Mission Mission

Renée (pictured) walks us through a tough one:

“We like brain puzzles here. Do you like brain puzzles?”

I can’t think of anything I like less, sir.

He begins. “Get out some paper.”

“You have 22 socks in a drawer. Half are red, half are green. If you are choosing them randomly, how long before you have a pair?”

The answer is three, of course. And I come to that eventually, though not before I am done administering fractional half-lives and pension plans for each individual sock.

“Simple thinking is the virtue of the unimaginative!” I say, losing.

You see, she’s too creative a thinker for her own good. Read on for more brain puzzles and whimsy.

Previously:

Monday Morning Fashion Triumph

Our pal Cranky Old Mission Guy delivers some good news:

Couple months ago, I noticed that the hideous Chinese dive (the one where the pigeons wander freely in and out the open door) on the west side of Mission, between 17th and 18th, was being  offered for lease.  Couple weeks ago, it had a sign about a new liquor license.  Now I get an official notification in the mail about its imminent transformation into something called Southpaw BBQ, an On Sale General Brew Pub (here’s an online confirmation… and another).  Sounds good to me!

Sounds good to me too! Thanks, COMG!

Which has less healing value than Tea Tree. In fact, if you drank this Valencia Street original blend you may need some Tea Tree Oil to kill off some of the bacteria.

This is Breezy Nix. She looks great in an animated GIF, she’s hot stuff in Berlin, her live set is deadly rad — and she’s making her North American debut Saturday night at Amnesia.

The show’s cheap, the rest of the bill looks funnn, and the B. Nix set will probably blow your mind. Let’s dance:

RSVP and invite your friends via the event’s official Facebook page.

[Animated GIF by A. Hough]

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Evan wrote in to tell us about his new business, Wise Sons Jewish Deli:

My business partner Leo and I had been lamenting the lack of Jewish Deli in San Francisco and the Bay area for quite some time. Eventually, we took matters into our own hands and began to make pastrami in our backyard a few times. We soon realized that a home made, hand cut pastrami was pretty much one of god’s gifts to mankind and that we just might be crazy enough to open a deli in SF. Wise Sons’ vision is to make as much as possible from scratch and get the rest from small local artisans and distributors. We will bring deli food into the new era of local, sustainable, and delicious.

We are currently working out of La Cocina and serving out of Jackie’s Cafe, 105 Valencia @ McCoppin on Saturdays from 9-2. This will be our 5th week there and our second time doing sandwiches. Dianna, our slicer, has experience slicing meats and is the only female slicer in the country. She’ll make you a mean pastrami on our house made rye bread. We’ll also have other options including our debut of Matzo Ball Soup, homemade bialys with lox (we have a vegan bialy sandwich as well) , a corned beef hash breakfast sandwich, chocolate babka and a vegeterian reuben.

Only female slicer in the country! Vegetarian reuben! Let’s go!

Full menu after the jump:

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Reader Gurnek S. writes in with a public service announcement:

Has anyone else noticed a higher volume of car window smash and grabs in the neighborhood recently?  A month ago my girlfriend’s car and my roommate’s car were broken into on South Van Ness at 24th St within two days of each other.  And yesterday, while walking my dog to Garfield Park I saw no less than 6 cars with smashed windows on Treat between 24th and 26th.  Then again today, I saw another car window smashed on Folsom past CC up towards Bernal Hill.  I wouldn’t be surprised if I saw a few more tomorrow.  Anyway, best to tell everyone to take the face plate off that bomb stereo that’s in their hoopty.

Take the face plate off that bomb stereo in your hoopty!

[Photo by Daniel Hoherd]

You guys remember this from last spring right? Our post was called Paper Mission. She was all, “I’m Chloe, I’m French.” And we were all, “Nice paper art!”

Well, tonight Chloe Fleury has an opening at the Curiosity Shoppe (pictured — in paper — below). Go there if you want to see some paper in the flesh!

Gorgeous, right?

Now take a look at its skeleton:

Primo sure is multitalented! Keep an eye on his Flickr stream if you want lots more eyefuls of good stuff.

Evidence found and captured by Cranky Old Mission Guy.