A Clue???

Some time back I made mention of the 512 address at Disney's California Adventure. I had no idea how it came to be, but today I may have stumbled on a clue...

I happen to know the address of a nuts & bolts location of Disney's Imaganeering operations. Today I checked out the street view (hence the low quality graininess), and the opposite end of that address happens to have the address 512!!! Sounds like just the sort of inside inspiration those guys would use!!!

So much more to blog about, one of these days...

Mysteries of the Deep

As mentioned in my previous post, when we visited Leo Carrillo State Beach last week, we'd found the lid to a baby grand piano. It worked as an incredibly effective, if somewhat cumbersome and heavy, skim board. I got fairly winded dragging it back to a good start point over and over,



Of course, the underlying question is how did it get there to begin with???
Was it on a ship from whatever the country of origin was that was caught in a storm??? The piano from the Titanic??? (Not likely on that one, I suspect it had a concert grand) A wild party at someone's beach house??? Being an affluent area most anywhere along the beach, could it have been a mishap while a piano was being delivered??? Insurance fraud, disposed of the evidence in the murky depths??? One of the images I found was actually of a mystery piano that appeared in Biscayne bay... I notice the lid is absent in that picture, could it have come loose there and migrated to the West coast???



Since this encounter, I've been considering making a smaller skim board for next time...

The Phone of Unusual Power

Tonight may just be another double post evening!!! I've got the pictures to do it...



Here's a strange thing indeed. A little back story: We've got three cordless phones in our home. The ones in the front room and the kitchen have developed problems of late, namely they would often fail to power up, most likely due to failing batteries. I disconnected the front room phone and replaced it with a corded phone from long ago, a very cool unit with a blue neon tube around the periphery. The only reason it hadn't been in use was its inclusion of a cord to the handset.

Fast forward to the other night, when I did my last couple of posts. After finishing those and a few other things, the power for the whole house first flickered, then went out altogether. It came back on a few seconds later, but only for a couple moments, then it went out again. Now, the strange part: The neon on the phone remained lit, even when every other thing in the house lost power!!! I hypothesised that perhaps it was somehow drawing its power from the phone line, but disconnecting it from the AC adapter caused it to turn off. The only other thing I can think of is perhaps the AC was only out on one leg, and it was grounding through the phone lines.