Archive for November, 2007

Los Angeles traffic

Published on November 20, 2007 in Everyday, Friends and Los Angeles. 1 Comment

I find myself wondering whether I put way too much thought into the routes I take to get around Los Angeles. I wondered at times if there were anyone else out there that really tried to think of how to get from point A to point B in LA without taking a left turn until I found this post from a fellow LA blogger.

How the hell did it take me five years of living in Los Angeles to learn that you NEVER turn left? NEVER. Okay, residential streets, maybe, but ONLY when there’s a 4-way stop. If your choice is between one left and three rights, you TAKE THE THREE RIGHTS.

LA has made me take so many different things into consideration when driving that I think I get more of a brain workout from finding a new route around the city than I would from most other things. Now I just need to find a way to not get annoyed when riding along with friends in LA when they don’t take into consideration the many complexities of traveling a couple blocks in this city, makes me think of this comic.

Ultimate tournaments and Twitter

Published on November 16, 2007 in Ultimate and Web 2.0. 0 Comments

I was thinking about some ideas related to the publicity of ultimate tournaments and I think Twitter could be a great tool to advertise for tournament reporting. If everyone included “UPA” in their Twitter messages, you could have realtime ultimate updates simply by tracking the phrase “UPA” on Twitter. This would require very little work by the UPA and could easily be adapted into a quick efficient score-reporting tool with a days work by a script ninja and the UPA score reporting system. Just a thought bouncing around in my head along with my crazy ideas for my new domain: www.collegeultimate.net (more on this in the future!).

The rules of the road in Los Angeles

Published on November 8, 2007 in Los Angeles. 2 Comments

Found this cool article in the LA Daily News (via Curbed LA). It’s about the unwritten rules of the road in Los Angeles and its pretty spot on except for the fact that it mentions being shot far too often. My favorite quote:

If you’re waiting behind cars in a left-turn lane, never expect to go when the arrow turns green.

The first driver in line will almost always be distracted and fail to notice that the precious green arrow is lighted until the last few seconds before it again turns red.

Only because it is soooooooo true in this city. Either people aren’t used to green arrows since they’re so rare in LA, or they are really just that distracted at all time. Another good one:

Morning rush hour is from 5 a.m. to noon. Evening rush hour is from noon to 7 p.m. Friday’s rush hour starts Thursday morning.

I’ll definitely be forwarding this article along to friends when they visit LA and plan on venturing onto the road. Read the rest of the article for some other great unwritten rules.