ConFusion, Bookstore, Boat Show
Random thoughts:
* What not to do: Do NOT pour windshield wiper fluid into the brake fluid container. Especially while trying to suavely show a new car owner (grailquestion) how easy and safe it is to refill one's wiper fluid.
If you do (aside from trying to minimize the damage and sop up the windshield fluid with gas station paper towels), this means that you will need to flush all the fluids from your brake system. No joke, look it up -- wiper fluid is a solvent, and will fuck up your entire brake system if left untreated. Get your car to your favorite repair shop (in my case, the Lusty Wrench in Cleveland Heights, who do fantastic, award-winning work at insanely reasonable prices) immediately.
* We went to the IX Center indoor Boat Show last night. It's always fun to look at sailboats and the various random vendors. But the show has diminished so much over the last several years! Possibly because of the economy, and the vicious circle of high exhibitor prices and not much sales resulting in less exhibitors coming the next year, which results in less attendees, and so on. But there were only two sailboat exhibitors (showing a tiny handful of Hunter, Beneteau and Hanse sailboats) -- gone were the (local!) Tartan, C&C, Island Packet, and so on.
If it wasn't for the fact that we get free tickets from our marina each year, and that it's kind of a tradition now -- we've been going almost every year since like 1990, and it's something bonding to do with my dad, I would not readily go.
Now, the Annapolis Boat Show, that's another matter. That, I would love to attend this year.
* This weekend, Cat, Ferrett and I are heading down to ConFusion 2008. If you're attending, see you there!
* The The Secret Headquarters, an L.A.-based comic book store, is one of the best combinations of concept, web site design, and physical store design that I have ever seen.
See also the even more mind-bogglingly beautiful Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen, an 800-year old church converted into a bookstore (found via regyt's post pointing to a Guardian article about the Top 10 Bookstores In The World).
* What not to do: Do NOT pour windshield wiper fluid into the brake fluid container. Especially while trying to suavely show a new car owner (grailquestion) how easy and safe it is to refill one's wiper fluid.
If you do (aside from trying to minimize the damage and sop up the windshield fluid with gas station paper towels), this means that you will need to flush all the fluids from your brake system. No joke, look it up -- wiper fluid is a solvent, and will fuck up your entire brake system if left untreated. Get your car to your favorite repair shop (in my case, the Lusty Wrench in Cleveland Heights, who do fantastic, award-winning work at insanely reasonable prices) immediately.
* We went to the IX Center indoor Boat Show last night. It's always fun to look at sailboats and the various random vendors. But the show has diminished so much over the last several years! Possibly because of the economy, and the vicious circle of high exhibitor prices and not much sales resulting in less exhibitors coming the next year, which results in less attendees, and so on. But there were only two sailboat exhibitors (showing a tiny handful of Hunter, Beneteau and Hanse sailboats) -- gone were the (local!) Tartan, C&C, Island Packet, and so on.
If it wasn't for the fact that we get free tickets from our marina each year, and that it's kind of a tradition now -- we've been going almost every year since like 1990, and it's something bonding to do with my dad, I would not readily go.
Now, the Annapolis Boat Show, that's another matter. That, I would love to attend this year.
* This weekend, Cat, Ferrett and I are heading down to ConFusion 2008. If you're attending, see you there!
* The The Secret Headquarters, an L.A.-based comic book store, is one of the best combinations of concept, web site design, and physical store design that I have ever seen.
See also the even more mind-bogglingly beautiful Boekhandel Selexyz Dominicanen, an 800-year old church converted into a bookstore (found via regyt's post pointing to a Guardian article about the Top 10 Bookstores In The World).