Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Slice Of Life
The proof of my idiocy wound, 24 hours later (don’t click it if your squeamish at seeing it this size):
As I told Susan the night of the injury: if I can’t operate a simple pocket knife safely how can I ever be trusted around a blender. Or a baseball bat. Sigh.
3 Comments » - Posted in too much information by Will
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Cue Rimshot
This is as frivolicious as it is lame (though that hasn’t stopped me before!), but ever since I discovered the east/west passage offered my bike and I by Washington Boulevard for our crosstown commutes I chuckle each time I pass this store on the corner of National and Washington, imagining the phone calls.
Never mind [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in ramblings, tidbits by Will
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Of Sharp Edges & Dull Wits
I have one of those Swiss Army knives, the kind that has I don’t know how many blades and tools and such. Among it all there’s a pair of scissors, tweezers… even a little magnifying glass for starting fires should you require such functionality. As a result of attempting to use it (not to start [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in gadgets, idiots by Will
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Looking Nor’easterly From Westchesterly
Post rain and post wind, yesterday was one offering long views from my office 1o stories above the Westchester hardpan. The following semi-annotated view looking northeast was snapped through dirty glass and cropped from a 12x digitally zoomed image so it’s more surreal than real, but it gives you an idea of what’s out there [...]
No Comments » - Posted in los angeles, photography by Will
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
My New Favorite Blog
Knowing how strongly I feel about coyotes, my blogbuddy Julia pointed me in the direction of The Daily Coyote written by a young woman in Wyoming who took in an orphaned coyote pup and has been raising for some time. It is just about the best thing ever.
1 Comment » - Posted in animals by Will
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
Frond Farewell
Chalk this one up as a weather anomaly. Or a poltergeist. At some point over the weekend during the post-rain winds that blew in and out Saturday, an old frond-y appendage from the smaller of our two backyard palms detatched its mooring to fall the 20-some feet to earthas others of its kind have done [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature by Will
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
24th & Hoover
The Monday before Thanksgiving I rigged up my DV cam to my bike’s handlebars and from that POV recorded the one-hour ride in to work.
As I was heading out of town the next evening and it was pretty much a run-of-the-mill expedition I did nothing with the tape until I remembered today that there was [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Battery Mate
It’s certainly not every day that I need 34 CR2032 3V lithium cell batteries, and staring at the stacks of packages in front of me on my desk that I ordered Monday and that arrived last night, I don’t really need that many. At least not all at once. But eventually I will, given that [...]
