Get To Know Me (and stop sending those goofy questionnaires)
Get To Know Me (and stop sending those goofy questionnaires)
GET TO KNOW ME - THERE, I FINALLY FILLED OUT THIS STUPID EMAIL, SO EVERYONE STOP STOP SENDING IT TO ME.............. What time did you get up this morning? 'Bout noon - daylight is overrated Diamonds or pearls? 'Pends what …
Net Metering a Net Loss for 95% of SDG&E Customers?
According to Onell Soto, "Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is poised to sign a bill to ensure that a key financial benefit for installing solar power systems doesn’t go away too soon." This is not a benefit for all. Even under the …
A new trail in El Cerito
Bam-Ba-Lam
Like any small town, the rumor mill here can sometimes seem like the thing to make or break a person. Except I'm not sure that we are a small town anymore, perhaps nothing more then an "unincorperated" part of San …
Lazy Old Rocker Dude Goes To a Hip-Hop Open Mic
We get a lot of emails asking "Where's the Reader's hip-hop coverage?" Hopefully, readers have noticed increased coverage throughout the music section, including Blurt, Lists, Of Note, and Club Crawler. It wasn’t that we avoided hip-hop before – in my case, …
an unwelcome devil/ last segment of "Dave Harris Must Die"
oh she couldn't be trusted...even all these years later she hounded him she brought her own heat with her and her demon eyes her eyes had been vividly blue green that day that the Autumn leaves fell around her as …
ride em cowboy/last 2 segments to "Dave Harris Must Die
his shoulders drooped and rolled forward...the arms had that slightly crooked "i'm carrying something" look old men get it was a combination of Arthritis and old age.. and ridin' to many sunfishing mustangs when he was a young one he …
Update Little Falls 2/26/2010
How Hedge Funds work and how the elite make easy money. To borrow 20 times the size of a bet, a euro at $1 could double with a 5% move in the right direction. Ref: The Wall Street Journal, 2/26/10 …
Alpine ALERT: Powerlink Digging Begins?
Alert residents in Alpine report that the main drag is being trenched in the middle of town. No SDG&E employees were reported in the sighting. Alpine has been a point of contention as residents were not given suitable warning that …
RBS Sempra Commodities Ready for Carving Up in Sales
In today's distinguished daily paper, Onell Soto reports that Sempra Energy is looking to sell off pieces of its share of RBS Sempra Commodities, a joint venture with Royal Bank of Scotland. News of the pending sales comes as Sempra …
Lemon Tree Hummingbird
Spring hasn't quite reached Ocean Beach, but green shoots are thick on every lawn -- and a close look at neighborhood nature reveals plenty of other signs that the next season is drawing near. In this episode of OB in …
Creepy Old Wannabe Outlaw/Cartoonist Goes To a Rave
Okay, I know chances are good that my "newest" pair of jeans is older than a lotta people reading this blog. I’m old. How old AM I? I'm old enough to have… a) …bought Beatles records while they were still together… b) …witnessed …
25 afterwork
Here I am!! I would like to be a writer someday and this is might the place I can stretch my wings. I sit here at the table and write and think... and write... I hear the Marine helicopters heading …
The Similarity Between the Orca and Toyota
Since 1981, the orca has been responsible for the death of two trainers and one dumb ass who jumped in her tank during after hours. Over the past 10 years, Toyota has been responsible for the deaths of 34 Americans. …
Update Little Falls 2/25/2010
Good story on California's and Florida's state pension funds. It is easy to see why the states do not have any money anymore. The pension money is all spent in other states!!. Ref: The Wall Street Journal,2/24/10 page C1 and …
When "Wellville" Became "Hellville."..
"It's easy to lead people on a leash. I just hold up a dazzling campaign poster--and they jump right through it!" --Dr. Josef Goebbels (1899-1945) Propaganda Minister of Nazi Germany Have you often wondered why Kellogs' Corn Flakes are made …
The Early Daze, part 4
It’s odd to think of how much different it was looking for a job twenty years ago. For decades, millennia perhaps, job hunting went largely unchanged. In the summer of 1989 you still read through the want-ads in a real …
Battle of the Bouncers - Concert Security Wars
Local Firms Fight for Rights to Bounce You
Local Firms Fight for Rights to Bounce You Your average concertgoer rarely pays much attention to event security. Most of what they do goes on out of our view, at least if they’re doing their job right. Sure, it’s nice …
The City's Loss
Here we are, just a few days before the City throws away centuries of experience in the Police and Fire departments by laying off nearly 200 employees. Some of these employees will move to other vacant positions in the city, …
South Park Cat Tales: The Nip Trip Re-Posted (#8)
February 24, 2010 A.D.C. First I would like to make a meow-out to all the felines suddenly posting here. It's nice to see the feline-dom represented well. Mica, Mongoose, I only have one question: what took you so long? Maybe …