As of July 1, 2008 you can no longer make cell phone calls while driving your car in California unless you have a hands free setup.
I assume motorcycles have the same restriction.
But strangely there is a loophole in the law regarding texting.
I think that loophole needs closing. Why you ask?
Take a look at this and imagine if this was California.
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This lady is not your average “crazy cat” lady. She is Lynea Lattanzio.
She is a very caring woman who looks after a whole heap of cats, and dogs.
The Cat House on the Kings is California’s largest no-cage, no-kill, lifetime cat sanctuary and adoption center. Their mission is to place rescued cats and kittens into loving, permanent homes; to provide a safe, happy and healthy home for unwanted cats and kittens in a unique, no-cage facility; to prevent pet overpopulation through spaying and neutering; and to educate the public about responsible pet ownership.
Since its founding 16 years ago, The Cat House on the Kings has saved over 16,000 cats and 4,000 dogs (not counting the 40,000 animals we have spayed and neutered!) and currently cares for more than 700 cats and kittens!
It is a six acre piece of feline heaven.
Give them a hand if you can.
Video by Jack Perez
Katy Perry (born Katheryn Hudson on October 25, 1984 the day after me plus 41 years) is an American singer-songwriter, and occasional actress.
She is most notable for her singles, “UR So Gay”, released in 2007, and “I Kissed a Girl”, which was released in 2008, by Capitol Records.
In her teenage years, Perry found a Queen record with her friend, “and the heavens opened and saved me. From then on, they have been my biggest influence”.
Anyone who loves Queen has to be good.
I kissed a girl
I was never a great fan of this singer, but I really like the song.
This particular version was from a recent concert in California.
Rolling Stone gave it a terrific review, and featured a video. It was removed at the artists request.
Why is this guy so paranoid?
One of my friends in work is a huge fan, and she is trying to convert me.
I am finding some of his stuff to be pretty good, his last album was cool.
I can understand this guys anguish.
Stopping people from downloading your music is one thing, but stopping them from posting their own videos on YouTube. Come on now. Who does he think he is? Disney?
Remember when Disney made a kindergarden paint over a mural of Disney characters?
I don’t think he even likes you to use his image, so I didn’t.
So watch this, it is not a great video but it has meaning for the folks who were there. It was probably taken with a phone cam.
Update: May 30, 2008 Radiohead on our side. 
They were among my idols in my youth. Loved to play their 45’s all the time. They were both very popular in the UK and they were touring together in 1960 when Eddie Cochran met his unfortunate end in a car crash. Gene Vincent (along with Sharon Sheeley, Eddies fiancée, survived the crash). Gene was to sadly die eleven years later from a ruptured stomach ulcer. I had the occasion to meet Gene in the early sixties in a coffee bar in Soho, London. He was a really likable guy, and the epitome of a Southern Gentleman. Why are all the talented people taken so young? Still here is some fine rock ‘n roll from around 1958 / 1959, I think they are all from the Town Hall Party. Town Hall Party was California’s largest country music barndance, running from early 1952 until early 1961. The show was broadcast every Saturday night from a theatre made up to look like an old barn in the Compton suburb of Los Angeles.
Gene Vincent – Be-Bop-A-Lula
The best way to measure a tree is to climb it and drop a tape measure down.
The following quote is from USA Tourist News Magazine.
Since the year 2000, the Stratosphere Giant, located in the Humboldt Redwoods State Park, held the “tallest tree” title. That was, until 2006 when the redwood tree, named Hyperion, was confirmed to be the world’s tallest living tree. Hyperion is located on a hillside in Northern California and has a height of 379.1 feet (115.55 meters).
I haven’t actually seen Hyperion myself, but the redwoods in the Santa Cruz mountains are plenty enough to give me a stiff neck.
Every lunchtime, to escape the cube it is nice to take a walk and commune with nature. So yesterday I thought I would take my camera with me and try to give you a little feel of the area where I walk. It is very pleasant, but sometimes windy as you may hear. the wind whistles in over the Golden Gate Bridge (which cannot be seen in any of these videos) and straight down to the Hayward Shoreline Park District.
Here is the first 360 degree view about a half mile from the Center.
Bearly Rambling II 