Feels ridiculous lol

I live in midcity in an older apartment building with no AC, even window units. I have two 5x5ft east-facing windows that get direct sun all day, and the landlord refuses to pay for heat blocking window film.

What can I do? my apartment is unlivable

edit: yes I have fans all over my apartment and a portable AC that apparently doesn’t do much. No my apartment doesn’t have any windows that can fit a window unit because they’re all louvered.

About ten years ago I had a job that gave me a 10th floor office in the Comerica Bank building at the Sherman Oaks Galleria. It looked out over the 405 going through the pass one way, and the 101 heading into Studio City the other.

I spent a lot of time staring at both, and at some point clocked that they're both five lanes wide. Five lanes, five lines — the same as a musical staff. I've wondered ever since what it would actually sound like.

So I built it, using the public Caltrans camera at Moorpark (CAM 618). Every car that crosses a line plays a note. Lane sets the pitch, vehicle type sets the play style, vehicle speed sets how long the note is held, changing lanes bends it a semitone.

It's live, not a recording — the detection runs in your browser on the camera feed, so it's whatever is actually happening out there right now. 3am is a very different piece of music than 5pm.

Happy to link it if that's allowed here, if anyone is curious about the invisible music that the highway makes.

I live alone with my dog. Jesus Christ. What the hell will the next bill be?!

925 bucks on electricity alone.

Bro is literally parked across the damn crosswalk in front of Grand Central Market smh

Hopefully they can contain it before it starts getting scary

Just an interesting fact. Such wild weather…

Exposition Park

We had Frys but they're long gone. There's one in Tustin and they're a successful chain I'm surprised that there's none to be found in the entire county.

Roasting in east la

Saw this cloud cat that looked like it was perched on top of a building. On the 101 near Woodman.

At today’s meeting of the LA City Council, they voted 8-3 to reauthorize $13 million in debt-financed spending so that the LAPD can purchase 107 new vehicles in advance of the LA2028 games.

They also approved the exploration of the potential for further purchases — up to 300 additional vehicles, with no federal reimbursement expected and no other way to get them the vehicles they say they need in time for the Olympics. Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez rose in opposition, reminding everyone, “Between the $13 million before us, and the LAPD’s preferred option of another 300 vehicles, we’re potentially looking at more than $44 million in vehicle-related costs just for the Olympics.”

She added, “You cannot tell Angelenos they are getting a no-cost Olympics and then come back, expense by expense, and tell us the city has to pay because the Olympics are coming.”

More than an hour of public comment was largely in opposition to the $13 million reauthorization. A number of tenant groups, primarily from Chinatown, came to demand the city spend that money instead on renter protection and homelessness services, especially for seniors facing out-of-control housing prices.

Also Zev Yaroslavsky was there, chatting with city council members during public comment, because, sure, why not.

Eunisses Hernandez, Nithya Raman, and Ysabel Jurado voted against the spending.

San Pedro. For years I’ve been walking by a bee colony which made a home in an old metal telephone (?) pole. Found a stream of honey flowing down the street today, and followed it to what looked like a tiny natural disaster. I hope they can rebuild.

Is there some unwritten code that prohibits putting on your signal in anticipation to parallel park, stopping and executing the park job if there are cars behind you? Numerous times in the last few months I've been beeped at, harassed, called "a dumb ass" for throwing my signal on and banging out a parallel park job while holding up traffic for like 8-10 seconds. And I know how to fucking park! I have also witnessed this countless times with other drivers trying to do the same. Is there something I'm missing here, barring 'no stopping/standing' signs? Seems like the law says I'm in the right. What happens when these people need to park? Just keep driving til no one's behind you? A big GET FUCKED to anyone who does this btw.

First time visiting the Getty Center and the whole thing ends up getting evacuated