coffeefog

the day as it stands

I set out today with several goals - those included drinking coffee, buying tickets to a beulah show, getting a haircut, and photographing someone on a miniature motorcycle. The motorcycle plan is a particularly important one, because it's hard to get the point across to people who don't see it every day - miniature motorcycles are incredibly popular in San Francisco. Whether they're street legal or not is unclear to me, but over the past few months people have been riding around on these more and more. It's truly ridiculous.

I managed to whip out my camera just in time to take this photo - all thanks to their incredibly loud and nasal engines announcing their approach a block away.

You might say that my day was a success, what with the picture of this dude on the tiny motorcycle and all. But today I also failed, and learned from that failure. I tried to give away the rest of my books from the giveaway last month. I took them down to the street and sat with them, and shouted at passers-by to come take a look and maybe take a book with them. I, perhaps naively, expected the streets to teem with book-lovers, all eager to take a copy of Linux Device Drivers off my hands. In reality, 15 minutes got me one woman whose loose grasp of the english language made her interested only in "something easy." I convinced her to take a copy of The Beach by Alex Garland (although she seemed offended when I cited Leonard DiCaprio as a reason to read The Beach). So, in summary, after that I got bored and came back upstairs, leaving the pile of books there.

Every now and then I peek out the window and check, but it's all still there. The lesson to be learned from this is: People don't like to pick shit up off of the street. Even if it's free. Also I am lazy.