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If you're heading to AT&T Park today to see the Giants take on the Rockies, you might come across another heated battle. An estimated 750 concession workers are on a one-day strike. Members of Local 2 are protesting the ballpark's concessionaire and Centerplate -- NOT the Giants, mind you -- regarding wage increases, job security, and improved healthcare. [ more › ]

Dave Chappelle: For What It's Worth is a 2004 television special starring stand-up comedian Dave Chappelle. The performance was recorded at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California in June 2004, and it premiered on September 4 later that year on Showtime. The special earned two Emmy nominations.DAVE CHAPPELLE FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH

Wendy Rene - Tears ( Folk Magic Remix) San Francisco based producer Folk Magic forced us to lay our ears upon him with his first ever track/remix on Dirty Beaches True Blue , where things got more tropical than you could ever imagine. Now the second effort comes with another remix, this time on Wendy Rene s soul classic After Laughter (Comes Tears) . The gentle and shadowy beats, that stumble somewhere upon Massive Attack and Read MoreBlog: Sound InjectionsRelated: Wendy Rene After Laughter Comes Tears (Nicolas Jaar Remix)Folk Magic - True Blue (Dirty Beaches Remix)Popular Computer Lointain (Pharao Black Magic Remix)Rick Ross Magic (Remix)Shindu All In My Fridge (Pharao Black Magic Remix) Free Download

Want to see what lava from a volcano looks like up close? Photographer Daniel Fox has spent a number of weeks this year photographing lava near Kalapana on the Big Island of Hawaii. Rather than photograph the lava in the context of its surroundings, he decided to get in close and create abstract images showing its intensity. Fox tells us he focused more on shooting abstract, artistic photos (rather than landscape photos) by using a telephoto lens rather than a wide-angle one. He shoots with a Canon 100-400mm and Canon 100-300mm on his Canon 7D. He tries to leave the photos relatively untouched, but he does occasionally do some masking, rotating, and cropping in addition to basic Lightroom image adjustments. Here is a selection of Fox’s lava photographs: Fox also shot some footage of the lava to create this piece titled “TIME”: Compared to the free flow of lava, active and fast, these clefts are the result of a constant but slow force. One fracture at a time, earth is moved forward to form new landscapes, erasing old ones behind. Invisible at day, their presence and intensity is only revealed at night, cracking the dark world open, light a lightning splitting the sky in pieces. You can find more of Fox’s work on his website and on Instagram. He’s planning to hold an exhibition of these lava photos in San Francisco come fall. Image credits: Photographs by Daniel Fox and used with permission

Aloha! Do you have a teen that loves the ocean and the surfing lifestyle? If so, transform their bedroom into a surfing paradise! With many great ideas from HGTV and other design blogs, this post is sure to give you plenty of generous ideas to get started on your surf teens dream room! Archinect Eclectic Kids by Orange County Media And Blogs Shelley Gardea Eclectic Kids by Chicago Interior Designer How amazing is that giant surfer picture above the bed? A picture that size can instantly turn a simple room into a surfing room just by adding the picture. Modern Kids by San Francisco Interior Designer Matthew MacCaul Turner Want to see more surf room posts? Check out Surf Shack Room and our Roxy Girl Surf Room.   The post Teen Boys Surf Room Ideas appeared first on Design Dazzle.

Another one I liked from Bay to Breakers.

When you book a hotel reservation online the representative will ask for single, double, or multiple occupancy and charge accordingly. It’s the same idea when you rent out your property to prospective tenants. Those who plan to rent your property are written in the lease predominantly for liability purposes. Those who plan to stay in your property who are not on the lease are considered guests. Sometimes your tenants will abuse the lease by having multiple guests stay for long durations of time. Of course having the girlfriend stay over for a couple nights a week or the parents visit for a couple weeks at a time is fine. However, where does one draw the line? Although restricting guests and their duration of stay is almost impossible to enforce, there has to be some language and understanding in the lease to prevent a rental from turning into a boarding house. During my latest tenant search, I almost accepted two guys who would have fully taken advantage of the lease by having two to four guests all throughout the year. Here’s how things played out. PREVENTING GUESTS FROM OVERSTAYING THEIR WELCOME My main rental is a two bedroom, two bathroom condo with parking in a nice part of town. I decided to raise the asking price by 12% to take advantage of current tightness in the market. The realistic range I could charge was between $3,500 to $3,800 based on my market research and I decided to shoot for the top. Demand was strong at $3,800 but several prospects who showed tremendous interest flaked out in the end. Then a software engineer who just relocated to Google’s San Francisco campus from Mountain View paid me a visit. He was a nice guy who made a low six figure income. His roommate would be arriving later next month from Bangalore, India for an internal job transfer at Google on an L1 visa. Before I Skyped with the prospective tenant from Bangalore, his roommate was so eager to secure my place that he offered to come by my house that evening and leave the $6,000 rental deposit with me. I agreed and told him I would not cash his deposit until the interview was complete and we all signed the lease. During the tail end of his visit, he mentioned that his father would be paying him a visit next month for a couple weeks. Not a problem. Then I politely asked what about his mother, afraid that he might say they were divorced or worse, was deceased. He responded, “My mother is coming too, and will stay with me for one month. Is that OK?” I was surprised by the duration of her stay and asked him, “Where would she stay?” given he would have a roommate. He politely responded, “In my room, with me of course.” I realize it’s common for 20-something year olds to co-habitate with their parents until they build up their financial reserves, but I have never heard of living in the same room with your mother for a month if you are making a six figure income. Why not just put your parents up in an inexpensive motel for a month if you’re making $10,000 a month in gross income? Besides, my apartment isn’t big enough for four adults. My prospective tenant is either a big time mama’s boy, which may be good because when mama is in the house, there won’t be raging parties that will disturb the neighbors. Or, my prospective tenant might be uncertain about his financial situation or is super frugal. He asked me if I could put in a clause that said I would not raise the rent for two years for example. If you’re constantly going to have your parents stay over, at least get your own place or a place with one extra bedroom. Don’t parents deserve better? As a grown adult, I’m not sure if I could voluntarily live in the same room with either parent for one week, let alone a month. Could you? I chalked the situation up to cultural differences as Indians have a very strong family bond. My tenant then mentioned that he’d probably have his five brothers and

Google Earth Acme Burgerhaus, which has been serving up burgers and beers at 559 Divisadero since late 2009, apparently closed its doors for good this week. Reader Eli alerted us to the closure via our open thread yesterday, and we’ve gotten several similar reports since. There’s a “For Lease” sign in the restaurant’s window, and an online listing is now advertising the 1,100-square-foot space for $6,300 a month. No word on the reason for the abrupt closure, but we’ve contacted the restaurant’s owner for comment. In the meantime, Acme just opened a new location in the Tenderloin at 620 O’Farrell a couple of weeks ago. So if you need your fix, that’s where you’ll want to go. We’ll update if and when we get more info.

An anonymous reader writes "As we in the U.S. settle in for Memorial Day weekend, this article points out how our cultural addiction to technology is making it less of a vacation than it used to be. 'The average smartphone user checks his or her device 150 times per day, or about once every six minutes. Meanwhile, government data from 2011 says 35 percent of us work on weekends, and those who do average five hours of labor, often without compensation — or even a thank you. The other 65 percent were probably too busy to answer surveyors' questions.' Even for those of us who don't have any work to do over the weekend, we'll probably end up reading all of our work-related emails as they roll in, and take time out of our day to think about what's going on — to the detriment of our weekend activities: 'A study at the University of California, San Francisco, found that new experiences fail to become long-term memories unless brains have downtime for review.' I imagine it's even worse for your average Slashdotter, who's likely plugged in to more technology at home and at work. How can we make our employers understand that downtime needs to remain downtime? 'It took labor unions 100 years to fight for nights and weekends off, some say, while smartphones took them away in about three years.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.