(click for the bigger picture) With the world’s shortest railway’s 33% grade and its twin cars Olivet and Sinai shaped accordingly, I’ve always thought of it more as an Angle’s Flight than an Angel’s, but that’s irrelevant. What’s relevant is that starting this past Monday the funicular returned to service after a 9-year absence, and …
I’d wager it was two years ago when the gardening crew that we ultimately fired for using a gas-powered leafblower against our repeated requests not to, helped seal its fate when they apparently mistook this flourishing plant in the frontyard planter box and whacked the hell out of it. That or they just didn’t give …
I’m used to getting slagged at some of my posts on YouTube, most notably the ones where I “hate” on the failings of various other road users that I observe from my bike. In fact, it happens with such regularity that when several days or a week goes by without me being called out there …
I admit it: I can be a tunnel-visioned jerk. I can look at something as monumental as the first-ever Los Angeles Bike & Pedestrian Count — the results of which were just recently released by the L.A. County Bike Coalition (LACBC) — and instead of being all ecstatic I wind up getting all grrrr, bogged …
Leaving for work yesterday morning I found the rear tire partially deflated. While I can’t equate the lesson strictly to riding a bike, one thing I’ve learned from my time in the saddle that sometimes little setbacks have a purpose far beyond being a nuisance. My assist in the rescue of Acorn the Jindo last …
I wouldn’t yet assign blame for the total structural failure to Chudo’s (nee Buster’s) hiding place to this morning’s 4.4 earthquake, but of course I would stop everything I’m doing and use whatever I have available — in this case a pair of small hinges — to put it back together so she can get …
Yep, Los Angeles got shook out of sleep this morning with a preliminary-estimated 4.4-magnitude quake reportedly striking the Whittier fault beneath Pico Rivera at approximately 4:04 a.m. I immediately started tweeting: