"Bear" at UCSD
Last Sunday, the Union Tribune published an article about the "Bear" sculpture that is sitting in the middle of a UCSD campus courtyard. "Bear" is two stories tall and weighs 180 tons. It took the…
Read MoreLooking at things is very different from seeing them
Last Sunday, the Union Tribune published an article about the "Bear" sculpture that is sitting in the middle of a UCSD campus courtyard. "Bear" is two stories tall and weighs 180 tons. It took the…
Read MoreThese days the whole west coast from San Diego up to Canada has been covered with low-pressure-system and we get a good share of rain. But, as our mothers used to say: "after the rain…
Read MoreEven here in San Diego fall is slowly moving in and the leaves on the trees are turning yellow and red. The temperatures during the day are still nice though and we still walk around…
Read MoreFor a change we decide to take advantage of the warm afternoon light to take some pictures of the Mormon Temple, which is located just a few miles from where we live. The temple has…
Read MoreIt's late morning and I'm working, when I suddenly get a chat message on Skype from our friend Ronan from Vancouver, saying that they are in Anaheim. We visited Ronan and Judit last year in…
Read MoreIt's the end of Daylight Saving Time today and we now have also turned our clocks back to winter time. Therefore, we seem to be up quite early for a Sunday morning. The weather is…
Read MoreAfter complaining for more than 6 months about fog, marine layer and chili temperatures here in San Diego we finally have nice cloudless skies from sunrise to sunset and temperatures reaching into the 90's (more…
Read MoreNew Zealand and Iceland are known for geysers, but nowhere are there as many as in Yellowstone. At the heart of Yellowstone's past, present and future lies volcanism. About 2 million years ago, then 1.3…
Read MoreWe had been watching the weather forecast for Yellowstone for a while. Now at the end of September there is a big high pressure system up there that promises sunshine and warm temperatures. On Tuesday,…
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