I’m up in San Francisco at the moment for some business meetings. I stayed at a hotel on Geary Street last night, near the train station at...

Last night it was unusually cold — about 26 or 27 Fahrenheit at ground level, and this cold was sustained for several hours. The produced a ...

A fellow Jamulian wrote me last night with some interesting information. It seems that there has been a rash of thefts of two sorts in the ...

A couple of my loyal readers (in other words, about three quarters of them) have written to ask why my political blogging has virtually stop...

Yesterday four of us (Debbie, myself, Jim Barnick, and his girlfriend Michelle) took a short hike up the maintenance road from Paso Picacho ...

Miki is almost a year old — still very much a puppy, but also starting to mature into a “real” dog. He’s developing a very sweet personalit...

Debbie came running into my office at daybreak yesterday, telling me that I absolutely had to come see something. I went into the living r...

Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) have been much in the news lately, especially with Wal-Mart’s decision to promote them. Many environmen...

Tip of the hat to reader RickP: Three Explorers Are Captured… A Frenchman, an Englishman and a New Yorker were exploring the jungle and were...

A teacher’s union president can’t add simple fractions (from the New York Daily News): The radio audience was live and the question for teac...

Phil Plait blogs at Bad Astronomy , always an interesting spot to visit in the blogosphere. He’s got a particularly interesting post up ri...

Almost six months ago, Jodi Burnett — delivering newspapers on her regular pre-dawn route — was killed by a recklessly speeding teenager, Jo...

Today’s San Diego Union-Tribune has an article about the first hearing in the Charles Crow murder case. In this hearing, Orlosky’s attorne...

This is being reported on 10News.com : A man suspected of killing a 23-year-old Jamul resident along a back-country road in East County earl...

From reader Jack: Recently I decided to take up again that brutal game of golf. I went to the Sycuan Golf Course practice area and started c...

Two of my readers (independently, so far as I know) actually asked me to publish lessons on how to use a slide rule. I published one last ...

From this morning’s San Diego Union-Tribune : Suspect in rifle slaying of Jamul man surrenders By Pauline Repard December 16, 2006 A fugitiv...

Thanks to a very generous fellow — Mike Konshak, of the International Slide Rule Museum — I now have access to a “real” server to host the ...

I received this email this morning (I am not including the name, since I do not have the permission of the writer to use it): Wow!! who are ...

The San Diego Sheriff’s Department has identified a suspect in the murder of Charles Crow — a local man named Joseph “Bob” Orlosky (mug shot...