I’ve started uploading my best pics from Loreto and surrounds.
We drove here on invitation from friends of my parents, Kip and Mary. Our first breakfast together:
Kip and Mary have many years been living part of the year on a boat in the Baja. They’re currently out of Puerto Escondido.
The skipper spends a lot of time …
… tinkering and swabbing the poop deck.
See all my Loreto photos, so far.
Chris Jones’ magazine profile of Roger Ebert in Esquire seems to have triggered an onslaught of media coverage.
It has been nearly four years since Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw and his ability to speak. Now television’s most famous movie critic is rarely seen and never heard, but his words have never stopped.
check it out – Esquire
In fact, Roger may be more popular with more people than ever before. Follow him on twitter EBERTCHICAGO.
Dave sends out this inspiring clip from the TV show Glee.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Imagine …
Considering how well the (once great) Edmonton Oilers hockey franchise have played this year, I can understand how excited they would be watching some real hockey, the Olympic Final USA vs Canada.
… The water utility in Edmonton, EPCOR, published the most incredible graph of water consumption last week. By now you’ve probably heard that up to 80% of Canadians were watching last Sunday’s gold medal Olympic hockey game. So I guess it stands to reason that they’d all go pee between periods. …
Pat’s Papers – What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once?
Thanks Warren.
Here’s another version of the viral video by OK go. This is the official vid featuring a Rube Goldberg machine.
EMI made an exception to their normal (idiotic) rule not to allow their artists to embed videos. This has already been seen over 6 million times.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Safe and sound in Loreto, after a leisurely but long 3450km (2143mi) drive over 5 days.
The northern Baja, one of the great scenic drives of the world, was much more challenging than I expected. A motorcycle would be the best vehicle so long as you didn’t hit one of the giant speed bumps at high velocity.
Loreto’s a quiet seaside town of about 10,000. Tourists love it.
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We’re here to holiday and visit with friends of my parents, Canadian snowbirds, who live several months a year on a boat.
Likely we’ll stay a week. Move south to La Paz. Then cross over to the mainland by ferry returning via my Uncle’s place in California.
Almost all of my photos posted to flickr are in the “commons”.
They can be used by anyone, any way, any time for free providing they give attribution.
One was recently used by a company in PEI:
Another was used in a post by Why Go Peru.
Most of the flickr photos I use on my websites are Creative Commons, Attribution, Non-commercial, No derivatives.
EMI told OK go they weren’t allowed to embed video. EMI are idiots.
So OK go made a second music video of that song that I am able to embed here. Thanks guys! I want to promote your stuff. I’ll post it here, and link to this from Facebook and Twitter.
And I’ll continue to boycott EMI, as much as possible.
OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.
79yrs-young today.
We celebrated at the Motel 6 Resort in Santa Nella, California.
Santa Nella is astoundingly popular … with long distance truckers. I assume they all stop here to dine at the memorable Pea Soup Andersen’s Restaurant, as we did.
Have you yet made the pilgrimage?
Chosen one of 21 colossal roadside statues not to miss in North America, you can’t miss this one.
Constructed by the “Caveman Club” in 1971, this lummox was tragically vandalized July 4th, 2004. Thank God a local business man chipped in the $2,500 for repair.
Rick McCharles 