bernardo says

"I Feel Happy of Myself"

YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE

I drove in the snow today. I miss driving in the snow. It calls for an extra level of awareness and alertness. You have to be in control while watching out for others who aren't in control.

I drove to the MFA to met Jeffrey Ellse for lunch. Jeff's an old friend (who gave me my first skateboard, which I still have today) and a great artist. Click the picture to see more of Jeff's work.

You are my sunshine on a snowy Boston day. I spotted this behind the MFA.

 

Padiddle

Last night I changed my car's headlight bulb. It wasn't as easy as it was when I had to change a headlight on my '87 Cutlass, but it wasn't impossible. It was simple with the Cutlass: unscrew the busted light with a phlips head and pop in the new one. The 'lac had a few more steps but I'm happy that I did it myself rather than overpay a mechanic to do it. Doing it myself brought back memories of going to AutoZone (across from the police station) or to Bradlees with Jimmy to buy a replacement headlight for the Cutlass.

I love the DeVille but I miss the Cutlass...

Eye-Fi....technology man, technology

I just bought an Eye-Fi memory card for one of my cameras and I think it's pretty amazing. Basically, I take a picture and then it wirelessly uploads to my flickr page (or my iphoto or my desktop if I want it to) in a matter of minutes. It also geotags my pictures with the location they were taken...which could be very useful when I'm in Sicily. So check my flickr page to see what I've been seeing...

I'm eating strawberries and nutella right now and it's amazing. If you've never had nutella you should go buy it tomorrow.

I finally saw Iron Man today. I was upset that Ghostface's scene got cut but at least there was a few seconds of a Ghostface video in the movie. The Ghost scene better be a "deleted scene" on the dvd. Besides that issue, I really liked the movie. If there was one more fight scene, I would probably be saying that I loved it. They gave me just enough action for me to really like the movie and still be very hungry for part two.

New Wale: The Mixtape About Nothing. Like Wale but never watched Seinfeld? Listen to the mixtape. Like Seinfeld but have no idea who Wale is? Listen to the mixtape.

I can't wait to wear my Celtics gear now. CEEEELTICS!

Can you hear it? I can. "Beat LA Beat LA Beat LA!"

awesome car commercial

i want to buy a pontiac.

 

 

When I was a little kid, my mother had a blue Mercury Sable. I wished that the car could shoot lasers and had all types of cool Spy Hunter/007 weapons. There was this little round button on the inside door handle that I would use as the trigger when pretending to shoot pretend weapons at pretend bad guys. And just fyi, Spy Hunter might be made into a movie. I say "might" because of the following list of speed bumps (had to keep the car theme going) found on Spy Hunter's wikipedia page.

NY State of Mind

I've been in New York since Monday for work. I'll post some pictures when I get back to LA but here are some bits of tid.

- When  was waiting for my luggage at JFK, there was a pigeon sitting on a sign in the airport.

As soon as I got out of the taxi at the hotel, the bellhop/hotel doorman guy starting talking Mets/Sox with me. (of course I was wearing my Red Sox hat.)

- I haven't seen this many: people in "business" attire, people walking, taxis, street vendors selling pretty much everything, people walking or diners (I've been to three in three days) in a while.

- In the same night I saw Brendan Hermes and Terrance Howard.

- I still to buy a pair of sneakers....

on my way to work this morning...

I saw a chick picking her nose. Maybe she thought she had tinted windows, but she didn't. She wasn't massaging the inside of her nostrils or scratching her nose hairs, she was really diggin' for gold. She took out her finger and looked at it to see if she found any gold. Apparently she didn't because she went digging again.

I also saw Avon Barksdale. He wasn't picking his nose. He was driving with a gangster lean.

what i learned from cab drivers in vegas

I was in Vegas for CES and this is what my various cab drivers taught me:

the dime tip
- no receipts are given then you only tip ten cents. stop thinking that i did this because i didn't. the guy who got out of the cab that i got into did it. (goon move)

10 cent tipper: "can i have a receipt please?"

cab driver: "nope."

10 cent tipper: "you don't give receipts?"

cab driver: "not for a dime i don't."

The cab driver wasn't happy about his ten cent tip. i gave him a better tip.

coffee causing confusion
- in cab driver talk, asking for coffee is code for asking for help. i was in a cab and over the radio the dispatch dude kept asking for this other cab's location. the cab wasn't responding. then it sounded like a (possibly drunk) customer had taken control of the radio and was shouting random garble. the dispatch dude then started offering coffee. "if you need coffee i'll get it to you, i just need your location."....no response..."please let me know if you need some coffee and i'll get it to you right away." my cab driver explained to me that you say you need coffee when you're in trouble. but this often causes confusion because "some taxi driver like me don't speak good english too much" (i complimented his english and told him that i could understand him fine) "when we start to drive we hear the other drivers say 'copy' or 'copy that.' but sometimes when we say 'copy' it sounds like 'coffee' and he doesn't know what we mean."
i suggested that maybe they should change their code word to something that's less confusing, like asparagus or ointment or sucrets. (im kidding. i really didn't.)

begrudgingly, i left the cab with out know what happened to the unresponsive cab driver. i hope he's ok.

PWD

it's been too long. don't call me lazy though, call me very busy with other stuff. here are 3 pictures while driving to help me get back into the blog of things.