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In the last years of the 1880s, San Jose built a huge light tower straddling an intersection downtown. It was meant to light up the downtown area, but was never very good and ended up in a heap during a wind storm in  [more...]

For better or worse, here’s my photographic record of what may turn out to be a pretty boring Leap Day. I’ll update as the day goes on… Watching “Are You Being Served?” while laying in bed  [more...]

The new NBC program “The Restaurant” is really fascinating and interesting. Very unexpected. The bad: in-your-face product placement is so bad that the opening titles just look like a commercial for Coors  [more...]