Archive for the ‘Science & Nature’ Category
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
It is a pretty planet on which I live:
Grabbed this shot up on Mt. Diablo today. The wildflowers were off the hook. Really gorgeous out there lately. The poppies were predominant, dotted with other spots of purple, white, and yellow blossoms here and there. The flowers ran rampant down the ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
We just had a nice 5.6 magnitude earthquake here in the East Bay. I was playing video games with noise cancelling headphones in the kids' room when I felt the desk shake. I was about to get all over the kids for not sleeping, and saw Dylan crawling out of ...
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
I think if we all band together, we can realize our dream of world peace through beer:
Beer: the energy drink for bacteria - Los Angeles Times
Scientists and an Australian beer maker are teaming up to generate energy from brewery wastewater and bacteria.
The University of Queensland was given a $115,000 grant ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
We had a nice little earthquake tonight - 4.2 magnitude, centered in Lafayette.
I was reading Max a bedtime story when it hit. There was a nice loud pop, which sounded like something really big hit the front of the house. That was followed by some flickering lights and some objects ...
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Friday, July 28th, 2006
The fog returned here today after two weeks of record-breaking heat. It hit 112∫ here last weekend, and higher in other parts of the Bay Area. This morning I awoke to the nice familiar chill of the fog layer creeping inland and cooling our hillside with it's mist and shade ...
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