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Badge
The next day, I went to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium.
I showed my passport to get a badge.
The nearby San Francisco City Hall is shown in the picture.
The San Francisco City Hall is the seat of government for both the City and County of San Francisco. Re-opened in 1915 in its open space area in the city’s Civic Center, it is a Beaux-Arts monument to the City Beautiful movement that epitomized the high-minded American Renaissance of the 1880s to 1917. The building’s dome is taller than that of the United States Capitol by 42 feet.
The badge is needed to enter the venue for the next few days.
If it’s lost… well, it’s my own fault and doesn’t compensate.
At the same time, I received an ugly coat 🧥
I don’t understand why they gave out coats instead of T-shirts, given how hot it was.
I later realized that San Francisco is unique, with scorching sun.
In the shade, the sea breeze makes you shiver.
So that ugly coat 🧥 played an important role.
When passing by at night, the venue became 🏳️🌈.
LGBT 🏳️🌈
I noticed a lot of small rainbow flags 🏳️🌈 around, and at first I found it interesting and thought it was strange that they weren’t American flags.
A friend from another state explained that it was for LGBT.
And at the end of the month, there would be The SF LGBT Parade and Celebration.
San Francisco Pride is a parade and festival occurring annually in June in San Francisco, California, celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and their allies. The 49th annual parade in 2019 included 289 parade contingents, and is described on the official website as “the largest gathering of LGBT people and allies in the nation.”.
Later, the friend told me that she had a girlfriend.
As a wizard who had been single for ten thousand years, I was speechless for a long time.
Lombard Street
Of all the famous sections on Lombard Street, I think the “Crooked Lane” is the most famous. This is the section of the street located on Lombard Street between Hyde and Leavenworth Streets. It is the crookedest street in America with eight amazing hairpin turns on a short block. It allows only one-way traffic down the hill from Hyde Street to Leavenworth Street. The cable car running on the Powell-Hyde line passes by this location (at the highest point of the street corner). This very steep section of the street was originally a straight downhill road, but in consideration of traffic and pedestrian safety, this section was redesigned in 1923 into the curves that we see today. [2] The design was first proposed by the property owner, Carl Henley. [3] The design intended to use the length in exchange for reducing the size of the slope along the line (27%). [4] The entire “crooked lane” is 600 feet (180 meters) long, with a straight section of 412.5 feet (125.7 meters) and paved with bricks to increase friction. The starting point is marked with a speed limit of 5 mph (8 km/h).
I believe those who have watched Initial D will think of it.
In the movie “Initial D Third Stage,”
Takumi vs. Keisuke, Toyota AE86 vs. MR-2.
The way they take the turns at 55 minutes and 55 seconds
Unfortunately, that’s only in the anime.
In the real world, they are quite reluctant.
At that time, we didn’t have driver’s licenses, and our companions weren’t confident in their ability to take the turns.
So in the end, they parked the car 🚗 by the roadside and called an Uber to go to Fisherman’s Wharf.
And specifically told the driver to go through Lombard Street.
The driver understood and slowed down when taking the turns.
The sun was shining, the greenery was lush, and the flowers were beautiful, with purple and pink colors.
BTW: Remember to bring your sunglasses 🕶️
Fisherman’s Wharf & Alcatraz Island
The history of Fisherman’s Wharf is deeply intertwined with that of its surrounding neighborhoods. From its early beginnings as an Italian fishing community heavily populated by immigrants from Genoa to its present-day status as a major tourist attraction, Fisherman’s Wharf boasts a rich history. Though redeveloped in the 1970s and 1980s as a tourist attraction, the area is still home to many active fishermen and their fleets.
There is a large crab on the square.
The nearby grocery stores are full of small Made in China products.
The Devil’s Island
Tourists can take a ferry from Pier 33, located between the San Francisco Ferry Building and Fisherman’s Wharf, in less than 15 minutes to reach the island.
There are retired warships and submarines near the pier ⛵️.
Some people are playing music on the square 🎵.
One impression that stayed with me was an old man playing a very cheerful tune there, as if there were no pedestrians around.
Is this being in the flow? It even made me feel like giving a tip.
This became one of my deepest regrets that I couldn’t let go of.
The sky, so blue as if we were addicted to it.
Infinite Loop
Before, I always thought that the spaceship was the Infinite Loop.
As the name suggests, it’s an endless loop.
But in reality, it’s a business park with a visitor center.
I don’t know if I can only get commemorative T-shirts here.
I hastily chose a metallic one.
As for Park, it was still under construction…
Stanford
I went around in a circle and left.
I felt that if I had been brought here as a child,
maybe I could have scored an extra 50 points on the college entrance exam.
California State Route 1
Highway 1
How romantic the sea is in the movies, walking hand in hand along the beach.
Always living in the mainland,
finding a girl and going to see the sea.
It has always been a dream.
We didn’t see the sea, but we saw the Pacific Ocean first.
However, the beaches in California have very sandy sand that’s sharp on the feet.
If you’re not careful, the sea 🌊 will rush up and wet your pants.
I was scared and kept moving back.
The sea breeze was salty and fishy, and the beach was full of dead seaweed.
Seeing the sea level didn’t lead to any profound realization.
Instead, the sunlight was particularly dazzling.
When we returned home at night, both my friend and I had varying degrees of sunburn.
Any exposed part of the body–including earlobes, scalp, and lips–can be sunburned. Even areas that are covered can be burned, such as if your clothing has loose weaves that allow ultraviolet (UV) light to pass through. Your eyes are highly sensitive to the ultraviolet rays in sunlight, too, and can also be burned.
When ultraviolet photons strike the skin, they break bonds within cells of the body’s DNA. It does this by disrupting the orderly bonds between the four nucleotides - adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. A dimer forms when two thymidine nucleotides bind together, causing the shape of the entire DNA molecule to become distorted.
Cells that have had their DNA disturbed will typically undergo apoptosis, a process whereby the cells commit suicide. The cells have simply taken on too much radiation for them to properly function.
It was awkward 😅.
The experience was very poor.
Not at all romantic like in the movies…
Movies are deceptive.
Soylent & iRobot
Previously, someone kept emphasizing that the Xiaomi robot vacuum’s suction power was not enough, and that it was necessary to buy an iRobot.
Appliances in North America are cheaper, and there happened to be a discount on the Amazon 700 series, so I got one for just over 3,000 RMB.
However, at that time, the 900 series with visual navigation was not available yet.
It still used a random collision algorithm, and if it was at home, the robotic vacuum 🤖️ seemed very silly.
But when I came back from work and found that the robotic vacuum hadn’t moved from its charging dock, it was as if it hadn’t been used at all.
If the floor was clean, I would think it was slacking off.
On top of that, it’s of good quality. One time when I wasn’t home, it knocked over the humidifier.
When I returned, I found it had sucked up a lot of water, and I thought it was broken, but I poured out the water and it was fine.
I bought a case of bottled Soylent, free shipping within the country. I bought it as breakfast to avoid not being able to go to the venue in the morning because I was too lazy to get out of bed.
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