Only in LA May 10, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Weird , add a commentI was talking on the phone (see previous post) when I hear helicopters and sirens outside. This in and of itself is not so unusual, but I go onto my porch to see what’s happening and I see 7 (seven!) helicopters and a bunch of cops with their lights on going across the bridge. I go back inside, turn on the TV, and I’m watching the car chase I just saw from my window. I swear, only in LA.
Phone Tag May 10, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Weird , add a commentI decided to call my Mom so I pick up the phone and call her, but it’s busy. So I wait 20 minutes and call again. Still busy. Then my cell phone rings. I pick up and it’s my mom. She tells me she tried to call just a minute ago and 20 minute before that. We must have called each other at the exact same time… twice! What’s the chance of that?
Fire Drill May 10, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Work , add a commentToday the building I work in had a fire drill. The evacuation point was two nearby overpasses over the 134 freeway. (I won’t go into the logic of evacuating to a bridge in an emergency in Southern California.) What did most truckers and many car drivers do when they saw hundreds of people standing on a bridge looking down at them? Wave, honk their horns, and nearly get in accidents as they looked at all the people and wondered what they were missing. I had great fun making the universal honk-your-horn-sign–we even got one trucker to honk his horn for 5 seconds. I noticed that many truck drivers would reach for their horns even if they didn’t honk–it must be instinct, like when they see a school bus. It was a very entertaining fire drill, at least as far as fire drills go. 
524,975 people have Buddy4u profiles, what are you waiting for? May 4, 2005
Posted by Owen in : Website , 1 comment so farI finally added a user counter to the Buddy4u homepage… we have over half a million active users. At one point we had well over one million users, but the database became too large so we had to remove inactive users. I think we could have had over two million users if we didn’t have to remove anyone.