I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. My shower door looks like it might be original from when the apartment was constructed in 1951.
As far as I can tell, there’s nothing special about it. It’s just funky seeing the address and everything. I’m going to drive by in a bit and see what’s what at 1028 N. La Brea.
GOOD.is | Jobless in the City (Raw Image).
You never think about it, but with roughly 12 million people living in the area, Los Angeles’ 10% unemployment rate means there are 1.2 million people (roughly the city of Detroit) out of work and looking for jobs.
That’s 2.4 million idle hands. It’s kind of crazy to think about.
Curbed LA suspects a balloon payment on Chief Bratton’s home mortgage may have contributed to his the timing of his resignation.
Oh. My. God.
Now I see what all the fuss is about. Earlier today I downloaded the WP package. I had a bit of time this evening so I installed it on my host. It took about ten minutes, including setting up the MySQL db.
Migrating the content over from my Blogspot/Blogger blog was not as easy as it could have been. It’s designed to be super-straightforward, but I had a little snag. Workaround involved signing up for an account at wordpress.com, setting up a blog there to do the conversion. Then I was able to just export the content to an XML file which I imported into my personal hosted WP install.
And what a difference – just in the appearance with someone else’s template. I’m stunned. I always felt my writing had to be top-notch to be credible. But now I’m going back and re-reading my posts. I don’t know what it is, but they seem so much more… legitimate now. Between the color-scheme, typefaces and layout, I never really realized what a difference all those little visual elements made.
Anyway, you’re seeing it now. This is the new setup for http://www.quantumtom.com.
God bless WordPress.
QuantumTom