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07/23/2008

What Bar Preparation Has Done To My Room

Anybody else going through the bar preparation process want to share how messy and note-laden their room has become?

07/09/2008

RGT MIND



This Jaguar driver knows he’s right.

07/08/2008

Pac-Man’s Crying

Pacman Crying


Nobody ever wants to see Pac-Man crying… it’s just too sad.

06/27/2008

Futon Parking Only



You’d better not even THINK about parking your La-Z-Boy here.

06/25/2008

All Fireworks are Illegal in the City of Los Angeles

06/24/2008

Insert Message Here



This is some lazy license plating. It’s like they went to the DMV all jazzed up about getting a brand new personalized license plate, but then got bored of the idea halfway through the process and didn’t bother to actually enter any information into the form. So, instead of getting a new and awesome personalized license plate, they got the computer generated prompt requesting that they insert the message for their desired plate. Cute.

06/23/2008

Raped Through Hypnotism

06/22/2008

Who is John Galt? Hemingway?



Ayn Rand bought herself a Mercedes and loves the work of Ernest Hemingway. Who knew?

06/18/2008

Phone Jacks, Get Your Phone Jacks Here

phone jacks


I can’t be alone in thinking this is an unsustainable business model, right?

06/17/2008

House Numbers

06/16/2008

Usman Chaudhry Posters


I saw a bunch of these posters in Hollywood and was drawn in because they decried the shooting of what appears to be a ten year old by the LAPD. “Yegads,” I thought, “how did the LAPD manage to shoot a ten year old?”

As I got closer I noticed that the man was 21 when he was shot, not ten. The poster’s maker used an 11 year old photo. Now, look, I have a lot of sympathy for the friends and family of anyone shot and killed by anyone, but it’s awfully misleading to use the picture of a child to draw people in to your rally.

The story itself, according to the LATimes, is that Chaudhry was sleeping in the bushes outside an apartment building when two police officers approached him and asked him for ID. There was some interaction and then he stabbed one of the officers in the hand. The officer then shot Chaudhry three times in the stomach.

The family seems to question (1, 2) the official story, but doesn’t really provide an alternative one. They mostly seem mad that the police took a full month to notify them of the shooting (seems like a fairly reasonable complaint considering that he had ID on him).

I just thought the use of the picture in the poster was interesting.

UPDATE: Thanks to a commenter, here’s a more recent picture of him from Facebook:

06/07/2008

McCain’s Supporters

McCain’s supporters show how their lively, dynamic campaign is poised to take America by storm:


Amazing picture via Reddit.

06/06/2008

White Sands, New Mexico (2008)

06/02/2008

Bimbo

06/01/2008

The HomeMade BarBri Bookshelf

05/30/2008

Parking Reserved for A Ferrari

BarBri A Ferrari
Click to big-ify


Joke #1: A Ferrari? We haven’t even passed the bar yet, who can afford a Ferrari?
Joke #2: This is Los Angeles, I thought all parking spots were reserved for a Ferrari.

What kind of car was actually parked there? Not a Ferrari.

05/28/2008

Calming the Byways

Traffic Calming Info


Can someone please call the phone number and tell me what exactly it is that they do?

05/25/2008

Speed Limits

05/23/2008

In God We Trust With Gas

04/29/2008

Gorey 9/11 Memento

A friend (does he want to be named?) recently sent out this picture from his 2001 daily calendar. Very prescient:

Gorey 9/11 2001 September 11th Calendar


If you can’t read it, it’s the September 11th, 2001 page from A Gorey Year and reads “T is for Titus who flew into bits — from The Gashlycrumb Tinies, by Edward Gorey.”

Yikes.

04/19/2008

New Picture Gallery Navigation

I’m still in the process of getting all my old pictures online, but I’ve updated the navigation system. You can access it in the Pictures link at the top of the page, or right here:

North America Montreal Connecticut Ann Arbor Minneapolis Baltimore Washington, DC Virginia Las Vegas Los Angeles Ft. Lauderdale Europe Stockholm Ireland England Copenhagen Paris Berlin Prague Vienna Venice Rome Florence Monaco Nice

I’m going to have to start working on maps for New Zealand, Australia, Thailand and Japan.

04/16/2008

BarBri Books Put to Good Use

BarBri is expensive: joining BarBri can cost over $3,000, just trying to snag the books on eBay can cost you over $700. Yesterday at lunchtime the books for this summer’s New York bar exam arrived at Georgetown and by 7:30pm they were already being put to effective use:

BarBri 2008 New York Books Door
Yes, the box is full of books. Click to big-ify.

I know ONE door that’s going to be passing the bar.

04/16/2008

Welcome to Naziville

Welcome to NAZIville


And is that Tom Skerritt sitting next to Naziville? Who would have expected it?

04/11/2008

The Kennedy Center, and Step On It

04/10/2008

DC Advertising

One of the unique things about DC is that a lot of the local advertising is geared towards products and services that you never see advertised in other parts of the country. Presumably these types of ads are geared towards government and military purchasers who have different needs than your average startup. I, for example, am unlikely to require any sort of services geared towards naval fleet optimization… but apparently some people do:

I sincerely hope that the people who need to purchase such services are already well aware of any valid vendors and aren’t simply making decisions based on who has the most convincing subway ad along their route to work.