The Lake Effect

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

I just came across this photo of the "Lake Effect" that Michigan and northern Indiana residents have come to know and love. Pretty neat!

Cold and Ugly

Friday, December 1st, 2006

It's days like this* that I am glad I no longer have to worry about commuting to a far-away office or dealing with airports as a requirement for my job. We're in the middle of our first big winter storm of the year and as a result, the roads and ...

Shotgun in a Monsoon

Monday, November 6th, 2006

A while ago, a friend forwarded me this link but I only just got around to listening to it. It is taken from the Sports Inferno radio show a few weeks ago on AM 1270 in the mid-Michigan area. If you are familiar with the atrocity that is Michigan State ...

Pride

Monday, April 17th, 2006

The world's largest tire, in Allen Park, MI. Take that, every other state.

It's about time…

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

...that Europe has something that can compete with the sort of firepower I've grown accustomed to here at jleyrer.net. After quite a delay I have finally gotten around to posting the geo_plotter script I spoke of in my last post. Have at it. I want to see some impressive maps, people! Download: ...

Rock 'n Roll Never Forgives…

Monday, January 9th, 2006

This past weekend I made the trip back to Lansing, MI to catch Endless Aisle and Capitol Cities play at Mac's Bar. I have posted all the pictures I took here. You will probably notice there are three different bands throughout the set of photos. In order they are: 1. Endless ...

Dry Xmas

Friday, December 30th, 2005

This probably should have gone in my Michigan Lefts post, but I thought about it just now as I was looking through the pictures on my camera phone. Michigan has this asinine law where no one can sell alcohol (except for maybe rubbing alcohol) from 9pm Christmas Eve until 7am on ...

The Michigan Left

Thursday, December 29th, 2005

Spending time in Michigan over the holidays gave me time to get reacquainted with an old friend of mine: The "Michigan Left". The Michigan Left, for those of you who haven't had the privilege, is a traffic-flow mechanism used at intersections in which one or both of the intersecting roads ...