Posts from — October 2007

Santa Monica, 2006.

Most people who’ve known me for any length of time know my fondness for Occam’s Razor—particularly when trying to decipher possible security problems in software. For many years, I had to explain the reference and its significance. Lately, though, I’m seeing references everywhere (the latest was on Buzz Andersen’s blog via Daring Fireball this morning).

In my own mind, I use it as a test: in the absence of differentiating evidence, the explanation with the fewest unknown dependencies—in other words, the simplest one—is likely correct.

Santa Monica, 2007.

Santa Monica, 2007.

LA sky. The haze is subsiding, but even this morning’s clear sky looks brown.

Washington Blvd in Marina del Rey on a clearer day.

Another great day in SF.

Some facts are too good to check

Yikes. What about those items that are actually important?

Ferry Building and Justin Herman Plaza at the end of Market Street.

I’ve set a personal limit of two cups of coffee a day—it’s enough to have a real taste of something I truly enjoy, but not so much that it makes me feel like I’m turning my stomach into shoe leather. It’s tough to stick to that, though, since someone delivered a full pot of the tasty brew right to my room at 6:30.

After warning one of the riders they were filming to hold on, “with both hands,” the producer heard my chuckle and turned back to me and said “those things are death traps, you know.” After walking around for a few hours, I took one back over the hill for the first time.

A perfect day in San Francisco today.

When it comes to wildfire behavior prediction in Southern California, you are always handed the test before you’re given the lesson.

— Drew Smith, fire behavior analyst with L.A. County Fire Department as quoted in a November 2007 Los Angeles Magazine article about the May 8 Griffith Park fire.

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There’s less to Facebook and other social networks than meets the eye

Maybe, but there’s still a lot of fear about being left out of the fun (and the money)…

 
I was thinking today about going back to Yellowstone.