San Francisco
-
Foreign-Born Uber Drivers Recommend their Favorite Home Cuisines (in the Bay Area)
Armenian, Bay Area, Brazilian, Cantonese, Cuisine, Curry Without Worry, Drivers, Ethiopian, Food, Food Trucks, Foreign Born, Immigration, Indian, International Cuisine, Japanese, Korean, Moroccan, Nepalese, Nicaraguan, Oakland, Pakistani, Palestinian, Peruvian, Puerto Rican, Recommendations, Restaurants, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Scandinavian, Tibetan, Turkish, Uber, YemeneseIf you love travel and food, as I do, you would have spent nearly every Uber ride in the last year talking with drivers about where they come from (an overwhelming number of them are immigrants) and, amongst other things, where they go to get a taste of home when they’re away from home. What…
-
There’s a word in the English language that’s so taboo that it is only ever referred to by its first initial, and even then it stands in a class by itself alongside other initialed words casually dropped: F-, C-, etc. Unlike these other initialed words, this is the only word that, among most people, can…
-
It has been a crazy holiday weekend. In three days we went from relative obscurity to being the punching bag of the entire tech industry. I suppose some might envy me for all the media attention I’ve received for a side project I built in my underwear one night after waiting in line for a…
-
This morning I put the finishing touches on, and launched, ReservationHop.com, a site where I’m selling reservations I booked up at hot SF restaurants this Fourth of July weekend and beyond. I built it over the weekend after waiting at Off the Grid for 30 minutes for a burrito from Señor Sisig, and realized that there’s…
-
So, I got my car towed this morning. I’ll rephrase. I got my rental car towed this morning, after parking overnight outside my apartment because there was no overnight drop-off. I’ll clarify. I got my rental car towed this morning after parking six inches over the line, my Hyundai’s ass sticking into my neighbor’s driveway.…
-
This is a layperson guide* for what the guy you meet on the plane to Vegas means when he tells you “I have a startup.” I’m building a Chrome plugin that lists all the parks in Salt Lake City on top of all Mormon-operated blogs using a proprietary Google search algorithm I work full time as a…
brian mayer 