(New to the countdown? Catch up here.) Adam Curry hypes the “Big Bang ’89” party coming up later that night on MTV: “This is the only place to be on New Year’s Eve,” he says. Which was empirically not true, but it is the place where I ended up on the last day of 1988, […]
posted 19 September 2019 in 1988. 2 comments
Taken three weeks ago at the Santa Anita racetrack.
posted 11 February 2011 in Photos. no comments yet
On Sunday, I visited the Leo Carrillo State Park, just north of Malibu. This is a picture of one of the tidal pools: I believe those elaborate patterns in the wet sand are the trails of hermit crabs.
posted 20 November 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
Taken yesterday at the Leo Carrillo State Beach in Malibu. I believe the birds are cormorants.
posted 23 October 2009 in Photos. no comments yet
On Monday evening, we were driving back home from San Diego when a huge cloud of smoke blotted out the sun, bringing on dusk several hours too early. The smoke was coming from a wildfire on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base. It burned up more than six square miles; firefighters appear to have the blaze […]
posted 17 October 2008 in Photos. 1 comment