A picture of me lounging in the net in our house became popular earlier today and already has over 200 comments and 60,000 views. A higher res version of the same pic is included in this post for your viewing convenience.

About a year ago the same picture made it to the top of Reddit, Digg and Google Reader “What’s Hot” list. It seems that the internet has a short attention span.

I think at some point I’ll do a more detailed photo shoot of the nets in my house.

I was featured in the background of a promo video for the SOMA Grand Lifestyle condos.
You have to follow this link and fast forward to 1:00-1:10 but you’ll see me conversing with other trendy young condo-dwellers (actually roommates from my live/work space). To prepare for this I gelled my hair back and dressed as if I lived in a new LifeStyle Condo.

To be fair, the club room at the SOMA grand was very nice and we were given dinner and drinks in exchange for eating and drinking said dinner and drinks so it worked out quite well.

If anyone is planning to visit SF at some point, let me know as we do have a guest room available from time to time.

After trying both, I give the gold medal to Orange Chicken with Beijing Beef taking the silver and the Kung Pao chicken not even making it to the final round.

On a related note, a representative from Boingo wifi promptly commented on my last post and stated that they were looking into the firefox compatibility issue. I was impressed by their prompt response (someone at Boingo must monitor Twitter or google) but still surprised that this was the first they had heard of the issue.

On my return trip through Houston I didn’t check into whether or not the issue was resolved, I discovered the free wifi available from the Continental Presidents club you can use if you sit at the Gloria Jeans Coffee between E11 and E12.

So far its great. Virgin America flys out of the international terminal at SFO. This is the closest terminal to where BART drops you off, so its more convenient than most other airlines off the bat. SFO still doesnt have a bridge from the skytrain to the terminal, so flying most domestic airlines you’ve got to trek up and down the elevator. Virgin America had the desks right next to security and had carpeting and flowers set out, which was a nice touch. There was not a line, and a man helped me through the echeckin while the lady at the first class checking waved a coach passenger to her.

The boarding passes are a sensible size, smslle than usual so they fit in your pocket. They also are very clear to read without many of the codes and lines you get on typical boarding passes.

There was no line at the international security checkpoint at 7 AM, so I was at the gate within 15 minutes of getting off Bart. The gate agent announced that anyone wearing red or with a red bag could board with first class. Because were in the international terminal there is ample seating in the gate area for this small domestic flight.
Virgin America is great thus far.

Surrounding cities, like Onalaska, WI don’t have their own facebook network, so people living in these cities are no doubt in the La Crosse network. Regardless, this means that 10% of the population of Metro La Crosse is on facebook.

La Crosse is not extemely tech savvy, but 10% is much higher than the New Orleans, LA facebook score. With 42,789 facebook users in the New Orleans network out of an estimated 1.2 million metro New Orleans population, New Orleans facebook score is a 3.8%.

San Francisco (city, not metro area) scores 15.4% (114,792 users of 744,041 population) and New York is 5.1% facebooked (425,963 users with 8,214,426 population).

It would be an interesting mashup to take facebook network membership numbers, us census data and put them on google maps.

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Is craigslist setting up the infrastructure to charge fees for brokered real estate listings like they have in New York? That would be interesting.

Update 9/29 - I’ve also gotten this response from posting rental listings.

Now we’re both pictured on the freshbooks blog. Preston and I ended up taking Mike & Sunir out to Zeitgeist, one of my favorite San Francisco bars, which is just down the street from Espetus, my new favorite San Francisco Brazilian steakhouse.