Picture from wikipedia entry on Z's

I saw an oder model Z in the Century City parking lot.  It was definitely a 70's model and it looked a lot like the FairLady in the picture above.  I am not an enthusiast enough to know what stage in restoration the car was but I know I was quite taken by it.  I walked around the car admiring it.  My age was in the one-digits in the seventies but I remember this being one of the more prominent cars of the time.  By prominent I mean seeing it often.  I think the design easily rivals a car that was dramatically less accessible to the average consumer; the Porsche 911 was around at the same time.

The Nissan looks a lot more sleek, I think.  The shape communicates function better.

I think I'll leave car critiques to experts.  But my point is that I might just walk by the latter but stop and awe at the former.

Have a nice week!

 

angels and ambiguities

It is starting to get cold.

What are you looking at?

So I took this great picture of wind chimes in front of a setting sun:

It is an angel praying.  I used a flash to defeat the backlighting unfortuneately the formats on this blog do not flatter the pic.  So I attached the pic to my invitation in case you are curious.

Not much going on here.  Working a lot.  I realized that I am getting a bit lazy in terms of self-edification.  So I took some steps toward fixing that.  First off I went to the library and checked out a book.  I was originally going to check out Ben Franklin's autobiography but I started reading the first page and skimming further and realized that I have too long been removed from literal pursuits.  I then caroused to the fiction section and found the Vonnegut area.  Satirical sci-fi is a good genre to start my pathway towards the land of the Litteratti.  Just not ready for anything to heavy right now.

I also bought a Nintendo DS and a couple of their brain games.  I hope those synapses are still firing.

But essential to any progress will be my engaging more physical activity.  And for that I have to limit my time in front of the television and, alas, the computer.  I will start scheduling more workouts and walks.  One can only hope.

Ambiguities?  I was listening to a radio commercial the other day and at the end a disclaimer stated that the product was " not available in all states."  Why advertise at all then?