Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Make windmills great again

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Last week, the Los Angeles Times printed an Associated Press article about how the Pentagon has nearly frozen required reviews for wind fa...
Friday, June 12, 2026

South Coast Botanic Garden and L.A. Harbor Cruise

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  Victor in the Rose Garden We took a one-day tour to visit the South Coast Botanic Garden and cruise the Los Angeles Harbor. Just now, th...
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Autographs — George and Brad Takei

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  George Takei spoke and signed books at an event in East L.A. this afternoon. After twenty minutes of one speaker introducing another who ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

My Klein bottle

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( Klein bottles only exist in four-dimensional space, but a self-intersecting model of a Klein bottle can be made in 3D.) Sometime in my te...
Monday, April 27, 2026

San Antonio Fiesta — April 2026

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Link to more photos . (And see below for a separate photo album of Fiesta royalty.) As always, view the photos individually to see the capti...
Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Las Vegas — April 2026

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  Link to more photos . (As always, view the photos individually to see the captions.) We took a quick group tour to Las Vegas, mainly to s...
Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Scammers

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  Although I've used craigslist before with no problems, I've now had two bad experiences, one as a buyer and one as a seller. I pr...
Thursday, March 26, 2026

Poetry Analysis

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Early in my freshman English class at Rice, we were asked to write a brief analysis of a specific poem. Mine received a mediocre grade, and ...
Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Gay Club Matchbooks and Pins

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  Back in the day, I had this modest collection of matchbooks from gay bars and discos. At the Los Angeles Central Library in 2018, I saw a ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Flowers — April 2024

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 [I don't know why I didn't write this up at the time.] Link to many more photos. Definitely worth viewing. In April 2024, we went ...