i am landon. urban planning student from jacksonville, fl. lived in atlanta and long to return. currently in fort lauderdale. i’m a local government employee. these are some of my friends: culture, music, traveling, public transportation, community, and jesus. facebook | tweets | sounds | photos | emails Tumblr (3.0; @adrifting)http://adrifting.tumblr.com/<p>Because I totally just did, and not necessarily unintentionally…</p> <p>I just returned from a pleasant dinner on <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?sourceid=chrome&q=creme&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl">Las Olas</a> with my aunt and uncle. We met and had to decide where to eat dinner. I suggested one of the four French cafés since I had not been to one yet and really wanted to try one. All restaurants on Las Olas are ridiculously overpriced, so I had only been to a couple of them for drinks or dessert.</p> <p>I said, “Well, <a href="http://www.lasolasboulevard.com/new/dining/cafedeparis.htm">Le Café de Paris</a> and the others are kind of expensive…”</p> <p>“Oh, that’s why you wait ‘till we’re in town to go, eh?” my aunt said.</p> <p>Uh oh. I thought I was in trouble… Well nope, they wanted to try it too and they still didn’t freak out after seeing the prices on the menu including $8 coffees…I even gasped a few times or laughed under my breath at how crazy some of the pricing was. Seriously? A $24 salad?</p> <p>Whatever. It was great and we ate and I had crème caramel custard for desert. Mmm.</p> <p>Also, they slipped me a nice $200 check for no reason. It honestly couldn’t have come at a better time.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276872117http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276872117Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:52:00 -0500familyfoodlifemoneylas olas<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kueq4f75I51qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.good.is/post/War-Is-Over-in-47-Languages">via</a></p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276634366http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276634366Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:50:39 -0500war is over<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/F6pUMlPBMQA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/F6pUMlPBMQA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><b><a href="http://discoveringurbanism.blogspot.com/2009/12/dreaming-about-magic-highways.html">“Magic Highways” according to Disney in 1958.</a></b></p> <p>This is neat stuff, but I am so glad we still have yet to create about 95% of these driving technologies…</p> <p>via <a href="http://discoveringurbanism.blogspot.com/2009/12/dreaming-about-magic-highways.html">discovering urbanism</a></p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276613281http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276613281Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:32:59 -0500infrastructurefuturehighwaycardisney<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ppNC0uAaCv0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ppNC0uAaCv0&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppNC0uAaCv0">Chromeo - “Night By Night” Video</a></p> <p>Love this song. The video made me feel like watching Dancing with the Stars or something.</p> <p>The two Chromeo guys must be an interesting pair to hang around.</p> <p>(via <a href="http://youtube.com/user/OfficialGLS">OfficialGLS</a>)</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276581694http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276581694Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:05:00 -0500music videochromeo<img src="http://11.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuem86ZNAQ1qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/09/americans-consume-100000_n_386062.html">Americans Consume 100,000 Words, 34 Gigabytes Of Content A Day</a></b></p> <p><b> <p>Some highlights from the study:</p> <ul> <li class="first">Americans spend an average of 11.8 hours per day receiving information.</li> <li>Americans consumer about 3.6 zettabytes (or 3,600 exabytes) of information in their homes in 2008. To put that in perspective, one exabyte is equal to about all of the hard drives in the entire state of Minnesota, which has a population of 5.1 million.</li> <li>Forty-one percent of Americans’ information time is spent watch TV, although it accounts for less than 35 percent of the information bytes consumed.</li> <li>Fifty-five percent of information bytes consumed in the home come from computer and video games. This share is so big in part because modern game consoles and PCs create huge streams of graphics.</li> <li class="last">The researchers calculated that we consume, on average, 10 ,845 trillion words in 2008, or about 100,000 words per American, per day. (As the <a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/the-american-diet-34-gigabytes-a-day/">New York Times</a> points out, War and Peace, by comparison, is 460,000 words long).</li> </ul></b></p> <p>Holy crap.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276537163http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276537163Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:26:30 -0500newsamerican consumptioninformation<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/19oo7Ejq9WI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/19oo7Ejq9WI&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><b>NYC Bicyclists vs. NY Hasidic Jews</b></p> <blockquote> <p>The Hasidic Jewish community convinced the city counsel to remove the bike lane running through their neighborhood because the reported many of the female cyclists wore “short skirts and shorts” and were “hotties” that posed a threat to religion because they broke the dress code of Hasidic Jews.  The NYC Bicyclists took on this attack on their personal safety and repainted the bike lanes in the middle of the night.</p> </blockquote> <p>via <a href="http://ethanllewis.tumblr.com/post/276379030/nyc-bicyclists-vs-ny-hasidic-jews-the-hasidic">ethanllewis</a></p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276420242http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276420242Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:30:00 -0500bikenew york<object width="400" height="231"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/BTEJbqGIEhtdk6RrhyfuWQ" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/BTEJbqGIEhtdk6RrhyfuWQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="400" height="231"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/113866/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-gretchen-carlson-dumbs-down#s-p1-sr-i1"><b>Gretchen Carlson Dumbs Down for FOX and Friends according to Jon Stewart</b></a></p> <p>Awesome.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276294009http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/276294009Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:12:00 -0500tvjon stewartdaily showfox newsgretchen carlson<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://adrifting.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/275483971/tumblr_kud68xfVA11qztgtc&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>Sufjan Stevens - Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time!</b></p> <p>Somehow, this evening really put me in the Christmas mood.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275483971http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275483971Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:43:45 -0500musicsufjan stevenschristmas<img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kud5meKDI11qztgtco1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Jealous, Canadians? lol</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275464313http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275464313Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:30:14 -0500weather<img src="http://14.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kud2smaoua1qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Love this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroeder_(Peanuts)">kid</a>.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275378121http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275378121Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:29:09 -0500peanutsschroeder<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kud1p2mbNC1qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Watching now.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275345299http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275345299Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:05:26 -0500charlie brownchristmastv<p>Tomorrow night, I will be having dinner with my Aunt and Uncle (really, my dad’s cousin and her husband…I have a relatively small family and they are close, so I call them that) on Las Olas. I love them a lot. They are in town to visit some other family on his side. He is a GT grad and she is an over-accommodating, worrisome woman who tries to make sure my every need is met.</p> <p>This is all great, BUT I am fully expecting the life questions I always get from her, such as:</p> <ul> <li>Do you have a girlfriend?</li> <li>No? Why not?</li> <li>Are you going to get married? When?</li> <li>What are you going to do when you finish school?</li> <li>Grad school? Oh, what do you want to do with that?</li> <li>What are you going to do with your life??</li> </ul> <p>I’ll have some ‘splainin’ to do most likely…Hopefully, good ol’ Uncle will chime in and be like “Ok, honey, he’s tired of answering your questions.”</p> <p>Whatever, I’m going to get another free meal at some nice restaurant on Las Olas out of it!</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275160306http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275160306Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:36:08 -0500lifefamilyfoodlas olas<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://adrifting.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/275116865/tumblr_kuct0jBJ5g1qztgtc&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><b>Josh Rouse - Winter in the Hamptons</b></p> <p>Oldie.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275116865http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275116865Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:57:55 -0500musicjosh rouse<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kucqogqzXD1qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I love that <a href="http://www.last.fm/bestof/2009/chart/40">Last.fm</a> is doing this <a href="http://www.last.fm/bestof/2009/chart/40"><i>Best of 2009</i></a> music list based on listeners’ scrobbles.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275061219http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275061219Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:07:28 -0500musiclast.fminternetbest of 2009<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kucp1pGXM61qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Look what I picked up in <a href="http://www.brewurbancafe.com/">BREW</a> today! A sweet poster/brochure for the <a href="http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/?p=miami">BFF09/Miami</a>.</p> <p><i>Also, I decided no on the </i><a href="http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/272139021/thinking-of-buzzing-my-hair-like-i-used-to-in-the-3rd"><i>buzz cut</i></a><i>. And my glasses really need some anti-glare somethingarather on them. My new ones which should be here any day now should have that feature.</i></p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275025150http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/275025150Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:32:13 -0500bikemiamilifehttp://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274972934http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274972934Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:39:05 -0500internetmacchromegoogle<p>Because I am just like her. I don’t do drugs or go crazy with things, and I keep to myself.</p> <p>BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!</p> <p><a href="http://adrifting.tumblr.com/search/landlord">Just like her</a>, eh?</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274948168http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274948168Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:12:36 -0500landlordlife<img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kucjnaTrce1qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Munich Subway - Georg-Brauchle ring station</i></p> <p>Oh man…Amazing subway station overload right <a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/8346/subway-architecture.html">here</a>.</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274915736http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274915736Tue, 08 Dec 2009 13:35:34 -0500subwaystationdesignawesome<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuc7bjUQGp1qztgtco1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/movies/08fred.html?_r=1">Fred: The Movie</a></p> <p>Oh geez. Please no! Why? Seriously?</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274681147http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274681147Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:09:18 -0500internetyoutubefilmnews<img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kubnjz1KjI1qa85aho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://dhool.tumblr.com/">dhool</a>)</p>http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274669464http://adrifting.tumblr.com/post/274669464Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:55:11 -0500google