Cookies the size of tortillas, I didn’t partake.

Another day, another counterweight. I’m going to need more Brick 1×1. Again.

My LEGO® MOC of the local municipality’s tractor-drawn aerial ladder has surpassed Suzie Plakson in the number of views.

The Mattel Hot Wheels 1973 Ford Falcon XB is what I think it is, the basis for the Mad Max car. More views of the diecast toy.

I am convinced that Facebook plans to suggest as a friend every single person born in Keyser, West Virginia.

Three years ago I had the opportunity to eat at In-N-Out and wasn’t impressed, now the food recreation blogger at A Hamburger Today has turned his attention to the Double-Double, Animal-Style (via).

Project card, BrickLink orders, the usual… apparently my latest creation is on its way to being (largely) monochrome even if it won’t be at BrickFair.

Bob had it easy, his bridge lifts by running a gear along a rack, lifting a bridge usingcablesstringsthat snag on everything and wrap around each other and argh is a whole ’nother level of pain. Then the bridge has to come down again, more strings! But it has been accomplished for at least a few cycles. Someone asked at the WAMALUG meeting asked if I’ve run a train through it and the answer is no, after a Metro station and two bridges I have no straight track left. I suppose I could send the battery-operated WMATA switcher…

The difference in the AT7 destination boards may have something to do with the equipment installed in the two types of buses in use. Yesterday’s capture shows a Gillig Phantom with a flip-disc display, while the one from Monday is of an Orion V with a LED display. Why they would be programmed differently remains a mystery.

So much for my theory based on a single example, they can fit HOLMES RUN PARKWAY on the destination board, but the sign is still blank. A year later, the buses still don’t have bike racks.

If a user of Internet Explorer 8 activates the Developer Tools (F12) and switches to IE8 standards mode while viewing this page, the quotation marks show up again. The effect is not permanent, though.

This is how I moved the Standard toolbar to above the Address bar. Microsoft’s resource for installing, reinstalling, or uninstalling Windows 7, Vista, XP.

Korea Post has Postal Service The People’s Love as a slogan on its English page. There is no mention of any forwarding service for residents who’ve moved. This blog post tagged moving post is not helpful.

While MOCpages upgrades its hardware the site is crashing Mobile Safari.

All I could find at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s site was the press release for her booking in 2007 but since I ran the arrest photograph 3 years ago… The Smoking Gun® fills in the gap in my collection.

I’m thinking the phone lines to the Regional SmarTrip Center melted in the wake of the announcement of an enhanced SmarTrip® web site. If there are no other calls ahead of me, why isn’t mine being answered? Ah, all done, it turned out that the hiccup was the telephone number at work… which changed in 2004.

It will take a while to change all the signs, but there is no longer a municipal bus route that routinely has LANDMARK MALL as a destination. (There will be the occasional AT8S.) As it happens, despite the earlier prediction, the destination board for the westbound AT7 is showing DUKE & RIPLEY even though the route proceeds past that intersection and ends at Duke and Pickett.

There’s a July 19th I remember from 15 years ago because I went to see Clueless that afternoon. (I had photographed a promotion for the film at the United Artists Fairfax Towne Center earlier in the month.) Research says I went to see this 2 years later but Jackie Chan is not nearly so memorable. As if! Twenty-nine years ago it was The Hospital (previously).

There were only a few more years to go for Woodward & Lothrop when the local department store chain sent this flyer for Estée Lauder in 1990. Despite the existence of the Lauder for Men line (which at the time included besides the fragance a shaving gel and a shampoo), the unsolicited mailing did not lead to any sales in the addressed household. The face of the eighties (previously) was 2 years into her contract. I discern from Wikipedia that writing her name diacritically requires U+0159, U+00ED, and U+00E1.

Today’s overwrought contribution to the discard pile.

It’s not as easy to find a low priced monitor as it was 6 years ago, 4 years ago, even 1 year ago.

Serco announcement from May does not identify when the agency should expect delivery of the… VTOL? Hunter-killer? depicted in the brand awareness advertising in the corner of the local subway station.

Wachovia has taken the baby step of adding A Wells Fargo Company to its branding. Because I had seen the installation work earlier, the presence of a new ATM at an area location did not come as a surprise. A standard feature of the newer machines is the choice of six languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Vietnamese).

Someone wearing a Wrath of Khan costume in the audience (post) at Shore Leave last weekend, it wasn’t me.