Night Bloomer

Upon finally being able to review the vid this morning, I found that the computer’s crash didn’t come at midnight. Instead it kept on storing images in sequence every 15 seconds until shortly before 4 a.m. Fortunately the 300mb file was condensable too a far more YouTube friendly 38 megs. Enjoy:

Indignorance

I knew as much, but a quick search of the Google shows me that I didn’t coin the term “indignorance,” which can best be defined by the statements of one angeleno named Graham A. Rowe in a letter to the editor he wrote to the Wall Street Journal, responding to that paper’s entirely slanted and …

Chainrings Ripped My Flesh

Damn but on my rides in to work and back home today, the bike’s rolling tight. With everything battened down it travels like new without making a sound. Small consolation for the pain I endured Sunday getting it to this point. See first, I re-greased the stem and got rid of the snap-crackly sound that …

Lights, Camera, Action

Saturday morning I found one of the neighboring yard’s cactus flowers pretty well inundated with bees, and posted about it here with video links on L.A. Metblogs. Sure enough by Saturday night all but one of the remaining cactus blooms  opened up, none of which were ideally situated to capture the nocturnal blossoms in all …

Nolympics

Rising from the terrorizing ashes that were the 1972 summer games in Munich, my fervor for the Olympic games probably crescendoed in 1976 when Bruce Jenner won the decathlon and I decided I wanted to become a world-class decathlete by 1980. That pipe dream was crushed when I approached Coach Hills at Le Conte Junior …