Light Writing

Entirely frivolous, but that’s never stopped me, the above is a comp of images made goofing down in the dark basement with an LED light and the long-exposure functions of the new Canon cam that arrived yesterday and that I bought partially as a birthday present to myself and partially in protest to Olympus not …

Yeah… Some “Courtesy”

Seeing as how Olympus has had my malfunctioning Stylus 710 for more than a month now and it’s been exactly four silent weeks to the day since I wrote them back suggesting Olympus go take a flying leap after the company wrote telling me they considered the damage to be beyond warranty coverage and weren’t …

Getting A Handle On It

2007 has not seen a lot of me digging up the backyard the way I did in 2006. Last year I undertook a number of projects that resulted in some relatively serious — if mostly surface — excavating, and as some of you might recall I came up with a menagerie of metal and glassware, …

I, The Jury

Looks like the Superior Court of the great state of California just can’t get enough of me. In the mail yesterday came a letter summoning me to jury duty July 9. I last answered the call in January 2006.

One Down, One To Go

With today’s 29-miler from Silver Lake through a quiet Memorial Day’d Los Angeles to the national cemetery in Westwood and back I’ve put the first thousand miles of my annual goal behind me and started on the second.