San Francisco in Summer = Fog and the WORST weather of the year, every year, for Tourists

It happens every year,,,our summer tourists get off the plane in San Mateo County at SFO and are confused by the nearby sign "South San Francisco, the industrial city" big on the hill, for a city with no self esteem or pride. They eventually get to SF, the other "sf" on the same peninsula, and are met by a solid wall of cloud at sea level with visibility usually less than 100 yards/meters,,,and they are SHOCKED !!

Why did our travel agent not tell us that Summer is reliably the worst weather of every year in San Francisco?!?! Winter has the clearest skies and is the off ,uncrowded, season,,,and Spring is lovely and also uncrowded,,,and sometimes in the Autumn the temperature will hit over 90F. (National Wx Service has only one wx station in the middle temp Mint Hill area,,,for a city with so many different climates and broad range of temperatures.) Why did all the travel guide books not tell us this ?!? Maybe they thought you would be driving inland away from the fog to fabulous Lake Tahoe or wonderful but roads in need of resurfacing Yosemite National Park,,,or downtown Fresno. OK, my bad joke with the 'fresno'.

It may burn off mid-day,,,or it might not, but you can expect fog so BAD on most summer days that you can NOT see the Golden Gate Bridge ,,,AT the Golden Gate Bridge south vista point right next to it! And forget about a view from the geographic center of the city at Twin Peaks, as it too is usually clouded over every morning , evening, and some/most mid-days.

Please folks, do not blame the most expensive city in the USA, SF,,, nor the people who actually LIKE the 'natural air conditioning' every Summer of the Fog ,,,who live in and work in the crazy careless everything-has-a-price, concierges gouge 30-40% usually or your ticket prices,,,city.

It is God's will, every year.

2008 Saturn cars:no more dent-proof body panels, so what is the point?!

I like the redesigned 2008 Saturns, but when i phoned the nearest dealership i was told that none of the Saturn-GM cars have the dent-proof side panels anymore!! What a great idea, and with them Saturn is a nothing brand.

Let's see, Microsoft(thedarkside)wants to buy Yahoo(r2d2) or maybe Google(c3p0),,,

Gee, wouldn't that be swell.

A big corp infamous for terrible/non-existant customer service and mediocre products that the dumb corps and masses have bought,,,

,,,wants to buy a company with some , limited social responsibility,,,or another that talks too much in giving every possible and impossible link,,,

Sounds like another blockbuster guffaw on the Wall Street Big Screen,,,what WILL these idiots and irresponsible fools do next ,for a buck ?!

U.S. Divers-brand facemask vs Scubapro facemask: U.S. Divers wins !!

A few years ago it seemed time to replace my trusty pig-nose purge valve face mask. And i decided to get two, and different brands at an expensive Silicon Valley dive shop, so that i would always have a good spare.

Even got lens put in for my nearsightedness and astigmatism as i wanted to see what difference it would make. Bought 2 black cases, and even suckered for the bottles of anti-fog ,tho i always use and prefer good old spit.

After only a year of skin diving in Hawaii and Mexico and always , always, rinsing off with clean water and drying in the shade the two masks,,,I noticed the Scubapro mask's silicon skirt was getting quite YELLOW.
So i attended the local penultimate annual dive sale in Redwood City and asked the rep for Scubapro if they would replace the obvious by comparison much yellower Scubapro mask skirt. That would be a "no".

From now on , I am only buying U.S. Divers masks.