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26. 04. 08

San Francisco walks, 7.

Today is the last day here in San Fran­cisco for a few months. Just enough time left to go down to my favourite news­pa­per shop and get tuesday’s edi­tion of the Frank­furter All­ge­meine Zeitung. The cof­fee house oppo­site offers free inter­net, mon­day through fri­day. As I went in to get a cof­fee, I counted 12 peo­ple in there, each one in front of a com­puter. I couldn’t really take a proper photo with­out it being embar­rass­ing for myself or the guests, so I just shot one from the hip with­out look­ing at the cam­era or the sub­jects. It shows five peo­ple and five com­put­ers on one side of the room.

Star­bucks across the street also has online access, but only if you have a T-online account. The city of San Fran­cisco plans to have free online access across the city very soon, so peo­ple can once again pick a café for the qual­ity of the food and drink offered.

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6 Responses to “San Francisco walks, 7.”:


 

1

Erik, check out this funny post about San Fran­cisco on Stuff White Peo­ple Like.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/91-san-francisco/

 

2

This has to be the first shot I’ve seen of peo­ple using com­put­ers in San Fran­cisco in the last few years where they’re not all Macs!

I think the lady three in noticed you. It makes me feel a bit odd when I take pub­lic pho­tographs inno­cently, then later on I notice peo­ple star­ing straight at the cam­era :)

 

3

a manure fan way in san fran? world dom­i­na­tion awaits!

 

4

Couldn’t help notic­ing, as a long stand­ing admirer from the days before blogs, that your page design uses nei­ther indents nor ver­ti­cal space between para­graphs. I find this on more and more pages (even the best sites), and I know it to be char­ac­ter­is­tic of the way con­tent man­age­ment sys­tems are set up (hardly unavoid­able given a lit­tle effort, but there it is) and is out­side the user’s con­trol unless he is finicky.

How­ever, I find in the last few years the same defect – am I old fash­ioned to call it thus? – with printed pages, where the effort involved is zero, and is cer­tainly in the user’s con­trol. Doubt­less we are influ­enced by what we read; and admit­tedly the odds are against the last line of a para­graph fin­ish­ing in such a way that the para­graph break is lost to the eye and the sense is lost – but I believe that God and Spiek­er­mann don’t play dice!

 

5

And yet if it was 12 peo­ple with news­pa­pers and books you per­haps wouldn’t have noticed, remarked?

Where is it by the way, I love hang­ing out in San Francisco’s cafés and I’m due there soon.

 

6

this is on Polk Street, between Vallejo and Green – oppo­site Smoke Sig­nals, the shop with the biggest choice of mag­a­zines in town.

 






 

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