interests collage meme

And not a very good one at that, but the first time I've tried stitching together a panorama. On the far left, the Pacific Ocean (almost visible!). On the far right, that tiny white thing on the hillside is the Hollywood sign. In between is mostly downtown Culver City, with…

Couple of mornings ago, I was woken up at around 5.10am by two loud bangs that shook the house. “What was that?” I think… I figure it was a brief earthquake jolt of the kind that are common here, and went back to sleep. Today I realised what it really…

If there’s a silver lining to the current financial crisis, it’s that I prefer the “market down” music on NPR’s Marketplace Morning Report to the “market up” music. Markets are up: they play We’re in the Money Markets are down: they play Stormy Weather Markets are a mixture: they play…