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Another hungry mouth to feed in the ghettooooo

Three sought in Albertsons robbery in SF; suspect held

Delfin Vigil, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, December 31, 2006

(12-31) 14:27 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Police have one suspect in custody and are searching for three others involved in a takeover robbery at an Albertsons grocery store this morning in San Francisco's Lone Mountain neighborhood.

Four robbers entered the store at 1750 Fulton Street near Masonic Avenue about 7 a.m., just minutes after the store opened for business, police said. When officers arrived at 7:12 a.m., the robbery was ending, according to an officer at the Park Station.

One suspect was arrested at the scene carrying a toy handgun. Witnesses told police at least three other people were involved in the robbery, including a woman who appeared to be carrying an AK-47 assault rifle.

At least two customers were in the store at the time, but were shopping in the back and may not have known the robbery was taking place, police said. No injuries were reported.

Police believe the three robbers who got away took about $15,000 in cash.

A manager at the store would not comment on the robbery.

Dude, it wasn't me.

Turns out he's not always such a horrible writer

Scrambled egg memories Michael Bauer's post about his deceased father and the food memories related to him and growing up in the midwest. It's quite touching and really resonates with me because I have so many food related memories of my mom.

Powdered sugar

DZ, his brother, and I waited days for the snow to come down like this and we're certainly glad it did. Our housemate said she couldn't sleep like a kid on Christmas morning because she was so anxious to go ride in the powder.

The strong winds sand blasted my cheeks with snow, but the riding surface was outstanding. With my newly waxed board, I loved the floaty feeling of riding on a foot of fresh, gently packed snow.

Playing up the monolid

Ever since my faux goth days in high school, I've been a fan of rocking chipped black nail polish. (Even my brother once came home from the mall with a bottle of Chanel's black polish.) I've switched to purple, but once I heard that Chanel was putting out a limited edition almost-black nail polish called "Noir Ceramic," to match their matte black watches, I started ogling the $18 bottles and thought about reverting to black. I managed to track down the coveted bottles but I'm still mulling over the price tag.

Anyway, so I wanted to see if it was worth it so I checked out my go-to make up forums/reviews site, MakeUpAlley (god forbid I ever pay for something before I read up about it), to see if it was any good. That made me visit an LJ community on asian beauty that an acquaintance of introduced me to, which lead me to a few rather, um, interesting sites. Okay, I'm not entirely sure what think about the following links. Really informative and useful or just scary? I don't know.

Smoky Eye Tutorial Check out the stacked before and after photos. The transformation? WOW. From plain asian jane to import model/stripper. The look is totally unoriginal but I'm sure dudes think it's hot.

Asian Beauty Blog Brought to you by a "20 year old biochemistry major/model/science nerd." Ah, the "model minority." Check out her Smoky Eye Tutorial on YouTube... "Step 11..." (Screw that, man.)

The day IM stood quiet

Unusual. I logged into AIM and none of my friends were online. Not even one.

Vicarious Christmas

When I was leaving work today my boss said "Merry Christmas" to me and gave me a piece of chocolate gelt. Suffice to say, there's really no Christmas for me this year.

NY Times Ready for Christmas slide show.

Yessss!

After weeks of riding in mostly manmade snow and barren conditions, this:
The first big snowfall of the year -- weather forecasters said it could deliver 2 feet in some locations -- arrived appropriately enough on the winter solstice.

Intelligent kids turn into vegetarian adults

Children who scored higher on IQ tests at age 10 were more likely than those who got lower scores to report that they were vegetarian at the age of 30

It makes me wonder why so many very intelligent people continue to eat meat when they know full well about the health benefits of a vegetarian or mostly vegetarian diet. (Deliciousness isn't a good answer.)

Ed. 12/20/2006: Whoever is leaving comments from an IP number coming from what looks to be Yelp needs to add their name to the comments. I don't like comments without names. It feels creepy... but perhaps it is more creepy that my mad Googling sKiLLz could track down an IP number to Yelp. :D

I am not one much for Star Wars

After having watched the entire Star Wars series, I decided I am not a fan but that I do appreciate the products it has inspired like the Han Cholo jewelry line. A girl at my regular coffee shop told me about it and well, it's right up my alley. Check out the "gold digger" pendant, the break dancing pins, and my favorite, the "Baby Moving Stone Ring."

Pretty but...

... there simply isn't enough snow. :sigh:

You will live in happiness too

Last night at Supperclub I was served a wand of cotton candy by an Oompa Loompa. My childhood fantasty come true. Wow.

Sweet 12 hour work day!

I left work at exactly 9:12 PM last night. That means I worked for 12 hours straight. Today I showed up at the office at 8 AM. Go jobby job!

I still hate driving... a lot

Last week I nearly plowed my ex-boyfriend over with my ridiculous car, The Stiletto, as I was driving home from work. There's this one super busy four-way stop in Potrero Hill with a turn that's difficult to look around because there are usually big trucks parked on the corner. When it was my turn to make my right turn, I just about crashed into two pedestrians who suddenly jumped into the crosswalk. Right as I was thinking to myself, "Crazy pedestrians!" I look at one of the guys and realize it's an ex.

How terrible would it have been if I had actually crashed into him? "Judge, I swear, I didn't do it on purpose!"

Fast forward to Saturday. I was up at the Tahoe cabin, bumming around, waiting for it to snow. As is the case throughout Tahoe, my cell phone reception was spotty. When I looked at my phone shortly before going to bed, I saw that I had a voice message. I was too lazy to leave the house to hunt down some reception so I decided to check my message in the morning. On the way to the ski area the next morning, I checked my message-- it was from my brother asking me to call. So I called.

"Hey, you called me."
"Why didn't you pick up?"
"I'm in Tahoe, I don't have reception."
"I got hit by a car."
...

He told me that he was hit by a speeding car while he was walking in a parking lot. He says he's doing okay but that he did have to go to the hospital. He seems in reasonably good spirits but he's worried now that he can't work. I'm hoping he's not permanently hurt.

It's pretty weird and oddly synchronous.

As drivers and pedestrians, please be careful!

Rubik's Modern

Ah, a simple but frustratingly difficult toy gets a sophisticated new colorway. Perfect for me if I loved Rubik's Cube.