Archive for September, 2005

Earplugs, $2

Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

Joe, Glenn, Grant, and I went to see Oasis last night at Lakewood Amphitheater. You remember Oasis — they had those songs that were popular about, er, 10 years ago? Wonderwall and Champagne Supernova. I caught onto them right around the time Champagne Supernova was on MTV. I was dubbing […]

Silently Shirley Slides over Scorching Sandy Stretches

Tuesday, September 27th, 2005

Meet Shirley, “Rock #53″ — a sliding rock, no less — as recorded by Paula Messina and Phil Stoffer. In 1996 Messina and Stoffer took a then-new GPS receiver into Death Valley’s Racetrack Playa to plot the positions and tracks of over 100 of these sliding rocks, rocks large and small that move around […]

- How Are You? - Engaged!

Sunday, September 18th, 2005

Today has been a wonderful day, and “wonderful” doesn’t even seem to begin to describe it. It began early this morning, rising at 7:30 to pick up Jessica and head up to Lake Lanier, where we met my coworker Art and his fiancee Lisa for a morning of sailing. I wasn’t expecting much, […]

…and other ways to distress your fellow commuters!

Tuesday, September 13th, 2005

Vince reports on what happens when you mount a styrofoam cup to the roof of your car during your morning drive.

The Traffic Blog Entry

Monday, September 12th, 2005

I get a lot of e-mail from readers, and the number one thing people ask me is, “Adam,” they ask, “Why don’t you write more about your experiences in traffic?” Well, I never thought people would be all that interested in reading about my commute, since normally things go pretty smoothly for me, but […]