5.6 on the Richter scale according to the USGS report. The biggest one I’ve ever experienced yet. We could feel the entire house shake for upwards of twenty seconds before it subsided – no obvious damage, fortunately, but I’ll have to check the plaster for more cracks in the morning. And right now it’s the [...] » Read more

Quintessential life in California: on the way to Macarthur BART, just off the offramp, drive pass some seriously heavy shit about to go down in Oakland – squad cars parked askew in the street; cops with shotguns and automatic weapons shielding behind said cars; more cops frantically sprinting for cover. Shake head, take BART over [...] » Read more

Gasoline tanker explodes in the “MacArthur Maze” – what we locals call the intersection of I-80, I-580, and I-880, just beyond the east side terminus of the Bay Bridge linking San Francisco and the East Bay. I love this quote from the San Francisco Chronicle. The tanker, which was traveling from I-80 full of vehicle-ready gasoline, [...] » Read more

I’ve had a radio-less stretch of a few months, ever since it got stolen from my car, so listening to FM on the way home from Vegas was refreshing. During the trip, the heavy metalish remake of “Land of Confusion” by the band Disturbed came on. I find it quite an improvement on the original [...] » Read more

Yesterday morning we were woken up by a cop. Turned out at around 6 or 7 am someone decided to break into my car and grab the stereo. The people across the street saw this happening and called the cops, but by the time they showed up the thief had gone. I’m [...] » Read more