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^ Sure, these are pleasing enough and cleverly incorporated into the scheme. But how about when the blades are of a more traditional orientation? And when there are more than three of them and when they are not used as a symmetrical, iconic, gateway-style adornment?

Oooops. Fixed. I was going to respond to your post, began to, then changed my mind and didn't switch the quote tags out. Saaaawwwwrrreeee! Can't have something so awfully misguided attributed to you. :P

Hey, my Swedish alias! How'd you do that? And my Islamic terrorist name, too. Yous treading on shakey ground boy, decoding my aliases. :shock: Sorry, no explanation forthcoming. Then I'd have to kill you. :twisted: I guess you've used up your one drunken post chit, ZenZen. I had mine last...

^ **snicker** Should I be honest about the Cypress, or the fact that you are drunk and the ground started to give way beneath you? :P I don't have to be drunk to say a too much at the wrong place and time. :lol: I'll have plenty of opportunity to do so at next week's company picnic, though...

Given what has been bantered about throughout the life of this forum, I can safely say that the majority on this forum don't want what was done in SF, regardless of the reason(s) for it being done. It went somewhere, as much as the feeder ramps and roads eminating to and from the Central Artery...

Would be better if they could do it the way it's pictured below, rather than a 'closed-off' restaurant. You'll be paying a premium for the restaurant food anyway (which better be damn good if they want this venture to last), so you are not really seeing the game for 'free'. You could just buy a...

^ I'm not denying that this is not necessary or not a good thing, just that it will not be as meticulously planned out (or thought out, say...as you are doing). That's an interesting parallel analogy comparing colonial and industrial emergences of new towns to present day development patterns...

We called it "The Washboard Building" back in the 70s. Never heard it referred to as the ladder building, though. Hey, Beton Brut. Long time no hear from. Good history lesson for the twee ones. :) I, too, actually like(d) Stubbins, like I have a fondness (or nostalgia) for the disco era. The...

Damn right, DTDave. All the fraidy cats that put it into your head that you should be cautious walking around Oakland with your gear is utter foolishness. You can get mugged or whatever most anywhere for that stuff. Right? I was at the Oakland Museum this weekend. While perusing the finery in...

Just where else in the country (world) have you lived to say that? Despite everybody's griping on this forum, I am so glad I grew up in Boston with the nightlife that I experienced. When I speak to friends who grew up in other cities all over the country, all they do is complain about the lack...

I was eyeing Attleboro in the early 80s. A friend from high school settled there with his family as an alternative to being in a standard suburb, yet still be commutable to both Providence and Boston. I used to wander both the Attleboros and think, 'wow, if I could bend the right ears of the...

Damn right! :twisted: And I've (we've) lived to tell you all about it.

I guess I shouldn't send any of you the prospectus for the property that my friend's grandfather is selling in Bitterfuhd.

^ Hmmm. Sounds familiar...but, sorry, cannot recall the name. It did have coconut as an ingredient, if that helps.

Wait wait wait wait wait... Just how DO YOU define 'community'?

So go puke up some of these rants on his plate. I've done it before. Gets you noticed. :) Temp repairs are necessary due to climate conditions. However, these temp repairs are often really disguised as permanent, until they fail so catastrophically and somebody notices that the permanent...

Maybe the businesses need an even more threatening approach. And OMG! These environmental philistines nailed it to a tree!

So, a few more Oakland/Piedmont manses for the masses. *snicker* Here's what a typical street can look like. Seems pretty suburban, yes? Just that it's densely lined with large homes on small-ish plots. (It's all relative.) A few of the homes are on an acre, or even much more, but many are...

^It's been years since I went on a tour, but I recall people taking pictures in the entry lobby, which is the most unique and spec-f'n-tacular part of the space. Not what you'd expect from a deco theatre--glassy, milky, cool electric colors, in contrast to the auditorium which is guilded and...

Ooooh. A villa. Aren't you fancypants. :lol: Just wait until September/October, after four months of no moisture. You'll feel like you are in Delhi again. Well, maybe not where you live in SF proper, but the 'burn factor' becomes quite advanced in the East Bay by then--the hills turn brown and...