Take Shelter: 30 minutes too long. I kept wanting to hit fast forward. I liked the idea, I liked the performances, the story was fine, I suspended disbelief. But it was too damn slow!
I am not speaking as a child of the internet and MTV, even though I am. Look, if Hitchcock could do a tale of horror, suspense, and uncertainty about possibly going mad in 90-100 minutes, then very few directors today should need 120. Tighten it up. Cut four scenes, and make all of them 1 minute shorter.
SuperShuttle. Never again. Three hours to the airport, an hour of which was within one mile of my house, sitting on a metal support sticking out of the seat. Three hours getting home, driving around the airport, Bell, South Gate, and Monterey Park. Neither time because of traffic. Just idiotic choices by the driver. Both times I was first on, last off, so had the longest trip of anyone.
Never again.
Ware's Auto Sales
Mt. View drive-in
Davo Creature Feature (taken by Cover-boy)
Kentucky road
Success requires hard work, but so does working three jobs just to keep your family fed, and the latter usually precludes the former. Lots of self-made people forget that there’s a fair amount of, well, not necessarily, good luck, but a lack of bad luck.
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Mare's tails
Sleeping dogs at NJC
Squirrel?
Olvera St.
Union Station
I missed the shot here. Can you tell?
Union Station seats
Skyline, of a sort
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Your vision lessened friction in my computer life, everywhere you decided to focus your vision. Two weeks in Europe without an iPhone reminded me of that. MacBook Pros, iPhoto, iTunes, iPods, iPhones, Shuffles, .mac calendar, contact, keychain, and settings syncing across all these devices, etc.
Thanks, and goodbye.
So it goes.
I miss the days when you could check a large 70 pound bag. Even a bit more if you smiled and flirted with the ticket person. Maybe even two!
AA, and presumably every one else, now has a policy of one 50 lb bag for $25. Second bag costs you one newborn child. I really don’t know how anyone would go on a long climbing trip anymore. I guess I’ll find out in a couple of weeks. I’m considering trying to figure out how to ship some of my gear because climbing gear and clothes for a couple of weeks is going to be way more than 50 lbs.
Anyway, since yesterday was my day to get called on technicalities (parking ticket at work, balls busted at gas station for asking them to turn on the air pump), I came home and took the extra 1.4 lbs out of my climbing bag, and started a new carry-on. Previously, it was gonna be one checked bag of climbing gear and one laptop bag. I hate carrying stuff in airports. But since I was over, and I didn’t want to pay $75 for those 1.4 lbs, I threw a bunch of stuff in the Pata MLC and resigned myself to humping a load through LAX and Stapleton.
Now, AA, do you think that with your unfriendly policies and crazy charges, that you ended up carrying
mass on that flight?
Also, why does Burbank and every other place in the world have free wifi, but LAX charges out the wazoo? We all have smartphones now. It’s not as though I have to pay to see what the new iPhone looked like. Just be nice to see it on my laptop instead of my phone, but not $25/day kinda nice. And what’s up with a day pass at an airport anyway? Yeah, after I fly to Stapleton, I’m gonna come back and hang out in the airport and use up that wifi that I paid for a day of.
Tagged airline, rantWhen you read an article about your subject in the NYT Tuesday Science section, and realize they got it all wrong. Then you read the next article and think, “Wow, how cool that they figured that out.” Even though you know that those scientists are also tearing their hair out about how the NYT Science section got it all wrong.
Now, to make it pithy and rename it BWare’s law, or corollary, then find out that someone else already discovered it.
But that’s okay, because there’s already a named law that says that every named law was discovered by someone before the person whose name is attached to it.
As with all my photos, signed and numbered prints are available. I can make prints myself up to 17×22, and would prefer to, as that way I can oversee the whole process from start to finish to ensure quality. Bigger than that, and I have to send out. I can also do framing.
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Boulder is…
Boulder is San Francisco for white people.
Rant
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