Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
I’m A Big Zero
I can remember the moment I first incurred debt crystal clearly. It was in the old The Broadway store in Sherman Oaks Fashion Square. It was April. It was 1985. I was 20 years old. It was a pair of sunglasses I didn’t need, but the lenses featured the latest in “blue blocker” technology that [...]
9 Comments » - Posted in flashback, home economics by Will
Monday, March 30th, 2009
A Sphinx, Methinx
For the past week or so, I’ve caught fleeting glimpses of it. Always on the move and quickly so, the hardworking white-lined sphinx moth is in its seasonal moment, and this one seems to find the flowers around our yard to be a good source of nectar. During the day the sphinx moth wastes little [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in animals, nature by Will
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Oh The Cleverness Of Me!
One of my favorite diversionary iPhone apps is a little number called Bloom from Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers that allows users to generate ambient musical compositions by tapping out notes on the iPhone’s screen that then get replayed in a slowly fading loop that you can add on to pretty much for infinity.
In times [...]
No Comments » - Posted in gadgets, music by Will
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
Turn Out The Lights Sweet Darling
In geeky honor of last night’s sheduled Earth Hour event, Susan and I went overboard. We didn’t just turn out the lights sweet darling, we went all the way in flipping all the fuses and enjoying a self-imposed black out for an hour Saturday night.
It was a terrifically serene scenario that of course made me [...]
No Comments » - Posted in adventure, happenings by Will
Friday, March 27th, 2009
Prime Time
Turns out having someone using my debit card fraudulently ended up saving me some money! In my inbox yesterday is an email with the subject line of “Amazon Prime Renewal Alert” and I open it to find Amazon telling me that they’re having trouble charging my renewal fee to the payment card on file — [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in internet by Will
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Hole In The Wall, Gang
Progress. This photo’s already outdated because the contractor and his crew have taken out the space heater and framed out the landing for the staircase that will reconnect the first floor with the second inside the house for the first time in more than 58 years.
We’re bringing it down into what was our bedroom [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in home economics by Will
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
A Blessed Workaround
Since getting my iPhone last summer and abandoning the despised 323-prefaced digits foisted upon me by Verizon for a rightful and coveted old-school 213 number available through AT&T, I’ve had the occasional fun of getting wrong number calls at really crappy hours. From the same person. Like yesterday at 5:37 a.m., or again this morning [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in gadgets, idiots by Will
Friday, March 20th, 2009
A Tale Of Two Buses
Thanks to my buddy Ted at BikinginLA tapping my buddy Damien at Streetsblog LA on the virtual shoulder and saying “Take a look at what happened to Will” last Tuesday, Damien not only re-posted my my timelapse video of my bad bus driver encounter on his indispensable blog, but because he knows actual people that [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in biking, mass transit by Will
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
That’s “Internationally Published Nature Photographer” To You
Not quite a year ago whilst biking to work one morning I passed a patch of passion fruit flowers growing on a fence alongside the Ballona Creek Bikeway near Sepulveda Boulevard and among the many marvelous blossoms found a big and busy carpenter bee hard at work on one. As I go nowhere without a [...]
4 Comments » - Posted in animals, media, nature, outdoors, photography by Will
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
AM/PM
Timelapse videos of yesterday’s morning and evening commutes, the latter featuring an extended visit with me alongside the Ballona Creek Bikeway as I patch my fourth flat of the year and then have trouble getting the tube seated inside the tire. And both clips are entirely free of any negative bus interactions, FTW:
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