Normally a parking job like this might just give me a quick laugh, but since this happened right in front of our house and by pure luck I was looking out the window at the right time, I was able to witness everything that went into making it happen. It was . . . → Read More: My, What a Fine Parking Job]]>

Normally a parking job like this might just give me a quick laugh, but since this happened right in front of our house and by pure luck I was looking out the window at the right time, I was able to witness everything that went into making it happen. It was really quite entertaining.

Here are the details:

1. The parking space was large enough to comfortably fit two full-sized cars.
2. The driver could have pulled straight in and parked without ever having to go into reverse. Instead, she chose to exercise her questionable parallel parking skills.
3. She spent approximately six minutes wiggling into this space. I kid you not.
4. Midway through the wiggling, she got out of the car and walked around it to survey her progress.
5. When she got a safe two feet from the curb, she called it good, locked up and walked away.
6. I immediately went out, snapped this photo, posted it to Facebook and had a good laugh over it.
7. An hour later I saw the driver return to the car, wiggle it all the way over to the curb, get out and return to wherever she was. Maybe that photo had already been viralized and she was publically shamed into moving it.

Anyway, Survivor has featured a couple . . . → Read More: Surviving at TAM7]]> Confession time: Carol and I still watch Survivor each season. We’ve been watching it since the beginning and for some odd reason still find it worthy of 44 minutes a week when they’re airing a new adventure. But hey, we’ve still never seen a single episode of Friends.

Anyway, Survivor has featured a couple hundred contestants over the years, most of whom we’d never recognize if we passed on the street. There are, however, perhaps two who, if we ever saw, we would actually want to meet and say hello to. It was therefore quite a nice coincidence that we did in fact spot one of these two — Yau-Man Chan — at the Amazing Meeting 7 in July. So, here’ s the obligatory photographic proof:

Two black-and-white underwater shots of dancers in dynamic motion — by a photographer who goes by “gmark” — and a color photo, “Underwater Dancer” by David Peterman, may be the best things here.

Full article here.

My friend Stuart recently pointed me to an article posted on Coilhouse about musician Zoë Keating. The topic of the article was about NPR allegedly using a sniplet of Zoë’s music during their programming, but without asking her permission or attributing proper credit to her. The general tone is that this . . . → Read More: Irony, Thy Lives in Coilhouse]]> OK, this is funny.

My friend Stuart recently pointed me to an article posted on Coilhouse about musician Zoë Keating. The topic of the article was about NPR allegedly using a sniplet of Zoë’s music during their programming, but without asking her permission or attributing proper credit to her. The general tone is that this was a bad thing, something not many would disagree with.

But the reason Stuart forwarded the link to me was because the article contains a photo I took of Zoë at a performance in Seattle in December. It is, I must say, a lovely photo and I’m very flattered that they selected to use it. What’s funny, though, is that, well… they never asked my permission to use it. Yes, they did give me very clear and prominent credit, but the fact that no one checked with me beforehand, combined with the subject of the article, makes for a rather funny occurrence.

If anyone from Coilhouse stumbles across this, please know that you have my full retroactive permission to use that image in your article. And thanks for the chuckle.

(Disclaimer: I can think of one scenario that may have unfolded that would let Coilhouse completely off the hook for this. Shortly after the concert in December, I emailed Zoë a few of my pictures and I’m pretty sure this was one of them. It’s entirely possible she supplied that image to Coilhouse to use in the article, in which case I can see how they would feel free to run with it without any further checking. Maybe this happened, maybe not. Either way it’s still funny.)