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The PYROflipper App Gets An Update

It seems the group behind the PYROflipper App flyers, which began popping up around the Mission some time last year, has updated their message. Version 2.0 shifts the blame for San Francisco’s housing troubles from landlords to the (presumably wealthy) residents working in the tech sector, demanding that “tech visionarie$$$” give up their homes “or else.”

And although the above flyer definitely comes across as unhinged, it does include a tiny Batman dancing on a crane. So there’s that.

Hmm

La Taqueria Named Best Burrito in the Country

In a surprise turn of events, “Burrito Expert” Anna Maria Barry-Jester has named La Taqueria’s burrito the best burrito in the country. How was this super important decision made, you ask? Is Barry-Jester some sort of more fully evolved human, capable of eating any and all burritos in her path?

Well, not really. It turns out FiveThirtyEight, the organization behind this foodie March Madness, basically did what they do best and ran a bunch of regressions on publically available data aggregated by Yelp. Having done this, they then created some random metric called a VORB (Value Over Replacement Buritto) and narrowed the national field down to 64 contenders. Barry-Jester (and later, to a smaller extent, Nate Silver) sampled the burritos, giving each one an up or down vote. 

And that’s basically it.

Obviously, this is just a comment on the personal tastes of Barry-Jester, and is not the final word on which of the nation’s many burritos will rock your personal world. I have to admit to being a little confused about the result, myself.

Local blogger/dude Ariel Dovas seemed to put it best:

[Photo: Jeremy Brooks]