[sic]sic • \’sik\ adverb [Latin] (circa 1859): intentionally so written — used after a printed word or passage to indicate that it is exactly as printed or to indicate that it exactly reproduces an original (Ex. Tom said he seed [sic] it all).Mileage- September 22, 2008 I finally was forced to do something Saturday morning I hadn&8217;t had to do since June 29: fill up my truck&8217;s tank. What with all the bicycle riding I&8217;ve been doing, I&8217;d only logged 215 miles on four wheels. In comparison over that same period I biked 1,582. Gas was $4.69 per gallon at the Silver ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/22/mileage/ This Is Why I Hate: Golfers- September 21, 2008 So I golfed this morning with Joseph Mailander at the nine-hole Roosevelt golf course in Griffith Park &8212; one of my favorites. It was a beautiful day and it was great to see him and I was very much appreciative of his willingness to suffer my lack of skills given my golf this day was ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/20/this-is-why-i-hate-golfers/ Trains- September 18, 2008 Lingering thoughts of last week&8217;s Metrolink disaster remind me of a story my mother told me about my grandfather, William Douglas Dill, who for most of his life was an engineer with the Southern Railway company. There&8217;d been an accident in the Sheffield railyard where he worked &8212; the closest of the railway&8217;s yards to where ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/17/trains/ Another Ride Home, Another Asshat- September 17, 2008 Then the punk pitched his cigarette at me. But let me back up to the beginning a block away on Sunset and Parkman where I was stopped waiting for the light to turn green. A champagne colored Japanese coupe pulled alongside my right to make a right turn and as he passed me I heard the ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/16/another-ride-home-another-asshat/ Elmer Dills Changed My Life- September 17, 2008 I was sad to learn that famed local restaurant critic Elmer Dills died yesterday. A foodie fixture on KABC&8217;s Eyewitness News and before that KABC radio for decades I well recall the time in the late 1970s when I called him up on his radio program one afternoon to tell him about a hole in ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/16/elmer-dills-changed-my-life/ Ambush Avoided- September 16, 2008 It&8217;s hard to say if the two youths loitering on the side of Ballona Creek last night were there by coincidence or design. It could be the pair of punks just happened to be standing around having found something interesting to watch in the waterway beside the section of the bikeway where it passes under the ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/16/ambush-avoided/ The Last One In- September 15, 2008 I can only guess that Susan&8217;s cat Bink (that&8217;s him peeking out from under the covers in this blog&8217;s banner) was making a statement by staying out these past three night that he didn&8217;t like it &8212; didn&8217;t like it at all &8212; that his momma was out of town. See Bink can be notoriously stubborn, ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/15/the-last-one-in/ Missed It By That Much- September 14, 2008 Had I arrived a couple minutes earlier instead of right now, I might&8217;ve had a shot at the setting sun. But I didn&8217;t take into account the sun drops that much sooner with each passing day.http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/13/missed-it-by-that-much/ From my iphone- September 13, 2008 This is a test post sent from my iPhone using the wordpress iPhone app I learned about today from sean bonner who mentioned it on his blog because he&8217;s having to resort to it in the wake of a laptop fail.http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/13/from-my-iphone/ Red Hole Sun, Wontcha Come- September 13, 2008 With Susan up in Redding visiting her folks this weekend, and me needing to fend for myself in regards to dinner, last night I took a slight deviation via my ride home to stop at El Campero at Union and Olympic to pick up some of their delectable chicken. After acquiring said sustenance and loading ...http://www.wildbell.com/2008/09/13/red-hole-sun-wontcha-come/ |