Andy Chase

Usonian posted a photo:

My friend nate, managing to look world-weary at the ripe old age of 17. Almost 11 years ago, and still (IMO) probably one of the best photos I’ve ever taken. My old scanner doesn’t do my lone print justice, but I wanted to get it online anyway.

Apparently Arrow 93.1, a classic "Classic Rock" station that kept me company through untold hours of gridlock on the 405 and/or 101, has switched formats to the new breed of stations that lacks an easy-to-pigeonhole label, call it "nostalgia 80's and 90's for the late 20 and early 30 somethings, with a smattering of 70's rock that refuses to die."

It's not a bad format, I guess, but did they have to kill the Arrow?

Usonian posted a photo:

All that’s left of Ship’s coffee shop are its two signs. The lot is now occupied by a gas station.

Olympic Boulevard at La Cienega
Los Angeles, California

I’m often struck by the strange position of my generation with regards to the rise of personal computing; there seems to be a pretty even split between people my age who were exposed to computers as kids and irrevocably hooked, and people whose only exposure to computers is the aging MS-DOS or mainframe enterprise software they have to put up with at work; they don’t “know computers” so much as they know to hit F5 3 times, then TAB, then ENTER in order to create a new transaction.