Here's a nice little stroll you can do through Los Angeles: Koreatown to Little Bangladesh to Larchmont: a stroll through Los Angeles First, get yourself to the Wilshire/Vermont metro station. You can get to this station quite easily on the Red Line or Purple Line metros. Supposing you start off at Union Station -- then… Continue reading A walk through Los Angeles: Koreatown to Little Bangladesh to Larchmont
I get to give a talk at a conference next week, woo-hoo! It's on data visuals that you can make using free computer programs like R, QGIS, and Blender3D. Here's a little preview. https://youtube.com/shorts/5jzPF1bZPs4?feature=share
I downloaded all the Open Street Map for Gaza. The data is representative for what Gaza was like before its current destruction, it has not been updated: You can download the Open Street Map data directly through Blender, using the BlenderOSM plug-in, which is awesome. I didn't want to overtax my laptop or the internet,… Continue reading Gaza Open Street Map data
I've gotten much better at reading both Arabic and Swedish ... Arabic after having read the translated versions of the first three Harry Potter books, and Swedish after having read a few old, thick, word-rich Swedish books I found at the Los Angeles Library. I didn't notice I was getting that much better, because really… Continue reading Reading Arabic and Swedish
I read this book from the "American Girls" series, and I was a little skeptical. Because I'd just read another mystery book about Kit (a robbery happens at the Cincinnati theatre where she's helping out) and I hadn't really liked it. But this one was so great. First, Kit takes the train from Cincinnati to… Continue reading A little kids book with so many great messages
I was writing about the mass shooting tour of the US by train you can take ... but I didn't expect to be in a shooting myself. It happened just hours ago in Concord, NC, at the annual tree lighting ceremony. I was so happy to be going after years of missing it, and when… Continue reading Shooting at the Concord, NC, tree lighting
Here's a nice, long walk you can take through a portion of the Los Angeles region -- you'll see some nature (well, the Los Angeles version of nature, which includes a river that they've paved over), some famous landmarks, and a rich neighborhood with some famous architects. Here's where you'll be walking: you'll be north… Continue reading A walk through Los Angeles: Lower Arroyo to the Rose Bowl to Frank Lloyd Wright House
I've had Malala's book on my shelf for 10 years, and never read it yet! So I finally picked it up and on page 100 what did I find: Excerpt from Malala's first book Would you look at that? No one wonder the US govt doesn't complain when other highly-esteemed countries do the same thing… Continue reading Malala’s book
I wrote previously about how if you take train trips around the US, you end up stumbling upon mass shooting sites. Well, somewhat related: I was again stumbling around the other day and I came across this Home Depot: Home Depot This is a Home Depot where ICE did some of their raids, and a… Continue reading More sites of death around the US
I wrote about Swedish books at the Los Angeles library earlier, and I wanted to write more specifically about the kids' books in Swedish that they have. They have a lot of them! These books are all housed in the children's section (as opposed to the international books section). Most are not actually on the… Continue reading Swedish books at the Los Angeles Library
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