Things you see on your commute

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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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

carl agatha can see my old office on her commute

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

Which building? I will wave on my way home.

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

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

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

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

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

ha,oops.

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

Obviously, most of my commute is on a train.

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

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

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

did you help them?

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

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

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

<3 those ducks

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

<3 xp

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

aww

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

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

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

a roundabout!

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

lucky you

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

more metro cops than are necessary

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

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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

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

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

one year passes...

ppl you often see on your commute

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

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 (ten years ago) link

when I commuted there was a girl who got off at my stop and walked my same route to work every day. I never saw what station she got on at, I never saw exactly where she worked, honestly half the time I never saw her get off the train but just in that moment when I wasn't really thinking about anything, BOOM there she'd be every time, always about half a block ahead of me. always wore blue furry earmuffs, a long black skirt, and one of those rubber backpacks that had spikes on it. she had white blond hair. I saw her up close one time & she had white eyelashes and eyebrows too. I called her my Albino Nemesis.

set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link

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

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

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 (ten years ago) link

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 (ten years ago) link

eleven months pass...

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

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

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

holy crap, there's a mountain back there.

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

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 (seven years ago) link


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