I’ve always liked this photo of me in my orange t-shirt in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. A couple of other fun shots of Josh in Australia: For more Australia photos, check out my Australia 2006 Gallery!
July 24, 2014In a move that was 20 years in the making, I finally parted ways with the first bike I ever owned. My dad bought me the bike back in 1983 and I rode it faithfully to school off and on from the 6th grade through my second year at college. After 10 years of use, I purchased a mountain bike from Target, a Motiv that…
July 23, 2014I love this! – from YouTuber bookshelfproductions
July 20, 2014The USGS posted a link to a calculator to help people understand the difference between two earthquakes of different magnitudes. Case in point? Let’s compare the 9.0 March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake (My one month later post with video) with the m5.1 March 24, 2014 La Habra Quake A magnitude 9.0 earthquake is 7943.282 times bigger than a magnitude 5.1 earthquake on a seismogram, but…
July 19, 2014Only a month after watching Iron Man 2, I decided to not let my Netflix envelope sit on my TV stand too long and with Daniel working a night shift, I popped the Blu-Ray in and watched Iron Man Three. I have actually enjoyed going into these Marvel films blind – not reading up on what the movie will be about in Entertainment Weekly or…
July 18, 2014I am such a freeway nerd, so I cannot resist good articles on Los Angeles freeway history. One of my new favorite blogs, LA As a Subject, has a great article on the history of the Figueroa Street Tunnels. You may recognize them as the Pasadena Freeway tunnels, and I remember them most from the Universal Studios Tour back in the early 1980s when they…
July 16, 2014