glendale fire
September 09, 2002 by Eric Richardson
I can't find any URLs just yet, but this is the view from my apartment of the brush fire that just started burning in glendale. A quick newsreport on TV said the fire started at 12:15, and is currently at about 10 acres.
Clutch - Spacegrass
September 08, 2002 by Eric Richardson
I first got introduced to Clutch at an AVP tournament. They were playing music between matches, and all of a sudden the lyrics to one of the songs caught my ear. "But enough about you, lets talk about me and how single-handedly i redefined the science of radio astronomy, making nobel prize winners question their notions of reality." I was really confused, and found them later from remembering parts of that line. Spacegrass makes no sense, but hey, it sounds cool. And in the end, isn't that all we're really looking for?
gar
September 06, 2002 by Eric Richardson
So my car is sitting in the parking lot of the McDonald's on Figueroa right now with a dead battery. Not just needs to be jumped dead, but dead-dead. This means I get to buy a new one, which is exactly what I needed to be spending money on right now. That's far more important than, say, food or something like that. Gar...
"One Day in September"
September 05, 2002 by Eric Richardson
I just watched the last half of One Day in September on HBO. I originally watched this documentary in Australia, and at that time it was my first exposure to what had happened in Munich thirty years ago. Documentaries such as this get so little exposure in our country, and yet can be extremely moving. This one won an Academy Award, in fact, and yet I would wager that most people have never heard of it.
right tool for the job
September 04, 2002 by Eric Richardson
Something tells me there's a better way than cleaning out my mouse with a pair of big needle-nose pliers. Hey, it's functional.