NDBT

Guess who has two beautiful new pieces of hardware sitting on her desk? My ipod is black and sleek (seriously – I think it’s thinner than my old one) and totally gorgeous. And the hard drive external enclosure looks good. After work, I’ll set it up and see how it runs.
 

It is simultaneously snowing and raining outside (so… 33 degrees? What is this? It’s supposed to be spring!). Walking to go get the new hardware was awesome. First it bucketed down, and then it was hot and sunny by the time I got back. Make up your mind!!
 

Speaking of which – Halloween in the spring time is just off, somehow. I’m glad I won’t be here for Christmas; I don’t think I could handle a hot Christmas.
 

(In honor of Halloween month:) Wow – I totally missed this from the banned books list I posted about yesterday, but the Scary Stories Series from Alvin Schwartz are among the most contested books for 2000-2005 and the 90s. I LOVED those books. Yes, they gave me nightmares occasionally, but every kid I knew read them. God, they were fabulous. (Seriously – go to the search inside function from Amazon. Aren’t the drippy paintings awesome?)
 

I had the most delicious sandwich ever for lunch; from yellow rocket, it was roasted red bell pepper and zucchini (or capsicum and courgette as they say here), rocket, sun dried tomato pesto, and melted brie on a poppyseed bagel. Yummmmm….. I’m so going to get that again.
 

I was reading more of Further Tales of the City last night and something struck me; at one point a character tosses off that there are 200,000 gays in SF. That can’t be right can it? If San Francisco is 750,00 people, that’s nearly a third of the population. Or was it that way before AIDS really hit (the book is from 1980)? Do they ask about orientation on the census?
 

Hmm… according to wikipedia (oh so reliable, I know), “San Francisco has the highest percentage of same-sex households of any American county… Gay men outnumber lesbians; it has been estimated that one in five male city residents over the age of 15 is gay.” Since women comprise 49.3% of SF, if you take 1/5th of ½ of 750,000 you get 75,000 gay guys.
 

Other interesting facts, “With nearly 16,000 people per square mile, San Francisco is the second most densely populated major American city.[79]” San Francisco is a minority-majority city, as non-Hispanic whites comprise less than half of the population. As of 2005, the Census Bureau estimated that 44.1 percent of the population was non-Hispanic white.[81]
 

“Just under 30 percent of the city’s school-age population attends one of San Francisco’s more than 100 private or parochial schools, compared to a 10 percent rate nationwide.[97] [that’s me!]… Among the most prominent private high schools in San Francisco are St. Ignatius College Preparatory and Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory.” Ummm… no. SI maybe, but how about University and Lick? Also, apparently Lowell is the oldest public high school west of the Mississippi. Who knew?
 

Wow – etymologies of street names in SF. They’re missing Balboa, among others.