Southern California (SoCal)
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Stutterday
Still a wonder to watch Just took in this Starlink launch from Vandenberg. Got a lot of pix. These things are common now, but I’m still a big kid, and space stuff excites me. I also seem to be here when launches aren’t happening, so it was great to catch this one. What you see… Continue reading
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Sunlight Day
Whether report The Sun is behind clouds here in Santa Barbara, but I still have faith that it’ll be clear by late afternoon, which is how things go here. Meanwhile, Bloomington has had lots of rain while I’ve been gone. Monroe Lake is moving toward flood stage, with 1,605 cfs (cubic feet per second) flowing… Continue reading
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SB Day
Coasting I'm in Santa Barbara now, and it is typically perfect outside. Love living here, even though I mostly don't. Still strange Digging Blackhawk Slide is getting action lately. I wrote it 13 years ago. Talk about dumb Last Thursday's post, titled Person Networks, was occasioned by outreach by a friend who urged me by… Continue reading
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Fire and Rain
Twenty-fifth in the News Commons series Southern California has two seasons: Fire and Rain. Rain didn’t begin this year until a few days after Fire ended apocalyptically, incinerating much of Altadena and Pacific Palisades. Now Rain is here, with the occasional atmospheric river flowing across the faces of hills and mountains whose beards were just… Continue reading
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The Los Angeles Media Dashboard
Twentieth in the News Commons series Fourth on the #LAfires That collection of tabs is my dashboard of major media that inform my writing about the #LAfires. There are tabs for five TV stations, one radio station, and one newspaper: KNBC/4 “4 Los Angeles” KTLA/5 “LA’s Very Own” KABC/7 “7 Eyewitness News” KCAL/9 “KCAL NEWS… Continue reading