Just one more week, and the kids will go house to house to pick up some candy. It's Halloween time. I just got in time to secure a great costume, which I'm afraid of being really popular this year: Angry Birds Costume...I just bought this Yellow Angry Birds costume last Friday, just in time for delivery this week. The pictures of Halloween at the Geeknet office will follow, as I intend to wear my full outfit not only in the office, but also going to work with the Muni.

If you are still looking for a costume this week, you are almost too late to secure the savings buying online. You rather go to the store to pick up a costume, but who knows if they would sell the Red Angry Bird Costume in the Wallgreens...Otherwise you might be walking in this...:

Buy quickly an Angry Bird Costume for yourself, or a cute Blue Angry Birds Costume for kids...

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Angry Birds Halloween Costume

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You know the feeling. You run to your car, because you know there is street cleaning today. Unfortunately you are already too late, and there is a parking ticket on your car... $50 wasted. Well at least the city can put that money to work... Yeah Right!

But how funny is it that these little parking police cars will park anywhere, even when there is a sign they can't!

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FAIL: Parking in San Francisco

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Everybody hates it, getting a parking ticket. And yes, I hate it too! Last week, when I had to take the family out for a short while, and intended to WFH, Work From Home, I totally missed the window for the street cleaning. Monday morning, I thought street cleaning was from 9-11! But nope, it was from 11-2. And I ignored to look at the signs as I was over confident that I was right to park there. And boy was I happy to have the parking place. Normally the street is packed with cars from other neighborhoods, now I could find a parking spot just in front of my house, sweet!

Paying your ticket in San Francisco is quite easy. Coming from Europe I have always been surprised that people still pay with checks here in the US. But I've never seen a smooth payment system for parking tickets in The Netherlands, as I've seen here in San Francisco. And trust me, I've had more parking tickets than I would have wanted!

First of all, you can easily check if you have gotten a parking ticket at the SFgov site. Just type in your license plate and you will see all the open tickets that you still need to pay for your car.

The overview gives you the full list of all the open citation tickets you still have to pay.

The total will give you the overview the amount of money you will be down. Always painful, but better pay off these tickets, as the amount will go up if you don't pay!

Unfortunately you cannot pay with Paypal, but paying with the Paypal plugin is a possibility as you will be able to pay with credit card.  The whole process only takes a couple of minutes, maybe not even two!

And just print out the confirmation, and you are ready again.  

Sweet processing & payment process. Not so sweet that I'm $50 down again!

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Parking Tickets San Francisco Style

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