Month: November 2011

Stay on Road

Sunshine Canyon

Sunshine Canyon

I enjoyed careening down Sunshine Canyon on this delightfully quaint dirt road yesterday. The snow and ice already on the ground, the 10°F temperatures (much lower with windchill), and the lack of guardrails all made the experience particularly excellent.

I appreciated most that a road crew had taken the time to install (in lieu, I suppose, of a guardrail or some roadside reflectors) a sign saying “Stay on Road”.

Thanks for the tip! So, you’re saying I should not veer suddenly off this cliff, killing us all?

See if you can guess on Progressive’s graph of our speed throughout this trip which part was on the snowy cliffside dirt road and at what point we reached more level pavement:

"Careening"

"Careening"

Fun fact: The several points where we stopped momentarily all represent when someone in an SUV came racing down the mountain behind us at easily triple our speed and I had to stop to let them pass.

35 Days of Christmas

Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas

Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas

ABC Family is advertising (honestly) a “Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas”.

So, they have a 25 Days of Christmas event, effectively counting down to Christmas. But since that’s not here yet, for the last ten days of November they’re having a countdown for when they can have their Christmas countdown. But even that isn’t here yet, so all they’re doing right now is advertising that they’re going to have a countdown until the other countdown.

And what will really eat at you if you think about this is that somewhere at ABC there had to have been a meeting where someone said, “So, how many days until we can start airing the promos for the Countdown to 25 Days of Christmas?”

LAX to Disneyland

I asked Google Maps how long it takes to get from LAX to Disneyland. Its answer suggests driving right into the theme park and onto Main Street USA:

LAX to Disneyland

LAX to Disneyland

And they don’t even have Street View in there!