Archive for April, 2008
Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Passion Of The Boing Boing!
Hey now! The photo below (click to humongify) of a passion flower and carpenter bee that I snapped on the way to work this morning (and posted to L.A. Metblogs) was found by Mark Fraunfelder and posted on Boing Boing. Dang Dang!
Too bad he thinks my name is “Will Mann.”
Even more too bad are the [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in internet by Will
Friday, April 11th, 2008
The Power Of The Pen Keyboard
A couple posts ago I pointed a hellbent finger at a couple insurance companies with the word “Farm” in their titles who just so happened to put out near-simultaneous TV advertisements that take unnecessary pokes at bike commuters.
What I neglected to mention was that I wrote emails to State Farm and Farmers respetively taking [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in ads, letters by Will
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
About The Burrito Incident With Buddy Ebsen At The Vine Street Big Lots!
And so it was that a crew of five of us set out with about 40 fresh and piping hot burritos on last night’s revitalization of the dormant Hollywood Burrito Project ride and we learned that no good deed goes unpunished. We headed up Western Avenue where first I flatted my rear tire after nailing [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in adventure, biking, disgraceful, food, people, unfathomable, volunteer by Will
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
This Is Why I Hate Insurance Companies With “Farm” In Their Names
This first commercial from Farmers Insurance posted below left the urban cyclist in me wanting to bike over to the company’s Wilshire Boulevard headquarters and egg the building. The next one from State Farm just makes me twitch:
But beneath the arrogant humiliation of cyclists and cycling that’s being promoted in those spots, there’s a bit [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in biking, idiots, rants by Will
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Hey Bud
Around the same time last summer that I made this night-long timelapse of a nocturnal cactus flower opening wide, I dropped a couple fallen prickly pear cactus pads into a small pot of soil and commenced spritzing them with water occasionally through the subsequent seasons in hopes that they might keep on going.
I’m pleased to [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in backyarchaeology, nature, tinkering by Will
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Roy Batty’s Dying Words
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”
I’ve trumpeted it before: the magicalsad happybad intriguing provoking unique surprising things one finds from the saddle of a cycle through the city, and yesterday was no exception. OK, so maybe mine aren’t anywhere near as spectacular as attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, but they’re [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in biking by Will
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Fauxtograph: The Dude A-Strides
Sitting in the parking lot next to Tacos Delta this afternoon, I spied the iconic Silver Lake Walking Dude across the street on Sunset. Whenever I see him he’s either reading a newspaper or talking on his cellphone.
Instead of the straight pixels I snapped I decided to put the digitally zoomed image through a random [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in neighborhood, people by Will
Sunday, April 6th, 2008
Into The West
(click to quadruplify)
At 30,000 feet westward somewhere over Knoxville, Tenn., from seat 18F the view was pretty spectacular out of my U.S. Airways Airbus A321 starboard portal, but its serenity belies what had been a pretty spectacularly turbulent ride all the way here from out of Charlotte — and we weren’t through it yet [...]
No Comments » - Posted in travel by Will
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Hurry Up & Wait
Oh well. I got to the airport immediately after the close of the convention today in hopes of getting on an earlier flight (and also just in case it was total delay madness in the wake of last night’s storms). I was happy to find it relatively calm, but sadly the earlier flight — which [...]
No Comments » - Posted in travel by Will
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Maybe It’s A Southern Thang
All’s good over here in North Carolina. I’ve been as busy as the weather’s been wet, culminating this evening in severe thunderstorms that I’m keeping my fingers crossed will abate by by sometime before my flight’s time tomorrow evening.
Strange that the only times I’ve been to Wal-Mart in my entire life, both have been for [...]
