Test your parallel parking skills
A little flash movie that tests your ability to parallel park. I think Stephanie can tell you that sometimes I have trouble with that.
Oh, My God, Doug, you have to see this….
The Real Gilligan’s Island – a reality show based on the series, only with real life people in the roles. This is the casting call for it.
UPDATE: Turns out he already had the application.
Hey, Crackhead
A funny note posted on Craig’s List from a guy who’s kind pissed that someone sawed off the sparkplugs on his motorcycle to use them as crackpipes. I had no idea that you could use sparkplugs as crack pipes. That’s kinda interesting.
Texarkana, Texas
The eastern caravan stayed the night in Texarkana, Texas last night. Their destination today is Sweetwater, Texas, a town that really has a ball when the caravan comes through. Yesterday, they stopped in Memphis, Tennessee to see the pyramid, and stopped a couple of times to deal with a running board problem that Stephanie was having.
Phoebe’s been giving Stephanie a heck of a time; on the trip to Nashville, the passenger-side window got stuck down (common problem with automatic windows on the Beetle) and when they left on the trip yesterday, one of the headlights went out. Which means they’ll make a video of how to change a headlight when they get to the car show. On the plus side, I can tell Phoebe apart from the other black Beetle in the caravan when I look at the webcams.
Before she left for Roswell, I helped Stephanie put on some custom runningboards for the Beetle. They’re not real running boards, but a ribbed rubber mat cut to the size of the section under the door, made to mimic the look of the old-fashioned first edition VW Bug. They’re attached with double-sided automotive tape, and apparently the one on the passenger side, that we worked on after it got dark, was coming loose. Steph will fix it sometime before the car show. It’s a very cool look; you’re just not supposed to install them in the dark.
Radio Flyer
Don’t mind me, I’m just bookmarking this site for something I’m working on.
U.S. Truck Carrying Radioactive Waste INTO Iraq
Kuwait customs officials stopped four U.S. trucks unders suspicion of bringing radioactive waste into Iraq, and discovered that one of them was indeed filled with radioactive material, with no explanation of why it would be bringing the material into Iraq.
No weapons of mass destruction, so why don’t we plant some?
All Pods Caravan Update….
Hey, look, it’s my girlfriend leaving Nashville in her Beetle!
Lisa and Spacepod are driving behind Stephanie, who’s driving Phoebe. You can also see all the cars on the caravan on the graph at the bottom of the main page.
Hmmm. This is pretty cool; I can keep tabs on my girlfriend even when she’s hundreds of miles away. 🙂
You can also see still photos they put online; Stephanie and Phoebe are in them, too. 🙂
UPDATE: More pictures of my girl on the webcam, here’s one, and here’s another.
And here’s a great shot of Phoebe… you can see her retro wheels. She’s so cute.
Podvision is Live
Lisa Linn’s webcams for the New Beetle caravan roadtrip to Roswell are up and are broadcasting their trip now. I think they’re at lunch at the moment, so it’s broacasting a review of the shots so far. Sometime later this evening or tomorrow morning, you’ll be able to see my girlfriend Stephanie join the caravan.
Signal Orange: representing Iraq war dead on bodies of the living
Signal Orange is a project to make the invisible visible — which is a premise and prerequisite for democracy. The goal of Signal Orange is to unveil the faces that the Bush Administration wants hidden — and to stop pretending that its actions in Iraq are inconsequential.
This is a response: Signal Orange represents the dead with the living — wearing T-shirts in their names. There is one shirt for each soldier who died. The front states how he or she died, the back reads, “(Rank) (First) (Last) can’t vote anymore.” The signal orange color of the shirt was chosen for the same reason it is used where caution is required — it’s the most visible color in person, on camera, and on video. The shirts are to be worn in places where the media is focused, whether that focus is momentary or constant. Examples might include the audience outside a morning talk show, or a parade, or a sporting event, and it certainly includes the Republican National Convention in NYC come September.
Urban Tribes
I was bookstore shopping with Stephanie and she pointed out a book to me that her friends had talked about, called Urban Tribes: A Generation Redefines Friendship, Family, and Commitment by Ethan Watters. It’s a book that examines the cultural trend of young people getting married at a later age and of forming close tribe-like networks of friends that function as a family. I’ve only started the first chapter and it’s like a revelation; I recognize a lot of my friendships, and my own feelings about relationships and families. My impulse was to say, “oh, you have to read this book!” to my friends. So I am.
UPDATE: The more I read, the more intrigued I am about this book, and the more I identify with it. In the book he references the TV shows “Seinfeld” and “Friends” as onscreen examples of urban tribes, but “Sex and the City” and even “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” fit into this trend as well. Its also something to note that while the baby boomer generation and conservatives are lamenting the death of the “traditional family” and the of decline of people engaging in civic groups like the League of Women Voters, people in our generation are not lost socially or completely selfishly motivated… they just organize and perform altruistic, communal and civic acts in a different fashion than the generations before us.
Read more about the social trend and about the book here at the UrbanTribes.net website.
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