The photo at right is one of dozens from a collection of photos taken at exactly the right moment . Imagine, if you can, being that fish… ...

I heard about this event (San Diego Rebuilds) on the radio, and it sounds very useful -- especially the expertise and advice that will be a...

A cow in a culvert, somewhere near Jamul (along 94). Rescued by the San Diego Human Society… JAMUL, Calif. -- Thanks to a specialty rescue...

I just remembered a funny little story from our evacuation two weeks ago, during the fires. We drove from our home in Jamul to a friend...

My long-time readers know that I have a special interest in the tiny country of Estonia. Because two companies I worked for had software de...

This was the view looking west from Lyons Peak just a few minutes ago. Serene, beautiful, peaceful... And not necessarily expected. Up unt...

I seem to have confused some of my readers with the little note I put at the bottom of one of my posts this morning, saying Cross-Posted fro...

Just before the fires last week, my parents shipped two large boxes of New Jersey tomatoes to me – the last of the season. When the fires c...

One thing we can be certain of, unfortunately, is that wildfires will attack our community again. Some areas (such as Lawson Valley, where I...

As I was watering our potted patio plants this morning, I noticed that our potato tree ( Solanum paraguayensis ) had lost quite a few leaves...

I found these photos (at StrategyPage ) of the U.S. military aircraft helping fight last week's fires. The top photo shows an Air Force...

Another well-known member of the Greatest Generation has died, at 92. Brigadier General Paul W. Tibbets was the pilot of the B-29 Enola Gay...

The List Universe has a great list of the Top 30 Failed Technology Predictions . Here are the first 5, just to give you a taste. 1. “There...

Peggy Noonan on Hillary Clinton's performance in Tuesday night's Democratic 2008 presidential candidate debate: The story is not t...

It appears that the IPCC doesn't have quite the consensus of climatologists that the anthropomorphic global warming faithful would have ...

Simi L. passed something much like this to me, along with a reference to Snopes as having authenticated it. When I looked carefully at the ...

Update: Several people, including Daniel Tyack, wrote to say that the Jamul Fire Help site can now take donations by PayPal. We just made ...

Last week's puzzler: It seems like forever since I posted the last puzzler, about a strange early form of main memory for digital comput...

This is the view just now from the west-looking camera on Lyons Peak. Aside from the char in the foreground, you'd never know San Diego...

Many of us who live in the remoter regions of San Diego County spend quite a bit of time many miles from home, at work, shopping, having fun...