The Oscar Wilde Podcast After Hours Session
A few guys here in SF are making a great podcast of Oscar Wilde’s plays, poetry and prose, presented here is some of the after hours chit chat we have, Miguel, Mitchell and myself. Enjoy.
A few guys here in SF are making a great podcast of Oscar Wilde’s plays, poetry and prose, presented here is some of the after hours chit chat we have, Miguel, Mitchell and myself. Enjoy.
Wow, I’ve loved this method of making coffee for a couple of years and just found out on the playa, that it has a name, “Cowboy Coffee”, read more here
I love cowboy coffee. If not so much for the taste, as for the setting. I do a lot of backpacking. I used to use those coffee bags and then discovered cowboy coffee out of necessity when I couldn’t find the bags in the podunk town General Store near the trailhead. When you figure out how to make cowboy coffee it usually tastes better than the bags. Additionally, I feel OK dumping coffee grounds though always pack the bags out with me
Well, I got a great gift from FON, the wonderful spanish visionaries who are creating a great WiFi network for the globe, (if you’re not on board yet, head over to http://fon.com to learn more about it).
On Rosh Hashanah, just prior to going to Tashlich, a UPS package arrived, inside it, a Wifi Skype Fon phone, this one in fact:
It was a surprise to me until I searched gmail for emails containing “fonero”, and enigma solved, look at this, they actually awarded me a phone for completing one of their surveys! What are the odds? Regardless, I’ve now got a wifi skype phone that gives me 1 cent a minute calls to anywhere in the world and unlimited US landline and cell minutes from any Wifi point I come across! Good, no, GREAT!
Check out Fon for yourself, they’re awesome!
As we informed you in the Survey, we were offering 100 free WiFi phones to the very first Foneros who filled out our survey. Guess what? You were one of them. We want to thank you for the support and your help. Thank you and congratulations you for the prize!
Now we just need your shipping information (address, city, state, country, ZIP code and telephone number), and we will send you the SMC Skype FON phone to your home address. Please send us an email with all your details to cruz.jimenez@fon.com
Thanks,
FON Team
The web is so active nowadays, RSS, CSS, Jaiku, Facebook, Vox, Myspace, AIM, Y! Messenger, MSN Messenger, Skype, Pownce, Digg, Delicious, and more.
The originals are still the best though, Craigslist, AIM and Plain old email work great in my humble opinion.
If you’d like a few tips regards San Francisco, here goes:
You can reserve a Super Shuttle from either of the big airports to wherever you want to go from these guys: http://www.supershuttle.com/ , it’s a really good service and a pretty good way to do the 20/30 min journey.
There are a bunch of interesting and beautiful neighbourhoods in San Francisco, the most famous district is Fishermans Wharf where you can take ferries to Alcatraz or Sausalito (the little bayside village on the north side of the gg bridge).
Haight Ashbury is really close to where I live and is the legendary home of the 60’s hippie revolution, it’s full of vintage and funky stores and is quite fun.
Coit Tower, Yerba Buena Island, The Presidio, Golden Gate Bridge, North Beach and Twin Peaks are all nice spots to see and will be super memories, a great way to catch a lot of these in one day is to bike from Fishermans Wharf along the north shore, past the famous Fort Mason and Marina District through Crissy fields and by the Palace of Fine arts as far as Fort Point (a great viewpoint thats just below the Golden Gate Bridge), that would be a one or two hour ride, with plenty of nice places to get Ice Cream along the way, if your legs can take some more, it’s totally worth biking up the trail to the golden gate bridge entrance where you can bike across to the Marin Headlands, there’s a good vista point just beyond the end of the bridge, but for a REALLY awesome view, continue past the vista point and take the first right, go left under the freeway and continue up the hill, it’s absolutely worth it.
Also, remember to see the Cable Cars, Transamerica Building, Vesuvio, The Mission, The Castro, Pacific Heights, the Museum of Modern Art, The De Young, the Conservatory of flowers, phew! I’m out of breath, so better run on, I hope this mail is helpful and wish you good travels!
Spent Friday to Monday in the Black Rock Desert at Burning Man, Pretty spectacular experience.
Mother Night
