Mission Mission

Mission Local reports:

On Wednesday at about 5:52 p.m., a 48-year-old woman was walking on Hampshire Street near 21 Street when two suspects snuck up on her and pointed a handgun at her, police said.

Authorities said that the victim dropped her phone on the ground and one of the suspects grabbed it. Both suspects fled on foot, according to police reports. [link]

This project is known as San Francisco Pinball Flippers. They seem to be pretty on top of what’s out there, and they’re quite responsive if you alert them to shortcomings:

Spooky, man.

The only catch is that you’ll have to wait until 2015 to try them out.  SFGate reports:

The cars will sport a sleek modern look, cleaner seats, digital information displays, even air conditioning that works on hot days.

Each car will have three doors to speed boarding, but will still have 60 seats, all made of an easier-to-clean material. Seats will be reconfigured with standard seating in rows at each end of the car, and seats situated more informally around standing areas and places for wheelchairs, bikes and luggage in the center.

Looks like those cranial liminal survey scans conducted on BART passengers have finally paid off!  But will they allow bikes on board during rush hour?

[Pics via SFGate]

Previously:

• BART bike parking is not secure
• Why No Bikes on BART Escalators?
• How Bikes on BART is Broken

[via Boring Postcard]

Are you lucky enough to have a landlord that allows pets? If so, Allison has some adorable puppy news for you:

Rocket Dog Rescue has these puppies and others up for adoption right now (as of 3:26pm) in front of Atlas.

Aww! Hurry over!

[via Dennis Kernohan]

The kid’s name is Blue Ivy Carter. We were just gonna drink Chimay Blue (left) in her honor, but instead asked Dear Mom‘s Jay Beaman to invent something wholly new. Behold the Blue Ivy Carter (right). It contains gin, homemade blueberry liqueur (because blue), homemade iced tea (because Beyoncé is from Texas and they drink tea in texas), homemade simple syrup (because the whole family is a bunch of sweetie pies), and has a sugar rim (because HALO HALO HALO). It’s a shot btw. Order one tonight!

Oh and you can also order a Blue Ivy Carter and soda:

Local geriatric anthropologist David Enos just published some interesting new findings:

Older people are invested in the actual physical details of their change in a way that we are not. They like the bill to be exceptionally crisp if possible. No visible creases. Fresh from the US Mint, a bank vault, a villain’s loot. If it is crisp, their eyes light up and they admire its crispness. That bill is probably going into someone’s birthday card. They are also made anxious by any bill smaller than a five.

Read on.

Here’s what we’re looking at: corned beef, rye bread pudding, sauerkraut, Russian dressing. Dang.

It’s from Old World Food Truck, and they run a pop-up out of La Victoria Bakery every Wednesday, serving stuff like Jewish banh mi, mushroom stroganoff, pierogi and more.