Month: April 2004

Camel Spider

looky

Turns out that great photo of the camel spiders eating each other, supposedly taken in Iraq, is a little misleading.

They cannot run at 25 mph and aren’t as big as your head.

Dang!

TOBY: they get to like 3 inches across at the largest
BRIAN: too bad
TOBY: freaky ass sh*t in the legend
TOBY: can run up to 25mph :-O
BRIAN: they can run at mach 4
TOBY: thats even better
TOBY: that’s why we’ve never seen them
BRIAN: they hitch rides on santa’s sleigh
TOBY: maybe you’ll get one in your stocking
DIANE: i think they hang out with The Great Pumpkin

Arcology

looky

Remember those “Arcos” in Sim City? It’s a concept of building up rather than out in order to maintain a high global population without everything ending up like Soylent Green.

It seems very similar to the cities in Miyazaki‘s film Laputa and his music video “On Your Mark.”

I found this information with help from Dreaming of a Better Place.

A quote:

Arcologies were invented by Paolo Soleri in his book, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man


Web link of note: Arcology
(At http://arcology.com/)

Grand Theft Auto: San Lorenzo

looky

Thanks to Alice’s vigilance I now know the story behind Thursday night’s dose of action movie. She found a mention of the chase in the local paper and snipped it out for me. Isn’t that sweet?

From the Daily-

Man arrested in robbery, carjacking

SAN LORENZO – A 19-year-old man was in custody Friday on charges of robbing a San Lorenzo liquor store at knifepoint and then hijacking a taxi to make a short-lived getaway, authorities said.

Alameda County sheriff’s Lt. Dale Amaral identified the arrested man as Miguel F Ibarra of San Lorenzo. Hr was being held at Santa Rita jail in Dublin on multiple felony charges of robbery and carjacking.

Authorities said a man armed with a knife robbed Arroyo Liquors, 15821 Channel St. in San Lorenzo and several of its customers about 7 p.m. Thursday. He fled the store and carjacked a passing cab.

Sheriff’s deputies responding to the area arrested Ibarra after a 10-minute pursuit.

Some notes here:

  • That liquor store is IN the mall the taxi turned into. That means he must have robbed the store, grabbed the cab, drove it almost to the freeway, then turned around, drove BACK to the mall, and down that residential street behind the mall. Then he came back (Alice says there is no outlet there so he really had no choice) through the mall, and back towards the freeway. Since I saw about 3 minutes of it, I guess I saw 1/3 to 1/2 of the action. Woo!
  • He was only driving like 30 mph. Why so slow? Someone was speculating the driver may have still been driving… but then wouldn’t the charge be kidnapping?
  • “deputies responding” doesn’t really quite describe what happened. That had to be almost every cop in San Lorenzo!

Visit the Grave of Emperor Norton I

looky


Emperor Norton I
Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico
1859 – 1880
Joshua Abraham Norton
Jan 17, 1811 – Jan 8th, 1880

Our nation’s only Emperor lived right here in San Francisco, knew Mark Twain, stopped a race riot, abolished the Republican and Democratic parties, and declared the need for what is now called the Bay Bridge.