In my boundless wisdom and foresight, when me previous Mac desktop — which had long been buggy and glitchy — reeeeaaaaally started to act a fool and make me cry, I transferred all my photos onto an external drive. We’re talking something like 20,000 of them dating back eight years. Sure enough the computer booted …
I was reminded the day before yesterday that biking isn’t just good for you, it can be good for others, too. Fast-backward with me to March 2009 when I saw a traffic accident occur at 3rd and Commonwealth (read my post all about it, here) and stopped to be of assistance and come forward as …
(click it for the bigger picture) The high concentration of rainfall in December followed by a condensed cold snap that gave way to the present warm-up conspired to trigger a lot of the backyard foliage — including our callalily –Â into blooming early, perhaps sensing winter had come and gone and spring was here. I …
The following was a comment (not necessarily as long-winded as I can usually be, but certainly verbose as comments go) that I added this morning to a post at The Eastsider LA Blog about a lone representative of the species spotted and photographed at an area little league field, submitted after reading one commenter who …
Back in November on Blogging.la, I posted about a fancy new fully cinematic and futuristic Air Force “It’s Not Science Fiction” commercial I saw on TV that utilized a decidedly disaster-struck 6th Street Viaduct (over a CGI’d full LA River below) upon which a dramatic rescue operation takes place. I paused the TV to get …
For as conscientious and proactive about the environment and resource conservation as I like to think I am there are things that happen that just make me scratch my head at what a lazy dummy I can be. Case in point: this spigot, which in the picture below you’re seeing in its deaththroes as a …
(click it for the biiiiiigger picture) Yeah yeah, I know it looks like I was really drunk as I snapped this recently completed Caché/EyeOne/ Skypager mural around the corner from our house, but you can’t blame it on my blood-alcohol level so much as my trying to use an iPhone Panorama360 app in a way …