East Coast people, first, let me be honest: yes, we’re all giggling about your 5.8 earthquake on this coast. And no, it isn’t fair, but you probably laugh at our occasional funnel clouds. Second, it’s still very important to go report what you observed if you felt the earthquake; use this USGS link: USGS: Did [...]
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Report your earthquakes!
Posted in current events, nature, science, tagged earthquakes, engineering, geology, science, tools on 23 August, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Disconnected
Posted in current events, local, Personal, technology on 6 August, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Around 7:30 pm, PDT on Friday night (Aug. 5, 2011), we simultaneously lost our Internet connection, long-distance phone, and cell phone service. Since these are provided by different companies, it surprising. We turned on the radio and tried some of the local radio station. They mentioned in passing that Internet was down as far as [...]
The Me Generation?
Posted in current events, employment, society, teaching, work, workplace, tagged engineering, excellence, management, society, work, workplace on 31 March, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I’m 45 now, I’ve been an engineer for over half my life. Bit by bit, I have passed into the second half of my career without ever seeing the change coming. Every once in a while I run into a discussion, in person or online, about the Millenials as the “Me Generation”, about how young [...]
The Foodie Shuffle
Posted in current events, local, tagged food, humboldt, local on 18 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recent news for a couple of good eating places in Humboldt: (1) Curley’s Grill, formerly in Ferndale and chased out last fall by sky-rocketing rent costs, just re-opened at 320 Main Street, Fortuna last week. (2) Cafe Nooner in Eureka just started this week will start in a few days offering breakfast items in addition [...]
I knew there was a reason I’m here
Posted in current events, environment, Personal, tagged california, canada, Personal, weather on 9 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Montreal, where I come from, looks like this today: The office courtyard here looks like this: The temperature here is about 7 C (45 F), while it’s -2 C in Montreal (28 F).
Magical thinking
Posted in books, current events, local, tagged activism, cynicism, health, humboldt, local, science, society, women on 27 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sigh. I’m sorry, I don’t actually want to be a cynic and suspect scams everywhere, but I think last Thursday’s “Courage Night” may have been one. Ostensibly, the event was about gathering money and attention for the fight against breast cancer; however, I have serious reservations about the tenor of the event. Key guests were [...]
Port of refuge
Posted in current events, local, tagged humboldt, local, Personal, photography on 15 October, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Hawaiian Chieftain, a ketch, took refuge at the Bonnie Gool public dock in Eureka Tuesday and will probably leave today. We stopped by last night to snap a few pictures with the camera-phones; I have 14 of mine posted online here but this was my favourite. I’m quite pleased with the effect. The Hawaiian [...]
My vet, and why he deserves a break
Posted in current events, local, Personal, tagged animals, humboldt, internet flack, local, veterinarian on 19 August, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I discovered today that some people have been bad-mouthing Dr. Humble and the Cutten Animal Health Center on Craig’s List and YouTube, etc. for the last few days. I think it’s unfair and I’ll tell you why. Before my husband and I settled on taking our cats to Dr. Humble, we used the services of [...]
Canadian-style health care: you should be so lucky
Posted in current events, family, tagged activism, canada, health care, humboldt, insurance, politics on 14 August, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I am getting damn tired of the proponents of health care status quo in the U.S. who use outrageous scare tactics (e.g., aged or sick people will be put to death, etc.) and shameless lies (e.g., slandering the medical systems of countries like Canada, Great-Britain, etc.) “Don’t do this or we’ll end up with Canadian-style [...]
Housing Element EIR recirculated
Posted in current events, local, tagged ceqa, housing, humboldt, impacts, local, planning, politics on 18 June, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Received from the Humboldt County Planning Division yesterday; if you’re interested in commenting, note the date of the public hearing, which is tonight in Eureka. This is a revised version from the draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that was prepared in February and circulated in April. According to its introduction, the Supplemental EIR was [...]
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