http://www.1134.org/blog Everybody else has a blog. Why not me? Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:21:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's ride was my 'Random Ride to Whittier' that I cobbled together last fall. It takes pieces of several other routes and puts them together to make a route that basically doesn't go anywhere in particular, but it does it without going over any hills. Since I'm going vertical next ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/03/07/a-random-ride-with-almost-no-hills/ And that's when a young man's fancy turns to the ME72 Engineering Contest at Caltech. I've gone to see this several times over the years, and it's always great fun. The 2008 contest featured machines hurling a ball across a field. In 2007 they had to place a small ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/03/05/its-almost-spring/ This Sunday's bike ride was to visit the Portal of the Folded Wings at Valhalla Cemetery in North Hollywood. It's a monument to people who you've probably never heard of, but who played key roles in the early development of aviation. It was a nice day for riding. We rode straight ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/28/a-visit-to-the-shrine-of-aviation/ The old hospital up the street from my house gets used a lot as a filming location. But it's fairly rare that they film anything there outside the building. But they had the street posted for no parking tonight, which meant they were going to be filming on the street. ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/25/hot-set-up-the-street/ Everybody makes mistakes. But in today's obituaries, there's a story to top all of them. Just be glad if none of your mistakes turn out to be like this one. http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/25/doh/ Today's bike ride was out to La Puente to see the Donut Hole drive-through donut shop. We've been out there before, but it's always an entertaining sight. The weather was overcast and threatening to rain. Due to the street closures for the Pasadena Marathon today, we met at Memorial Park ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/21/the-big-donut/ Tomorrow is the Pasadena Marathon, and they have signs up on all the streets that are going to be closed for the race. The signs on the street by my office all say that the road will be closed from 1:00AM to 9:05AM. I wonder what's special about 9:05? And ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/20/very-precise/ The inventor of the Easy-Bake oven has died. Read his story here. http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/19/another-icon-of-american-culture/ Since Lucinda and I had the Presidents' Day holiday off today, we decided to go back to Universal again. They only sell tickets with the 'buy a day and come back any time for a year' thing, we figured we'd take them up on it. Since today was a nice ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/15/another-day-at-universal-with-much-less-water/ Last week, I saw that TMZ had posted the coroner's report on Michael Jackson's death. Right on the first page of the report, it gave the address of the house where he had been living, and like Phineas Flynn, my first thought was, "I know what we're gonna do today." ... http://www.1134.org/blog/2010/02/14/the-scene-of-the-crime/