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Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hollywood. Show all posts
Sunday, May 05, 2013
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Saturday, January 05, 2013
SoCal Photos: Day 5
Since it's been so cold lately, it seems this is what the view should look like right now...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Another Occupy Protest?
Yes!...and in the new Promenade Walk district in Downtown Long Beach! Except it was just CSI Miami filming and episode that will feature the popular OWS movement. Not sure yet when it airs, but keep an eye out!
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Carmageddon: Really?
The upcoming weekend's 405 closure between the 101 and 10 freeways, which has been dubbed "Carmageddon," is fast approaching. With just a little more than 2 days to go, media hype has crescendoed and the entire LA area is being made to believe that this is practically the end of the world. Get out of town, stay off the roads, and brace yourselves seems to be the dominating message.
How about this one: does anybody remember the 1984 Olympics? Granted, I was rocking some huggies at the time, but residents were told before the Games to do as much as they could to stay off the roads. Yes, there was still a warning message prior to the event, but those that reported the upocoming event didn't speculate over the length and extent of delays. They reported that in order to avoid gridlock and delays, the public's cooperation would be required.
Today's journalists just like pouring gasoline on any tiny flame in the hopes of turning it into the next towering inferno. Sensationalism sells second only to sex, apparently. That's why reality TV is- gasp- scripted, after all. Sure, there will be a bit of a spillover of traffic into the canyons and onto some of the side streets, but I'm thinking that overall the effect just won't be that bad. Of course some drama queen in West Hollywood is going to perform some over-the-top lementing to the on-camera news reporter because the 3 square blocks around Coldwater Canyon were more congested than normal, and people had bad tempers, honking their horns and such, but come on...Drama Queen?...We-Ho?... it's not professional to stage newstories, people!
I plan on finding a good vantage point from a distance on Saturday morning, to assess the damage- or lack thereof- that Carmageddon is creating. I see a problem, so I'm offering a solution. Facts oriented observation of the issue at hand, as it unfolds this weekend. Keep the feed rolling (blogosphere version of stay tuned)....
How about this one: does anybody remember the 1984 Olympics? Granted, I was rocking some huggies at the time, but residents were told before the Games to do as much as they could to stay off the roads. Yes, there was still a warning message prior to the event, but those that reported the upocoming event didn't speculate over the length and extent of delays. They reported that in order to avoid gridlock and delays, the public's cooperation would be required.
Today's journalists just like pouring gasoline on any tiny flame in the hopes of turning it into the next towering inferno. Sensationalism sells second only to sex, apparently. That's why reality TV is- gasp- scripted, after all. Sure, there will be a bit of a spillover of traffic into the canyons and onto some of the side streets, but I'm thinking that overall the effect just won't be that bad. Of course some drama queen in West Hollywood is going to perform some over-the-top lementing to the on-camera news reporter because the 3 square blocks around Coldwater Canyon were more congested than normal, and people had bad tempers, honking their horns and such, but come on...Drama Queen?...We-Ho?... it's not professional to stage newstories, people!
I plan on finding a good vantage point from a distance on Saturday morning, to assess the damage- or lack thereof- that Carmageddon is creating. I see a problem, so I'm offering a solution. Facts oriented observation of the issue at hand, as it unfolds this weekend. Keep the feed rolling (blogosphere version of stay tuned)....
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Can I Blame Hollywood For Feeling Stupid?
Now I know I'm not a genius, but I've always considered myself smarter than the av-er-age bear. However, I know my areas of strength and weakness. Admitedly, I haven't been present on the cutting edge of computer technology since 2000, when I could piece together, install, and reformat the best Pentium II's out there, and had enough cockiness to talk trash on Compaq and how terrible their hardware design was (Compaq was subsequently bought by HP, and Compaq computers were pulled from the shelves).
Even still, in my office I'm known as the technologically saavy one- and I just got a smartphone in November! Of course, I'm quick on the learning curve with these things and can navigate for utility pretty quickly.
However, as is probably painfully obvious in this blog, my coding skills are, for lack of a better term, shit. You best believe that I'm editing this post in the HTML-enhanced editor that is provided, because I just don't care to be bothered with
or whatever tags and code are necessary to make little changes and enhancements to text, etc. I would prefer to simply click to turn on bold, and click up upload a picture into my post.
Lately, I've been re-watching episodes of 24, and everyone at CTU seems to have a level of programming capability and general knowledge of computers that I'm barely able to comprehend. And to top it off, yesterday I saw The Social Network; great film, btw. But again, it seems that every character in the movie, lawyers included to some extent, has an intricate knowledge of computer programming or something similar. Damn you Hollywood! You found a way to make even me feel insecure; congrats on your success!
Even still, in my office I'm known as the technologically saavy one- and I just got a smartphone in November! Of course, I'm quick on the learning curve with these things and can navigate for utility pretty quickly.
However, as is probably painfully obvious in this blog, my coding skills are, for lack of a better term, shit. You best believe that I'm editing this post in the HTML-enhanced editor that is provided, because I just don't care to be bothered with
or whatever tags and code are necessary to make little changes and enhancements to text, etc. I would prefer to simply click to turn on bold, and click up upload a picture into my post.
Lately, I've been re-watching episodes of 24, and everyone at CTU seems to have a level of programming capability and general knowledge of computers that I'm barely able to comprehend. And to top it off, yesterday I saw The Social Network; great film, btw. But again, it seems that every character in the movie, lawyers included to some extent, has an intricate knowledge of computer programming or something similar. Damn you Hollywood! You found a way to make even me feel insecure; congrats on your success!
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