3 posts tagged “losangeles”
About 299 other cyclists and I got special permission to ride our bikes around inside the Port of Long Beach. It was amazing. Here's the photos and here's a quick post with more info.
What is your browser's default home page set to?
Submitted by Kelev T. Cat.
This should be no shock really, but mine is set to www.blogging.la - the Los Angeles Metroblogging site. We've got a great bunch of contributors who are always posting such cool stuff that I really want to see if there have been new posts since the last time my RSS reader cycled.
Thursday
Much more details, Pictures and Video forthcoming.
10:00pm finish up 18 mile bike ride in Little Tokyo
10:15pm Get call from Xeni, it's on.
11:30pm Arrive home, prepare to be AFK for the follwing day.
Friday
2:30am Decide I'm done for the day and go to sleep.
4:00am wake up, shower, eat breakfast, deal with e-mail, nothing outstanding when I close my laptop.
5:30am Picked up by Xeni, drive to San Diego
8:00am Coffee
9:00am Arrive SD Air & Space museum. sign in, release forms, introductions
10:00am Mission briefing, FAA requirements
11:00am Food, Coffee, Flight suit fitting, name tag is put on suit upside down
12:00pm Bus to airport, private TSA screening
12:30am Leave from San Diego towards ocean and section of airspace blocked off for us by FAA
1:00pm Complete 17 parabolas in microgravity, film the entire thing
2:00pm Arrive back at airport, Craig R. Barrett turns my name tag
right side up and welcomes me to the small world of people who have
experience zero gravity.
3:00pm Re-Gravitation back at Museum
4:00pm Distracted by side conversation about nanotech and aerogel
5:00pm Drive back to LA
8:00pm Realize SRL is starting in San Jose, txt message friends who might be in attendance, hear back from none of them.
9:00pm Arrive home, bid Xeni farewell, run up stairs change clothes, load bike into Michael's car which is waiting.
9:30pm Meet the IAAL/MAF in a undisclosed parking lot and bike to the Midnight Ridazz starting point.
10:00pm Midnight Ridazz leaves from Griffith park, heads through downtown and back to mid Wilshire
Saturday
12:15am Having finished the route, we head back to Silver Lake
12:45am Decide on late night food at the Astro, final odometer count is 20.08 Miles
1:30am Get home, crash out instantly.
11:25am Check e-mail for first time since previous day, just shy of 1000 unread messages in my inbox, post junk filter.
