Everyday Living

WIFI: LA Central Library?

By Eric Richardson — July 07, 2004
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I just noticed that the Central Library website lists wifi in their computer center. I can't seem to find, though, if the coverage is specific to the computer center or if it covers the entire library. I could really use a good place to go with the laptop; all the cool ones I've been to are far from downtown. Something outside, like the coverage that should...


could you be any more wrong?

By Eric Richardson — July 06, 2004

I'm working from my apartment today so that I can try and fix a car window (which I'll talk more about later). That means that I was home just now to hear our apartment phone ringing. I answer it, and a woman's voice asks: Hi, is this the Standard, in New York? I said no and she said she must have a wrong number. Now, there are multiple problems with this...


fog

By Eric Richardson — July 06, 2004

I'm lying in bed just now, copying a Simpsons episode over to my laptop so I can watch it while falling asleep. Out my window looms Library Tower. Tonight the illuminated top is shrouded in fog. It makes the whole building look eerie, the partially lit walls contrasting with the dark cloudy sky. The lights at the top reveal the fog around them, making it...


It Happened One Night

By Eric Richardson — July 01, 2004

Last night Kathy and I returned to the Los Angeles Theatre for It Happened One Night, again a part of the LA Conservancy's program Last Remaining Seats. The film was again excellent, as any film that goes and sweeps the Oscars should be. Last night we got much more of a chance to wander around the theater than we had the first time around (this time being...


the joys of downtown

By Eric Richardson — June 28, 2004

I have to throw in one story about rural Minnesota vs. my life downtown. The night before the wedding everyone was invited to get pizza after the rehearsal. The wedding, and therefore the rehearsal, was in LeRoy, MN. The pizza place was in Spring Valley, a thriving metropolis of a couple thousand people about 15 miles away. My cousin and his wife live in...


which is it Metro?

By Eric Richardson — June 23, 2004

I was just cleaning up my desk some and found a nice glossy bookmark-shaped "Metro Rail Bike Hours" card that Metro employees were handing out on Bike to Work day. When they handed me the card I didn't even look at it, since I'd read their Metro Bikes page online and ridden with my bike plenty of times before. Running across it just now, though, I took a look...


rail classics

By Eric Richardson — June 21, 2004

Pulling out of Union Station on the Gold Line you pass a small rail yard full of classic passenger cars. Today, however, the yard was empty. Curious, I did a little research. I'm pretty sure the Rail Excursions car is one I normally see there. Their special itineraries page lists a June 22-23 trip from LA to Seattle, so perhaps it's off getting readied for...


ahh... i love LA people

By Eric Richardson — June 20, 2004

Magilla and I just got back from the Ralphs over on the corner of 3rd and Vermont. It's a little ways from downtown, but it's pretty much the closest thing we've got. The trip back from there is cool because coming into downtown the eastbound lanes split off to become 4th street, which then proceeds both above and below the normal cross streets, not intersecting...


generation next

By Eric Richardson — June 20, 2004

This week's Downtown News has a cool article on Caryn Coleman, who with husband Sean Bonner owns the gallery sixspace and runs art.blogging.la. The article's part of Downtown News' series "Generation Next." The article should make Sean happy... To quote from a recent post of his: Since this is continually mistaken in articles written about us, we've felt...


weekend wrapup

By Eric Richardson — June 14, 2004

I didn't really mean to take the weekend off... It was just one of those things that happens sometimes.