Spring in Burbank
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tealinFor 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 becauseI 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?
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
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Date: 2009-03-27 05:14 am (UTC)I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.16 on a Tiger MacBook (a.k.a. MacBook McBuggy because hello problems) ... oddly enough, even though Firefox gets lazy when it comes to loading things, it doesn't seem to run slower, necessarily, and it doesn't seem to affect any other program that's running. Anyway there's little I can do about it even if I did know what was wrong; IT doesn't trust us meddling artists and we don't have administrative privileges.
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Date: 2009-03-28 07:15 am (UTC)The tunnel going west goes past Johnny Carson Park and continues along the north side of the L.A. River. Going east, the riding trail goes along the river, past the equestrian center and at least up to the park off of Victory just before I-5.
If you cross the river at Mariposa, I believe you can walk all the way to the zoo, as well as miles and miles of hiking paths in and around Griffith Park.
Very safe during the day, but have a partner or a big dog after dark. The Cursing Bush is a good reason for at least a big dog: at the east end of Johnny Carson Park is a big bush that curses at dogs that investigate it. It's probably just a cranky homeless guy living there, but could be monsters.
Re: processor leak-- Try clearing your cache (both the Mac DNS cache and the Firefox cache). I think I also finally cleared out my Firefox history cache: I had it set to some ungodly amount and that slowed it down for certain functions. Oh, and re-start your computer after you do this.
If none of those improve the situation, try upgrading to at least Leopard. I'll ask my Mac guru what he told me to do when I still had Tiger.