anna sauce

"The fatality was *not* from a fixie, it was from a weekend-warrior, the lycra clad, going fast, sporty weekend non-commuter. Let's get our cyclist stereotypes right." - anna sauce

"Ditto." - anna sauce

"Yeah I was just thinking that- doing an acute turn is impossible at 35 mph on a bike - he would probably be able to turn int opposing traffic on market st. (uphill) or to the left, but there's approaching traffic, to go down Market." - anna sauce

"That's a really good point about turning up 17th street, which is an incline and would have been a good runoff. I think he just doesn't do this ride enough to know the options. If he had, he would know not to come down fast, that the corner is frequently full, that he can't break in time at that speed, and a host of other things that experience would have told him." - anna sauce

"I have to admit, all this happens at a split second, so there's that. Also, I'm far more experienced, I want to say, than him at biking in traffic and with pedestrians, since I've been doing this every day (even in rain) for 1-1/2 years, in this city, downtown. I don't go 35mph EVER. It's stupid. There are just too many uncontrolled factors in a large city. When I drove, I went 40mp on King and felt bad about that. So, in his case, he was speeding and that is the main problem in my mind. It's valiant of him to try to crash, but right, deviating from his course would have saved everyone grief. Other choices: trying to swerve into a barrier (isn't the MUNI underground stairwell a wall there?, and aren't there traffic barriers?). He made a bad decision, because he's inexperienced. Do not barrel down a hill if the light is going to change- and lights change- and the counters on the side are great- but in reality, don't go that fast. Pedestrians have the knack of walking into empty traffic..." - anna sauce

"I'm a bike commuter, and was really affected by this story last week. I started stopping at stop signs and cross walks, lights, even more than I usually do. I hope everyone does. It is just so sad." - anna sauce

Sad and anger-making, esp given the revelations today of what this guy said after the accident. - Spidra Webster

"Interesting. Couple of questions- which Koala do you have? They went through a recent upgrade and I haven't tested it. Also, make sure your FBapp settings are like mine: https://skitch.com/e-banane/8q... and https://skitch.com/e-banane/8q... Since it's getting back to the callback method witha "code" it makes me think that FB is configured right. We need to get Koala to send out an auth error, that could be a variety of things. The state that it's erroring at is when Koala asks FB again via an "https://graph.facebook.com/acc..." method, to get the final token. It does a transfer of code for access_token, based on an exchange of credentials that are: the site-url, app-id, and app-secret. Anna" - anna sauce

"Prasanna, when do you get the error- when trying to authenticate? FB passes a "code" that we're capturing in the callback. Try to print that out to log. Feel free to copy in your code here or provide a gist link if you want more detailed help. Anna" - anna sauce

"I was on the jury for a case of oxycodone sale right out front of  Big Bob's Grocery (pictured in doc.), and she's pretty much right about everything- as we were informed by various police who have done, no kidding, 500 arrests in that block area, in the last year (if I recall right). It's called "pharma hill" and has an amazing amount of pill selling- mostly oxycodone (sp?). My understanding is that she's right re: most people commuting to this corner to sell drugs, vs. living here and selling. I do worry about her well-being. It's just awesome that she's standing up and being vocal." - anna sauce

"Ah, you're right!" - anna sauce

"Kim it was so funny- I walked in the room and didn't recognize anybody. 15 years of going to women-in-tech events in the Bay Area. It was awesome, and yes, very glad Elsa recorded them!" - anna sauce

"Yeah, maybe "former" first ladies would have been better, not seated ones, (har har)." - anna sauce