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Driving Bay to Breakers

Posted on May 21, 2008 by kfarr

This weekend the City hosted its annual Bay to Breakers run. Bay to Breakers (B2B) is a 7 mile run through the heart of San Francisco. B2B starts from the east (bay) side of the City at the Embarcadero and … Continue reading →

Posted in taxi, work | Tagged bay, bay to breakers, beer, breakers, bridge, cab, cabbie, city, crowds, demand, driving, event, gate, golden, golden gate, management, naked, ocean, park, party, peak, pricing, race, run, runners, running, san francisco, sf, taxi, transit, transportation | 2 Comments

Driving in the City is beautiful.

Posted on May 14, 2008 by kfarr

I eeked by on Sunday with my lowest Sunday earnings in a long, long time — only $87. This was offset by better than usual earnings Monday and Tuesday, both over $170 (over average). I notice that fares run together … Continue reading →

Posted in taxi, work | Tagged cab, cala, caltrain, city, drive, driver, driving, earnings, fare, food, graveyard, grocery, kaiser, nader, npr, oakland, politics, ralph, relaxing, san francisco, sf, sfo, shift, store, taxi, taxicab, the city, wage, waiting | Leave a comment

Last.fm + iPod = Profit?

Posted on May 14, 2008 by kfarr

Last.fm is a top-rate music streaming service that suggests music based on your previous last.fm plays, songs you play in iTunes (“scrobbling”), and songs your friends like. But, it’s frustratingly tied to your computer. You have to listen to via … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, media, tech | Tagged app, apple, applet, based, browser, cast, classic, download, feed, flash, ipod, itunes, last.fm, mac, mp3, music, online, pc, pod, podcast, rss, scrobble, scrobbler, scrobbling, stream, streaming, tied | 2 Comments

It’s official: the undergraduate degree is the new high school diploma.

Posted on May 14, 2008 by kfarr

It hit me when I saw this craigslist post for a Yelp data entry job. Responsibilities: •Reviewing and researching business data •Accurately/flawlessly updating business information Requirements: •BA/BS degree •Attention to detail with the ability to complete a large volume of … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, work | Tagged career, college, craig, craigslist, degree, diploma, education, employment, graduate, graduation, high, high school, hunt, job, list, monster, school, search, undergraduate, university, value | 2 Comments

Mayor Newsom’s crazy ‘take back the streets’ idea is well founded but slightly misguided.

Posted on May 14, 2008 by kfarr

The Chronicle reported on Mayor Newsom’s idea to turn a good portion of the Embarcadero into a pedestrian-only safe zone during certain times of the weekend. This is similar to the City’s current closing of JFK Drive in Golden Gate … Continue reading →

Posted in happiness, politics, transit | Tagged bicycle, bike, blocks, car, cars, cement, city, dense, density, gavin, grass, gray, green, greenblocks, greenspace, grey, infrastructure, livable, manufacture, newsom, open, owned, park, pedestrian, personal, personal vehicle, planner, planning, property, public, public space, quality, right of way, road, roadway, roadways, shared, space, street, streets, transit, transportation, urban, vehicle, view | 1 Comment

Thank a DPT traffic control officer today.

Posted on May 9, 2008 by kfarr

DPT officers get a bad rap. Everyone seems to despise them, yet they are a crucial element necessary to help all of us to effectively share our City streets. Here are a few of the ways they make our lives … Continue reading →

Posted in econ, politics, transit | Tagged authority, california, charge, cleaning, curbed, department, double, double-park, dpt, fee, fine, generate, income, mta, municipal, municipality, officer, park, parking, parking ticket, revenue, san francisco, sf, sfmta, street, street cleaning, ticket, traffic, transit, transportation, wheels | Leave a comment

Driving

Posted on May 9, 2008 by kfarr

Sunday was a busy day in the City, Monday was busy enough as usual, but Tuesday early morning was dead. It was very difficult to get orders and I was afraid I would go home with less than $100 take-home … Continue reading →

Posted in happiness, taxi, tech, work | Tagged 2-way, 2-way radio, bathroom, break, broadcast, cab, cabbie, central, channel, channels, dispatch, dispatching, driving, duplex, emotions, experience, feelings, full-duplex, graveyard, half-duplex, handheld, happiness, kma, living, living wage, mcdonald's, mic, motorola, night, order, pee, psychology, psychotherapy, radio, san francisco, sf, shift, starbucks, stories, story, tales, taxi, tips, transmission, uhf, urine, vhf, wage | 1 Comment

TV, online video ad buys approach convergence already enjoyed by end-users.

Posted on May 9, 2008 by kfarr

In the world of online buying of offline video ads, Google announced they’ve publicly released their experimental TV ad buying service. TV buying is now integrated with an advertiser’s existing AdWords buying interface, making buying as simple as they did … Continue reading →

Posted in internets, marketing, media | Tagged ad, ads, advertise, advertisement, adwords, buy, buying, cable, commercial, content, converge, convergence, cpm, end-user, flash, google, iab, media, monetization, offline, online, overlay, runner, smart, smartbrief, spot, spotrunner, standard, stream, technology, traditional, tv, vid, video, words | Leave a comment

Driving highlights

Posted on May 2, 2008 by kfarr

I had a beautiful set of days to drive a cab in the City. Sunny and 60s is the perfect weather. Above 60s and the greenhouse effect of the car windows makes it a bit too warm. I picked up … Continue reading →

Posted in happiness, politics, taxi, work | Tagged buddha, buddhism, bureaucracy, bureaucratic, bureaucratic unit, cab, cabbie, city, creative, driving, entity, for-profit, forum, governing, government, graveyard, kqed, management, morning, municipal, non-profit, officer, operated, organization, organizational, owned, police, profit, rush, san francisco, sf, sfpd, shift, strategy, structure, taxi, taxicab, tree, unit, zen | Leave a comment

You’re richer than you think.

Posted on April 30, 2008 by kfarr

While sitting in the queue to pay the toll for the Bay Bridge Monday, I heard two great counterintuitive pieces on KQED. The first was a thoughtful comparison between our quality of life now compared to the distant past. It … Continue reading →

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