Posts Tagged ‘observation’

Lovely loo

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Now this was a cool bathroom! Took me awhile to figure out how to flush the toilet though, lol.

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Web presence

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Recently I’ve noticed how important it is to me to have a web presence.  Actually, correction: how important is it to me for companies to have a web presence.  I mean, it’s great that I have one and all, but it’s really really useful when a business I’m interested in has one (and a good one at that).

I guess this all came about because of my new obsession with Yelp.  Most listings don’t have business hours, from what I’ve seen, which seems to be a crucial piece to the puzzle.  After all, there’s nothing more disappointing and frustrating than looking forward to going somewhere only to show up and find it’s closed that day or during that time period that you arrive.  It’s been a personal mission of mine to add in operating hours to as many Yelp listings as I can, but it has been slow going.  Businesses either don’t have them on their website, or they don’t even have a website!

Sometimes I wish more of the world was as tech-savvy as our youth.  Then perhaps business owners would take note of the importance of having some sort of web presence, even if it’s just a listing on another site and not even your own web page.  The great thing about listings is that you can take control of or at least edit most of them, so you can add in the information about your business without ever having to put any effort into creating a site.

Seriously, people.  Get with the program already.

Sky high

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up in the clouds from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Shopping… container?

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shopping cart with two levels of baskets

Shopping cart or shopping baskets? Well, some sort of hybrid actually.

Oran-grapefruit

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orange, grapefruit, and over-sized orange

That’s a grapefruit in the back, a normal orange on the right, and some sort of monster orange on the left.

huge orange peeled

It doesn’t look so bad on its own but believe me it was massive!

Imaginary enemy

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The mowing is too loud for you to hear, but that bird is seriously flipping out at the strange noise on the other side of the wall!

ruffled bird from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Worst intersection

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There were so many cameras it was ridiculous. I swear they’ve got a dozen at least.

intersection with dozens of cameras set up to catch red light violations

Seriously? You need THAT many cameras at ONE intersection? Must be quite the troubled spot!

Valencia emergency response

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Boy, in Valencia when there’s an accident the whole road always gets shut down even though we have wider streets. In other places in LA you’d just squeeze by and not have to navigate blocks around. Tells you how much the police have to do around here.

accident on mcbean from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

Sense of time

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Wow, this week has been… weird.  Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I thought it was Tuesday (how do you live the same day three days in a row?) and then today I thought it was Friday (sure felt like it).  So somehow, this week has been slow yet fast at the same time.  I don’t know how the days went by, really.  I had a lot of work, there was a lot of rain, and amidst all that I ate a lot of food.  Everything kind of blurs together, but when I really think about I can still separate the days.  Yet, I still get confused and nearly thought tomorrow was the weekend again.

I’ve been having trouble getting up in the morning, which may be due to the dreary weather.  Somehow I always feel exhausted, even though I am getting a good 7-8 hours of sleep at night.  I wonder if I’m dreaming again.  Whenever I dream, I don’t get restful sleep.  It could explain why I don’t feel rejuvenated when I wake up.  I’m tempted to try an Excedrin PM, but I’ve never taken anything for sleep before and I’m afraid I really won’t wake up in time for work!  Perhaps I just need more discipline to force myself to bed earlier each night.  Or maybe I should take a vacation.

Have you ever had a whole week go by where you just felt off?  Especially in your sense of what day it is?  Boy is it a weird feeling.  The human mind is such a volatile thing.  I hope I can recuperate a bit this weekend and get my sense of time and my place in the world back.  I’m definitely not working as well as I could be because of this.

Little aviators

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In Florida waiting to get on a plane and I noticed some birds flying around inside! Now how did they get there?

birds in airport terminal from Mary Qin on Vimeo.

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