Today Disneyland raised admission fees $2.75. A one-day adult ticket now costs $49.75.
In addition, they’ve introduced a new lower-cost annual pass exclusively for Southern California residents. At $99 the “Select Annual Passport” is the cheapest of the bunch. It includes a whopping 170 blockout days, but it pays for itself after just two visits.
Luckily we renewed our Premium passes a few weeks ago, because those just shot up $54 each, from $225 to $279!
The other day on All Things Considered, they were discussing how the mass of affordable housing is quickly moving east out of Los Angeles and into the Inland Empire. A map of the Inland Empire reveals that it “officially” starts around Ontario and extends quite a ways east into Banning and Idyllwild. That is far, folks.
Listen to part one of the three part series. It will almost bring tears to your eyes to listen to these tales of people who live in Victorville and drive to work in Los Angeles five days a week.
During the show I learned of people called “supercommuters.” These are people that drive at least 150 miles EVERY DAY to get to and from work.
And here I am complaining about my shitty little 66 mile a day drive. I shouldn’t say anything about my drive anymore – now I see I’m living the good life!
How well do you know your neighbors? How would you feel about them if you learned that they had donated, say, $2000 to John Kerry’s political campaign? Or George Bush’s? Or Al Sharpton’s?
Feed your address to Fundrace’s neighbor search and within seconds you’ll get a complete listing of all political donations made from people in your neighborhood! The dollar amount, the candidate, and the donator’s name and address are all a matter of public record once the money changes hands.
I am more than a little irritated that I didn’t learn about this symphony performance of Final Fantasy music here in LA until today – and now it’s already sold out.
Scanner Recorder is a handy little Windows program.
Plug the audio-out on your scanner into your sound card, and Scanner Recorder will record anything it picks up – but it’ll pause the recording when there’s silence. So if you’re not around when something goes down, you don’t miss a beat. AND you don’t have to listen to silence. It’s like skipping commercials! Pretty cool!
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I subscribe to a mailing list called SoCalScan. It’s a pretty high-traffic list (1200+ members) that discusses scanners and interesting frequencies in the Southern California area.
I’d say that 90% of the posts to the list are all related in some way to listening to fire or law enforcement. I hate listening to fire and law enforcement. I’d rather listen in on local businesses, film crews, and theme parks. But there’s no other SoCal-related email lists around that I know of, so I put up with it – crazies and all.
Oh yeah. There are quite a few whackjobs on there. There are people on there with multi-megabyte archives of photos of POLICE CARS AND HELICOPTERS. I’m not making this up, folks. They get off on that stuff.
Whenever a high-speed chase ends, someone will post something to the effect of “Tsk tsk. When will these ruffians learn that crime simply does not pay?” I honestly think a lot of them just failed the physical or something and never made it out of the police academy. I’d call it an unhealthy obsession.
There’s so much more floating over the airwaves than boring police calls and fires, but most people with scanners – at least on this list – don’t seem to care. It’s a little irritating, but what can ya do.
The first Xbox 2 demonstration videos are now available for download (bottom of the page.)
Email forwards. Gotta love ‘em.
Question: What is the truest definition of Globalization?Answer: Princess Diana’s death.
Question: Why?
Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk on Scottish whisky, (check the bottle before you change the spelling) followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles; treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.
This is sent to you by an American, using Bill Gates’ technology, and you’re probably reading this on your computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers in a Singapore plant transported by Indian truck drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals…
That, my friends, is Globalization!!!!!
Maybe you know someone who:
A: Has a DVD player
B: Doesn’t have Tivo
C: Doesn’t understand why he/she would need Tivo
If that’s the case, TiVo’s free DVD offer would probably make a perfect gift!
Cool movie trailer ALERT!
Casshern is a Japanese movie. I gather from the trailer that it’s probably about a superhero, but I don’t speak Japanese.
It’s sort of like The Matrix mixed with What Dreams May Come mixed with a Blizzard cinematic.
Download the high quality version of the trailer. Your eyes will thank you.
Our good friends Stacy and Steve are getting married in October. As an early wedding present we decided to hook them up with http://www.steveandstacy.com/ which officially opens its doors today. (stacyandsteve.com was taken!)
It only took me about a day and a half of solid work to crank it all out, which is record time!
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