Muni’s new 3-Jacassus route
Hilarious! I was super pissed when I just missed the 21 Hayes outbound, so went to wait for the 71 or the 6. Then … I saw this beauty. It was worth it.
Category: Funny: Muni LOLs
Joyce Lee’s Mom Takes on Muni
I first saw Joyce at the Tourettes Without Regrets’ 10th anniversary show, where she knocked my socks off with her poem, “Crazy:”
“I’m only as crazy as my love is. And my love checks your Facebook every fucking day.”
Joyce has an upcoming poetry CD/DVD, her first professionally produced CD/DVD. She’s also got a Kickstarter page to help get the CD/DVD produced, so check it out if you liked what you heard!
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What if a cute bunny gave NextBus predicitions?
That must be what Ciaran asked himself. He says, “I finally found a use for this French wifi connected rabbit I bought.”
Inaccurate predictions sound a little better from the robot rabbit, eh?
Update for the geek inside all (ok, some) of us:
Ciaran sent over more notes about how he programmed the robot rabbit called Karotz, which he details on his blog.
An excerpt: First you write javascript programs that interact with an API to control the various Karotz functions like the ears, text to speech etc. Find the developer’s forum on Google Groups (use Google’s automatic translation feature because it’s mostly in French).
Then spend a few evenings writing the Muni times app, using available bus arrival data through xml feeds. You’ll need to use tinyxmldom.js. Upload the code to the rabbit through the website — good luck trying to debug it, though. There is a Linux vm for developing but it’s only a javascript vm, not a simulator.
Wow. Or, you can always just watch the video above like we did.
Thanks, Ciaran!
Wanted: Muni advice for an out-of-towner
Photo by Lulu Vision*
Here are some of James’s questions:
- Do we pay when we get on? Or do we need to have pre-paid passes or something?
- When we’re at a bus stop, do we need to put our hand out to catch it or does it always stop at every stop?
- Is there a bell you ring to get off the bus?
- What do I say to the driver when I get on? What’s the little phrase that people use? (for example, here in the UK, it’s usually “one to town, please” or something like that).
- Do I get given a ticket? Do I need to keep hold of it?
A few things have changed since we did a “newbie orientation” last year. The SFMTA has a new customer guide, which addresses some of these questions in more detail but doesn’t really go into my favorite question from James: what you say to the driver when you get on?
We thought it more fitting to turn his inquiry over to you, the Muni-riding community. So whadaya say? Help a guy out.
* Pictured is one of the short-lived Muni double-decker buses, which, you know, is so … British.
Mr. Eric Sir’s idea about Nat Ford’s severance
Local internet wunderdude, Mr. Eric Sir, has a right splendid idea for how Nat Ford’s now-approved $384,000 severance package should be paid out. Read more at Mr. Eric Sir’s site.
Unnecessary Rudeness: A PSA of Sorts
Photo by Tantek Çelik
She says this in response:
“Can’t you read? It said ‘already processed.’ Fucking idiot.”
So … some friendly reminders and tips for everyone at home:
- “EH-EH” is the no-no sound. “EH,” singular, is the good sound. Both are really loud and obvious.
- Those machines always tell you, aurally and on the screen, when your tag worked. Pretty sure it displays a red light if it didn’t.
- It happens to the best of us. I usually board the bus, rolling my eyes after two tries, and tag at the back doors.
- The drivers can be faulted for a great many things, but failure to tag a card on persnickety machines isn’t one of them.
She was sweet as pie to the passengers, perhaps realizing how snatchy the whole exchange was.