I’ve Gone To Olympus

Middle of last week there’s an email in my inbox from the Olympus camera company telling me about their PEN Ready Project and how they’re giving away more than 1,000 cameras to more than 1,000 folks and that “we think you’ll be a perfect addition.” I have no idea how they came to such a …

Mystery Solved

Since first reading my friend Waltarrrr’s tweet on Tuesday that he found Alan Deane in my more than 2-year-old timelapse video of my Bike To Work Day 2009 ride, I’ve been wanting to figure out how that needle-in-a-haystack discovery came about. He revealed a bit of the mechanics when KPCC’s Sharon McNary (who I talked …

Alan Deane Memorial Ride

Getting on a bike for a 26-mile ride across the city and back in the dark to visit a ghost bike installed at a Pasadena intersection installed in Alan Deane’s honor and memory is not about logic. It’s not about common sense. It’s about representing. It’s about recognizing. And in doing so I got a …

Rest In Peace, Alan Deane

There was a bike ride on Sunday in Pasadena I wish I’d gone on. It was done in the memory of cyclist Alan Deane, who was killed on his 61st birthday, September 22, struck by a car while riding in Pasadena. I knew about his death and I knew about the ride — I even …

Simply Mesmerizing

The comment I posted to this clip of such amazing movement reads as follows, and I mean it: I am not worthy to watch such genius. The brilliance is blinding!

Tortoise Happiness

Buster got some exercise/explore time out of the tortoise hutch and around the backyard this morning: