Saturday, November 18, 2006

Random images, more or less

I took this one on the way home from school last night. Driving into Rancho Santa Margarita. They've got a Trader Joe's. Plus ducks.

I'm a close personal friend of the guy on IVC's Holiday Bash committee who is making posters to advertise the event. He said he wanted to go for "elegant and simple." That's Tony as "California Santa." They're trying to make people show up in big numbers. Hence the "free money."

OK, I took this picture of four high-powered IVC faculettas, and, as it turns out, my Nikon was somehow weirded out by their power. Me too.

As you know, IVC's Prez Roquemore promised to finally put some furniture in the so-called A200 "faculty lounge." That was, like, I dunno, a year ago or something? I think Wayne's in charge of securing it. So it could be another year or two before we see the furniture. And when we get it, it will be ALL WRONG, you watch.

Speaking of urinals, somebody told me that the men's bathroom over in B100 smelled like, um, urine. I went in there and found this. Evidently, Wayne had installed a "waterless urinal," but he forgot to order new cartridges for it, and so this is what we get for a while.

Coulda been worse. Wayne mighta bought a waterless toilet.

A few weeks ago, they wheeled in this spiffy new blue contraption over in A200 and they plugged it into the wall. "What the hell is that?" we said. Well, it seemed to be working for a while. I think it made change or something. Or maybe it spit out students' fortunes, or their future careers. Dunno. Then, about a week and a half ago, the thing broke. It's just been sitting there, dead, ever since. I bet it never gets fixed. Nice blue, though.

OK, I took this one out my car window yesterday on Portola. It looks spooky to me. I like spooky.

If you look closely, you can see some kind of monster face in the rear view mirror at the bottom. Could be Raghu, I guess. Or a bug.

We found this one hangin' around the A complex yesterday, and so we took turns watchin' 'im and tossin' 'im in the air. He kept making faces at me. I said, "Go away kid, you bother me."

I think Karima finally grabbed him and sent him on a snipe hunt. After a while, he came back, smilin' more than ever.

This is a highly adulterated picture--cropped to within an inch of its life, filtered up the ying-yang, and still it looks like sh*t. It shows students hangin' in the A quad at IVC. They seem to like it there. I like that they like it there. Ain't life grand?

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chunk, you're whimsical. Have a beer.

Anonymous said...

Chunk, it's a good thing you're on the job, chronicling stuff at IVC. Um, decades from now, how will people otherwise know that there was a kid hangin' around making faces? Or that there was a blue contraption that broke?

You're like a miracle or something. A prodigy. An idiot savant.

Anonymous said...

I like the umbrellas.

Regarding the urinals: are you sure you didn't wander into the art gallery by mistake? I think you did. That which you photographed is just a cheap knock-off of the Magritte show at LACMA.

It's an art installation, not a men's room. You can't blame it on Wayne.

ho ho ho

Anonymous said...

Those waterless urinals are the pits. Coastline College in Westminster has waterless urinals and the smell when you enter the men's room just about knocks you over. Another "green" experiment going down the tubes???

Anonymous said...

Another Idea of Waynes going down the urinal just like most of his ideas. I hope one day he will get it write on anothet campus.

Anonymous said...

ABOUT THOSE URINALS,NO WONDER WAYNE SAVES SO MUCH MONEY.HE IS ONLY CONCERNED ABOUT LOOKING GOOD WITH THE BUDGET THAN CONCERNED ABOUT THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY.STOP BEING A CHEAP SKATE WAYNE. OH AND INVEST IN SOME LOTION FOR YOUR FEET.

Anonymous said...

About the urinals, don't we have a plumber? I see an old man with a pot belly flushing the toilets everyday, Is he the plumber or the water safety inspector.That pot belly guy waste more water than all the I.V.C. students do all week?

Anonymous said...

AN OUT HOUSE SMELLS BETTER THAN THAT URINAL IN THE B100 RESTROOM... MR PLUMBER PLEASE FIX THE URINAL OR PUT THE OLD ONES BACK IF YOU KNOW HOW TO DO IT????

Anonymous said...

the plumber another union slug....

Anonymous said...

The plumber only flushes, he doesn't fix anything????

Anonymous said...

Today their was a BarBQue for Ruben at the F&M yard. Just certain people were invited, this cook out was to send ruben off to swing shift. The only one who shold up that wasnt invited was Wayne Ward. He had the ordasity to show his face at the cook out after what he did to ruben. we will throw a party for him soon to send him off. Wayne know when your not wanted.

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