At the height of the dot-com boom, I worked for a (very) hip web consultancy at the corner of 8th and Folsom. Every once in a while, a project manager might notice all of the hard work that we developers were doing and take us out to lunch–and Basil was a very popular choice with both the benefactors and the beneficiaries. Managers liked it because (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘san francisco’
Feb
06
2009
Foreign Cinema
Just got back from Foreign Cinema, where, on a Friday night, we were able to walk in and get a table. That’s not a slight to the restaurant at all… more a comment on the ongoing economic crisis. Who says it’s all bad?
Anyway, the food is still pretty fantastic. I started with (more…)
Oct
30
2008
Dear San Francisco
Hey! I just wanted to let you know that I found the present that you got for me. And also to say “Thank you”. How thoughtful! But how did you know that I would be walking up Polk Street today? I thought it was a little strange that you would leave a present like this perched atop a decapitated parking meter, in full view of all passersby. Weren’t you a little worried that someone might steal it before I found it? Not that I’m one to look a gift horse in the mouth. Or a gift bud, as the case may be.
I have to say that this is a major improvement on your past gifts. I mean those parking tickets that you left under my windshield–those were a real pain to deal with. And pretty darn expensive, too! And the occasional nasty note because you didn’t like the way I parked? Well, those were pretty mean. Really, those could barely be considered presents at all! So maybe this is your way of making up for all of that. I appreciate the gesture.
But uhhhh… next time you want to give me a gift, how about something a little more… pedestrian? And by “pedestrian”, I do not mean leaving it on the sidewalk.