Urban Velo and Wired’s Gadget Lab blog are reporting that Specialized is not only hopping on the readymade fixed-gear blandwagon, but the bikemaker has apparently opted to deliver the “cheap” Globe Roll 2 ($800) and Roll 1 ($600) already color-schemed as a “Ghost Bike” either because Specialized has no clue what they’ve done — or …
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Thanks to Shadow’s extended (and long-overdue) visit to the dog groomer yesterday, she now looks great but I ended up being about an hour late to the Hot Dog Death March (HDDM) festivities that began at Pink’s on La Brea. Fortunately I arrived in the nick of time to enter my submission in the Hot …
Back in March I posted about a remarkable cactus pad draped over the north fence that while disconnected from the mother plant still somehow managed to nurture five smaller pads that were thriving forth from it, even though the pad itself was dying. Then in April I did an update about how so moved I …
As you may or may not know my Canon point-n-shoot camera died at the end of May, but fortunately is under warranty and has spent the days since at a camera spa in Orange County I shipped it off to, getting massages and hot oil treatments and immersion tank sessions and group therapy so that …
This morning’s commute to work from Silver Lake to Westchester took me south through downtown and across Jefferson Boulevard through Culver City to the Howard Hughes Center. 6.10.2009 AM Bike Commute Widget powered by EveryTrail: Travel Community POST RIDE REVIEW: Yeah well so REI’s Bike Your Drive ain’t perfect. Looking at the track and the …
Thanks to Ted mentioning it over at his BikinginLA blog, I quickly ventured to the App Store on my iPhone and downloaded the free Bike Your Drive app from REI. Aside from it totally crashing my phone at the outset of my evening commute when I attempted to use its photo function, so far so …