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Damn, I miss flying. There have been a lot of adjustments and compromises that have come along with the last year’s worth of job hunting, but that one’s high on the list. I was thinking about that this...
View ArticleJuicy Chunks O’ Wisdom For Monday, July 14th
‘Cause I’m going to watch the Home Run Derby, that’s why. Say what you want about GoDaddy, but they have the best music when you’re on hold — ragtime! (And I really wasn’t even on hold that long.) The...
View ArticleWhat Are You Reading On Wednesday, October 1st?
After several consecutive days in which it feels like I’m getting to bed way too late, getting up way too early, and juggling cats all day in between, today has been more odd than most. A memorial...
View ArticleNew Year’s Eve 2014
The mighty, mighty Jessie-puppy-beast wants to wish each and every one of you a most Happy New Year! The Long-Suffering Wife and I concur. We hope that no matter what your 2014 was like, your 2015 will...
View ArticleDarwin Award Nominee
Today’s Darwin Award nominee comes to us from the 101 Freeway “northbound” (which is really due west, but that’s a different rant) at Kanan. Traffic was light and moving at “maximum freeway speed,”...
View ArticleAnother Orbit
Another orbit around our primary star completed successfully, given a reasonable subset of all realities to be defined as “successful.” Best gift: Younger Daughter’s surprise arrival. The...
View ArticleReally Weird Cars
It’s been said (well, I say it a lot) that if you spend enough time on the Los Angeles freeways you’ll see just about anything. I’m not talking about Teslas, for example. True, you’ll see more here in...
View ArticleDarwin Award Nominee, March 31st
At the local gas station, filling my tank. Guy pulls up to the pump right behind me with a nice, very new Lexus. Goes inside to do whatever he needs to do to pay, then comes out and pulls two large,...
View ArticleLower Than What?
In which we revisit and update two of my favorite rant topics, idiot drivers and telemarketers. May there be a special level of hell reserved for the both of them. Here’s the scene: 101 Freeway,...
View ArticleJuicy Chunks O’ Wisdom For Tuesday, June 9th
‘Cause I read the comments, that’s why. The dog survived her day and night alone with me. Saw a huge accident on the other side of the freeway when I was heading home from the hangar. Many fire trucks,...
View ArticleLousy Data (Again) & SigAlert (On The) 101
I ranted a while back about how we’re getting more and more dependent on apps and other information services with the assumption that we’re getting accurate data, when in fact that may not be true and...
View ArticleA Near Miss Of Themes
First, there were the Maserati. What is the plural of “Maserati” anyway? Maserati or Maseratis? Maybe “Maserati” already IS the plural of “Maseratum.” Isn’t Italian sort of Latin-like? Latin-adjacent?...
View ArticleJust Like In High School Band, Right?
Anyone else play in the high school band, probably as 3rd or 4th chair something? It was a bit like being the kid in right field in baseball, you could play well enough to get by, but really, you knew...
View ArticleGo, Pokemon, Go! (And Don’t Come Back!)
It’s been a bit disturbing for the last week or so to see more and more people I follow and talk to on Twitter and Facebook succumbing to this latest craze. I understand and expect many science fiction...
View ArticleDodging Fate
Let it be stated from the beginning that I feel bad for the driver and people in the Escalade and I’m very glad that it looked like no one was injured. Driving out to the hangar in Camarillo today, we...
View ArticleA Whole New Type Of Stop & Go Traffic
When we drove over to Pasadena on Tuesday night for the Scalzi & Doctrow event, we thought we would be late because of a massive traffic tie-up. For those of you who are familiar with LA, we were...
View ArticleNo Context For You – May 3rd
Be grateful for two out of focus pictures of a sunset and traffic. The thoughts I have to share are full of disgust, hatred, and outrage for the evil monstrosity that our government has become.
View ArticleNo Right Turn
A few years back there was a dedicated bus lane built in the West San Fernando Valley. For the most part it runs parallel to some major streets, which causes some difficult traffic issues. In...
View ArticleIf I Were Her…
On the way home tonight I was deeply saddened to see how far the quality standards for BMW manufacturing have fallen. A good chunk of my drive home coincided with a similar route by a woman driving a...
View ArticleThere Was A Bug
A ***BIG*** freaking bug! Okay, so it wasn’t a huntsman spider from Australia or a camel spider. But it was far, Far, FAR bigger than I was expecting. Especially since I wasn’t expecting it at all. I...
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