tags: fire
2000
December
- 2000 Dec 24
- Cold
Dead, maybe? Terminally ill perhaps? Or just sleeping, smouldering like the last embers of a fire. I'm still waiting, waiting for that breeze to kick up. Let the flames blaze up again.
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2007
May
- 2007 May 8
- like the weather
So maybe it wasn’t as hot as I thought it was. The record high in San Diego for May 8th was 81°F in 1941. Today’s high was supposedly 86°F.
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- the fire above hollywood
I’m enthralled by the ongoing drama about the fire in Griffith Park. It is apparently continuing to spread, now encompassing 300 acres, and forcing evacuations of residences.
· Read more… - 2007 May 8
- the fire continues
jozjozjoz is also blogging about the Griffith Park fire and points me to laughingsquid’s surreal pictures.
· Read more… - 2007 May 9
- containment of the griffith park fire
So it looks like the Griffith Park fire is 75% contained as of 6 hours ago, although they still expect at least another day of fire-fighting before full containment. The blaze has consumed more than 800 acres, which is about 20% of the park’s total land area.
· Read more… - 2007 May 9
- griffith park fire: flickr stream
People posted a lot of awesome pictures of the fire on Flickr. What is it about fire that fascinated me so?
· Read more… - 2007 May 28
- continued imbalance
isang pagkakataon lang… one chance only
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minsan sa buhay… once in a lifetime
October
- 2007 Oct 22
- the cry of the wind
Kevin Drum is incredulous about Joan Didion’s description of the Santa Ana winds. While it is probably a little over the top, there is a change in the atmosphere when those blasts of moisture-stripping wind barrel through the canyons and passes, howling and shrieking, and making your house shudder every once in a while.
· Read more… - 2007 Oct 24
- adrenalitis
It’s quite possible that my adrenal glands have finally given up. The wall-to-wall 24/7 coverage of the wild fires has worn me down. I don’t remember being this wired since the destruction of the WTC or maybe not even since the L.A. riots.
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2015
October
- 2015 Oct 20
- The Human Brain and Cooking
This is an old TED talk but I heard it for the first time this past Saturday. The theory is that the reason why human intellectual capacity disproportionately surpasses the intellectual capacity of other species is because we learned how to cook.
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