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Vincey Mas Wings

Turtle Enjoys our Valentine Flowers

View of Downtown LA from Griffith Park

Clouds over Hollywood

I Don't Know Why This Bear Looks So Sad

Hipstamatic is my favorite new app for my iPhone! It costs only $1.99 and makes taking photos fun again, because you never know quite what you’re going to get. Select a vintage film stock, your favorite lens, and decide if you need a flash or not. Just enough options to get you hooked (and make you want to buy the expansion packs… which I’ll probably be doing before spring break.)

The app loads a little slowly (which has caused me to miss a few choice photo opportunities) and has kind of a groan-worthy name, but it takes good photos and has a well designed interface to make you feel like you really are holding an old-school camera. Overall, I love the concept and it’s quickly become one of my top ranked/used iPhone applications.

Feb
27
2010

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How To Use a Semicolon (a comic by The Oatmeal)

(click to read the whole thing and learn more about proper semicolon use!)

I like dinosaurs, proper punctuation, and geeky web comics; this comic is amazing.

Feb
23
2010

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Writing Fantastic Stuff

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The 20 Funniest Olympic Figure Skating Faces (Thus Far)

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Like Shake Face photos on speed. Definitely one of the more glamorous elements of the sport…

Thanks, Jeremy.

Feb
21
2010

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Skating Stupid Stuff

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I found the Cheshire Cat! He’s apparently hanging out over Hollywood in anticipation of his movie premier in a few weeks.

“Well! I’ve often seen a cat without a grin,” thought Alice; “but a grin without a cat! It’s the most curious thing I ever say in my life!”
-Lewis Carroll

Feb
15
2010

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Photography Hollywood

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Intelligent, Respectable Women Across Globe Inexplicably Excited For Figure Skating

Thanks Onion.

(Though as an intelligent, reasonable woman I should point out that Mao Asada could never skate to Nicole Kidman’s ballad from Moulin Rouge because performing to music with lyrics is not allowed in amateur competition. Just sayin’)

Feb
14
2010

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An Amazing Discovery About Quesadillas

Queso (cheese) + Tortilla (tortilla) = Quesadilla (deliciously cheesy snack wrapped in a tortilla).

It’s word play! In Spanish!

I don’t know if I should be proud for figuring out a portmanteau in a language I don’t really speak, or ashamed that it took me 26 years of eating Mexican food to come to this realization…

Feb
12
2010

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Stupid Stuff Food

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Why I Hate the Cold in Los Angeles

The last few days the high here has only been around 60 degrees, with temperatures dropping below fifty at night. Yes, yes I know, all of you in the Midwest or Northeast are laughing at the pitiful temperature sensitivity I’ve developed after almost half a decade in Southern California. But after being home in Colorado for the holidays and then traveling to Ohio (where highs were in the teens every day) two weeks ago I realized that the problem isn’t us wimpy Angelinos aren’t wimps, but rather a city that is fundamentally unable to deal with non-paradise-like weather.

In places used to the cold, the buildings are insulated and the heaters always at the ready during the winter months. Even if you have to wear a parka, scarf, and three pairs of gloves to walk from your car into work, at least once you’re there you can strip down to a comfortable t-shirt or blouse. In LA, some buildings don’t even have heating systems, and the ones that do are definitely not maintained regularly, and even when they are working properly, the heat rarely stays inside due to poor falls and single-pained windows. Therefore, when it’s 58 degrees outside in Los Angeles, it’s also 58 degrees inside. Even with a sweater on, this is not a particularly comfortable temperature. I don’t want to have to wear a jacket, hat, and gloves while I’m working. So I don’t. And then I just end up chronically chilly all day, which leads to crankiness, and nobody wants that.

In conclusion, the same way that DC and Baltimore are not equipped to deal with two feet of snow, Los Angeles is not equipped to deal with sub-70 degree weather. I’m cold. Come back 75, I miss you.

Feb
10
2010

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"People who could not even spell the word ‘vote’, or say it in English, put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

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Tom Tancredo at the Tea Party convention in DC.

This whole movement is starting to get scary. While I don’t agree with their politics, I can understand the ideology of wanting a small government. But when you rally people around racist ideals with vitriolic hatred that’s another story. In addition to his lovely quote above, Tancrado (who I’m ashamed to say hails from my home state of Colorado) called for a return to voting literacy tests. Jim Crow, anyone?

I guess the only bright spot in all this is that I think a literacy test would hurt the Tea Party more than it would help it…

More coverage on the event and the speech here.

Feb
5
2010

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Musings on Society

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Foreverscape

Lots of posts to catch up on after a crazy few weeks… In the meantime thought I’d pass along this amazing website a long-lost friend from high school created and sent to me. 87 feet of hand drawn art all linked together and scrolling on the intrawebs. Pre-tay pre-tay cool.

Feb
2
2010

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Art Technology

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I feel that Farmville has finally captured my true essence…

Jan
20
2010

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Stupid Stuff

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