I started digging around for information on local health after someone mentioned my county had an abysmal diabetes rate and I saw a local story about a city getting its fifth McDonald’s. My attention soon turned to availability of food in schools and the USDA’s Farm to School program. My district has almost 40% of […]
I’m riding down on a bus to San Diego. Where I just drove back from last night. Last year I attended a tech conference in San Diego, held a week after Comic Con, when the city has finally come down from its masked crusader high minus some Game of Thrones signs on light poles. I’d […]
When I substitute taught I worked sometimes at an elementary school who was very close to the Old Fire in 2003. On semi-cloudy days some students would panic, remembering the thick smoke over their homes as they evacuated from there. A week ago this was NOT our view. The Lake Fire burnt tens of thousands […]
Back when I got my degree, I was a tech-y of sorts. Digital photography was starting to take off, but I couldn’t shake that brilliant gleam of white when the spectrum went a little to bright. I still think film did it best. I’ve been the computer software person in the home for years now, […]
California had 136 cases of the measles with the latest outbreak, with the unvaccinated and too young to vaccinate being a majority of the cases. Recently, a report in Science said that the measles, basically, erased immunity memory and created a window of opportunity for other diseases. Basically, if you had the measles, there’s a […]
