![]() ![]() Businesses like Yelp took root in the high-energy, high-density city chains like Mixt flourished alongside them as their workers ventured out for lunch. ![]() Their virtuous cycle of nearness, of new ideas becoming new companies, feeding other ideas that become other companies, was the template for urban growth. Mixt was a booming business serving lunchtime salads to the workers who traveled on electrified trains and skateboards to their jobs in downtown cubicles. Yelp was an idea that became billions of dollars in value on the internet. Yelp and Mixt had little more than proximity in common, which at that time was enough. The nearby salad store was part of a fast-growing chain called Mixt. ![]() Decades later, it served as the home of the local search company Yelp. The 26-story building, an Art Deco landmark that was once the tallest in the city, began its life as the headquarters for the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Company. Take the five-minute jaunt from the office building at 140 New Montgomery Street to a line-out-the-door salad shop nearby. There was a time three years ago when a walk through downtown San Francisco was a picture of what it meant for a city to be economically successful. The lanyard-wearing visitors who crowded the sidewalks when a big conference was in town. The columns of headphone-equipped tech workers rushing in and out of train stations. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.The coffee rush. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.įor printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.įor PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Coffee Rush is a 3 Page digital PDF file.Preparation page which includes a list of items, places, and characters you will need to pull for the game system of your choice.Includes multiple encounter scenarios, job offer, and optional hooks for your next game.Unfortuntely for the crew, the gambler's luck runs out when he can't keep his mouth closed and a whole bar filled with treasure hunters sets off on a race to claim the elusive goods. The team is offered a job to meet with Whirl's contact and find out where he his hiding his cache of coffee and retrieve it. Tyra "Whirl" Phun is a pre-collapse antiquities collector, and a stash of authentic coffee is a gem she can't pass up. After not being able to keep the secret to himself though, a race of scoundrels and entrepeneurs breaks out to get to the stash. This one page adventure offers you the framework to the story of a street gambler who finally catches a bit of luck when he finds a stash of authentic coffee. All of the NPCs, items, and locations you will need to pull from your game of choice is listed in a preparation section of the adventure. A street gambler who finally catches a break, and a city full of scavengers, collectors, and bangers all trying to snatch it away.Ĭoffee Rush is a system agnostic cyberpunk themed adventure.
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