Phillip Torrone wrote a post on Metroblogging SF about laptop thieves hitting SF. The two articles it links to are very scary. I can understand getting your laptop jacked if you leave it and go to the bathroom, but getting STABBED as you sit there in a coffee shop?! That’s really insane. The only thing I can think to deter thieves is to lock your laptop to the table or something. If they can see that it’s not going anywhere, then maybe they won’t make an attempt to steal it. Be careful out there!

Update: News.com has an article about what you can do to protect your laptop.

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My favorite part of my commute is my Urban Cowboy. He wears a beat-up leather jacket, tan cowboy hat (duh), boots, and Levis. He always has a cup of coffee, and he always yells “THANK YOU BUS DRIVER” when he gets off at 6th. He always offers his seat to the ladies (sometimes it’s me!) and never stands in the way of the doors.

I was at Edo buying shampoo with Naomi the other day, and he walked by with his yellow lab (!!!).

“Look, Naomi! It’s my cowboy!”
The receptionist looked out the window. She sighed.
“The Urban Cowboy, don’t you just love him?” She said.

Yes, Edo receptionist, yes I do.

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As I was leaving work today, rather late and rather lonely, I saw these two girls walking together. For reasons inexplicable to me, one girl was holding an ENORMOUS leaf. And it was orange. It was the 5 pointed kind (some New Englander I am…), maybe a maple, maybe an oak. To any extent, it me made me even sadder for the East Coast.

You can’t get maple sugar candy here.
There will be no “first snow.”

Oh well.

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Oh, screw it. Let me tell you a little bit about my commute on Monday. After a long day at work, I left with high hopes of going home and zoning out and killing some Ravaged Corpses. I have two options for getting home: taking the Muni, or taking the bus. Usually in the afternoon iI take the Muni train, because it’s much faster. But there was such a GINORMOUS crowd on the platform that I decided to climb the stairs and take the bus. Naturally, the bus was jam-packed full of people too. Whatever. I made my way to the back of the bus, where I stand directly in front of THAT GIRL. She was sitting next to her friend, with another guy next to her, and another guy standing. THEY WERE TRASHED. At 5:30pm on a Monday? Ok, that’s cool I guess. But they would not shut the hell up!!

“DOES ANYONE WANT SOME JAGER??”
“OH MY GOD, WASN’T IT SOOOOOOOOO FUNNY THAT ONE TIME…”
“HEY, THIS GUY SHOULD COME PARTY WITH US! YEAH!!”

This was a full bus, mind you. It made me want to destroy them. I started fantasizing about all the different ways to hurt them. Then I decided it would just be funnier to take pictures of them and make fun of them on the Internet.

So here’s to you, Drunk On Jager Crew. I salute you for being Giant Assholes on public transportation. Hooray! You made at least 40 enemies that day.

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