David Gessel
Watching The Clothes Go Round
Oh please Oh Please
A week of tweets: 2009-12-20
- Camary SE? Oh hertz you got me addicted to the mercedi. At least I earned a spot in the pay lot even when full with a friendly smile and tip #
- Also: it ain’t common carriage & they ain’t ur wires thus no privacy: watcha gonna do? vote for civil rights over copyright profits? ROFLMAO #
- New New York Times app for BlackBerry is pretty cool. Works offline. Offline rocks. Get off my lawn. #
- Oh Hai winter. #
- Oops, this is winter. LA isn’t winter.http://yfrog.com/35zltej It’s Tops about 12:45 tonight… #
- Except for an injured FA, I have first to myself this evening. #
- It’s Tops. It is. #
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Retarding Progress for Contributions, Again.
Hey, wow… sure, techdirt isn’t the WSJ, but for a blog it is somewhat authoritative and they’re actually noting that fact that we grant temporary monopolies to creators not as property (or to preserve jobs or to fund private jets for industry execs) but solely to promote the progress of science and the useful arts. Any IP law that retards the progress of science and the useful arts, no matter how many jobs or corporate jets it saves, is unconstitutional. Tell Victoria Espinel that she should be sworn to upholding the constitution, not the corporate profits.
This is relevant now because the press was just kicked out of the anti-“piracy” summit at the white house (by “piracy,” they of course mean vigilante trust busting, not the corporate pirates of the public domain).
A week of tweets: 2009-12-13
- Something you don’t see in sf very often: snow on a car. #
- Snows in Bay Area hills, flight delayed by 2.5 hours. Incoming flight take a few loops for sightseeing? #
- At SFO waiting for UAL 888 to LAX. IF it finally leaves it will be at least 6 hrs from car to rental car: would have been faster to drive. #
- Crap, natural disaster in LA: light rain. Parked at SFO 7 hours ago. #
- RT @sullrich: Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy. http://bit.ly/7mIbRv … This is a bit troubling to say the least. #
- The novel cafe, new ownership. Stylish and comfortable inside, laptop friendly. Good food. Much faster than #
- YAY! Red eye from LAX to BOS. From 50 with wool hats in SM to a balmy 25. But meetings and lectures await. Whee. #
- How to use the toilet on the plane: #
- In my old office for the day. Familiar coffee flavors. #
- BOS-IAD-SFO with @phragments. One night at home then off to LA. #
- Pretty awesome? Especially awesome? follow the link on the foil hat wearing person’s back to bullet 6 #
- Heading back to sfo to go to the office holiday party. Away from the airport for less than 10 hours this brief visit home. #
- LAX RCC toilet closed. Concourse toilets decorated w/ urine and feces. Why pee on the toilet seat? Afraid of being checked out? Wide stance? #
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Nice C300 rental, thx Hertz!
My favorite rental cars so far.
Yay! Poopin’ and Flushin’
How to use the toilet on the plane:
1 poop 2 flush
CCFLs are great but…
CCFLs are a great source of light: more efficient area lights than LEDs and better CRI too and affordable but…
They are not heat lamps.
Note that this CCFL was installed in a hotel bathroom in the heat lamp fixture, operated by the heat lamp timer. You step out of the shower, crank the timer knob and get a nice blast of cool bluish light.
Pretty santa monica sunset
Too bad it took 7 hours of travel to see it.
A week of tweets: 2009-12-06
- Cold in philadelphia, but not raining like San Diego, tiujana. Here Hz Hz Hz. #
- I think hertz PHL gave me the exact same car as last week. #
- DPRK twitter acct hacked: RT @kcna_dprk: free Pizzahut gift card! all this free pizza in the time of the holidays. thanks Pizzahut! #
- Overcast day at DCA. #
- Aside from unfortunate & ironic name, I think DCA is my fav US airport, in sharp contrast with worst: IAD. Wish sky club would open b4 05:15 #
- OMG! Winter! #
- With US customs processing a line of 50+ people at a rate of 1.25/min thn getting a polite (of course) CA random screen, barely time to pee! #
- 28 miles from @phragments. For an hour. Before bed: 2600 miles. #
- Security check laptop: open lid & swipe keyboard. Win 7, being clever, wakes up. M$, being stupid, does not go back to sleep: battery ded. #
- Arr: lax. No food today. Off to pacific dining car santa monica for late night steak. The place to be in la after midnight. #
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- Mmmm. Steak, but a place like this should be exempt (or grandfathered) from liquor laws. (Pacific dining car, since 1921). #
- Mexican lunch with @dvrogers in Santa Monica. #
- At LAX, home to SFO. DVR is here going to SYD… Nice to be home for the first time in 10 days, but just for 2… #
- Makers Mark doing ual promotion. Major bourbon upgrade. #
- Interesting: at least on UAL 757s, at least for ch 1, the electronic headphone driver is an amp getting signal from the old pneumatic sys. #
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Rental Towncar
Alas, nobody to chauffeur around. But nothing like driving around in a giant land barge to make you think about global warming: ‘scuse my effluents!
Kind of a comfy car in a rolling barcalounger way. Room for 6. The power open and close trunk firmly inserts “lazy” between “quintessential” and “american”
It is quiet and the stereo is pretty good. The dash is a giant slab of plastic, but this isn’t really a driver’s car.
The engine is surprisingly effective given the mass of the vehicle and the queasy squishy suspension.
