spreading smoke

September 23, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So the 400 acres of yesterday has turned into 1200 this morning, and left a large layer of smoke over most of the area north of downtown. The picture sucks, as those from this camera usually do, but you still get a little of the sense of the haze over downtown.

more fun with fire

September 22, 2002 by Eric Richardson

Another wildfire, this time with a KCAL9 news link. The smoke from this one looked bigger, even though it was farther away.

and there goes that one

September 19, 2002 by Eric Richardson

The fact that I went about exactly a week without posting should tell you about what kind of week it was. It really feels like I just wrote that last post, and yet it was a good 7 days ago. Crazy. I have a job interview tomorrow. Details are contingent on how it goes...

ahhh the helicoptors

September 12, 2002 by Eric Richardson

So it's a crappy picture, but this is the kind of entertainment we get here in south central. Yes, that's a helicoptor with a spotlight. Yes, it's LAPD. We think it was breaking up some type of party, because it kept circling a house on the next block. While the helicoptor was circling, a limo pulled in to (most likely) pick someone up.

gar

September 12, 2002 by Eric Richardson

I'm trying to get a hold of the USC Student Health Insurance Office to figure out why our vision care provider doesn't have me in their system. TO start off with, the number for the office connects me to a generic USC menu ("Press 1 for admissions," etc). Not a big deal... Hit 0, get the operator, get transferred... It rings for a bit and then I find out I can't leave a message because "the mailbox is full, please enter another extension." Oh, great. That sures seems like the way to run a system.

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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