I’m in San Francisco for the Game Developers’ Conference. I’m sort of with my parents, but while I’m at GDC, they’ll be visiting relatives. After checking to the swank hotel, we took a trip Fisherman’s Wharf. Having wandered this center strip of town, I’ve noticed a few major things.

1.) Where’s the police presence? It wasn’t until I saw one drive by that I realized I hadn’t seen any others. So far I have a grand total of two.

2.) The city buses aren’t wrapped in advertising. All they have is a smallish billboard on the side. I wonder if there’s some strong advertising regulations here.

Also, it’s frickin’ freezing here. I brought two fairly light jackets and had to double up on them. Hopefully I can survive without having to spend “California money” on something heftier. I was also interested to see United Colors of Benetton still exists. I’d thought that died when we moved back to the US from Sicily.