Bus with a bike rack, bed with a canopy

No doubt there will be more updates over the weekend, but it's worth popping up now with a few observations.

First of all, I travelled on a bus with a bike rack today. This guy just came along, unfolded the rack, secured his bike and hopped on the bus. You could just about see the handlebars through the bottom of the windscreen. Brilliant idea or what?!

Secondly - more bike-related stuff - I've found live urosport audio, which should let me listen to the finishes of the Tour de France stages as I get going in the mornings. There might well be TV coverage in the US, what with Lance Armstrong making his comeback, but the audio will do me for now.

Thirdly, the bed in my room at SciFoo has a completely gratuitous canopy. You can't let it down or anything, it's just a canopy across the top. It's the first time I've been in a room with air conditioning too (call me a luddite).

Finally, street names. When I first arrived in San Francisco a couple of ays ago, I must have looked like a right wally craning my neck to search in vain for street names on buildings. Nope. In this town, the first set of street names I found are on lamp posts in the middle of the road, like election candidates. They also don't have the full name of the street, just Mason and Powell and things like election candidates. The second place I eventually found the street names is written in the concrete at pedestrian crossings - in the pavement itself.