Things you see on your commute

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http://i48.tinypic.com/r7iyyt.jpg

Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 14 May 2012 12:49 (fourteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/Allianzarenacombo.jpg

caek, Monday, 14 May 2012 12:49 (fourteen years ago)

My girlfriend shot this, I drive by here most mornings. Bridge is being rebuilt, not supposed to be done for another year-plus.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v335/gypsyfrocksbedlam/henleybridge.jpg

something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 14 May 2012 12:53 (fourteen years ago)

Apparently part of gr8080's commute is by canoe? Mine is by bicycle, so I suppose it's possible.

Anyway, lots more that I get to see.

http://www.ninch.org/copyright/2003/art_museum.jpg

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 13:59 (fourteen years ago)

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/1e/f4/c3/house-of-blues-cleveland.jpg

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:00 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.glts.org/articles/cleveland_trust/images/CTC_Intersection.jpg

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 14 May 2012 14:01 (fourteen years ago)

carl agatha can see my old office on her commute

♆ (gr8080), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:53 (fourteen years ago)

Which building? I will wave on my way home.

Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

http://rockytrail.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/chicago_board_of_trade_building.jpg

― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, May 14, 2012 7:40 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my workplace is in this picture

congratulations (n/a), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:00 (fourteen years ago)

n/a's desk is in Ceres's head.

Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:01 (fourteen years ago)

Opened the thread planning to say that I see examples of poor parenting, since my mass transit journey unfortunately encounters quite a bit. But these are great photos. I don't see nearly as much great architecture, except for this bridge:

http://www.johnweeks.com/cablestay/pics/sabo40.jpg

Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

Christchurch is great. Much to my eternal shame, I've never been to St Patrick's.

gyac, Monday, 14 May 2012 21:04 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.tmpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Emirates-Stadium.jpg

A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:54 (fourteen years ago)

http://www.daviesdavies.co.uk/imgs/local/boat_lake_large.JPG

A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:57 (fourteen years ago)

http://youngandfoodish.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/happening-bagel-sign.jpg

A++++++ would deal with again (Matt #2), Monday, 14 May 2012 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

Sometimes there's a houseboat on the canal when I drive to/from work that's called "si prurit scabendum" - Latin for "when it itches, you have to scratch"

StanM, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:03 (fourteen years ago)

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zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:21 (fourteen years ago)

ha,oops.

zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 May 2012 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

ugh you guys have exciting commutes! mine is p much boring suburbia

Sometimes the drive-in is showing movies and I try to guess what ppl are watching as I whiz by
http://s3-media3.ak.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/lWVmEhusVZjFr_w-_kD-NA/l.jpg

there's a strip club about halfway to work that backs onto the freeway, and they have p funny signs like 'NAKED PILLOW FIGHTING'..plus the classic sketchy looking RV parked off to one side

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 14 May 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Finnieston_Crane_From_Squinty_Bridge.JPG

work, damn you.

zverotic discourse (jim in glasgow), Monday, 14 May 2012 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

Obviously, most of my commute is on a train.

Jeff, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:02 (fourteen years ago)

same train as carl agatha's from the looks of it

♆ (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 01:32 (fourteen years ago)

My commute is a one block walk from my house to my office, so there's not much but a couple weeks ago I encountered a duck family that needed help crossing a wide street. (they were on their way to the LA River/Griffith Park side of the street)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7118/7113988493_ec378466d2_z.jpg

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:05 (fourteen years ago)

did you help them?

mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 May 2012 03:19 (fourteen years ago)

Yes I did. It's kinda fun to block four lanes of traffic.

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 00:53 (fourteen years ago)

<3 those ducks

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:01 (fourteen years ago)

drive past what used to be top gun and is now marine corps air station so i see tiltrotor ospreys and black hawks and f-18s and c-130s passing scary close to my head

bit farther north theres a big new sign advertising AMBIENT COMMUNITIES

http://www.ambientcommunities.com/

the late great, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:10 (fourteen years ago)

<3 xp

mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:10 (fourteen years ago)

BTW, this wasn't the first time I had duck traffic on the way to work. A couple years back I encountered this family but they didn't need help crossing a busy street.

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4005/4582386006_b7195baac1.jpg

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:09 (fourteen years ago)

aww

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:14 (fourteen years ago)

no pic, but today justine and i saw a car with the license plate "<3CLUBN" (an actual heart, not the symbol <3)

how did we get here how? (ytth), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:23 (fourteen years ago)

elvis you should add something about ducks to your family crest/next album cover

mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:29 (fourteen years ago)

a roundabout!

Ian svenonononius (admrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:01 (fourteen years ago)

lucky you

Ian svenonononius (admrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:01 (fourteen years ago)

more metro cops than are necessary

yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:06 (fourteen years ago)

I used to have to sit there and sit there and sit there either to turn left in the mornings or to turn right in the evenings.

Now with the roundabout, I just pfffthhh right through. Everyone's adapted pretty well.

pplains, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:10 (fourteen years ago)

The city put stop signs on our new roundabouts not long after they installed them, partly because people didn't know how to use them, but also because some of the properties on the corner had 6 ft or better hedges right up to the property line, so visibility sucked.

nickn, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 05:12 (fourteen years ago)

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/elmirador.jpg

buzza, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 06:24 (fourteen years ago)

one year passes...

ppl you often see on your commute

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:32 (thirteen years ago)

in the morning i am often on the same train/get off at the same stop/work in the same building as this woman with long very straight black hair halfway down her back. she is maybe early 30s, olive-y complexion but not obviously of a particular heritage, slightly taller than average but otherwise a regular well-dressed young woman. she walks faster than i do.

but it's like her hair lacks friction or something? she always looks like she just stepped out of a pantene pro-v commercial; her hair is *shimmery* with each strand seemingly separate from its fellows.

i have no particular opinion on this look, but it is notable. she is 'the woman with the hair'.

there are other repeating characters, though mainly on the way home: 'the small woman i think is french for no good reason', 'the guy with the overstuffed backpack who simply must grasp the subway bar with both hands', 'the african preacher with tremendous enunciation' etc.

who are yours

mookieproof, Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:33 (thirteen years ago)

The Stata Center!

how's life, Thursday, 30 May 2013 14:23 (thirteen years ago)

http://i41.tinypic.com/10wnn0h.jpg

los blue jeans, Friday, 31 May 2013 04:19 (thirteen years ago)

today the Hipster Viking Games Programmer was wearing a scarygoround t-shirt

I ran through a mental filmreel of all the possible outcomes of an ugly woman on a bus blurting out some or all of the words "hey cool Scarygoround shirt, I love Bad Machinery", possibly not in an order that makes even that much sense because my brain/mouth interface hates me, at a younger hipper attractive dude, and decided none of them were good. so I did not

(must find the cable to get photos off my phone so I can have a less stalkerish, more architectural/waterfowl-based answer to this thread)

susuwatari teenage riot (a passing spacecadet), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:45 (thirteen years ago)

in the front garden of a corner house i walk past on the way to work is a tree, and in the tree is a cuddly panda. the thing is filthy but it appears to belong to the householder because it's been there month after month, sitting high up in its tree. the garden is neat and looked-after, with a little rockery and a cute plaque saying something to the effect of "home sweet home" iirc. i keep meaning to photograph the panda but i don't want to get caught.

Doctor Who's on first (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 09:03 (thirteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://i.imgur.com/RT4CxO9.jpg

°ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 29 May 2014 14:08 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/BvyHHWW.jpg

So the original artist who painted this rock as a teenager came back to update it and match it closer to his vision of the alien being who visited him and inspired him to paint the portrait in the first place.

http://i.imgur.com/NmEIFYo.jpg

I usually don't care for the George Lucasization of artworks, but I'll make an exception in this case.

pplains, Thursday, 29 May 2014 16:42 (twelve years ago)

Every day I pass by a field that looks exactly like the default Windows XP background...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7d/Bliss.png
...only without the mountain.

an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Thursday, 29 May 2014 18:50 (twelve years ago)

holy crap, there's a mountain back there.

pplains, Thursday, 29 May 2014 20:23 (twelve years ago)

two years pass...

New garda station being built opposite GMIT.
The Woods beside the hospital, still trying to think how far down inside them I went. Had been wondering how much of them there was, now know that there is a narrow strip that's about 200 foot deep that goes quite a wa. Very difficult to guage depth or anything from the bus.

The stretch of woods on the far side of the main road that I've passed for years and still never seen the extent of

Stevolende, Monday, 12 September 2016 09:56 (nine years ago)


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