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• 04-Jun-2024
  I go away for a weekend and there’s a shark attack. Good solid family travel weekend. Had fun. Won’t be sharing much about it I don’t think. But I come back and there was a shark bite that closed the beaches over the weekend: Swimmer suffers ‘significant’ injury in shark attack in Del Mar; beaches closed as precaution. Here’s a video from ABC 10 News. Feeling...
• 26-Mar-2024

  
  No, bridges don’t float. Some Coronado Bay Bridge history. I watched video of the Francis Scott Key Bridge falling this morning. It’s horrifying. There is a connection to The Wire. Season 2 was set at the ports. David Simon, humanist and writer and creator on The Wire, tweeted this: Thinking first of the people on the bridge. But the mind wanders to a port...
• 19-Feb-2024

  
  Morse High School Dedication, 1963 From The San Diego Union, Saturday, May 11, 1963: 600 At Dedication Of Morse School Six-hundred spectators last night witnessed the dedication and open house of the city’s new Samuel F.B. Morse High School, 6905 Skyline Drive. Lelia Morse, granddaughter of the inventor of the Morse code and the telegraph came here from Hollywood and...
• 31-Jan-2024
  I’m quoted in San Diego Magazine The Trouble with Trash Lamb Rising rents and a stagnating collector market spell trouble for small San Diego galleries and the art scenes they support—but hope remains: “I gave to Trash Lamb Gallery [because] it is talented independent local living artists sharing their art and vision of where we live, and I want to see...
• 16-Jun-2023

  
  spite swimming | sanity swimming (2022 – 2023)
• 17-Jan-2023

  
  yesterday and today around the corner

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• 21-Apr-2022
  Good news on the Tijuana River; from Surfrider From Surfrider: Clean Border Water Now Lawsuit Settlement: Dangerous pollutants (including sewage, chemicals, heavy metals, physical trash and other contaminants), flow through the Tijuana River Valley and into the Pacific in south San Diego County, forcing closures of local beaches nearly 300 days per year. The lawsuit settlement alongside EPA programs on the border will...
• 07-Apr-2022

  
  Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress See Camp Kearney panoramas in the Library of Congress. Found out about this via this PDF that’s a history of Miramar. One fun fact is that the boundaries of Linda Vista in the 19th and early 20th century were way different than what we call Linda Vista now. Here’s a factlet that’s fascinating: In October...
• 03-Jan-2022

  
  San Diego City Christmas Tree Recycling 2022 Source: San Diego City – Christmas Tree Recycling
• 09-Dec-2021

  
  Surfline Camera of Crystal Pier this morning Very comforting!