Frisco Vista

Frisco Vista is taking some time off. Back soon.

The city would not at first seem an AskMen kind of place. But they rank it the third best city in the world to live in (after Chicago — hey, they’re men’s men, the cold and wind don’t bother them — and Barcelona, and before London and Sydney). This is mainly, I guess, because it [...]

Can anyone recommend a good host? I have had too much down time on my sites lately — which wouldn’t be the end of the world except the host’s communication has also been extremely poor — and much as I hate relocating my sites I might be forced to move.
BTW, I hope to get caught [...]

This week we’ve seen images of Market Street, Gough Street, Lombard Street, and Fell Street, all located in the same U.S. city. Which city? The answer is revealed after the jump

Okay, over the past few posts we’ve seen Market Street, Lombard Street, Gough Street, and now Fell Street. What’s this city?
Here’s a bonus clue: The city we’ve been looking at features a Holocaust Memorial, located across from the U.S. Custom House on Gay Street.

Answer in next post.
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We’ve seen Market Street, Gough Street, and now Lombard Street. Where are we?
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Continuing the series started with the previous post. Where do we find this Gough Street?
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Okay, a lot of cities have Market Streets. Stay tuned for a better clue . . .
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This photo of a guard tower on Alcatraz comes from vgm8383’s photostream.
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This exquisite image taken near Point Reyes comes from Miwok.’s photostream.
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Travels in virtual NoCal

Asia blooms at Quarryhill Botanical Garden
An Alcatraz hotel?
All-Bay Team selected
San Francisco solar map
Dennis Richmond signs off
Photo Tour of a San Francisco Tugboat

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I was siderailed by a medical issue, but now I’m back and blogging.
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Yep, that’s what it is. Some guy was widening his driveway. I’m using the dirt to fill in my swimming pool, which will now be a garden. It will require about ten piles like this one.

A week of travel in virtual NoCal

Golden State rush
SF Noir 2008
Aerial photography in 1906 San Francisco
Pillow fight in San Franicsco on Valentine’s Day

Link love
Who’s been linking in

Eye on blogs: not about the election
Post-election drinkage

This blog was hacked into, briefly, yesterday morning; little harm was done.
It’s important to plug vulnerabilities, which can exist in themes or plugins, older versions of Wordpress, or improper configurations. My mistake may have been in being careless about updating my application and plugins.
Another possible vulnerability was the Democracy plugin. It enables you to host [...]

Notes from a week of travel in virtual NoCal.

Emeryville mayor, leaving meeting about pedestrian bridge, runs over and kills a pedestrian
Warriors: crazy, beautiful, dangerous
J-Pop store to open in Japantown
Dining with mom
Andy Ross resigns from Cody’s Bookstore
Exploring the ghost ship SS Independence (*don’t miss)

It’s a pity — at least from the standpoint of spectacle — that the Sutro Baths, a large swimming pool complex built in the nineteenth century, proved impossible to maintain. The baths were destroyed in 1966, when they burnt to the ground. The Cliff House project has a page with many historic photos [...]

Dateline Oakland
Murder Suspect Identified through Gang’s MySpace Page
(Is there any need to read the story?)

I had a chance to eat at Tamarindo Antojeria the other day. It’s located 468 8th Street in downtown Oakland. (The nicely restored brick-walled restaurant is in the city’s Old Town district.) Their website is www.tamarindoantojeria.com, and the phone is 510.444.1944.

Although it was a Wednesday the restaurant was very crowded. We arrived early because we [...]

At the home page, www.friscovista.com, I’ve posted a new site intro.
Also I’m trying using a linkroll as a navigation element (on that same page). We’ll see how it works.

Recently I stopped at the book sales section of the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library and, on a whim, I picked up a copy of a major guidebook to San Francisco. Full of howlers, it brought hours of amusement. But then I thought, “Is this the best we can do for our [...]