Oct 23 2007
Map of Burned Houses in Rancho Bernardo
Make sure to read the text to the left of the map. There are 3 pages of houses, each showing a different map.
Archive for the 'San Diego' Category
Oct 23 2007
San Diego Fire Map with Our House Marked
Oct 22 2007
Excellent Evacuation and Fire Data Map
Oct 22 2007
We’re OK in La Jolla
Hi – we evacuated to the UCSD campus. The air’s pretty good here.
We’re all doing well.
Oct 21 2007
Smoke from Big Fire East of San Diego
Here’s the view from our house in Penasquitos:
Too bad I can’t paste a link to the smell. Kind of mesquite and cigarette smokes.
Found a satellite image:
With some labels:
Interesting views from a web cam out east:
Oops, looks like it burned up?
This is from:
Oct 19 2007
BarCampSanDiego #2 is November 10 – 11
Jul 22 2007
HIT AND RUN HELP NEEDED!!!
Last night, Saturday, July 21, sometime between 9:50 and 10:50 pm, an unknown car hit our son’s green 1998 Honda CR-V, which was parked on the south side of the 13000 block of Sparren Ave. This is in Penasquitos.
They scraped the left rear side bumper, twisted the rear axle, and left a large part of their car behind on the road. They left skirting, tire guards, and some type of blower from the engine in addition to lots of plastic and glass on the road just behind and ahead of the Honda. There was no one in or near the Honda at the time of the accident, so, thankfully, there were no injuries to anyone we are aware of.
A white Mazda hatchback was seen in the immediate area soon after the hit and run was discovered. The Mazda was weaving across lanes and dividers along Carmel Mtn. Road, and passed the group looking at the Honda’s damage on Sparren, narrowly missing the bystanders. That group heard the flap of a flat tire as it passed. No license plate was taken, but a good samaritan had been following the car at a distance when he noticed the driver’s erratic behavior and stopped to give the make and model information to police in case that was the car that had caused the damage to the Honda.
Even if this Mazda did not cause the damage to our Honda, the driver was obviously impaired and needs to be questioned.
PLEASE call the San Diego Police Department’s non emergency number, 858-484-3154, if you have any information about a white Mazda hatchback (or any car) with fresh damage and missing parts on the front passenger side, or information about the hit and run on Saturday night. Please also feel free to distribute this to anyone else who may have information.
Thank you!!!!
Elaine, Declan, and Nathan Fleming
Jul 04 2007
I Ride Fast. Too Fast?
Today was the Scripps Ranch Old Pros 50 mile ride. I’ve ridden it for the last three years, and today was my best time yet. 3 hours and 29 minutes! I was hoping for 3 hours even, but I’d need some pretty good liposuction for that. Or a proper diet.
I looked down after descending the hill on Camino Cristobal and noticed this:
That was dumb… and beats my fastest by about 10mph. I was going so fast that I had trouble even bearing right when the road turned, but a little braking and I was ok. Scary!
Jun 29 2007
Night Shoot at the Beach
I’ve been inspired by Viss and nrek to shoot some photos in low light. I was out late last night listening to the excellent James Drive at Belly Up, so I stopped by the beach in Del Mar and shot some waves and the moon. Here’s my favorite, with a crop suggested by Gabe:
Here are some ghost waves. I bet I can do more in Aperture with these:
I got some palm trees and sprinklers too:
Jun 09 2007
BarCampSD Finally Happens
Two Marches ago, I met Chris Messina at the O’Reilly Emerging Technologies (ETech) conference. He told me and Gabe about barcamp, an unconference and social networking experience that sounded pretty cool. We hopped on the barcamp.org site, added a SanDiego section and started drumming up interest.
We mainly needed a venue, and it looked like the Price Center at UCSD would be great, once the students left for summer. We talked to the people in charge, and it all looked good until we wanted to stay overnight and have booze. Funny how these little things put the kibosh on so many good ideas… 🙂
We lost momentum after that and the idea languished and rose again a few more times as various people tried to get it moving along. Check the revision history of the wiki if you’re really bored. Someone should use that as a basis for a doctoral thesis in social interaction.
Anyhow, ETech rolled around again this year and I got an odd IM from a buddy who stayed late one night and told me he’d been talking to a guy with my name tag. I rushed out to the car and saw that my tag was still there. Turns out a very clever young man had found a dupe of my card and hacked his way into the conference. I hopped onto the #barcampsd irc channel and we chatted for a while.
His name was Dan and he also wanted to see BarCampSD happen. We batted some ideas around, included some more people, and finally started a dialogue on the group mailing list. A few ups and downs later, a meeting was convened in a loud restaurant in Hotel Circle, then moved to a quieter venue across the parking lot. I think all of the key players were there, and people started grabbing tasks – fund raising, food, recording, venue, etc. It was loud, disorganized, uncoordinated, and perfect.
I didn’t really see anything I could do directly, and honestly I was kind of tired and put off by a lot of what had happened in the last year. There was a lot of energy and enthusiasm around the table, so I just listened and enjoyed the atmosphere, and maybe a margarita, I can’t remember…
The group had subsequent meetings that conflicted with my schedule, but they were great about mailing the list and chatting on the irc channel. After a few weeks, it all got put together and they pulled of an excellent event.
Some impressions of the event itself:
The people were warm and open. I was struck by how many social activist organizations were there. Aid for Africa, StuckInBed, empowerthyself, all kinds of interesting folks.
Geeks who wanted to use their talents to help. This was the whole feel of the team that put it together, and the people who showed up.
I saw very little pushiness. No one was really proselytizing that their tech was better than others’. People were genuinely interested in what other were doing. I’ve seen this before at a session called “Desktop of the Alpha Geeks” at ETech – a look at what tools, processes, and widgets that other smart people use to run their lives. I think this is why GTD has taken off so much.
There was a great mix of people. Many sizes, shapes, genders, backgrounds.
Schedules do not need to be agonized over:
It’s ok not to know exactly how it’s all going to work. Post-its are cheap.
A lot of cool tech doesn’t have a keyboard:
Something about chickens. And beer. Lots of beer:
I look forward to being involved with the next BarCampSD in November.
If you want to get involved, go to barcamp.org/BarCampSanDiego
For more of my pictures, click here.
For a lot more pictures of the event, click here.