Archive for October, 2007
Friday, October 19th, 2007
Birthday Ride
It’s coming up on two years since our passion for bicycling brought us to meet at the Echo Park Christmas Parade where a contingent of Bike Kitchen devotees were invited to lead the event. Since then Stephen Roullier and I have logged a lot of miles together, but few more awesome than last night when [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Thursday, October 18th, 2007
Are We Too Neener Focused Nowadays?
A few weeks ago, in response to my posting on YouTube a somewhat painstakingly and successfully achieved timelapse of a nocturnal cactus flower blooming, I got the following comment from a viewer whose username is 74mr in response to what he deemed my mistake in identifying the plant as a San Pedro cactus:
That cactus is [...]
No Comments » - Posted in internet, rants by Will
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Of Innertubes & Angels
At 8 a.m. this morning I climbed aboard The Phoenix and commenced riding in to work the long way in from Silver Lake to Lafayette Park down Hoover to USC and from there across Jefferson. At Hoover across Washington something’s not right: is my rear tire low? Kinda, but it seems to be [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
A Few CCs of Prevention
All my life I’ve naively figured I’d just tough it through flu season, rationalizing that if I didn’t go around picking up used tissues off the floors of public bathrooms or sharing lipstick, or licking my fingers after shaking someone’s hand or putting used cat toys in my mouth I could dodge the bug.
Despite adhering [...]
No Comments » - Posted in health by Will
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Me To YMCA: I Quit You!
I joined the downtown YMCA back in 2003 primarily because as healthclubs go, it’s really one of the best — not just because of its variety of programs or state-of-the-art equipment, but also because being in the heart of downtown it attracts a much more no-nonsense clientele. It isn’t some posing parlor meatmarket like most [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in health, money by Will
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
I’m Not Obsessed But My Knees Are
This morning will be the first since October 5 that I’ve been on my bike. Year to date there’ve been only two spans of bikelessness in that amount or longer. The first was the rather inauspicious beginning from January 1-11 when I didn’t pedal an inch, and the second was from May 5 - 27 [...]
No Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Powered By Ranting
Like most bullshit automobile adornment trends — the pissing Calvin, “Baby On Board” signage, bumper stickers that petulantly demand I accept that Jesus Is God while simultaneously commanding that I Read The Bible — I don’t know where and when they start. All I know is that they can never fade away fast enough to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in idiots, rants by Will
Sunday, October 14th, 2007
Laptop Craptop
While I was in Orlando last week, I was provided with a company laptop to use. It was a Hell Dell Latitude, which more appropriately or subliminally should be called L’attitude –French for “the attitude” — because one crucial and malignant aspect of it was continually and predominately a freakin’ pain in the ass and [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in gadgets, rants by Will
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Airport Snapshot: Gate Hell @ Orlando International
My earlier post this morning described the uneventfulness of the flight. That’s not to say the wait at the gate went as smoothly. I guess I temporarily blocked it perhaps as a sanity-saving measure, but fellow contributer Cutter’s post this morning about cellphonetards brought the recollection back in full technicolor:
While waiting for my L.A. flight [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in travel by Will
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
S’Gooda To Be Backa
Very much the pleasant flight home last night and a nice surprise to find it raining when the plane landed at 9:35 p.m. While shuttling from the airport back to my truck parked out by the Crowne Plaza Hotel I figured it was just localized sprinkles, but it kept up pretty much all the way [...]
