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Re: iMurder 13: Stickiness

Rocco — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 21:07:24 -0000

Hello Anna-
If I could have found an email address for you, I would have sent this personally...

I recently moved to Irvine (to do my PhD at UC-Irvine) after living in San Francisco for seven years. I miss the city terribly. It is not that it is that bad here (okay, well it is Irvine, but it is better than I thought), but it is simply that San Francisco is one of a kind. I think I might be homesick if I was in Boston or New York, just in a different way.

Anyway, the point here... Your posts and pictures here and on the SF Metroblogging site both rip my heart out and make me feel great at the same time. You do a wonderful job of capturing what it is that makes San Francisco a place that it is easy to become bonded with.

Re: Sarcasm

Rocco — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:43:59 -0000

I love the picture. I miss the graffiti. It is non-existent here in Irvine. And I am not being sarcastic.

Re: jock post: basketball

Rocco — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:29:11 -0000

My goodness...

You take the greatest photos of the city. This one, the streetscape over on Metroblogs. I am so homesick!

Re: What people are looking for on banane.com

Rocco — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 19:00:52 -0000

I enjoy "analyzing" sitemeter as well. Some wierd searches drive people to these blogs.

Hey- I could use your help. I love your banner and have been trying to get one to look that nice on my blog, but the self-help Websites only serve to confuse me. How can I blend a photo in so nicely?

Re: 5 Things

Rocco — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:23:41 -0000

Wow - first time I have been "called out" online. Cool. Heading to San Francisco again next week! YES!

So, do I need to do something here as a result of the call-out? Pardon my ignorance.

Re: 5 Things

Rocco — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:04:47 -0000

okay, I am an idiot - now, I understand!

Re: Post-MacWorld Write-Up

Rocco — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:02:49 -0000

OK, you go to a conference in San Francisco, and you eat at the conference food kiosks. Why? Why? This is the land of good food!

They should have held the conference off until later in the year when the California Pizza Kitchen opens downtown. Now we're talking. Irvine's finest restaurant comes to San Francisco!

Is it February yet?

Re: Tech Post #6: Defensive Learning

Rocco — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 21:46:03 -0000

Huh?

Re: New Year Resolutions

Rocco — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:20:34 -0000

Okay - now I gotta call you out on the proverbial carpet here. Did you say you at lunch at Subway today!? SUBWAY! GO back and read your post on MacWorld, he says with a smile!

Subway is trying to take over San Francisco. Their stated goal, at least was: one location for every 10,000 city residents. That is a lot. And if you look around downtown they are on their way.

Good luck on your cleansing or "recalibrating."

33 days untill my next SF trip - I schedule WAY too much time in between this time! Ahhh!

Re: New Year Resolutions

Rocco — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:28:39 -0000

Stop sniveling!

Next time I am in town, if I see you walking out of a SUBWAY, I am going to run you over or make you sit in Ritual across from a cool person, sporting a laptop and iPod for a couple of hours.

Re: About Banane

Rocco — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:36:03 -0000

Hey -
You need to start Yelping some more!

Re: About Banane

Rocco — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 00:07:47 -0000

hi again-
send along your email I keep losing it.
roccojpendola@yahoo.com

Re: Dot Com For Locals

Rocco — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:57:42 -0000

Nice post.

Mostly, though, they wanted a backyard and more square footage for their money.

Why is this such a goal? I will never understand how that became so engrained in our society. Well, I study it, so I do understand it- there is a pretty logical history- but to become the mantra of a society. It is too much. Anyway, great post.

Re: My Apt. vs. the Ritz

Rocco — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:30:45 -0000

You're on a roll!

As much as it stings to be staying in hotels in San Francisco these days (reinforces that I no longer live there) it is cool to get to survey them.

My recent stays:
The Argent (sucks, relatively speaking, very plain, soon to become a Westin).
Stanford Court (old and nice, less plain and less musty than Argent, definitely four star).
Hilton by Union Sqaure (very nice).
Best so far, though, Parc 55 (Amazing view of downtown, awesome room, and soon to break away from being Marriot, going indepedent).

Everything you never wanted to know about hotels in SF!!

Re: Ghetto Block

Rocco — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 21:55:53 -0000

Man - I miss that freaking City!!

I am using the fact that I have not gotten a haircut in like 4-5 months to come back for a couple days in May. Really I just want to walk do streets like THAT again!! Don't ever move.

Re: Best Holiday Evah.

Rocco — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 17:34:04 -0000

I like being trapped in SF on a 3-day weekend!
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You lucky, gloating %^&@!!!

Just kidding. Another great photo. When I write a book, you are taking the pictures. (I don't pay well).

Re: Tech Post #13: Notes on the New Purchase of an iPhone

Rocco — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 20:19:59 -0000

I just took the plunge via the price drop (weeks after buying a MacBook marking the switch from PC!)- and I love this fricking thing. I need to get my email situation straightened out- and other than a poor connection in my apartment (where I am always hooked into the University's network anyway) I have no complaints.

After getting an iPhone, I may never buy anything like it again.

Re: Death Trumps All

Rocco — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:48:36 -0000

i have not been to your neck of the woods lately, both virtually and in real life. and man by not coming here I have been missing the best SF photos on the Web!

Happy Holidays, Anna!!