Spring in Burbank

[tealin]

For two mounths out of the year there are actually green growing things in this parched valley. Rejoice! Frolic! Take pictures!

There's a field between the studio and the freeway – I don't know who owns it, but it's used by people exercising their horses. Every time I'd park my bike in the morning I'd see how much bigger the little green shoots had grown, taking advantage of the four or five rainstorms we've had this winter. Only just last week I actually rode my bike through the field and was surprised how much was out there. I thought I should take pictures before they mow it all down in a couple weeks for fire safety.

        
    

I don't know what the weed-that-looks-like-geraniums is called, but it's grown in some form nearly everywhere I've lived. I've never seen it grow as tall as me before, though, not even in lush green Canada. Must be all the horse poo.

Look, trees!

    

This is an overview of the field from the second floor of the studio:


And look, the hill! THERE IS GREEN ON IT!


We're on the wrong side of it to get foggy mornings most of the time, but it makes for a neat effect anyway:


I walked towards it every day two summers ago, and lived at its base for a couple months before I learned that the world-famous Hollywood sign is just on the other side of that flat bit with the antennae. It's just the hill in my backyard! Mind asplodey.

If you catch the right light and crop it cleverly, Burbank doesn't look half bad, sometimes...

Hey Mac users! Do you ever find that if it's been running for a while (like over 24 hours) Firefox gets, for lack of a better term, tired? Like, it'll stop loading images or page formatting and sometimes you'll get to a page and just ... none of the links work. If I quit and restart it works fine, but I don't like quitting Firefox because I am not a quitter I have stuff loaded that I need to refer to and if I close it I have to reload it all, which is a waste of time and server brainpower. Is this a Mac thing or is it just my own personal MacBook McBuggy over here?

Comments

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

I appear to be operating on Firefox 2.0.0.16 still ... while the IT guys are religious about updating iTunes they are somewhat lax about Firefox, it seems. And I don't have administrative privileges here so I can't update it myself, or install a new browser. :P Good to know about Camino, I shall keep it under my hat ... though the world is a sad, sad place without Adblock.

[packy.livejournal.com]

True, but Camino has a built-in Flashblock option that's effectively the same, since most annoying ads are done in Flash these days. All Flash is replaced with a comparably sized Flash icon, and clicking on the icon runs the Flash. I have to put up the with extra minor annoyance of an extra mouse click when I go to sites like YouTube, but it's so nice to be able to have 30 tabs with Flash ads on them open at the same time and not have my poor G4 Powerbook brought to its knees.

Anyway, I'd at least send a request to IT to see if they could update Firefox to the latest 3.0 build. I did notice a marked improvement from 2.0 to 3.0, so it'll be better for you. Include a quick sketch of an aged Firefox as well--if they're anything like me, they'll be suckers for personalized art (though, working at an animation studio, they may be inured to that tactic).

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

This is a good idea ... after all I'm on fairly good terms with the IT guys as they keep having to come figure out weird things McBuggy gets up to, and I take an interest in what they're doing ... dunno how much artwork they get, usually they're fixing things so people can do artwork for other people. They do have a 'HELPER CAT IS HELPING' macro on their job request page so they must have a sense of humour. :)