This is the Avis desk at Los Angeles International airport. That's a lot of security cameras....
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There are advantages to renting out the entire back lot of the Universal Studios theme park for the morale event at your company's conference. P.S. You can drink an entire beer in about as much time as it takes to walk through the empty queue at the Mummy rollercoaster. P.P.S....
Continue reading Filled to maximum capacity.
I'm no longer too lazy for even a picture post. First up is a story banner Alaska Air had wrapped around a pole at SeaTac. Too bad there was a big thermostat housing bolted to the middle of the pole. This is a totally sweet mid-1960s Lincoln Continental convertible with...
Continue reading Los Angeles picture post.
The internet access at the hotel was infuriatingly slow while I was there, likely due to the massive throngs of nerds converging for WinHEC 2007. Even though I'm easily frustrated, I'm difficult to actually anger—but the slow wireless connection actually pissed me off since the WayPort people were charging $12/day...
Continue reading Terrible security suggestions.
We've spent four solid days in Los Angeles working at the WinHEC conference and, with the exception of an In-n-Out order delivered by my boss on day 1, haven't yet had any significant Californian fast food while we were here. So, my buddy Rob and I decided to do a...
Continue reading The Southern California fast-food marathon.
Buick LaCrosse? I don't think so. And then they tried to pawn a Grand Am or other piece of crap on me. I had to ask three times for something unAmerican before they gave me the pictured Toyota Camry1. Somewhat unfortunately, the new Camry is only modestly evolutionary from older...
Continue reading They tried to give me a Buick LaCrosse.
So, this is sweet: walking back from the convention center at around 11pm last night, I saw a cop car careen around a corner with his sirens on (but with headlights off) at around 60mph and go sliding across an empty intersection. And then I spotted a black first-generation Mercedes-Benz...
Continue reading I saw a movie shoot last night.
I don't want to make it ridiculously obvious that I'm out of town at the moment, so I'm saving this for whenever it is that I get back into Seattle—but the important point for today is that I'm spending the week in Los Angeles for Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference...
Continue reading Los Angeles: the delay post!.
