feeling like a stranger in a strange land wandering the fremont street experience in old las vegas. i don’t gamble and i don’t patronize strip clubs so it’s a bit, er, strange.
that said, i could spend years taking pictures in vegas.
Tag Archives: sign
282/365. literal and figurative stumbling on the strip.
out for a morning run in vegas and, oh hey, it’s the fabulous las vegas sign i think is required to be in any vegas movie even though, like most of the strip, the sign is not actually in vegas.
apropos of nothing, right before i stumbled upon the sign, i literally stumbled after hitting a funny patch of sidewalk. pretty good stop, drop and roll. nice technique but i’m sure i’ll feel it in the morning.
263/365. life as a jetta TDI owner after dieselgate.
i’ve been happily driving jetta diesels for 15 years. i have a lot of words i could say after dieselgate but maybe the most pertinent are “never buying another volkswagen” ( insert epic rant here that i don’t have time to write ).
perhaps the only solace i can personally take is that we’ve only been driving a polluter for about a year and the diesels we drove previously appears to have not skirted the emissions laws.
i hope the EPA fines them the reported maximum, $18 billion and we use the money to invest in pedestrian infrastructure ( probably not going to happen, but hey we can dream a little dream, right? ).
So, VW owes the U.S. $18B+.
I say we invest the money in bicycle+ pedestrian infrastructure for our cities. Make polluters pay for change.
— AlexSteffen (@AlexSteffen) September 23, 2015
i was leaving work and found this tucked under the windshield. i’m pretty sure it was meant as a lighthearted joke but the reality of the environmental impact of dieselgate is no laughing matter.
as i hopped into the car, i got a text message from a friend in michigan. sigh. i had conversations with several current owners of TDIs that aren’t buying another one no matter what the company does and several people who didn’t own one but were considering buying and are now not going to. i think the long term implications for diesels in the US in general and vw in particular will be devastating. apple couldn’t have asked for better timing of a scandal as they accelerate their efforts to build an electric car as current TDI owners like myself, er, ride out their payment plans.
244/365. there’s something very notable on this sign.
something that hasn’t happened in 13 years. any guesses as to what it is?
here’s the answer if you can’t figure it out 🙂
i expect it’ll go back to the way it was soon.
243/365. the amish honesty test.
the price list at an amish produce stand on a quiet backroad in the country. no cashier stands waiting to collect your money. no video surveillance to try to keep you honest. just grab your produce and put the money in the can. use the money that’s there to make change if need be.
i’m sure there are stands like this all around amish country across the u.s., i wonder if they have their own national honesty index.
227/365. a sign of structural gender inequality.
both amazed and not amazed that this type of sign still exists in 2015.
226/365. back in the land of fresh cheese at gas stations.
one day and 1,400 or so miles later we’re back in the wisconsin where the delicacy found at gas stations is fresh cheese curds instead of salt fish.