Saturday, August 23, 2008

Death by San Francisco


Well... last night I felt sleepy around 1 AM and was in bed and asleep by 2. So now it's 8:10 in the AM and I can't sleep! I feel sleepy, but the sleepatudes won't come. My usual remedy is a bowl of cereal and a book, but I'm substituting the book with internets for the moment.

I've started making a mental list of The Dangers of San Francisco. Here's how it starts, in no particular order...

1. Earthquakes of course. Here are the various fault lines in SF.
Here's Union Square at the time of the 1906 earthquake, and today.
2. Tigers: A guy was killed last year when a tiger escaped from her enclosure. Maybe we'll give the zoo a miss. (Okay, for sure we'll give the zoo a miss, cause I don't like zoos!)
3. Serial killers, of whom the Zodiac Killer is the most infamous.

...Contemplating gruesome deaths makes me sleepy. Gonna try to get some sleeps now.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

Are you in San Francisco?

Anonymous said...

In the before/after earthquake photos - isn't it interesting that the steel framed buildings seemed to have shed their coats but the skeleton kept standing... and looks like it was rebuilt/restored to exactly the same building. The monument seems to have had some work done on the base, but otherwise is the same... And the look/feel of the surroundings has been preserved...

SF is an interesting city architecturally, for sure.

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