This photo accompanies this news story reporting that part of the exterior shots for the opening Olympic ceremonies were faked (done in CG) due to smog. Apparently it is too smoggy to fly a helicopter over Beijing. wow. If carbon trading ever takes off globally China is going to go bankrupt…. I also happened to […]
up
Today I introduced Cindy to Stoney Point. It was ironic because she knows a lot about indoor climbing but has never done it “in the wild” – which turned out to be an entirely different experience. Cindy also made her first trip to Vallarta today and went home with a lot of confectionary delights (and […]
karma dharma
Chinese class didn’t go so well last night. It probably had more to do with the fact that I didn’t really study than anything else. The expected comprehension level seemed to shoot way up as we were quizzed on multiple new words and phrases without being able to look in the book. At one point […]
adventure
I nearly forgot yesterday that I had to go to an Excel Advanced training course today. I left the house around 6:45, not knowing how long it would take to get to the LAX Holiday Inn. It took about 45 minutes and I arrived at the hotel a full 90 minutes before the start of […]
ladytron
I never checked out Ladytron until today. I’d always heard OF them, but never listened to anything by them. Does this song remind anyone else (the vocals) of Pet Shop Boys? I listened to a few other songs and wasn’t as impressed, but this one isn’t that bad.
From Britain no less….
My dad commented on my entry yesterday with this article. Turns out it is an excerpt from an entire book about the same topic as my “check” posting from a week ago. The kicker here is that the author is a woman. This is a problem that is slowly slowly being aknowledged. A few of […]
nickname coleslaw
Someone made a youtube of one of my favorite artist’s paintings. …set to one of my favorite musical artist’s songs. A lot of his work is more “fantastic” than bone-chilling – but this video features more of the boney skeleton stuff. When I’m a big rich something or other someday I want to own one […]
pedro for president
On Saturday I drove back down the 405 past Wilshire West again in order to get to San Pedro for the “Taste of San Pedro” event. It looked a lot larger on their website than it ended up being. It boiled down to a bunch of pizza and lemonade booths interspersed with things like “Tom’s […]
tumbling down the rabbit hole
okay lets not give Mr. Bay any crazy ideas.
Just because you feel it, doesn’t mean it’s there
I think I ruffled some feathers with that “check” posting last weekend. Such are the dangers with writing without a filter on occasion. I want to make it clear that I’m not “hating women” or trying to start a “battle with women” or anything like that – just lashing out from inside my cave when […]