October 2003
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Fire URLs
Couple of scattered fire-related sites:
Posted by Chris Barrus on Thu 30 Oct 2003 |
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Fire picture of the day
From the newswires today…

Posted by Chris Barrus on Wed 29 Oct 2003 |
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Fireblogging
Text America has a Southern California fire blog running.
Posted by Chris Barrus on Tue 28 Oct 2003 |
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Fire
The smoke from the various Los Angeles fires blew over Long Beach all day today making it feel like a volcano was going off. Enough ash had rained down to collect on parked cars, pile up on my staircase, and turn the sky yellow. Perversely, the Halloween Dog Parade was going on in Belmont Shore making the whole day seem like a Fellini movie.
Posted by Chris Barrus on Sun 26 Oct 2003 |
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Accidental Orion
Last week we took a tour of the Nevada Test Site and while I’ll get to a full description of that shortly (probably in a post to Proven By Science), this thread in sci.space.tech was too good to not mention.
A 1957 atomic test called Pascal-B set off a small nuclear explosion in a 500 foot shaft that was covered by a metal lid. A quick thumbnail estimate of the shockwave effect on the metal lid gave a resulting velocity of six times the earth’s escape velocity and thus the legend of the “manhole cover in space” is born. One of the project scientists comments on the whole thing.
Posted by Chris Barrus on Sat 25 Oct 2003 |
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Sending a post card to myself

Posted by Chris Barrus on Fri 24 Oct 2003 |
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Dim sum in orbit
Note to self: when I finally make it to orbit, send out for Chinese food..
Posted by Chris Barrus on Wed 15 Oct 2003 |
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Real money
I haven’t linked to any Iraq-related articles lately because other blogs are doing a much better job at it, but Outwardly Normal links to a graphic display of just what 87 billion dollars looks like.
Posted by Chris Barrus on Wed 15 Oct 2003 |
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Spam in comments
I just noticed two pieces of spam in the blog comments here. Note to self: looks for ways to make this more difficult.
Posted by Chris Barrus on Wed 15 Oct 2003 |
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Friday morning in San Francisco
Breakfast/Lunch at Quetzal.

Posted by Chris Barrus on Sat 11 Oct 2003 |
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