{"id":1028,"date":"2009-06-18T09:12:55","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T08:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2009-06-18T06:15:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T05:15:02","slug":"san-francisco-initial-culture-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/san-francisco-initial-culture-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco &#8211; initial culture shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just over a day since I arrived to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"San Francisco\" rel=\"geolocation\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.7793,-122.4192&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=37.7793,-122.4192%20%28San%20Francisco%29&amp;t=h\">San Francisco<\/a>, and it&#8217;s time to write down some initial reflections, to prevent me getting too used to them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>starting off with the weather. It&#8217;s actually kind of cold. Around 14C throughout the day, even though reports are optimistic and claim 22C high. It&#8217;s also  bit windy in some areas, making this climate even more annoying. It&#8217;s no bad, it just means I can&#8217;t walk around without a jacket.<\/li>\n<li>hills are fun. Terrain button in Google <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Google Maps\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\">Maps<\/a> actually makes lots of sense now. You actually have to consider elevation when moving around.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/operascreensnapz018.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-986\" title=\"operascreensnapz018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/operascreensnapz018-300x207.png\" alt=\"operascreensnapz018\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m still afraid of getting lost. It&#8217;s not that hard once you figure out which roads are connecting ones, but from the map, it looks like something from an ant farm:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/operascreensnapz019.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-987\" title=\"operascreensnapz019\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/operascreensnapz019-300x207.png\" alt=\"operascreensnapz019\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solution to getting lost is of course &#8211; Google Maps enabled phone. Luckily @<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Denis ?ahuk\" rel=\"blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deniscahuk.com\/blog\/\">alpheus1<\/a> borrowed me his Google I\/O Android G2 phone with powerful SIM. With all those apps on your phone, that use locational services (like where&#8217;s the closest cinema, shopping and what is the best public transport route from &#8220;here&#8221; to &#8220;there), you suddenly see the Future of Mobile. It&#8217;s very bright and I can&#8217;t wait for it to come to .si<\/li>\n<li>Lots of Chinese take-away\/restaurants here, the other half are hair saloons and spa&#8217;s. There&#8217;s also a place where you can legally buy <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Medical cannabis\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Medical_cannabis\">medical marijuana<\/a> (if you &#8220;need&#8221; it). Economy of local business development in neighborhoods has to be fascinating.<\/li>\n<li>Lots of Hybrid cars on the road, together with very big cars. Think like <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sport utility vehicle\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sport_utility_vehicle\">SUV<\/a> .si, just bigger.<\/li>\n<li>People are much nicer here. Joggers in the morning actually greet each other.<\/li>\n<li>Units here are just wrong. I wanted to buy 1kg of apples in the afternoon and realized I have no idea how to explain in local language. If you are wondering, you want to get about 2 lbs (pounds) of apples.<\/li>\n<li>Working with people from all timezones is funny. My Dashboard looks currently has 5 clocks, so I don&#8217;t have to think:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/x-chat-aquascreensnapz001.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-988\" title=\"x-chat-aquascreensnapz001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/x-chat-aquascreensnapz001-300x62.png\" alt=\"x-chat-aquascreensnapz001\" width=\"300\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For now I still care for weather at home, so I can follow local chatter in chat rooms:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/firefoxscreensnapz122.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-989\" title=\"firefoxscreensnapz122\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/firefoxscreensnapz122-238x300.png\" alt=\"firefoxscreensnapz122\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Don&#8217;t let the weather report mislead you. It&#8217;s 14C all day.<\/li>\n<li>I have yet to try roller skating over these hills, but it seems that they&#8217;ll be at least useful for weekend sightseeing tours around the city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have yet to connect with local scene so the report on that follows a bit later, but just looking at events list for next week shows some very promising things.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadling.com\/2009\/01\/23\/road-test-google-public-transit-maps-on-the-iphone\/\">Road test: Google public transit maps on the iPhone<\/a> (gadling.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17939_109-10253661-2.html?part=rss&amp;subj=Webware\"> Google giving small businesses local search data <\/a> (news.cnet.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/kicking-off-2nd-annual-google-io.html\"> Kicking off 2nd annual Google I\/O developer gathering <\/a> (googleblog.blogspot.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/5b2e07cc-5ce4-450c-9760-478991fd21d9\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?x-id=5b2e07cc-5ce4-450c-9760-478991fd21d9\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s just over a day since I arrived to San Francisco, and it&#8217;s time to write down some initial reflections, to prevent me getting too used to them: starting off with the weather. It&#8217;s actually kind of cold. Around 14C throughout the day, even though reports are optimistic and claim 22C high. It&#8217;s also bit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,14],"tags":[751,312],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-life","category-tech","tag-reflections","tag-san-francisco"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}