Once again, it was one of the best Bay to Breakers ever.  In a personal best performance, I ran from the SF bay to the Pacific breakers in less time than it takes MUNI's 38 Geary to do roughly the same route according to their fantasy schedule which I'd guess is only achieved in the middle of the night and possibly during the Superbowl.

There's a few pics here.

Every Friday Night Skate we stop at the cable car turnaround at Hallidie Plaza to please the tourists with some stunts. This week I volunteered to be one of the escalator jumpee victims and took this video:

Yes, Steve's skates come as close to my face as it appears. But we've never had an accident that I know of. :^)

I recently upgraded my blinking Magic Helmet.  Click the pic below to check it out.

Recession!  The US hasn't even had one of the two consecutive quarters of negative growth required for labeling this a recession, but still... yay!  Most of the news I've been reading lately on the economy has been wonderful.  High gas prices (in conjunction with lack of credit and a more unstable job market) are finally encouraging Americans to drive less and ditch their SUVs which has resulted in record Bart and CalTrain ridership (and I assume lower PM2.5 air pollution, etc.).  Businesses, rather than raising prices for fear of offending their fickle customers, are instead taking such drastic actions as recycling motor oil and moving goods more efficiently.  Venture capital is flowing into startups focused on renewable energy and other green technology rather than long shot tech ventures.  People are scrutinizing their investments.  In general, the populous is behaving a bit... shall I say rational?  And through all this the stock market is holding up just fine.  It'd be nice if people weren't complaining like little bitches as they otherwise act like adults, but hey this is good to see.  I'd love to see gas consumption reduced even more with a eternal gas tax quadrupling (minimum, and set as a percentage of purchase price rather than per gallon) anti-holiday coupled with public transit use rebates.

(The picture above was taken at the KFOG Kaboom.  I used an 8 second shutter and rotated the camera in a circle.)

This is one of the coolest things I've seen on the net in a while:

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Wow. Checking out the artist's web site is also worthwhile -- there's some pleasantly disturbing drawings in his sketchbook.