App review: Pizza Compass

Pizza Compass! An app that tells you where the nearest slice can be found! No more Yelp, Google, or any other now obsolete app I have used to locate a pizza pie! I happily spent my hard-earned cash on this ($0.99) and noticed I work in a pizza desert. Home, not quite so much, thankfully.

Bestest thing about Pizza Compass? The home screen (main image) pizza slice can be dragged around to point out pizza in a specific direction and displays the name and distance. Aside from the general awesomeness, off the top of my head this is especially great for two reasons:

1. You can't afford any detours between the bar and your bed

2. You live in San Francisco and you don't want to walk up a goddamn hill for a slice of pizza

Although I have a certain respect for apps that do away with extraneous features, it might be nice to do a search by address. Say you're going to a new city and want to see where the pizza at near your hotel. But compasses don't do that. They also don't pick up data from Foursquare, so there you go. Ultimately, I would recommend Pizza Compass to my slice-loving, city-dwelling, bar-hopping pals.

San Francisco Nights

Just a quick photo today of a night. My friends in SOMA have roof access and the view at night is really quite something. I'm working on a panorama – I even managed to capture a few meteorites during the long exposures!

I made a head board

My room/studio apartment is a little ... drab. My couch and rug are both a muted sage green and match my sage green cabinet. My hardwood floors match my dresser, and my table matches my end table. My walls are white and I am far too lazy to paint them or deal with wallpaper. That being said, I've been very motivated to "pimp" my apartment as it were and make it as comfortable and beautiful as possible. Enter the DIY head board.

After consulting a few blog posts on the subject, I decided to take an easier route and make a frame out of canvas stretchers. The staple gun was borrowed and the fabric was purchased (on sale!) from a lovely store in the Inner Richmond called Satin Moon. The sisters who run the place are super helpful and kind. I think the one helping me may have been a little scandalized when I divulged my plans to staple a couple yards of her fabric to four pieces of wood. But, she was very helpful in suggesting how much extra I would need to wrap around the frame and advised going with 18" throw pillows in complimentary pale green instead of 12", and then cut me enough fabric for two.

So, with the cat's help, I set to work making my head board. It was surprisingly easy and I think I spent more time getting the thing to hang level than stapling it. 

Upon finishing and mounting my new head board, I felt a small but significant wave of satisfaction. I love working with my hands and just making stuff in general. I keep glancing over at it from my dinner table/desk and smiling. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true. And the cat just can't help but get in my shot.