Friday, January 17, 2025

Fire and Ice

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Things remain extremely dry here in Southern California with no snow or rain in the forecast for the rest of the month. Hopefully, we'll...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

At least they didn't say it was more important than 9/11 or the Civil Rights Movement

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I talked yesterday about how most of LA was getting back to normal but how the demographics of the fires (or more accurately, of one of the...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Mundane Monday

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I had lunch outside on Monday. Airnow.gov said that the air quality was good so I took the opportunity to enjoy the sunshine and walk down t...
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025

AT&T Archives - The Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal (1983)

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Seriously, though, "when there's a real demand for specific functionality, it will express itself as soon as (and sometimes even be...
Monday, January 13, 2025

You'll see a lot of finger pointing in the coverage of the fires but almost no real coverage of the mistakes that got us here.

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I apologize for the all the reposts, but this has gotten very relevant. Monday, December 28, 2020 The handling o...
Friday, January 10, 2025

"if people in the paths of these fires is one of, perhaps the major obstacle to the solution, then we need to have a serious debate about where we encourage (or even allow) new housing and development."

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  5 dead as Eaton fire explodes to 10,600 acres — hundreds of structures destroyed or damaged Evacuations ordered for all of L...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

Housing YIMBYs/fire NIMBYs and the Not-Enough-Fire Paradox

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When you get past the fundamentally dishonest framing of build vs. don't build, and focus on the real question of where to build, you im...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

An unquiet night

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Fires tear through Pacific Palisades, Altadena, Pasadena and Sylmar; gusts of up to 99 mph reported For those of you back east, it's im...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

"and barely concealed hostility toward orthogonality"

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 [This is one of those topics I keep meaning to get back to then go five years without mentioning.] Thursday, January 23, 2020 ...
Monday, January 6, 2025

Six years ago at the blog -- reposted just because it's cool

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The phrase "those thrilling days of yesteryear" became part of the popular vernacular a few years after the turn of the century da...
Friday, January 3, 2025

"Libertarian Sea Pods: A Hilarious Aquatic Disaster"

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Adam Something is an anonymous YouTuber who specializes in debunking silly engineering and transportation proposals, purely those retro fut...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Apocalypse Deferred

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[If this seems a bit dated in places it's because I wrote this a few years ago. I thought I remembered posting it at the time but I rece...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Season's greetings from Windsor McCay.

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[Updated with a higher resolution copy.]
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Tuesday, December 31, 2024

More airships from the "English Jules Verne"

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We'll be back to serious blogging in 2025, but for now I'm taking it easy. See you on the other side. Today's dose of retro-futu...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Cool pictures from the "English Jules Verne"

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The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror (1893) is a science fiction novel by the English writer George Griffith . It was h...