Here’s a list (.pdf) of posts I lost in the dissolution of Typepad. [See update below!] It’s only a partial list - 464; there were, as I recall a couple of thousand. My friends had advised me to write a book using old posts and I compiled this list for that purpose. Now it’s a victim of my chronic procrastination.
However, when I looked in my Dropbox files, I found a few of these posts as is, along with a number of posts that were lost when Da Tech Guy Blog also became a victim of blog murder. So it is that I will be sharing some of them like I did here.
Original date: August 15, 2017.
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It’s strange how mundane things can trigger memories. That happens to me here in my native Los Angeles whenever I drive on one of the connections between Interstate 5 and Interstate 110.
The southbound 5 to southbound 110 transition is a little stretch of two-lane highway which looks like it was carved into a hill. Though it’s in the process of an upgrade [Ed note 2025: finished a number of years back], for decades it looked rickety enough to crumble with a good Southern California shaker.
But there it hangs, for at least as far back as I can recall. Trucks, buses, etc. have sat on it in traffic jams headed toward downtown LA for decades and probably are doing so right now.
Long ago, another vehicle took this tiny stretch of highway: my great-uncle, great-aunt and I would be on our way home from Lake Isabella and, when we hit that part, I knew we were close to home in South Central LA.
My uncle had one of those pick-up trucks with a camper on the back. We’d go over that road and, I, with a six-year-old’s imagination, would think that our truck was too big for the road and that we were going to fall off into some abyss. Fortunately, it takes about fifteen seconds - traffic willing - to run over this part of the freeway, so my imaginings never had time to bloom.
Much later on, I used to get an inkling of that panic when I drove over the stretch, but now, only the sweet memories of a happy childhood remain.
RIP Uncle John (1920-2000) and Aunt Alma (1921-2012).
UPDATE: A loyal reader says that a lot of my Typepad post are available via the web archive!!!
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My stripe account is still inaccessible and I still don’t have enough to give $820 to my landlord. Cash app: $jbaldilocks