379 keep going!

Read about this van in the morning, then saw it in the afternoon. 

A chef had to close his restaurant last year, and this was the next thing he came up with. He has a couple parking spots where you can come to him (the Ferry Building) and he does house calls.

It's a "catering service," not a restaurant or food truck. (I'm guessing this has to do with permits.)

Not sure if the booking fee is deducted from the price of the meal, but I'm guessing not. The guy knows his audience.

Way to pivot!

The same article had this info, about the Stud looking for a new home. I guess that's one upside of the pandemic, there will be vacancies. I'm guessing they kept the liquor license active, which is the hard part of opening a bar. 

Let's hope this fun bit of SF stays.

And more words. Read a pretty awesome story about a guy who sailed a dugout canoe across the Pacific. He capsized four days out, and learned to wing it from there.

That was his feeling after getting the boat bailed out after two days.

Without a compass or charts, he had to rely upon the stars.

Once you get to know the stars, they can tell you a lot. Currently, I know the north star (where north is) and the center star of orion's belt (where the equator is). He would lie in the bottom of his boat with a plumb line and try to get a certain star directly overhead at it's apex. Then follow the birds and waves to actually find land.

Except when he couldn't see the stars, and then he just felt the direction. I agree with him, I think we all have the ability to sense magnetic poles, we're just out of touch. Years ago I remember reading about some indigenous people who could point north while blindfolded in a cave.

Who knows, maybe something else happened too. I did hear Pete Buttigieg talking about infrastructure and "future ready" projects in the ARA, sorry, the AJP (it's tough to keep my trillions straight these days), rather than the "shovel ready" projects funded by TARP ten years ago, which tended to be things like replacing all the wheelchair ramps at every corner in the city with new, yellow plastic ones. Which I'm sure has had some effect, but it's not high speed rail.


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