Summer social. A great time for a good beer!

One of the articles on the S.F. accident quoted a SFPD officer saying this was something like the 15th pedestrian fatality in San Francisco this year.

Wish him luck next time you talk to him.  

We have a friend that used to work for a nonprofit in SF to make walking more safe. Apparently where the accident happened is a known high collision area in the city and it's largely been left as is (I think their goal had been to advocate for infrastructure improvements to avoid this type of collision)..

Doesn't help that the person was speeding as well.

What surprised me is most of the online comments on the story were people calling out the news agency for saying a Tesla was involved.  Elon Musk's groupies were quick to defend him.  The Tesla driver was speeding and ran a red light and arrested for vehicular manslaughter.

Saw a interview with the owner of the Tesla. He has the car set up as a daily rental when he's not using it. Some woman rented it and she's the one that hit the couple

I had visions of Silicon Valley and someone losing control of the Tesla in super mode or whatever the fuck it was. That acceleration is apparently a bit much for the dweebs of SF to handle, I suppose.

Yup, by law the owner is limited to only $10,000 in liability for an uninsured driver.    Unclear if these single day on-line rentals have any kind of insurance requirement.  The damages in a case like this are in the millions of dollars.

I saw the description and decided to not even watch it.  My wife went through her social media and was showing me all of the pictures they had taken in SF together before the accident and my wife was crying her eyes out.  We have crossed that very street hundreds of times.

What I still find absolutely astonishing is that his Tears in the Rain scene in Blade Runner at the end was improvised completely.  





It was this scene specifically that defined Hauer's career for decades afterward. Hauer, who died on July 19 at the age of 75, went on to have a long, legendary career that included dozens of film and television roles.



Today, he remains best known for the "Tears in the Rain Monologue."



Here's the most iconic piece of it, which Hauer delivers in the pouring rain with a searing intensity:



I've seen things, you people wouldn't believe, hmm ... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion ... I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate ... All those moments, will be lost in time like tears in rain


What's most incredible is that the poetry of this speech was written by Hauer himself. There was originally a longer version of the speech in the script, but Hauer rewrote and improvised a shorter, more beautiful version. It's a stunning moment—one that captures man and machine, life and death in an elegant, concise way.



As he later explained in an interview with Radio Times, Hauer kept two lines about attack ships and C-beams and wrote the rest himself, including the beautiful tears in the rain moment:



It was Hauer’s final addition to the script – the “tears in rain” line – that really sealed the speech’s status; on the day of filming itself, crew members allegedly applauded and cried when the scene was completed.

“For the end line I was hoping to come up with one line where Roy, because he understands he has very little time, expresses one bit of the DNA of life that he’s felt,” Hauer says. “How much he liked it. Only one life.”

Just ordered Comcast. Fuck Direct TV

That's one

I'M IN TOO!