A Bugatti dealer has moved in on our block. When you go in to look at the Veyron they lock the door and lower a shade so you can ogle with privacy.
Living Low Cost in Los Angeles
While ‘project mayhem’ may not be in your immediate future, you don’t have to look far to start feeling a little like Tyler Durden.
As you might imagine. Living in a tent has advantages and numerous disadvantages. Its cheap, it simplify and you feel like you just dropped out of a frame of Fight Club while you glance around your office thinking, “none of these pansys live in a tent”. Beyond that its just plain roughing it.
Angelenos may associate the Palos Verdes Peninsula with high price real estate, grand sea vistas, and Trump National Golf Course. Palos Verdes (‘PV’ or simply ‘the hill’) has been the quiet conservative refuge for the ‘pony club’ set since the 60s. In PV the condos go for $1000 a square foot and the peninsula grocery store is packed with $100k whips.
I’ve decided to cut the prim and proper city down to size by tenting it long term. Well, I’m not on a crusade or anything. I’m just looking to save a buck, but I don’t mind putting a political bent on it. Two thing are for sure, the neighbors don’t like it and feeling a little bit ‘Fight Club’ is intoxicating.
Living in LA can be expensive, especially if you’re surviving on your blog’s non existent income. Most of the folks at my office are paying between $900 and $1200 a month for their modest
I’m no longer playing the game that way. Loyal ManyDigit readers may remember my visit to meet Jay Shafer, modern father of the Tiny House revolution. I really wanted to do something like that. Live simply and save my money for other things, like travel, and paying down credit card debt.
While camping in
In a marathon effort, I got rid of nearly all of my furniture, I kept my clothes, my laptops, my camping gear and I moved in.. err out. I’ve been living the good life for 2 weeks now and I think I could do in indefinitely.
I’ll be writing some more about the new lifestyle I’ve discovered over the coming days and months, so check back. I will say this; the lady next do waters her garden every morning at 5:50am and inadvertently gives me and my positions a good watering down- a challenge that I’m learning to deal with.
You might ask what I’m doing with the grand a month I’ve been saving. The answer is “Whole Foods”. I’ve been eating like a king.
Throwthatphone.com gets corp. sponsorship
As in Fight Club, when Jack black mails his boss at the “major car company” into becoming the unwitting benefactor of project mayhem- project throw that phone now has sponsorship.
Flipswap Inc. a small start-up dealing in the trade of used cell phones has stepped up as the first sponsor.
Throwthatphone.com will be sending an athlete to the international cell phone throwing competition in Finland this summer. Throwthatphone will be accepting pledges for each meter that the athlete throws the phone will be donated to finding a cure for breast cancer.
A virgin in a CTS!
Two days in a row!
A loyal ManyDigits Reader sent this in to me this morning after my “Tower II” Maybach sighting yesterday.
This Cadillac CTS was northbound on the 405 between the 105 and the 10.
It must be hard to remain a virgin and drive a CTS. Dudes and chicks alike would be perpetually trying to get a piece of your action.
If I didn’t know that he had better taste, I might think this was Richard Branson.
Maybach lost in Torrance, CA
I spotted my first Maybach in the wild on the way into the office this morning.
It was north bound on
The gentlemen behind the wheel didn’t look as ‘slicked-back’ as the chauffeurs I’ve seen touring around in stretch Hummers usually look. The license plate was a California Registration, “TOWER II”. Definitely a vanity plate but not the obvious kind that hire cars in LA generally wear. Is this some comment on September 11th?
I think this is pretty interesting, considering that I saw a Ferrari F430 on Saturday with the license plate “IRNURNXT”. I didn’t think that Ferrari drivers were that political, I thought they were just trying to hide their self hatred.
Still with the Joost invites!?!
Apparently Joost intended me to invite copious numbers of the Joost thirsty masses. I’ve passed the touch a whole hell of a lot and I still have more to give. post a comment and i’ll send you one while they last.
“Throw that phone” feels the sucking undertow of potential sponsorship
For those of you in the know, throwthatphone.com is the chronicling of one fellas attempt to smash the mobile phone throwing world record.
Physical training has been underway for a few weeks in preparation for the big event this August in Savonlinna, Finland.. A site with video posts has been erected in hopes that corporate sponsorship might be courted. Sho’ nuff it worked.
The organizers of the ‘throw that phone’ operation are in close talks with a SoCal start-up to cover the cost of airfare to and from Finland for the athlete and his support crew. Unfortunately, where cooperations go, so go their political machinations and ‘logo lust’.
Negotiations are in effect, but inside sources at throwthatphone.com say that “It’s wearing the fuck out of [them]”.
You can offer your encouraging words to Matt on the Throw That Phone site.
Cell phone throwing world record!
This is just a quick one. A friend of mine just sent this to me and seeing as I’m not blog crazy, I emphatically announced that i would ‘blog’ about it.
As I’m sure you are aware, there is a cell phone throwing world championship in Finland every august and these dudes are making a serious attempt to break it this year and bring the world record to the USA. Check out the site www.throwthatphone.com
For more information about the contest in finland http://www.savonlinnafestivals
Cash for Cell Phones
I’m the worst kind of gadget guy. I love productivity gadgets even though I could keep my entire calender and the majority of my contacts on the bottom of a Dixie cup and I’d be just fine.
For some reason, the little email, few contacts and utter lack of important calender has compelled me to be a smart phone fanatic. At the moment I’m torn between BlackBerry and Palm. I’m swapping my Cingular Sim between my BB 8100 Pearl and a newly acquired Treo 680.
In researching how I can turn some of the dozen or so discarded “dumb” phones that I’ve accrued over the years into something Smarter, I found cellphonetradeins.com.
You find the used value of your phone or phones by selecting your make and model and answering a brief questionnaire about your phone. They provide a USPS shipping label and you send the phone to them.
At the moment it appears that the only form of payment is paper check, which they claim will arrive in about 3 weeks.
I traded in my old treo 650 to see if this is really any better than dealing with Ebay. The value promised was $65.00 which seems fair considering the level of abuse it’s endured. I’ll post more updates as the story unfolds.
Still no love from Joost Support
One of the first invitations that I sent out for the wicked new internet television service called Joost that is now in beta, was a big flop.
The email invitation contains two links one to download the software needed to enter the Joost universe and the other to un-subscribe from what looks to be future Joost mass email.
Being a fervent spam hater, my younger brother, and recipient of aforementioned Joost invite clicked on the link hoping to be removed from the Joost mailing list. Like me, he has no access to broadcast television in any of its mainstream forms. So, the he was pretty excited about filling the empty void that is his pathetic life with a little video distraction. Unfortunately, clicking on the “un-subscribe link” burns your invitation and bars your email address from future invitation. All of this is done with out any confirmation whatsoever.
One miss click and your out!
Joost FAQ suggests emailing Joost Support and begging forgivingness. So far this has left my brother out in the cold.
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