La Lengua in the News
So it seems La Lengua’s sudden appearance on Google Maps has been noted by old school print and TV media. I had a nice talk with Dan Schreiber over at the Examiner and I was apparently coherent enough for the interview to be fit to print. (The mask was his idea.)
And just this afternoon I spoke with Mike Sugerman at CBS 5. At 6PM you may very well see the back of my head and my legs as I talk (rapidly) about La Lengua at the corner of Mission & Valencia. Coherency and linearity is not guaranteed for this one, am hoping CBS 5 will be kind.
UPDATE: Screenshots from CBS 5 and Mr. Superman’s very kind treatment:
(No, that is not me in the hat.)
UPDATED UPDATE:
Behold, the CBS 5 video itself.
Behold! The Panorama of Panoramas
Behold, a tiny panorama!
Wait, while tiny, it is extremely wide. What is it?
Could it be… the view of San Francisco from the Farallons? Click, if you dare, for a TWENTY-SIX THOUSAND PIXEL WIDE panorama.
Zoom and clarify! Golden Gate Bridge to Mt. Davidson.
Zoom and clarify! Downtown:
Pan left! Golden Gate Bridge:
Twinpeakify!
Sutrofication!
Once again, thanks to our agent on the Farallons, Sara Lee Chandler, Scientist Emeritus of the world-renowned BJIFPS (Burrito Justice Institute of Farallonic and Panoramic Sciences) who sent in follow-on photos to our original Farallonoramic effort.
I have not had time to go through and label this one, so I have decided to crowdsource — I have added a numbered index to this panorama, going from 1 (left) to 400 (right). Use this as a point of reference for discussions.
(A crop of downtown to Sutro is below so you know what in the hell I’m talking about. Use fractions if it suits you.)
UPDATE:
@bradvertising figured out how to map one degree SF-Farallon wedge:
We’ve labeled these map wedges onto the original pano. N1, N2 are north of the Farallon “equator”, and S1, S2 are south. (Feel free to reference “Sector N12, 204” if such granularity suits you.)
We go all the way from N39 to S19! 58 degrees or Farallonization! Bolinas Bay to Pedro Point!
Bernal Sun Storm
While Bernalwood sees rainbows over La Lengua, we see Bernal after the squall.
Also, a vertical panorama (5 or 6 zoomed iPhone shots stitched together).
(I was completely blinded by the sun and couldn’t see a thing on my screen — it worked out pretty well, even considering the Picasso houses.)
Some better shots of a Bernal sun squall last year (taken with a real camera).
Cold Ice
Finally! I grow so weary of mixing my drinks with Ice-Nine.
El Fénix de La Lengua
Via Facebook via Mission Mission:
(Awesome poster design via Cat Perez)
Hey Ya’ll
Many of you saw or heard about the devastating fire that happened on Mission and Valencia last night. The house that took the brunt of the damage was actually a house full of amazing friends who many of you may know and love. It looks as though the fire destroyed most or all of their possessions and made the house uninhabitable for the foreseeable future.
Currently the residents are without homes, clothes, and other basic necessities and could really use assistance getting back on their feet. The four people who lost their home are all amazing people who have been active vibrant parts of our queer community in San Francisco and have always shown their strongest support for the needs of others. Now its our turn to show our support and bring together the generosity and might of our community to support them in this time of need.
El Rio has generously allowed us to take over their front room on Friday night for an emergency benefit to raise funds for these four amazing folks to purchase the basics they need to stay afloat. Please please please spread the word about this event on facebook and elsewhere and come out, dig deep and share your $$ with folks who really need it right now. At the door there will be someone collecting cash to be distributed directly to the victims of the fire, so just make sure that person gets your donation, come in, have some drinks hangout on the patio and dance a bit if you like.
Also, El Rio will also be donating 100% of their bar proceeds from 8-9pm directly to the four folks affected so come early, donate and drink.
Brown Amy & I are going to be DJ’ing & anyone else who would like to be involved by DJ’ing, speaking, whatever please contact me and let me know. ttemprano@gmail.com
*** If you are unable to attend you can make your donations via Paypal to mission3212@gmail.com ***
Friday, April 8th
8pm-2am
El Rio
3158 Mission Street
Donations suggested – as generous as you can be
Aftermath
The day after. This is my favorite block of La Lengua. Just don’t go build something stupid here, OK?
(click image to zoom)
UPDATE: Fundraiser for the displaced La Lenguans who lost their homes in the fire this Friday night at El Rio (8pm-2am, donations at the door, Hard French DJs will be spinning)
La Lengua, El Fuego
Well, that was a little too close for my liking. I was sitting on my couch, just about to ask Twitter what was up with all the sirens when HOLY CRAP:
I was stunned at how quickly it spread. The wind was gusting pretty seriously. (iPhone through binoculars, so a little shaky)
Quick and dirty animated GIF:
And here’s a shot from a real camera showing the SFFD using chainsaws to cut holes in the roof.
Can’t quite imagine standing on the roof of a burning building. One firefighter was injured falling off a ladder — hope they are OK.
Bats took this shot (thanks, Bernalwood).
It looks like it started in the building with the dentist office down below and spread to the Lotus Garden building.
Blue Plate, El Zocalo and The Royal Cuckoo seem to be OK.
Much more over at Mission Mission and Bernalwood.
Attention La Lenguans! The city of San Francisco has a phoenix on its shield! We shall rebuild the Liminal Zone!
Now THIS Is What I Call A Tattoo
A guy working in the salsa/tortilla row of the Potrero Whole Foods stopped me to say he liked my daughter’s Sutro t-shirt — and he had this epic Sutro tattoo:
The fog is awesome — totally makes it work. I love how you don’t see the back westernmost leg below that breaking band of fog.
La Lengua Wins The Internet!
Why, what do we have here?
¡Viva La Lengua! ¡Viva La Lengua Asignada!
Fret not if you can’t immediately see it — the LaLeReMaCo (La Lengua Revolutionary Mapping Council) is rolling out the map tiles across servers worldwide as we speak.
Now’s a good time to freshen up on the Revolutionary Anthem of La Lengua.
Go Japan Go
Japan vs the tsunami, in the style of ukiyo-e. Evocative. My money’s on Japan.
(By Boulet, a French site that I seriously need to dig into.)
You probably know ukiyo-e from Hokusai and his print The Great Wave off of Kanagawa (which was not a tsunami, incidentally).
Japan’s other battle, with radiation, is as much about fear as danger. Part of the problem is that minute quantities are detectable and no one really understands radiation (and understandably fear it).
This Japanese video for children explains radiation better than many news sources. Nuclear Boy has a stomach ache and is farting – the worst case is if he poops & it leaks from his diaper.
On the subject of Japanese children’s poop media, “Everybody Poops” is a great book. As is “The Gas We Pass (Everybody Farts)”
And as for scale – our planet is radioactive. Bananas are radioactive. We are radioactive. But scale matters, and this radiation chart by XKCD puts things into perspective.
(Worth reading the small text — the bananaphone reference is classic.)
I didn’t realize that Sieverts were SI units and Rems were US units (i.e. litres vs gallons). I think a lot of the confusion comes from people not understanding the difference between microSieverts (harmless) and milliSieverts (something to start thinking about over a course of a year).
I squarely blame computers for this — it is way too hard to type µ on a PC (vs option-m on a Mac), which means too many non-Mac people abbreviate microSieverts and milliSieverts both as mSv, allowing all hell to break loose as 1oe-3 and 10e-6 is a big difference. For the PC reading audience, buy a Mac for the good of science and humanity. Here are some extras for you to use while you save up.
µ µ µ µ µ µ µ µ µ
(1 rem = 0.01 Sv = 10 mSv = two chest x-rays, for those wondering.)
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