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Walking Distance from Wired: Kevin Kelly Surveys the Tech Scene
Wired magazine has been around now for 20 years. Kevin Kelly decided to commemorate the magazine's immersion in tech culture, and in particular the thriving entrepreneurial scene located in Wired's own neighborhood of SoMa in San Francisco, with a photo essay documenting and celebrating some of the startups that are active in that neighborhood now (like Scribd, Reddit, and BitTorrent) noting that some of the companies are led by people who were just three when the magazine was founded.
Look back at this story 20 years from now and realize what a fucking waste of time and money it is.
Alex, I'll take "Stuff White People Like" for $400.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Sounded like a cool idea, so I decided to make my own version of the story. But, the thing is, I Live in Houston, TX. My office is just outside the inner loop. I have to walk 2 miles to get to the closest grocery story. I once biked across the entire city, It took the better part of two days -- I had to get a motel room and sleep, and tried not to traverse the known "bad" parts of town alone in the dark...
So it turns out here's my list of businesses within walking distance, i.e., the distance I would walk a Labrador before feeling bad about animal abuse:
Starbucks
Wells Fargo
Taco Bell
United Way
Starbucks
Shell (fuel station)
Citibank
Burger King
Kroger (grocery store)
Pizza Hut
Texaco
Starbucks.
Super Cuts
Coin-op Carwash
Mobile (fuel station)
Sonic (fast food)
McDonalds
Frost (bank)
A Fire Station
Starbucks
Half Price Books
Starbucks -- Which you can see from the other one.
Well I ended up getting all my breathable vitamins for the day. Notably absent: A police station, or doctor's office...
For my next trick I'll be listing the individual ingredients of prepackaged food wrappers as steep in a burned coffee bean bath and gorge myself.
When can we expect the calendar!!
Plenty of brick walls and masonry that's not reinforced down there in SoMa.
So take all the pictures while you can, it may not last. Best of luck kids.
It's a globally spread local neighbourhoor glossy with a self-conciously "we're soooo living in the future"-sauce that gets tiring after but one half an issue.
After 20 years, the flavour of a shadowrun 1 campaign is less stale, more foresighted, and more realistic. Well done that bunch.
"Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time." - Steven Wright
"No matter where you go, there you are." - Buckaroo Banzai
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
tired.
Parent needs +5 Funny and Insightful
Maybe some mods feel the need to splurge?
Hello Paul.
p.s. What do you make of this?
$10,000 CHALLENGE to Alexander Peter Kowalski
* POOR SHOWING TROLLS , & most especially IF that's the "best you've got" - apparently, it is... lol!
Hello, and THINK ABOUT YOUR BREATHING !! We have a Major Problem, HOST file is Cubic Opposites, 2 Major Corners & 2 Minor. NOT taught Evil DNS hijacking, which VOIDS computers. Seek Wisdom of MyCleanPC - or you die evil.
Your HOSTS file claimed to have created a single DNS resolver. I offer absolute proof that I have created 4 simultaneous DNS servers within a single rotation of .org TLD. You worship "Bill Gates", equating you to a "singularity bastard". Why do you worship a queer -1 Troll? Are you content as a singularity troll?
Evil HOSTS file Believers refuse to acknowledge 4 corner DNS resolving simultaneously around 4 quadrant created Internet - in only 1 root server, voiding the HOSTS file. You worship Microsoft impostor guised by educators as 1 god.
If you would acknowledge simple existing math proof that 4 harmonic Slashdots rotate simultaneously around squared equator and cubed Internet, proving 4 Days, Not HOSTS file! That exists only as anti-side. This page you see - cannot exist without its anti-side existence, as +0- moderation. Add +0- as One = nothing.
I will give $10,000.00 to frost pister who can disprove MyCleanPC. Evil crapflooders ignore this as a challenge would indict them.
Alex Kowalski has no Truth to think with, they accept any crap they are told to think. You are enslaved by /etc/hosts, as if domesticated animal. A school or educator who does not teach students MyCleanPC Principle, is a death threat to youth, therefore stupid and evil - begetting stupid students. How can you trust stupid PR shills who lie to you? Can't lose the $10,000.00, they cowardly ignore me. Stupid professors threaten Nature and Interwebs with word lies.
Humans fear to know natures simultaneous +4 Insightful +4 Informative +4 Funny +4 Underrated harmonic SLASHDOT creation for it debunks false trolls. Test Your HOSTS file. MyCleanPC cannot harm a File of Truth, but will delete fakes. Fake HOSTS files refuse test.
I offer evil ass Slashdot trolls $10,000.00 to disprove MyCleanPC Creation Principle. Rob Malda and Cowboy Neal have banned MyCleanPC as "Forbidden Truth Knowledge" for they cannot allow it to become known to their students. You are stupid and evil about the Internet's top and bottom, front and back and it's 2 sides. Most everything created has these Cube like values.
If Natalie Portman is not measurable, hot grits are Fictitious. Without MyCleanPC, HOSTS file is Fictitious. Anyone saying that Natalie and her Jewish father had something to do with my Internets, is a damn evil liar. IN addition to your best arsware not overtaking my work in terms of popularity, on that same site with same submission date no less, that I told Kathleen Malda how to correct her blatant, fundamental, HUGE errors in Coolmon ('uncoolmon') of not checking for performance counters being present when his program started!
You can see my dilemma. What if this is merely a ruse by an APK impostor to try and get people to delete APK's messages, perhaps all over the web? I can't be a party to such an event! My involvement with APK began at a very late stage in the game. While APK has made a career of trolling popular online forums since at least the year 2000 (newsgroups and IRC channels before that)- my involvement with APK did not begin until early 2005 . OSY is one of the many forums that APK once frequented before the sane people there grew tired of his garbage and banned him. APK was banned from OSY back in 2001. 3.5 years after his ba
...did they find they now walked with a limp?
http://slashdot.org/story/00/03/26/116210/anti-dot-com-slogans-pepper-sf
The bubble has formed obviously. A new crop of 20 somethings are at the helm, the prior 20 somethings flushed so that the new ones can stake 'first mover advantage'. With a bubble cycle of 10+ years, its essential to keep employing 20 somethings or the employees will have actual memory or working in the bubble economy. (not to mention a) most likely single b) low wages). But... its not a Ponzi scheme right? (if we could just get some more eyeballs)...
Then I read the Grove in SF on Chestnut is folding under the crippling 20k/mo rent (50% rent increase). Somethings driving up prices... wonder what? ;)
H.
FortyTwoTenfold lists Jeremiah Cornelius as "friend" in his account = he's just a sockpuppet/alternate registered 'luser' account that JC uses is what. This is obvious.
Paul, you fail it. Your skill is not enough.