Friday, October 5, 2012
Breakfast at home: organic oatmeal with diced, organic bosc pear; organic cinnamon; organic, unsweetened soy milk. Rode Muni to work. Calendar management. Followup on an entering student's mail account migration. Linkchecking, Flickr work, kiosk work. Posted an updated pharm sci schedule for Lucia. Listserv management. UCSF shuttle from Parnassus to Laurel Heights. Web team meeting: C3 training with Lolita and Eric C. Lunch at Rigolo by myself: seitan sandwich, side salad with vinaigrette, iced water with slice of lemon. UCSF shuttle from Laurel Heights to Parnassus. Listserv management. Supp app project work in Drupal: an import and followup on reported problems. More followup on an entering student's mail account migration. Chatted with Eric D about honors and awards in salesforce.com, movi troubleshooting. More followup on an entering student's mail account migration. Helped an applicant by telephone. Followup with Doug C and Cindy about same-or-similar-name issues, the global address list, and student photos. Updated current student news regarding the extension of the UCSF Facebook photo contest that SCUR is running. Listserv management to preprocess a student's legal name change. Rode Muni home. Dinner at home with Patrick: hard and soft seitan tacos, hot water. Finished watching The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill on Netflix DVD with Patrick. My review: surprisingly interesting, less crazy than you might at first expect, newer than you might think, occasionally touching, watch out for the surprise ending, recommended for all lovers of San Francisco and all lovers of birds. Did some weeding of Twitter followings. Bicyclists of San Francisco, I am so disappointed in you. At different times on Friday, October 5, 2012, four of you rode your bicycle past me while I was walking on the sidewalk. In our city riding a bicycle on a sidewalk is illegal for persons 13 and older. #1 was riding in a bicycle lane in the wrong direction before coming on to the sidewalk in front of me and two other pedestrians. I told #1, "Don't ride on the sidewalk." #1 told me, "Fuck you!" and kept riding on the sidewalk. A few minutes later I encountered another bicyclist on the sidewalk. I told #2, "Please don't ride on the sidewalk—it's illegal." This one ignored me and kept riding on the sidewalk. I told #3, "it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk." #3 ignored me and kept riding on the sidewalk. #4 was a tandem bicycle and had two riders. I told #4, "it's illegal to ride on the sidewalk." To their credit, they biked another 100 feet and then dismounted, but then one of them—a woman—gave me the middle finger. They walked their bicycle from that point. I was not the only pedestrian at any of these encounters, but not a single other pedestrian spoke up about their right to a bicycle-free sidewalk. All these encounters took place on sidewalks between 9th and Judah and 513 Parnassus Avenue. The fine for riding a bicycle on the sidewalk is $100, but I've never seen or heard about someone cited for it.