Maybe I shouldn't be too surprised at this -- but I'm kind of in awe that biking home from downtown San Francisco (entirely uphill, mind you) is faster than taking a bus.

GPS info riding my bike:

GPS info while riding the bus:

Here are the times: * Bike - 2.64 miles in ~18 minutes, 8.62 mph average. * Bus - 2.35 miles in ~20 minutes, 7.06 mph average.

(It might seem like I'm cherry picking, but I've recorded data from a number of different days. The bicycle is always faster!)

Times recorded using Runmeter for the iPhone.

Slowly but surely, we're moving ever closer to equality for all. There's still a lot left to do, but it's encouraging.

I know, I wrote about this a few days ago. But the weather is seriously bumming me out! I'm happy to have gotten out of the city this weekend (more on that in a later update).

But seriously, this is basically the view from our apartment window, my office, the bus, walking to the grocery store, or even taking a shower.

Created using a cool app called "You See This!" for the iPhone.

Apparently, it's the coldest summer in 40 years here in San Francisco.

Weather forecasters are calling this the coldest summer in San Francisco in 40 years.

People who have lived in the Bay Area and particularly San Francisco are used to seeing out-of-towners shiver in their shorts and t-shirts.

But even by San Francisco standards, this has been a cold, gray summer.

Heh! The average temperature in San Francisco for July 2010? 60 degrees fahrenheit!

It's a beautiful day at Yerba Buena Gardens.

It's also kind of hard to believe this is the same spot that some jerk tried to mug me at about 3.5 years ago.

Shot from the new offices of gdgt using my iPhone 4 over the course of about 45 minutes. There's about 4 seconds between frames.

Exciting times!

San Francisco has more people with degrees (both bachelor and graduate) per square mile than any other city in America. And apparently in quality of living, we rank second in the United States. Not too shabby.

[Via Boing Boing]

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I've written about Where Do You Go before, but I thought it was interesting to follow up with things in my new neighborhood.

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