For your amusement, I present links courtesy of SFGate.com and Chaos: Shopkeepers in India’s largest state closed their shutters after a right-wing Hindu organization threatened to attack shops selling Valentine’s Day cards and gifts. A true A-V Day story Valentine’s Day Slams – a collection of put downs that rhyme Now go out and get somebody you love something nice. Our lovely property owners gave…
February 14, 2001People often ask why I drive a SUV since I live in Los Angeles. The reason: when it rains more than a few minutes at the same time, the streets turn into mini-rivers. Most streets in the San Fernando Valley have poor drainage and some are concrete streets left over from the 1950’s when they were first built. Add a couple of inches of rain…
February 13, 2001This past weekend was spent in bed. I never left the house with the exception of getting gas on Sunday night. I managed to make it to work today – somehow. I think the highlight of the weekend would have to be the M5.1 quake that hit Big Bear around 1:05pm on Saturday. There I was in bed, slightly feverish and congested and then the…
February 12, 2001In the wake of the Epinions fiasco yesterday, I have turned my attention towards the possibility of resurrecting citymusings.com. Currently, it points to my Epinions site (meaning now it points nowhere – I’ll change that soon) but I think I will look at it again and see if I can do something. I sent out solicitations to my friends to write for the site, but…
February 9, 2001Late update: I removed my review from Epinions. After reviewing their site, I have concluded that it completely blows and serves no value. Their staff decided to relaunch their site in mid-January without consideration of anything. Half the categories are gone and there are no more partner sites (similar to what I had set up). I am definitely removing the link. Epinions has redesigned their…
February 8, 2001The USGS now offers the opportunity to receive an e-mail whenever there is an earthquake. You can select to be notified by either 3+ or 4+ magnitude range. Subscribe now! Mark Morford of SFGate has a view of the parallel universe version of California Adventure that is worth reading. Quick Highlight: “The ‘Ignore a Homeless Person’, ‘Spank an Orange County Republican’ and ‘Smash A Circuit…
February 7, 2001I separated out the Gorn pictures from DCA so that they have their own section under the Gorn pages. I really need a better system for pictures so that I can avoid duplicate files on the server. But alas, I am too lazy – and I have ample server space so I can let it slide for a bit. Last night, I totally crashed and…
February 6, 2001Here is my quick reaction: I liked the park. It works perfectly as an add-on to Disneyland, but I don’t think it is worth $43 on its own. My advice: If you haven’t been to Disneyland in over 3 years, go to Disneyland. If you have been in the last 3 years, then go to California Adventure. I was bummed to find out that they…
February 5, 2001It’s Groundhog Day! What a bizarre little tradition that is. Grab a small animal parade it around town and then predict weather. Did this happen to Willard Scott when he first got started? Last night’s episode of Survivor 2: Electric Boogaloo was muy engrossing and just plain gross. The immunity challenge involved spinning a wheel and eating either a bug or some other gross-out snack.…
February 2, 2001Last night, I added a search box to the site. Now you can search through photo galleries as well as the Daily Update archive. I found it at Atomz software, and best of all, it was free. When I first indexed the site, it said I had 670 pages. Upon further examination, I saw that it was counting all the photo gallery detail pages (the…
February 1, 2001