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Tag Archives: airport
An addendum to driving this past weekend
Taking a much needed break from work, I attempt to finish the earlier post. Now that tourists are back in town, I have a ‘last hope’ of finding a fare if the City is empty everywhere else: Fisherman’s Wharf, affectionately … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, arrangement, average, bad, business, cab, cabbie, colorado, contractor, deutschland, driving, exchange, experience, fish, fisherman's, fisherman's wharf, francais, french, german, germany, good, high, high school, morocco, phone, program, san francisco, school, sf, sfo, taxi, taxicab, tourist, visitor, wharf
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Driving highlights
There’s a new traffic light at California and (upper) Stockton. It’s a real buzz-kill when you’re flying up or down California Street, but it’s a wonder there was never one before. This intersection splits 2 segments of California which both … Continue reading
Free Wi-Fi makes people happy.
Two fun pieces on free Wi-Fi. First, a nicely written commentary on Wired suggests that you should unlock your wireless router! It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Second, a well funded startup called Meraki claims it will create a … Continue reading
Posted in internets, tech
Tagged 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b, access, access point, airport, fi, find, free, interference robustness, internet, internets, megahertz, mesh, point, points, radio, san francisco, sf, signals, tech, technology, where, where to find wireless, wi, wi-fi, wireless
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Rainy Monday night and Tuesday morning
During the shift It rained. It rained a lot. It rained from the start of my shift (12:30 am) until the end (11:30 am). I took a gay Filipino guy from the Castro out to the Sunset. He was a … Continue reading
A busy Thursday in the City
I showed up as an ‘extra’ to work on Thursday. I wasn’t regularly scheduled to work, so that makes me an ‘extra’. I show up to the garage around 6am and wait for a car to become available. As a … Continue reading
Sunday by day, Sunday by night
This past weekend I worked Sunday 5am-3pm, slept from 4pm-11pm, and then worked Monday from 12am-11am. A group of about 6 hipsters flagged my van down in the Mission around 1am: It was a friend’s 21st birthday and they got … Continue reading
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Tagged airport, cab, midnight, night, night shift, san francisco, sf, sfo, shift, taxi, taxicab
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