The Blue Devils are performing at the Rose Bowl. Next up? Fireworks!
There’s a DCI expo before the Rose Bowl program. These bands are good.
My family loves me.
Mom: (speaking to me) Sometimes you're so much like Jack Black.
Patrick: Except you're not fat, and you don't have a beard.
Vote for my brother’s daughter to win the KTLA baby cutey contest! For some reason, the site is stretching all the baby photos from every submission, so judge Avery’s cuteness by this photo, and not the one on the contest site that makes her head look a little square. In case you’re not sure, she’s the naked one trying to eat the dog tags. (Requires sign-up unless for some infernal reason you already have an account with KTLA. They haven’t spammed me, but your mileage may vary, verily.)
Rough-looking sea gulls have been keeping me company at Huntington.
The internet is abuzz with the din from South Africa this summer. I’m not talking about those damnable vuvazelas. No, the loudest ruckus is coming from millions of football fans furious over blind referees miscalling goals and off-sides penalties. Traditionalists claim that bad calls are just part of the game, along with foul theatrics and stadium riots. Others are calling for technological solutions, such as instant replay and goal sensors, which are common to other professional sports.
I am here to propose a third option: let the footballers choke slam and power bomb referees who judge falsely. Do you think that England’s Frank Lampard would have lost that clear goal against Germany if referee Jorge Larrionda knew his neck was on the line? Nick Patrick won’t forget his ethics again after Kane showed him the business back in 2001. Let’s introduce cage match justice to the game of football and straighten this sport out.
I don’t want fame and influence for the money or the women. I only want to have my name listed in Wikipedia as a “notable resident”.
MapQuest lost my city. I read that MapQuest had updated its identity with a new brand and redesign, so I popped over for a quick look. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that the service doesn’t label my city, Corona, CA, at the default zoom level. I tried reloading just in case some object got lost in the tubes the first time, but no luck. They label Norco, even though it’s a smaller population, but you have to zoom in once before they point Corona out on the map. That doesn’t make sense.
The service is kind of cute in a pathetic sort of way. There’s no scrollwheel zoom or auto-complete in the search box. The satellite images are woefully out-of-date: the truck we haven’t had in two years is sitting in our driveway, and half the houses in our neighborhood haven’t been built. The street view is slow, low resolution, and it only covers major streets, which is useless since the whole point of street view is looking up your house. I can’t imagine why anyone would want to use this service over Bing or Google Maps. That makes me a little sad, since those of us who are old enough first experienced the wonder of online maps with MapQuest. Now it’s the brunt of jokes.
How long would it take to transport two cars across the country by driving both of them separately at the same time? I mean, what if you drove car A for a mile, hopped out and jogged back to car B, drove it two miles, jogged back and drove car A for two miles, and then repeated this process from Los Angeles to New York City? That would take what? A year? Someone should try this.
What’s going on with Interstate 70 stuttering through Utah? Wikipedia has the scoop.
