(Thanks to grade/HS friend Reid Schwartz for the tip ( Read more... )

In Chicago, we called it "Tuesday"I think the only City trucks I have seen that lack the hardware to attach a snowplow blade are the garbage trucks. Come November, those blades are ready to go. When Tom Skilling says it's coming, those trucks are loaded with salt, staffed, and strategically staged. They roll when the snow begins to fall, and ( Read more... )

Telling the fat chick she needs to TRY losing some weight to graduate ( Read more... )

One, a San Pasqual freshman was stabbed in Kit Carson Park just across the street from the school yesterday, in broad daylight. I'd say times are tough when landscapers are sticking up kids, but apparently it wasn't a robbery ( Read more... )

Randhurst was closed down and demolished last August ( Read more... )

Here is a gallery

But this is my favorite.

Well, what's next is basketball season, which will hopefully be better.

Football ended last night, with a mostly-ignominious 27-13 loss to Rancho Bernardo. Terry predicted a 28-10 finish, he wasn't far off. It was 10-3 at half, on a last-minute RB touchdown. We were capable of making it a game, even winning it, but we were completely incapable ( Read more... )

One of my long-running backburner projects is a decoder for our scoreboard controllers at the high school. If I had something that could read the output, then spit it out a serial port, I'd have a way to put live game status up on the web. Or integrate timing data with the scorekeeping software I'm also forever developing. Or build my own mini- ( Read more... )

For my own reference, the end credits theme from The Plan:

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Aum bhoor bhuwah swaha,
Tat savitur varenyam
Bhargo devasaya dheemahi
Dhiyo yo naha prachodayat

The Air & Space Museum has a weblog detailing its work, including the multiple restorations of the original series Enterprise shooting model. It looks like they were fortunate the model survived five years in storage after the series was cancelled: http://blog.nasm.si.edu/2009/06/04/starship_restoration/. Down in the comments section, there's a ( Read more... )