by The Editors on June 5, 2007
Chris Lokken, 31, of Carlsbad was a rider in a buggy that had broken down early Sunday morning, according to Sport News. A truck stopped and offered him a ride to the next check point. He jumped in with his helmet on, however, he was reported sitting in the cab behind the front seats with out a seat belt.
The truck was about a mile from the checkpoint when the course went up a steep hill. . . The truck couldn’t make it up. It backed up to make another try but in doing so went over the side, rolling over and over down a 100-yard ravine, Fish said. . . Lokken was thrown from the truck and his helmet came off. He died at the scene of head and internal injuries, Clark said.
Our thoughts are with his friends and family.
[Link: SportingNews.com]
by The Editors on June 4, 2007
Don’t know how we missed this one. But apparently, visitors to our own Legoland used 465,000 Lego bricks to build a 94.3 foot tall pirate ship mast last weekend to celebrate the opening of the park’s new Pirate Shores water park feature.
The 94.3ft-high pirate ship mast was made with 465,000 bricks, breaking a previous record of 93.43ft set in Denmark last year. . . A “treasure” made of gold, yellow and clear Lego bricks was placed on top by Legoland pirates.
Don’t you just love kicking Danish ass.
[Link: Daily Mail via Gizmodo]
by The Editors on June 3, 2007
According to North County Times sports columnist Steve Scholfield, Bob Babbit, co-founder and publisher of Competitor Magazine is running today’s San Diego’s Rock n’ Roll Marathon (his 10th) dressed as Elvis (with the Running Elvi).
While we care very little about running or Elvis, it is a nice way to mention the Rock n’ Roll Marathon and a long-time Carlsbad resident who has built a Solana Beach-based media empire around sweaty, lycra-clad, mid-life crisis suffering body jocks. From the swarms of them we saw downtown San Diego last night sporting “I survived the [insert endurance race here] and all I got was this t-shirt” shirts, we’d have to say Mr. Babbit’s business will see no soon end.
[Link: North County Times]
by The Editors on June 3, 2007
Today at noon, the senior class of Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad officially relinquished their command and turned it over to the junior class, while the sophomore class welcomed next year’s freshman. At least that is what we thought was going on during the “change of command parade” on Maffucci Field (a.k.a. the athletic field). With 74 cadets graduating it was the largest senior class in the Academy’s history, according to the school’s website.
Students’ families travelled from around the world to witness this annual festivity. Wealthy parents, poor parents, crying grandmothers, dads with newer, younger wives, older moms with newer plastic surgery, hot aunts with their g-strings visible above their skin tight jeans, older brothers all Tokyo popped, along with the hardworking elite of the US Military (we’re guessing here so forgive us in advance) came to see their boys, kids they hardly recognize in those white dress uniforms, march on a big lawn, parade in front of the viewing stands, and finally listen to Bill Gang Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Information Systems Laboratories give a commencement address on the lawn in front of the academy’s Davis Hall.
While families celebrated, Carlsbad’s Finest saw a perfect opportunity for generating some revenue for the city and proceeded to write parking tickets for each and every one of the visitors cars that were parked illegally on the East side of Carlsbad Boulevard. As one father leaned over and said:
I can’t believe they would do that on a day like this. It’s really kind of bullshit.
We couldn’t agree more. Welcome to Carlsbad, here’s your ticket. Then again it’s only June 2 and this officer probably filled his parking ticket quota for the rest of the month.
More photos after the jump.
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by The Editors on June 2, 2007
Longtime Carlsbad resident Tony Hawk has kicked off his the national debut of Tony Hawk’s Project 8 Boom Boom HuckJam at Six Flags over St. Louis, the park that is also host to his new signature roller coaster. Talk about a grind: Hawk’s cast of eight athletes (skate, bmx, mx) will perform at 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. both today and Sunday. But that’s just in St Louis. The tour continues on all month at five different Six Flags parks. That’s 20 shows during the month of June. No one ever accused Tony of not working his ass off.
[Link: St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
by The Editors on May 29, 2007
We just took a stroll past Vigilucci’s overlooking Tamarack surfing beach and saw some guys in suits getting into a taxi headed back to Aviara. They looked very “tech,” but they weren’t Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs. And seriously, we’re thinking about driving up there to see if we can mingle with the technorati of the world. Only 500 people get to attend. Obviously, we’re not any of them.
John McCain spoke tonight. Here is a live blog of what he had to say. The San Jose Mercury News’ John Paczkowski is blogging the whole conference and this is what he had to say about today:
We’ll be seeing some big announcements from Palm and RealNetworks, the debut of Mahalo, unscripted conversations with a host of tech luminaries and, of course, a few surprises. Plus a rare joint appearance by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
With exciting prose like that it’s no wonder he’s the Wall Street Journal’s blogger of choice. If we make it up there, we’ll report back. Hopefully, it won’t involve Four Seasons security and a night in the at the Vista jail.
P.S. Here is the schedule of events for the next three days, if you want to join us in a tech barge.
[Link: D: All Things Digital]
by The Editors on May 26, 2007
Before calendars fill up with summer fun, be sure to block off September 24-30, 2007 because that’s when the 4th Annual Carlsbad Music Festival hits town. And we can all be thrilled with performances by Calder Quartet, So Percussion, Real Quiet, and most likely a couple other musical groups that no one has ever heard of. But then, we not up on “contemporary classical music,” so what do we know.
Get all the info on their website Carlsbadmusicfestival.org.
by The Editors on May 22, 2007
Reef, the maker of flip-flops and purveyor of shapely female buttocks advertising, has decided that after moving their new global headquarters to Carlsbad, they’d like to help clean up the lagoon. If anyone noticed a difference after their three hour “clean up” on May 11. Please let us know.
[Link: Transworld Business Magazine]
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