Milton Tan is back at it again with another beautiful time lapse. This time he’s at Singapore Changi Airport in restricted areas. Watch as planes fly in like magical shooting stars! I follow Milton on Instagram which is where I first saw his previous time lapse and glad he’s back again.
August 13, 2014Well that didn’t take long. My second day of commuting to work via bike I came to the rack after work to discover several scratches on the bike. It looks like someone locked their bike to the same rack that I did and in the process jostled my bike so it made contact with the rebar rack. I was ticked for a few minutes, but…
August 12, 2014Los Angeles Public Library’s map librarian Glen Creason talks about the history of Sunset Strip and Volume 10 of Sanborn Fire Insurance Atlases. It’s the first episode in the LA Public Library’s new series called LA Stories from the “Map Cave”. I hope there are many more AND I need to visit the cave STAT! via Curbed LA
August 11, 2014Today Daniel and I tested out our new bikes by riding the Santa Ana River trail 17.5 miles. Another 10 miles and we would have made it to the beach and back, but since this was a shakedown cruise it was just fine. My bike performed great and I spent time trying to figure out the Italian gear system to find a comfortable cruising speed.…
August 10, 2014I think this is super cool and I would totally watch it!!
August 8, 2014It’s Throwback Thursday and I am spending as much time as I can re-watching Twin Peaks. My Entire Mystery Blu-ray has arrived and I decided after watching a few of the missing pieces, that I would start at the beginning and re-watch the series before I watch Fire Walk With Me and the Missing Pieces. Trying to be disciplined! So far I am up to…
August 7, 2014Today is the 69th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima Japan in the waning days of World War 2. In 2004, Daniel and I visited the city of Hiroshima, Japan as part of our March 2004 trip to the country. I wished we had more time to visit the city, but due to our incident in the train station that morning,…
August 6, 2014Before Nathan had told me he plans to celebrate his birthday on the island of Madeira, I had to admit that I had never heard of it before. Now in anticipation of actually going there over the holidays this year, I decided to do some research. From Wikipedia: Madeira is a Portuguese archipelago located in the north Atlantic Ocean, just under 400 kilometres (250 mi)…
August 5, 2014ESRI has a link on their site to this super useful public information map of wildfires in the western US. It’s a tough summer with hardly any rainfall in California so if you live in a danger zone, it is probably a good idea to a)prepare to evacuate b)make sure you clear brush from around your homes, and c)watch the map! From the ESRI site:…
August 4, 2014