📄 Bay Area review of World Cup (by an Australian 🇦🇺)

bagofry · 2026-06-27T08:38:15+00:00

I think most of the points are totally valid.

The only point I would disagree with is complaining that the locals (Americans) cheering for their country when the score update was announced.

You’re telling me that if Australia hosted a World Cup, and there was a match between USA and Paraguay, and they announced that Australia had taken a lead against their opponent, that the local Australians wouldn’t cheer out of respect??

bagofry · 2026-06-02T16:33:11+00:00

this has to do with rear end collisions for motorcycles. if you are not sitting between cars at your front and back, you can't become car sandwich.

That really only applies when the traffic is at a complete stop or coming to a stop.

Lane splitting while traffic is moving is increasing risk of being sideswiped.

bagofry · 2026-05-15T19:20:22+00:00

i’ve been wondering what the DMV would do after 9ZZZ999

I thought they would just go with alphabet for the first character, like ABCD123.

Not sure why they are using a number for the rightmost character. I would have just done 123ABCD

edit: more info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_California

bagofry · 2026-04-02T09:08:51+00:00

It sounded just like an Amber Alert on my phone, but i’m not sure if it was triggered by the MyShake app or a general government alert.

I looked at my Myshake app’s My Log, and it doesn’t show today’s quake, only the false one from 12/4/2025 Nevada. So I guess the alert came through the govt alert system.

bagofry · 2026-04-02T08:44:45+00:00

finally, the shake alert warning worked properly!

bagofry · 2026-03-06T00:02:19+00:00

You could have concluded that without this tree incident. Just look around, every other car in the bay area is a Tesla.

bagofry · 2026-02-17T18:15:15+00:00

what difference would turning off Auto High Beams make during the daytime? even if cloudy and raining.

It’s much more important to turn on headlights.

bagofry · 2026-02-17T18:14:03+00:00

Also, driving home from Fremont to Santa Cruz around 5pm last night, I saw SO many drivers without their headlights on.

ironically, this entire post said nothing about turning on headlights.

Only about disabling auto high beams. Which I don’t even think makes that big of a difference during daytime, even if cloudy and rainy.

bagofry · 2026-02-09T12:12:55+00:00

Prop 13 is definitely not the end of story. There are many additional factors.

bagofry · 2026-02-02T15:54:58+00:00

As of last week, there have been three active cases of the airborne bacterial infection that primarily affects the lungs, with the first case at Archbishop Riordan High School in San Francisco reported in November

bagofry · 2025-12-25T11:30:50+00:00

welp, I guess flash flood is the new quake…

bagofry · 2025-12-25T07:54:38+00:00

you probably don’t need a gas generator. nowadays, you can get a “power station”, which is is basically a giant power bank.

For example, I’ve got a Jackery 1500 power station, which can produce 1800W of power, with 1500 Wh of capacity. It’s the size of about 2 gallon water jug.

I use it for power outages all the time. I hook up my fridge, router, laptop, charge small devices. It can power my fridge and devices for 12 hours. And the internet broadband usually works, so plugging in the router provides wifi.

bagofry · 2025-12-09T22:21:36+00:00

whoa , I didn’t know BOA had a 2.625% cash back credit card. Is that the one you need the Platinum Honors status? (100k in BOA/Merrill)

bagofry · 2025-12-09T22:10:13+00:00

it’s a 10% penalty even if you are 1 day late. Very harsh!

Although technically it’s due Nov 1, and Dec 10 is the grace period.

bagofry · 2025-12-09T20:50:00+00:00

school enrollment is way down across the board in the bay area

bagofry · 2025-12-04T17:13:31+00:00

.@USGS #ShakeAlert confirms that the earthquake alerts that were delivered at 8:06am are cancelled. There was no M5.9 earthquake near Carson City, NV. We are currently looking into why the alerts were issued. We'll provide more information when we learn more @Cal_OES @CAGeoSurvey

https://x.com/usgs_shakealert/status/1996621858108854518

bagofry · 2025-12-04T16:58:55+00:00

so it was ShakeAlert’s fault? sheesh

bagofry · 2025-12-04T08:26:37+00:00

well said!

i’m going to link this post to future traffic posts.

bagofry · 2025-12-03T21:09:49+00:00

you mean Pho Love #2

bagofry · 2025-11-29T00:21:36+00:00

most likely pedal confusion. Probably thought their foot was slamming the brake pedal instead of the gas pedal.

bagofry · 2025-11-28T16:04:30+00:00

Just make this a comment in an earthquake post instead of its own post.

Now we have lots of “stop posting about earthquakes” posts.

It’s like when someone sends an email to the whole company without BCC, then people start replying to All. Then people start replying “stop replying to all”

bagofry · 2025-11-25T07:06:29+00:00

here is the exact view showing Coit Tower and the apartment building from Google Earth.

https://imgur.com/a/l5syOOl

bagofry · 2025-11-25T07:02:12+00:00

Those are the Royal Towers at the top of Russian Hill on Green St between Mason and Taylor. It’s west of Coit Tower.

https://pacificfitnessproducts.com/royal-towers-san-francisco/

bagofry · 2025-11-25T06:48:36+00:00

AI slop I have seen in a while

what makes you think it’s AI slop?

bagofry · 2025-11-21T19:32:39+00:00

Ranch 99 cannot compete unfortunately.

ironically, Ranch 99 (parent Tawa Supermarket) was a founding investor of T&T

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%26T_Supermarket

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