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San Francisco Hotel Recommendations?
I stayed at the Chancellor Hotel in the Unions Square area of San
Francisco. This is a great family hotel. It is in the center of everything. Shopping,. dining and theatres. I didn't need a car the whole trip. The cable car stopped right in front of the hotel. The Rooms were a bit small but not cramped. It had a huge walk in closet with my own iron and ironing board ( a PLus for me ) a personal safe and umbrella. They also had a free pillow menu which i thought was a marvelous idea. I chose the isotonic memory pillow VERY comfortable. The Bathroom had great amenities shampoo conditioner and bath salt. PLUS A FREE RUBBER DUCKIE!!! I loved this hotel they always had fresh baked cookies, coffee and tea in the lobby. Oh and the apples were delicious I highly reccommend this place the concierge was very helpful for my whole trip and the BAR was great very intimate. -- Audiogeek Posted via http://britishexpats.com --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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San Francisco Hotel Recommendations?
I stayed at the Chancellor Hotel in the Unions Square area of San
Francisco. This is a great family hotel. It is in the center of everything. Shopping,. dining and theatres. I didn't need a car the whole trip. The cable car stopped right in front of the hotel. The Rooms were a bit small but not cramped. It had a huge walk in closet with my own iron and ironing board ( a PLus for me ) a personal safe and umbrella. They also had a free pillow menu which i thought was a marvelous idea. I chose the isotonic memory pillow VERY comfortable. The Bathroom had great amenities shampoo conditioner and bath salt. PLUS A FREE RUBBER DUCKIE!!! I loved this hotel they always had fresh baked cookies, coffee and tea in the lobby. Oh and the apples were delicious I highly reccommend this place the concierge was very helpful for my whole trip and the BAR was great very intimate. -- Audiogeek Posted via http://britishexpats.com --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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Challenge to "car-free" kook
"Steve Austin" wrote in message
... Can you put that in English, pal? Austin: At your request I made a translation for the non-Spanish readers. The message was in soc.culture.colombia and I didn' look at the crossposting. Now I have to crosspost to all because nobody knows who Steve Austin is. ------translation: For many years I have been thinking that the car is more of a curse than anything else. It got rid of the corner store in favor of the Supermarkets, of the energy efficient public transportation in favor of the "one car-one driver", it made inevitable the wars for oil, many, from children to old folks, die in unwarranted accidents of all kinds, promotes people living far from the work places creating an abnormal socio-geographic situations, we are dying from obesity and lack of exercise, etc. Today thanks to the computers we can do a lot of our work from our home and drastically reduce commuting. My first job was in a brewery in Barranquilla, the company bus would pick su in the morning and take us back in the aftermoon. There was little parking problems at the company. One could use half an hour each way for reading time, instead of watching crazy people driving like crazy while you also drive as crazy. And do you remeber the first sacratch on your shining new car?. And the lost days beacuse there isn nothing to do while the car is in repairs. That is the dull life the automobile based capitalism has brought us to. T.Schmidt --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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Challenge to "car-free" kook
"Steve Austin" wrote in message
... Can you put that in English, pal? Austin: At your request I made a translation for the non-Spanish readers. The message was in soc.culture.colombia and I didn' look at the crossposting. Now I have to crosspost to all because nobody knows who Steve Austin is. ------translation: For many years I have been thinking that the car is more of a curse than anything else. It got rid of the corner store in favor of the Supermarkets, of the energy efficient public transportation in favor of the "one car-one driver", it made inevitable the wars for oil, many, from children to old folks, die in unwarranted accidents of all kinds, promotes people living far from the work places creating an abnormal socio-geographic situations, we are dying from obesity and lack of exercise, etc. Today thanks to the computers we can do a lot of our work from our home and drastically reduce commuting. My first job was in a brewery in Barranquilla, the company bus would pick su in the morning and take us back in the aftermoon. There was little parking problems at the company. One could use half an hour each way for reading time, instead of watching crazy people driving like crazy while you also drive as crazy. And do you remeber the first sacratch on your shining new car?. And the lost days beacuse there isn nothing to do while the car is in repairs. That is the dull life the automobile based capitalism has brought us to. T.Schmidt --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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Challenge to "car-free" kook
"Steve Austin" wrote in message
... Can you put that in English, pal? Austin: At your request I made a translation for the non-Spanish readers. The message was in soc.culture.colombia and I didn' look at the crossposting. Now I have to crosspost to all because nobody knows who Steve Austin is. ------translation: For many years I have been thinking that the car is more of a curse than anything else. It got rid of the corner store in favor of the Supermarkets, of the energy efficient public transportation in favor of the "one car-one driver", it made inevitable the wars for oil, many, from children to old folks, die in unwarranted accidents of all kinds, promotes people living far from the work places creating an abnormal socio-geographic situations, we are dying from obesity and lack of exercise, etc. Today thanks to the computers we can do a lot of our work from our home and drastically reduce commuting. My first job was in a brewery in Barranquilla, the company bus would pick su in the morning and take us back in the aftermoon. There was little parking problems at the company. One could use half an hour each way for reading time, instead of watching crazy people driving like crazy while you also drive as crazy. And do you remeber the first sacratch on your shining new car?. And the lost days beacuse there isn nothing to do while the car is in repairs. That is the dull life the automobile based capitalism has brought us to. T.Schmidt --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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Challenge to "car-free" kook
"Steve Austin" wrote in message
... Can you put that in English, pal? Austin: At your request I made a translation for the non-Spanish readers. The message was in soc.culture.colombia and I didn' look at the crossposting. Now I have to crosspost to all because nobody knows who Steve Austin is. ------translation: For many years I have been thinking that the car is more of a curse than anything else. It got rid of the corner store in favor of the Supermarkets, of the energy efficient public transportation in favor of the "one car-one driver", it made inevitable the wars for oil, many, from children to old folks, die in unwarranted accidents of all kinds, promotes people living far from the work places creating an abnormal socio-geographic situations, we are dying from obesity and lack of exercise, etc. Today thanks to the computers we can do a lot of our work from our home and drastically reduce commuting. My first job was in a brewery in Barranquilla, the company bus would pick su in the morning and take us back in the aftermoon. There was little parking problems at the company. One could use half an hour each way for reading time, instead of watching crazy people driving like crazy while you also drive as crazy. And do you remeber the first sacratch on your shining new car?. And the lost days beacuse there isn nothing to do while the car is in repairs. That is the dull life the automobile based capitalism has brought us to. T.Schmidt --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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Challenge to "car-free" kook
"Steve Austin" wrote in message
... Can you put that in English, pal? Austin: At your request I made a translation for the non-Spanish readers. The message was in soc.culture.colombia and I didn' look at the crossposting. Now I have to crosspost to all because nobody knows who Steve Austin is. ------translation: For many years I have been thinking that the car is more of a curse than anything else. It got rid of the corner store in favor of the Supermarkets, of the energy efficient public transportation in favor of the "one car-one driver", it made inevitable the wars for oil, many, from children to old folks, die in unwarranted accidents of all kinds, promotes people living far from the work places creating an abnormal socio-geographic situations, we are dying from obesity and lack of exercise, etc. Today thanks to the computers we can do a lot of our work from our home and drastically reduce commuting. My first job was in a brewery in Barranquilla, the company bus would pick su in the morning and take us back in the aftermoon. There was little parking problems at the company. One could use half an hour each way for reading time, instead of watching crazy people driving like crazy while you also drive as crazy. And do you remeber the first sacratch on your shining new car?. And the lost days beacuse there isn nothing to do while the car is in repairs. That is the dull life the automobile based capitalism has brought us to. T.Schmidt --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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DC Metro Interconnects
"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside. Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible as cheaply as possible. Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson wrote: No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants. Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations are accessible to pedestrians. You can ride without a SmarTrip card. And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which case, if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number 214365, and they have no idea what name goes with that card. Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed. No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only! SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro stations until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay an *extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is required then. If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people from parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them on foot, by bike, or by bus. Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country, ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question "persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they belong" in a given area. According to Washpost. The closest thing I can find to that on their website is: ... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3 to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ... That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning people who are just walking on the sidewalk. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me. --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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DC Metro Interconnects
"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside. Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible as cheaply as possible. Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson wrote: No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants. Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations are accessible to pedestrians. You can ride without a SmarTrip card. And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which case, if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number 214365, and they have no idea what name goes with that card. Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed. No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only! SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro stations until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay an *extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is required then. If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people from parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them on foot, by bike, or by bus. Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country, ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question "persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they belong" in a given area. According to Washpost. The closest thing I can find to that on their website is: ... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3 to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ... That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning people who are just walking on the sidewalk. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me. --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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DC Metro Interconnects
"Keith F. Lynch" wrote:
It seems to me that it would be far easier to fix this than to extend tracks miles and miles into the exurbs or countryside. Assuming the goal is to serve as much populated area as possible as cheaply as possible. Brian Robinson OR Carol Goter Robinson OR Bill Robinson wrote: No, the purpose is to serve customers, customers being drivers, good citizens who have paid their dues for a MetroCard and the right to be tracked by TIA in the future. Pedestrians are vagrants. Huh? About half the stations don't have parking lots. All stations are accessible to pedestrians. You can ride without a SmarTrip card. And there's no requirement to register a SmarTrip card, in which case, if you paid cash for it, all they are tracking is card number 214365, and they have no idea what name goes with that card. Oh yeah... no tourists or visitors or anyone who might have a legitimate reason to drive to an outlying Metro station are allowed. No more "drive to DC, park at Greenbelt, take the Metro to visit the city..." SmartCard holders (car commuters) only! SmarTrip cards won't be nandatory for people parking at Metro stations until there are SmarTrip card dispensers at every Metro station parking lot. Yes, it's an annoyance that tourists will have to pay an *extra* five dollars. Once. But that's far from saying they're not allowed. Also, if I'm reading the press release correctly, parking will remain free on weekends, implying that no SmarTrip card is required then. If anything, it sounds like they're trying to *discourage* people from parking at Metro stations, and would prefer that people get to them on foot, by bike, or by bus. Mt. Pleasant, one of the most liberal neighborhoods in the country, ANC just passed a law asking the police to detain and question "persons of a suspicious character... who don't look like they belong" in a given area. According to Washpost. The closest thing I can find to that on their website is: ... the District's Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, where the five-member Advisory Neighborhood Commission narrowly adopted a resolution, 3 to 2, asking the police to take aim at everything from assaults and animal cruelty to littering, double parking, even cursing. ... That may be unreasonable, but it's far from stopping and questioning people who are just walking on the sidewalk. -- Keith F. Lynch - http://keithlynch.net/ Please see http://keithlynch.net/email.html before emailing me. --multiplaza.nl.nu-- |
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