Anna and I caught part of the soap box derby in Sherman Heights while on our way to Chicano Perk. It looked like a lot of fun, and it was great to see the community out. One of the racers brakes failed, so we got to see that, yes, they had thought about safety. On …
Category Archives: Me & my ramblings
So sleepy…
Ah yes, the wonderful life of the IT nerd; 20 hour days when servers fall down. Pigeons fluttering through a hole in the ceiling of a Spanish cathedral led an art restoration team to discover a hidden Renaissance fresco of winged angels that had been covered by a false ceiling for more than 300 years.
City of God
Finally watched City of God last night. I had heard great things about the movie, but finally got around to renting it. The movie is about a photographer growing up in the infamous ‘City of God’ slum in Rio de Janeiro. I thought it was extremely well done; beautiful and disturbing. The subject matter involved …
Control Room
We watched Control Room last night at the Ken. Thought it was a great look at the media, exposing biases on both sides of the world. I should really learn to sandboard. Nice: GOP avoiding investigation of prisoner abuse Al-Qaida may ‘reward’ American president with strike aimed at keeping him in office. A senior US …
Why is my chair shaking?
Earthquake.. still going… Update: Well, that was a nice roller. Looks like it was a 4.7 in the desert. Update: Scratch that, looks like it was a 5.1 off the coast of Baja. Interesting the two quakes happened so close to each other. Update: Hmm.. looks like someone screwed up. The desert quake has now …