Or you won’t stay bodily intact or may live, for very long. If you aren’t terrified by going 30+ over traffic while splitting, your brain doesn’t work right. The behavior of traffic is pretty predictable, but there’s always that one guy who just has to change lanes as fast as possible when a 15 foot gap opens in the…

They already had a blank check. This just legalizes the CHP ignoring reasonable lane splitters, which is what has happened up until now. But some CHP officers have also ticketed lane splitters by citing the “lane straddling” law. Especially in San Diego County and in the Sierras (I was ticketed for lane straddling…

One thing has changed. Specifically making it legal. The CHP has never been able to tell drivers that lane splitting motorcycles are obeying the law.

A lot of drivers at any given time, usually people who moved to California from states that forbid lane splitting, think that lane splitters are violating the law and get…

But it definitely makes a motorized two-wheeler the second fastest way around the city in rush hour by a long shot.

Florida Man wants to trade island that will be under the sea in 10 years, remarkable only for becoming a serious navigation hazard, to gullible wealthy car owners.

SoCal isn’t that big. But since there’s almost no time anymore when there isn’t heavy traffic, especially during the week, it could take as long to go from Irvine to Hollywood as it takes to fly from LA to Denver. Assuming they’re not taping at a hangar in Mojave.

It would be nice to establish the legal precedent that companies that contract services to another company, cannot dodge liability simply because the employees are not theirs.

Since they were wearing Hilton uniforms, I can see a win in this case. Then the Hilton should sue the contractor, for not having full insurance…

Yeah. But if you are from the West, if you don’t think it’s gross at least at first, you’re most likely lying. Even to yourself.

And the batteries seem to last forever.

Studio plants in focus groups would be so Hollywood.

It’s not a ransom if you owe someone money. It’s debt collection.

My phone is my backup music player a lot of the time if I’m just listening with headphones. I like my $35 Sandisk Sansa. It’s small, light and has dedicated buttons, and I don’t drain my phone battery. And it has much better sound than my S5, though it’s about the same as my M8. I only use the phones for Bluetooth…

I’m watching this and trying to figure out what’s on the tip of that one blade that is burning and making spirals.

I’ve seen something not quite as dramatic while riding across the country. The turbines I’ve seen in the US have brakes to slow or stop the turbine in high winds, but when those brakes fail, you get this.…

I had a director/producer on a film actually say to an editor, “Cut it so it’s ten percent funnier.”

Making a good movie is actually pretty close to magic. If you’ve ever worked below the line, especially in editing or pre-visualization, you see all these scenes that seem to not go together at all, and the director pulls them together somehow.

I’ve worked on scenes where the first edit was a shit show, and you…

We haven’t found life yet in other places, because we’re looking for artifacts of 20th and 21st century technologies, for something that occurs over geologic time for which this era would be a mere momentary blip.

We know the galaxy is a dangerous place, and a GRB could have sterilized our entire region of space of…

Most city raccoons feast off cat food left for outdoor cats and dogs in the backyard.

This doesn’t apply to all workers at all. This applies only to workers whose occupation readily exposes them to infectious diseases at a higher rate than someone would normally experience. Not normal occupational exposure to the diseases of your coworkers.

I worked on pre-visualization on a major motion picture where…

If Danica won by some even more upset victory, their son should be proud to wear that name. I’m not sure there should be any “boy named sue” effect if you’re named after a badass woman named Danica.

It was eerie, and the nuclear winter sun dropped the temperature in my area about 10 degrees.

The whole day yesterday was like living life in an Instagram filter, colors were odd, and even 45 miles away (South of Santa Monica) our cars are completely covered in ash.