random knowledge is too hard to come by

Friday, December 13, 2002, at 09:55AM

By Eric Richardson

Last night when I was driving back I also saw the Lindbergh Beacon lit up on City Hall. I'm pretty sure I haven't seen it lit up before, so I'm really curious to know if I'm just oblivious other times, or if there was some occasion.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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