Category Archives: Sunday Switchup

Sunday Switchup: Light and Shadow

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Adam Lang

I am rarely outside at the right time of day to see this, since it’s on the wall of my workplace, early-to-mid-afternoon. But it’s quite a sight. The building next door is a historic monument. The owners decided to build … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: What Ate This Piling?

Posted on September 25, 2016 by Adam Lang

Anyone want to give me a guess what this is? Or, rather, this is probably a piling of some kind, but… what ate it? And if there are things out there that do this to pilings, why are there any … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Two No-Longer-Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill

Posted on September 18, 2016 by Adam Lang

I found these two in a pet store. (Not for sale, for adoption, from one of the local rescue groups.) At first I was sad to hear their story: apparently they had some health problems that meant that they couldn’t … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Here’s The Thing

Posted on September 4, 2016 by Adam Lang

I saw this outside my company’s new HQ, less than a week into our use of the space. I just had to get a picture, especially after I saw its license plate.

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Sunday Switchup: A Boy And His Snake

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Adam Lang

Lucy the ‘blood python‘, to be exact. She’s 3, and about 10 pounds and 4 feet long tail-tip to tongue-tip. I was riding along in the bus on the way to work one morning, and I looked out the window and … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Gloster Canary

Posted on July 10, 2016 by Adam Lang

This bird has the most ridiculous haircut that anyone has had since the late 1960s. Except perhaps Lady Gaga.

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Sunday Switchup: The Second Strangest Home I’ve Seen In San Francisco

Posted on June 12, 2016 by Adam Lang

I have probably walked by this building, Five Lusk Street, a couple hundred times in my years of working in SOMA. I have never, until last week, looked at it from the back, where it becomes apparent just how strange a … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Bentley the Black-Headed Caique

Posted on June 5, 2016 by Adam Lang

Look who I ran into while wandering Fillmore Street on Saturday! Bentley is a girl, and may well be older than you, at 27 years of age. I asked where the name came from, and her dad told me that … Continue reading →

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Sunday Switchup: Funny Hat

Posted on May 29, 2016 by Adam Lang

Found in the Goorin Brothers hat store in North Beach. A very, very subtle misdirection: in case you were deceived, that is in fact an ice bucket, not a fedora.

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Sunday Switchup: New Apple Store

Posted on May 22, 2016 by Adam Lang

Well, it’s the talk of the town. I went and checked it out on opening day, more because it was only four blocks out of my way than because I really needed to go… after all, I jog past that … Continue reading →

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