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   Well I've been hanging out all afternoon with [livejournal.com profile] amalie_ and her 9 month old son ZOD (well, those are his initials, his first and middle name are Ze'ev Odin). Her husband / ZOD's father is my best friend Aaron, but the Coast Guard said they'd miss him too much if he came up this trip.

   But consequently it is now 11pm and I have an hour to come up with an entry. So I have to choose between my two easy topic ideas of "real life princesses who are hot" or "maps."

   Naturally I have decided to go with maps. So here's a map I drew awhile ago (like a year or two?) of my surrounding area. I'll even put it behind an lj cut


(small version)

Big version! )

Picture of the Day

From bottling the other day. Which actually reminds me just now that I could blog about that. hmmmm.

aggienaut: (fiah)

   Power has been out here at The Trees all day. Typical. At least this time the internet is still up. And I have someone scheduled to come look at the apartment at six... there better be power!!!! )=


   The guy who smashed my car didn't show up at Court this morning, so the primary reason I'm here, to testify against him, is moot. Now they have to go arrest him and it might be months before he's finally brought back to trial.

   Anyway, laptop battery is about to die.


***EDIT: 4:43pm***
   Turns out the power is out because my roommate Jason hasn't been paying the power bills again. This is extremely unfortunate timing since I have someone coming to look at the apartment tomorrow morning as well as this afternoon, and the power won't be back by 11am tomorrow at the very earliest (and if I recall correctly they usually lag on these things). )=


   Anyway, here's Northern California, to the same scale as I did the So. Cal. map.



   Note that some 90% or more of the population (by my estimate, I don't know where to find the actual statistic) of Northern California resides in the Bay Area (marked with little grey squares on the map). And incidently, according to Wikipedia, the Bay Area metropolitan area has the highest median income in the country, higher than Orange County even. As such, I would like to ask TV to please leave us alone and set your rich people TV programmes where they belong in the Bay Area.

   Anyway, most people usually think of Sacramento and Davis as being on the very top of Northern California and forget that it is in fact pretty close to the middle. This map reflects the fact that all I know is there are hills/mountains surrounding the top of the Central Valley, and some random mountain in the middle (and The Five valiantly continues on up to eternity). Beyond that, anything north of here is filled with unicorns as far as I know.

   Lake Berryessa is only half an hour from here and is nice for a quick jaunt to more camping related settings
   Lake Tahoe is a major Davis destination for snowy cabin-oriented retreats in winter and houseboating and such in summer. It used to be the site of debaucherous ASUCD retreats, before it was wisely realized that it was probably a very questionable expenditure of student funds. But man was it fun!

   And yes, it is 3073 miles to Ocean City.


See Also: Special Edition Consolidated E.M.O.S.N.A.I.L. California Map!


***EDIT: 7:04pm***
   Despite the lack of power (he didn't notice), the guy who came by to see the place was ready to put down money asap. We've got a guy coming to look at it in the morning so I think we'll entertain that guy first and see which one we like best. It could be awkward telling the guy we liked the other fellow better, but tomorrow's guy has a puppy so we can blame it on that. Either we liked the puppy or didn't want to deal with such, nothing personal.

   Also, I forgot to mention I went with Tarisha and two friends of hers to a free Shiny Toy Guns show in Sacramento last night. It was a fun little adventure.

   Right now I'm headed over to my uncle & aunt Ben & Bev's for dinner. Steam Tunneling is still on for tonight! I'm thinking 10pm. If you're down call me!

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I present to you, The World According to Me! :



* See Tweedy and San Diego Outback tags for more on the asterisked items.

   Or at least So Cal. I might do Nor Cal next.

   Anyway, I don't have any particular familiarity with the area marked "presumably also desert," (I think nearly half of it is the Twentynine Palms Marine Base, which is 98% as big as all of Orange County) or the coast between Santa Barbara and Monteray. The Central Valley predominantly looks like this, and I may have to drive through it for about 6 hours tomorrow which I am not looking forward to. )=
   The Desert Wasteland is Riverside County. It looks like Tatooine.

   Others in different localities are welcome to draw maps of their surroundings for a 30 in 30 entry as well.


   I'm really not looking forward to driving for eight hours tomorrow )=

Related:
Maps of Orange County

Touch & Go

Mar. 29th, 2006 01:19 am
aggienaut: (snail piracy)
photobucket hellorz shrank this

   Last Week I drove down to the County of Orange (The CO) on Sunday and Returned on Wednesday. This week I went on an epic roadtrip with nine others down to Las Vegas on Friday and back on Monday. Today (Tuesday), I'm in Davis. Tomorrow school resumes, but after class I'm flying down to Los Angeles for the PAXMUN AMPAC MUN Conference in Los Angeles. I return on Sunday.
   Presumably then I will stay put for awhile, but in the mean time I will have travelled about 2,854 miles in two weeks, mostly by car and in a generally back and forth pattern.


Before I left The CO: I came downstairs around dinner time and exclaimed, "it smells like someone's cooking with stout!" To which a suprised mother answered "I'm making stew with stout, how'd you know??" I went on to say "this starfish looks like its got chocolate chips" only to be told it was a "chocolate chip starfish" and be asked if I already knew these things and was just being saucy. In conclusion, I am the next Amir Ghasri Adrian Saint. That and I can smell a good stout at a distance of two furlongs.


Vegas
   I probably don't have time to even begin to update about the Vegas adventure before I embark upon my next one, but at least here's the roll call of shinanigans who were in attendance: Brian "B-Fog" Fogerty, Olivia Pisano ([livejournal.com profile] pygmypeach81), Colleen Milton ([livejournal.com profile] colleeniebeenie), Julie Parker & Brittawater Segerstrom, Chris "C-Bunch" Bunch, Lyrakeet Fischer, and of course Kristy ([livejournal.com profile] basicallyasap), Sashie ([livejournal.com profile] slosha)& I.


Emosnail special report: Today one of our secret Emosnail correspondants tracked down a local Deputy DA to find out the real deal on a recent locally infamous case. The conversation went roughly as follows: "So this hit & run..." "gag order." The DA did go on however to enthusiastically endorse the "alpine dog" available at the Fat Cat Cafe for $3.75.


In Jurisprudence Today
   Captured Al-Qaida member Zacarias Moussaoui, currently on trial for involvement in the September 11th attacks, has testified at his trial -- as a prosecution witness. As Moussaoui joined the prosecution team and argued that he had indeed been the intended 20th hijacker, Defense scrambled to defend him against himself and undermine his testimony. (story)

Picture of the Day


Myself, Kristy & the Sashikeet
Note the Bellagio in the background



Previously on Emosnail
   Year & a Week Ago Today:
The Reagan Doctrine Meets Somalia - A term paper under construction.
   Year & a Week Ago Last Sunday: Shadiness of Campus Crusade For Christ - And more importantly, compelling evidence that the Emosnail readership is not more biased against religion that the UC Davis community at large, despite what prominent Daily Show celebrities1 might say to the contrary. Also, Kaplan missed the boat and gave out their Excellence in Student Teamwork Award to some random thing instead of the Daviswiki phenomena which has literally changed life in Davis as we know it, but creator Philip Neustrom is awarded a more prestigious honour: the Sacred Order of Trogdor.
   Year Ago Last Thursday: Symmachies Sammiches & the First Athenian Empire - Actually there are no sandwiches. A term paper under construction.
   Year Ago Last Saturday: Daviswiki Theology - You can actually watch as Brent Laabs spirals into the darkside & becomes the person we know today as Darth Laabs. Also Saul Sugarman discovers wiki & immediately proceeds to edit Daviswiki towards his own fascist paradise -- battles ensue with entrenched wikites across a number of pages, but he makes Ikea his Stalingrad and fights in the spirit of the Soviet slogan "not a single step backwards!"
   Year Ago Today: International Atheist Convention - The Atheist Alliance International convention takes place in Los Angeles. I may or may not have been in that general area hanging out with Penn & Teller.

aggienaut: (trogdor)

   As you may recall, though I haven't mentioned it lately, context is rather the prime directive of this livejournal. The goal is to explain everything in such a way that the context of everything is as comprehensible as possible. This in contrast to many other livejournals that may update five times a day yet leave out crucial details making the tale being woven all but incomprehensible to the reader.

   At times you can only do so much through writing without demonstrating with a diagram of some sort. To show things in geographic context of one another really there is no substitute for a map.
   As such, I have prepared two animated maps of the area of this season's adventures, one of Orange County as a whole and another of South County.

click for larger version

SOUTH COUNTY IN DETAIL )

holy crap we have a flag!



Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today:
The Banda Skalavera - at Chain Reaction. I liked them.

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