Wednesday, December 07, 2011

[jules' pics] AGU Day 2

The day was as sunny as hoped.
Weston Hotel, Union Square, San Francisco
As James already mentioned, we sprinted round the Embarcadero for a morning pastry, and then got a bus back to the hotel. In the peace and quiet of lunchtime we toured Tuesday's posters, on regional climate, tsunamis, and bit of paleo. My favourite poster was one on using Twitter to chart climate change expressed in terms of the location of armadillos. Second favourite was a study which analysed whether the climate change people thought they had experienced was consistent with actually observed trends. The answer seemed to be on the whole yes, but sometimes no.

Meanwhile, I am getting quite concerned about the San Franciscans' want of taste. Who would paint their house a color (sic) that clashes with the sky?!
San Francisco house colour
And then there was this in the window of the supposedly top notch bakery...
Hello Kitty Cake in San Francisco!
I read Hello Kitty Hell for a few years but gave up recently, finally overwhelmed by the horrors it reports.

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Posted By Blogger to jules' pics at 12/07/2011 02:45:00 PM

7 comments:

Mark said...

You managed to read that for a few years?

Hank Roberts said...

That's not the sky. The sky is gray and puffy-looking and usually below the rooftops, so the electric green color is dreamlike. We are not entirely sure what that blue thing is that shows up when the sky goes away. We suspect it's some kind of pollution, perhaps blown over from China.

jules said...

I did wonder if that was the reason, but this week the sky has been almost Japan blue.

Steve Bloom said...

As I noted, that would follow since it's being blown over from there.

But the real sky is back this AM.

The Hello Kitty photo reminds me just a little of "Ubik" from the Phil Dick novel.

James Annan said...

Heh. It was just cloudy enough early to give me an excuse to put off jogging but was soon back to blue...maybe by Californian standards the weather here is a bit dismal but compared to where I grew up...

haivanna said...

Do you remember what the name of that bakery was?

James Annan said...

um...yes, it was the .....erm....(googles)....Chestnut Bakery, surprisingly enough on Chestnut Street. Not sure if it really deserves the amazing reviews that it seems to get but it was certainly pretty good.