Austin Vegas's Meraki Life

May 27

The Golden Gate Bridge may not look her age – thanks to a round-the-clock maintenance regime – but San Francisco’s iconic landmark is 75 years old today! (Leighton Wallis)

May 24

nevver:

Making Stick Figures

(via evangotlib)

reuters:

San Francisco has the best city park system in the United States along with Sacramento, Boston and New York, according to a ranking of the 40 best systems across the country.

Cities on the east and west coasts dominated the top 10. Parks in the west coast communities of Portland, Seattle and San Diego made the cut. The east coast’s Virginia Beach and Philadelphia also ranked high on the list.

The rating system looked at the percentage of residents living within a 10-minute walk of a park, the proportion of local land dedicated to parks, and the number of playgrounds and spending per capita on systems.

Southern cities dominated the 10 park systems with the lowest scores. Charlotte came in after Fresno, followed by Louisville, Kentucky. Jacksonville and Memphis also scored low marks.

READ MORE: San Francisco has best U.S. parks, study says

May 23

austinvegas:

#googamooga (Taken with instagram)

I posted a few pics of Googamooga from Sat, and it was an excellent day to be in the park, just not at an event that had not enough communication and planning to accommodate 40,000 people. The organizers realized this though and will be refunding all the Great Googa tickets ($250 a piece btw)

Yes, the lines were 1 hour plus and from the start you couldn’t get tickets for the beer garden because their system was down, but my pluses:

No internet/phone service - yeah I didn’t miss it for a day
Food was excellent! and if you made it to the north side, the lines weren’t as long
Great beer/wine selection, although 1.5 hours to wait was too long, at least they let you order 4
clean bathrooms, with running water, soap and towels every time I went
good bands (again free)
met some great people and again the weather was great

fuckyeahgooglesearch:

todays google doodle

Today’s Google Doodle is great!

May 22

braiker:

well played

flavorpill:

Yes.

(via npr)

“I’m not familliar, precisely, with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.” — Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, when asked if he stood by comments he made on Sean Hannity’s radio show saying that President Obama wanted to make the U.S. a “less Christian nation.