Around 11 I went down to Polk and North Point to catch the 30 Stockton, and my timing was serendipitous. It was idling a block away on its half-terminus on Van Ness, and shortly revved up to set about its appointed route, as did I. ;-) My pleasant chore: to get to downtown, near the Moscone Center, and find Central Computers, where to obtain a cheap wired USB-A keyboard for my M1 Mac Mini (given to me by Fed some years ago) which had been lying dormant for a while now (since when my time at Finalis came to an end, in the spring of last year). Lately, I thought... why not go all-out on the agentic/coding aspects of the frontier models and use it as a platform/substrate for IM? ::chuckle:: And so, finding the old bluetooth keyboard I used with it as well and truly defunct, I needed a new one. Hence today's walkabout start.

This is on Columbus Avenue in North Beach, just before the turn right to Stockton Street and Chinatown proper; thought the ziggurats of the Transamerica Pyramid and the Salesforce Tower an iconic thing to capture for posterity, at this intersection. A block further down is, of course, the legendary City Lights Bookstore, beating heart of the Beat Generation, even as Lawrence Ferlinghetti is no longer with us (he passed away soon after I returned to the Bay Area, and I recall making a pilgrimage to the bookstore to see the memorials for him on the sidewalk and storefront.