university art classes in a variety of subjects, so I’d like to share some of the epiphanies I experience. I’m sure there are folks out there that know much more than me and can further my understanding. Finally, the internet is a crazy place, so I need a place to rant about my crazy Bay Area Burning Man friends and post pictures of my cat, right?</div>
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There’s really no telling where this blog will go. My fingers are crossed that I can build some sort of educational S.T.E.A.M. with it. If I can begin providing some valuable content, while making more connections, and having thoughtful conversations, with just a little bit of goofy fun, I’m sure things will be happily ever after. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-64309974343763235702010-01-04T19:35:00.001-05:002010-01-08T12:34:10.934-05:002010 Resolutions<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The following are my New Years Resolutions for 2010:<br />
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</div><ul><li>Read more. Turn off the computer at night and read a book or magazine before going to sleep.</li>
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</div><ul><li>Cook. I wanna to say, "cook more," but the honest truth is that I don't cook at all, and I need to learn or at least try. I wanna spend time in the kitchen preparing my own meals with more veggies and less meat.</li>
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</div><ul><li>Use social networks & media. As with the previously stated resolution, I've been building an unbelievable global network of friends for the past decade, and I want to do a better job maintaining those friendships and connections.</li>
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Single.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">While I waited languidly in LAX for six hours, I started calling around to friends. Turns out one good friend was planning on going to Boston the end of May for a Phish show at Fenway Park. Call it fate, but he had an extra ticket. Double off the Monster.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Talked to my boss; got the time off work. Contacted a couple friends in Beantown; got a place to stay and the green light to get my things out of storage. Triple down the line.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Booked my free flight. Grand-f*ckin-slam over Williamsburg into the Ted seat.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Sweet Caroline here I come.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">So good! So good! So good!</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-88102246095898035902009-04-21T18:02:00.001-04:002009-04-21T18:03:09.139-04:00French Quarter Festival / Stu's Wedding<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><tt><span style="color: black; font-family: MarkerFelt-Thin; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal;"><iframe align="center" frameborder="0" height="350" scrolling="no" src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=41245819@N00&tags=NOLA" width="350"></iframe></span></tt></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0New Orleans, LA, USA29.953238 -90.06900329.6557705 -90.535922 30.2507055 -89.602083999999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-57640753709551094462009-04-15T17:12:00.001-04:002009-04-21T18:04:40.336-04:00Music from Big Pink<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1sZF2wXPhOVmfolz1U8sr-TMbv79Sljue2AXvKqk5yAPC80Us-MCYcxhI0kCsc4LB4Pxq0Kmfl93ggB_QMTANFMVI9EQ9SbDsjs99dOhbbY9fE1EC77zHqwhCa2lATK_k0uBO/s1600-h/IMG_0370.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1sZF2wXPhOVmfolz1U8sr-TMbv79Sljue2AXvKqk5yAPC80Us-MCYcxhI0kCsc4LB4Pxq0Kmfl93ggB_QMTANFMVI9EQ9SbDsjs99dOhbbY9fE1EC77zHqwhCa2lATK_k0uBO/s320/IMG_0370.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Like a phoenix rising from the pink styrofoam peanut shells & bubble wrap, my external hard-drive was resurrected. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Nearly nine months without, it's finally been reconnected. Hallelujah, I have access to all my music again! </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Let the good times roll.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-34559032014459339682009-04-13T18:32:00.000-04:002009-04-13T18:32:59.986-04:00Easter<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuB7gqlpfevaTOIdEgrjPmwxy1dKSI2_8Nnd22Ljc86wLlH6RaQFNHUE5vsYWR0zoH35MWDETYAC_YPOF4_pW1NjsvzuK0isNo8_8_qVt109mMN19ESurVWyC1Fv80gvLtSfr/s1600-h/IMG_0369.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcuB7gqlpfevaTOIdEgrjPmwxy1dKSI2_8Nnd22Ljc86wLlH6RaQFNHUE5vsYWR0zoH35MWDETYAC_YPOF4_pW1NjsvzuK0isNo8_8_qVt109mMN19ESurVWyC1Fv80gvLtSfr/s320/IMG_0369.jpg" /></a></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">I won the egg hunt.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-55813439926640093192009-04-09T17:47:00.001-04:002009-04-09T17:48:14.194-04:00The Long Now<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicEncRbh03Twr8qAiRmpUG3iOq1ucunmP8jDU_0RXPjAd59-asGUweltmm8-vQpAzUyasqOb_H5OwkZHMeI_6UwMFcJiQrgzoBEuUq2_Pc6j-YpWZesvS_5N7MknnAPC6ahUDI/s1600-h/IMG_0361.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicEncRbh03Twr8qAiRmpUG3iOq1ucunmP8jDU_0RXPjAd59-asGUweltmm8-vQpAzUyasqOb_H5OwkZHMeI_6UwMFcJiQrgzoBEuUq2_Pc6j-YpWZesvS_5N7MknnAPC6ahUDI/s320/IMG_0361.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>SALT: Seminars About Long Term Thinking</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYSdriiA6eFq6NofMbygRyh31ufIDsU2NGQscmhjFuYiAck7FQ9JdtSNQbmKH9yz7XdJgERsnoLPxYhraQT-HCYD39blrIernhGG0vBV_Gctyhu7QNc58CChNolc0-wwxJKXK/s1600-h/IMG_0364.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcYSdriiA6eFq6NofMbygRyh31ufIDsU2NGQscmhjFuYiAck7FQ9JdtSNQbmKH9yz7XdJgERsnoLPxYhraQT-HCYD39blrIernhGG0vBV_Gctyhu7QNc58CChNolc0-wwxJKXK/s320/IMG_0364.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;">From the <a href="http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/09/mayor-gavin-newsom-cities-and-time/">Long Now Blog</a>:</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;font-family:'Lucida Grande';font-size:12px;color:#1a1d1e;"></span></b></div><b><blockquote>Sustainable cities</blockquote><blockquote>Mayor Newsom began with how moved he was by hosting the UN’s World Environment Day in San Francisco in 2005. For that event, which was called “Green Cities - Plan for the Planet!”, he invited 120 mayors from around the world. Days of intense discussion led to the publication of 21 policy principles for building permanently sustainable cities, in the areas of energy, waste, design, nature, transportation, health, and water. Cities, Newsom said, consume 75% of natural resources and are responsible for 75% of pollution.</blockquote><blockquote>He became determined to help make San Francisco the Greenest city in the world.</blockquote><blockquote>That can be accomplished only with a plethora of highly specific programs. The city’s renewable energy portfolio, for example, includes highly demanding Green building standards (LEED); conversion to biodiesel and the recycling of “fats, oils, and grease;” generous rebates for solar; and plans for collecting energy from tidal-flow turbines below the Golden Gate and wave generators off of Ocean Beach.</blockquote><blockquote>He wants San Francisco to be the world leader in electric vehicles, starting with plug-in hybrids and moving to fully electric. They have half the moving parts of gas vehicles and much higher efficiency. The batteries can charge in off-peak hours, and gas stations can convert to “switch stations,” where you simply swap in charged batteries in less time than it takes to fill up with gas. The way cellphone time is sold in minutes, vehicle charging can be sold in miles.</blockquote><blockquote>He would like to see parking meters used for charging, and San Francisco is developing congestion-price parking meters that cost more during peak congestion hours, and that sense and can broadcast when they’re empty.</blockquote><blockquote>To encourage urban density, which is inherently Green, the city is building more highrises, and California’s coming high-speed rail system will leave from the heart of downtown.</blockquote><blockquote>Newsom noted with glee that there is now intense competition between cities to out-Green each other. Portland, San Francisco, Manhattan, Amsterdam, Vancouver, Singapore and countless others vie in the quest for Green bragging rights. They borrow ideas and deploy comparative shame: “How can sunless Berlin have more solar power than any American city?”</blockquote><blockquote>–Stewart Brand</blockquote></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-58999071367076228722009-04-07T11:56:00.001-04:002009-04-26T14:17:38.032-04:00F<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fireside Bar</span></div><br />
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<div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Too tired to think</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">Debbie Gibson neon fire</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;">North Carolina</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0603 Irving St, San Francisco, CA 94122, USA37.7641286 -122.464509737.7598876 -122.47180519999999 37.7683696 -122.4572142tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-25835426224343759792009-04-05T04:27:00.001-04:002009-04-26T14:18:03.124-04:00E<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">83 Proof</span></b></div><br />
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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdqQ24Ov3p72u9YOV0W-Ku2D2hX5DCOfIy1wPvdEMIb8Xc8AayperMvhec1EmSrzJz2QEMGVweJGoRFgZFbH_8iFsc14zxbDtA5ua0h-9JhmEMZRNRObJ2gWUFz86tC1d9EEA/s1600-h/photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsdqQ24Ov3p72u9YOV0W-Ku2D2hX5DCOfIy1wPvdEMIb8Xc8AayperMvhec1EmSrzJz2QEMGVweJGoRFgZFbH_8iFsc14zxbDtA5ua0h-9JhmEMZRNRObJ2gWUFz86tC1d9EEA/s320/photo.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Cresta's</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Just down the hill from Bachhus. Average run of the mill dive bar. PBR on tap and free peanuts.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Yelp review:</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/crestas-twenty-two-eleven-club-san-francisco">http://www.yelp.com/biz/crestas-twenty-two-eleven-club-san-francisco</a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="color: #555555; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Neighborhood: Russian Hill</div><div style="color: #555555; font: 12.0px Arial; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">2211 Polk St</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com02211 Polk St, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA37.7971389 -122.422045137.7928999 -122.4293406 37.8013779 -122.41474960000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-41973026031188000812009-03-22T23:40:00.003-04:002009-04-26T14:18:03.126-04:00B<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjaOdLvgXWJXlHPBbcZTQ5C73yJvJwBbu5BRUONrDidVWGSq7Em146xUIvYr15TpWKhhigC8G60fFzxMcpA9ay6buodrZOK5pp1jjL_5BTb8IEpCK4iql7RJMnHyZl1-kkI63c/s1600-h/IMG_0326+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjaOdLvgXWJXlHPBbcZTQ5C73yJvJwBbu5BRUONrDidVWGSq7Em146xUIvYr15TpWKhhigC8G60fFzxMcpA9ay6buodrZOK5pp1jjL_5BTb8IEpCK4iql7RJMnHyZl1-kkI63c/s320/IMG_0326+1.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Bacchus</span></b></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">A bourgeois wine bar in Russian HIll named after the Roman god of debauchery. Lots of lilies in the window; cable car passes out front. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Nice wine selection, although a little pricey. Good place to go for a pre-dinner date.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><br />
Yelp review:</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/bacchus-wine-bar-san-francisco">http://www.yelp.com/biz/bacchus-wine-bar-san-francisco</a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: arial;">Neighborhood: Russian Hill<br />
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<i>Other B bars considered:</i></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Bloodhound</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/bloodhound-san-francisco-2">http://www.yelp.com/biz/bloodhound-san-francisco-2</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com01954 Hyde St, San Francisco, CA 94109, USA37.799045 -122.41877737.794806 -122.4260725 37.803284 -122.41148150000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-88326451842147711792009-03-21T17:10:00.002-04:002009-04-26T14:18:03.126-04:00A<a href="http://www.ameliesf.com/" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315747995464030402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruUOWriSwPeDLnOa11lmLKNRtZ8SDnmDT-7AkdvhLJv5-oX06SM5XHym6T91AP9keLkpUINWCXmKubErdpUpRKPW2D3K4Kzjz6uxx_IrwNxPYDCjZG4ab9WSe0OFsfqlNaM2_/s320/photo.jpg" style="cursor: move; display: block; height: 320px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center; width: 240px;" /></a><br />
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</span></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Let's check "A" off the list shall we. </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">According to Ethan: </div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;">"It was a good place. Went for happy hour and got three wines for ten bucks. The bartenders have heavy hands, and the wine was good. Well worth it. Def' go back."</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Website:</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"> <a href="http://draft.blogger.com/%20//www.ameliesf.com">http: //www.ameliesf.com</a></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="color: #555555; font-family: arial;">Neighborhood: Nob Hill<br />
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<div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">My friend, Ethan, recently hatched an interesting idea. Here it is in a nutshell: From now until whenever, he will start at the beginning of the alphabet and go to a bar whose name begins with that letter. Each time he goes out, he will move to the next corresponding letter.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This came about because he feels like he frequents the same places every time he heads out in San Francisco and needs to discover some new haunts.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">The only rules are: he must go to places he's never been before, and he has to progress in alphabetical order. How far he'll actually get is anyone's guess.</div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px;"></div><div style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Now, you may ask why I'm writing about here. No good reason. I just love harebrained ideas and hope to document his discoveries because God knows I need something to get this blog rolling again.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0San Francisco, CA, USA37.775196 -122.41920437.7073535 -122.5359335 37.8430385 -122.30247449999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7163984.post-1587042204928026122009-03-15T23:52:00.000-04:002009-03-15T23:52:01.625-04:00St. Patty's Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiclgV80pn_GIebDf_3oSvrlhP-zhzPIBjYXW_Yo3l_81bfzwMEndrU-uCFz3V0m3ZGpHO8sjtDLcoIcHHuyWcH7Znd1cl-xjC7jsZGIgBwsKeJk7CwauhS1m-nbb8Q2f5kqy5z/s1600-h/IMG_0314.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiclgV80pn_GIebDf_3oSvrlhP-zhzPIBjYXW_Yo3l_81bfzwMEndrU-uCFz3V0m3ZGpHO8sjtDLcoIcHHuyWcH7Znd1cl-xjC7jsZGIgBwsKeJk7CwauhS1m-nbb8Q2f5kqy5z/s320/IMG_0314.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02328919181602937533noreply@blogger.com0