Some ordered, some unordered. Enjoy!
Half of a Weekend (or a Little More, Maybe)
January 23, 2009
5:05 PM Sunset run on the beach followed by ocean dip and drinks
6:00 PM Depart Tamarindo in 7/8 full Toyota Prado with one 40-ounce of Imperial
6:01 PM – 7:29 PM Pass around a million cars
7:30 PM Stop on side of [...]
Check out Vincent Laforet's beautiful work. Let me give you an explanation of the tilt-shift miniaturization technique and more of Laforet's work, this time a selection of tilt-shift sports photography.
Emlyn sent me this beautiful and fanciful display of longboarding prowess:
This video inspires me to dig out my Original Hybrid but then I remember that one of the trucks is totally broken and that Seattle hills are not so friendly.
I out-sprinted the bus almost two blocks---gotta catch that 26 Express. The traffic lights may have helped a little bit.
Interestingly, the iPhone works with the WordPress code editor but not with the visual editor. I think this special Safari version has issues with certain dynamic elements, such as the Facebook status editor. I happily await [...]
I have mentioned this statistic to quite a few friends, and today located the sources to support it:
Fleet-wide, Ford cars and trucks averaged 19.7 miles per gallon (mpg), narrowly avoiding last place in the fuel efficiency report for the third straight year... ...19.7 mpg on average is less efficient than the old Model T Ford.
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397.9 miles / 10.94 gallons = 36.4 miles per gallon. Huzzah!
The miles for this calculation were the odometer reading between filling the tank on Friday and filling the tank today. The gallons consumed were the amount of gas necessary to refill the tank today, after having driven the aforementioned miles to Portland and back, and [...]
I nearly ran over a cyclist on my way to work this morning. I was rolling up to a left at a left turn yield on green intersection and the oncoming lanes were completely clear. There was no one in the crosswalk. As I began my turn, a cyclist sped into the crosswalk from the [...]
