Snow capped mountains
All the rain and cold weather here in LA has created a beautiful back drop of snowy mountains here in Valencia! This is the view out the window by my desk at work. It feels a bit like Colorado!
New Photo Gallery Theme!
I themed my coppermine photo gallery to match this site.. so it’s more seamless between the two.
What do you think?
Track your dollar bills!
Found the words stamped on my dollar “Enter Series & Serial # at wheresgeorge.com”.
It’s a lot of fun, but just another internet time waster 
My dollar that was stamped with that came from Irving, TX - a waitress at iHop apparantly had it. They even calculate average speed per day and calculate how many miles it’s traveled.
i want this car… in 2010
I saw the Chevy volt at the LA Auto show last year. What drew me to it was that it was electric AND it looked sporty. But then I started actually reading up on it and it just gets better and better.
“It is primarily an electrically driven vehicle and it has an electric traction motor and it has a large lithium battery pack down the center of the vehicle. So just by simply plugging your car in a standard 110 volt outlet, you can drive 40 miles on pure electricity. No gas at all.”
It does have a small gas engine, but unlike the hybrids out in the market now, the gas engine recharges the battery rather than being used to drive the car.
The idea behind this car is that the average person drives less than 40 miles a day. So the average person would be using this car on electricity rather than being reliant on gasoline (foreign oil!). Going to gas stations so frequently would be a thing of the past, just park your car in the garage and plug it in! Only going on long trips would you need to go to gas stations.
Did I mention it’s pretty??
What spurred all this electric car talk? I recently saw this documentary on TV, “Who Killed the Electric Car?” and thought it was very well done! I learned a lot more about gas alternative vehicles and even the issues with hydrogen vehicles that I’d never even thought of.
Coachella!! Who’s in?
SO excited! I really want to go, but have a feeling I won’t get to this year. 
Bands I would LOVE to see:
- Tegan and Sara
- Animal Collective
- Stars
- Battles
- Rogue Wave
- Death Cab for Cutie
- Cold War Kids
- M.I.A.
- VHS or Beta
- New Young Pony Club
- Roger Waters
- The Streets
- The Annuals
- Manchester Orchestra
- Shout Out Louds
There’s a few others I like songs of but want to hear more of… ie- Jens Lekman - Opposite of Halleleujah
Oscar nominations were announced!
This is the way I like to look at them:
So sad, I’ve only seen “Transformers” and “Sicko” of all the nominated films!
Films I want to see:
- Juno
- There will be blood
- Sweeney Todd
- Atonement
- Michael Clayton
- No Country for Old Men
- American Gangster
- The Golden Compass
- Elizabeth: The Golden Age
- The Bourne Ultimatum
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
Any other suggestions of the nominated films that are must sees??
Jeans for everyone!
So the only brand jeans I could find that would fit my waist and length and fit correctly was Old Navy… and then like 4 months or so ago, they changed their cuts and NONE of them fit me anymore. When they’re long enough they’re way too big. Even the long jeans don’t fit right, they’re too big everywhere even when they fit my waist, they’re baggy thighs and saggy ass. So after 4 months of trying to find jeans everywhere (Gap, Macy’s, Pacific Sunwear, etc.) . I went into Buckle.
Wow! What a relief this place is. They have sooo many brands of jeans and get this… they measure jeans realistically like men’s pants! They have a waist size and length size in a REAL unit of measurement! inches! So no longer do I wear size 6, 8, and/or 10 depending on brand. I now wear a 29/35! Yes they go as long as 35!! It’s so great!! I tried on all different 29/35s and they all fit!! It took me about an hour to figure out my size in real numbers and a style that I liked and then, presto! done. I left with 2 pairs of jeans. Of course to go through a stress-free jean shopping experience, you gotta pay a price. It cost me a lot more than I’m used to for jeans… I like paying no more than $40 for jeans- $30 even better. I paid $68 and $74 which is truly disgusting to me, but after 4 months of not finding a single pair that’s made for me, I felt justified in spending it.
Excellent open source code editor for Mac OS X
I found a most excellent code editor for Mac OS X and it’s open source - Smultron! So it’s free - but donations are welcome and it’s very well supported. I’ve used notepad++ for Windows which is great, but never found a good Mac alternative, until now.
Smultron has the basic features like color coding, but for sooo many different syntax definitions than even notepad++ supports. It has many many features I don’t even use, because I’m mostly using it for actionscript, javascript, and tweaking php template files from wordpress. It validates XHTML which is nice, but Dreamweaver already does this as well. Has a nice comment/uncomment command, I use that one a lot. It has a nice highlight current line option, so if the text is wrapping, you can see it highlighting the line below it. The auto complete function is kind of crazy… it never gives me what I’m actually looking for.. so I don’t use it use it much. Instead of having it on by default, you can press option+escape and it will give u the auto complete list. Auto-close tag is another nice feature.
