Stuff that doesn’t quite fit anywhere else.
We’re up in Leucadia. Which may not be far enough, based on the maps! Around 1/3 of Areae is coming here, in fact.
Outside, the smoke is thick and the sky is solid yellow. Which is what it looked like last night back in Rancho Bernardo.
Near as we can tell, our house and the office are both still there.
If this area looks too threatened, we’ll keep heading north. I heard one woman on the radio who just headed to Vegas. 🙂
posting from my phone. very smoky over in Rancho Bernardo. we are now down at the Mira Mesa High School, all fine. we decided to go when they closed all the highway along our neighborhood and when we could see the flames on the hills around poway and rancho bernardo…
We can see the fire cresting hills in the distance, and I-15 is closed one exit up from us.
No word on evacuations for our part of town yet, but more northerly parts of the neighborhood have been told to evac.
No, they are not really near us (now, anyway).
But yes, we are directly under the huge plume of smoke. It’s hard to breathe outside. The Santa Anas are gusting really hard, too.
Quite a lot of the mail I have gotten recently relates to the quickie design outline I did for Penny Arcade… a few of them were pretty interesting, so I am just reprinting them here.
Dear Raph, I am a huge fan of the SimCity series (worried about the loss of technical details in the new Socities) and read your words on Penny-arcade.com. PLEASE BUILD THIS. I know, i know, you are busy writing the code to run an actual world like this, but as someone who is both a DIY homeowner and a lover of constuction, the game you propose would be fabulous. Thanks for your time, Fred
I can assure you that I have no intention of rushing off to make this game, anymore than I did when I tossed out the Healing MMO as an idea. Sorry! Besides, the real point is to make Tycho do it, not me. 🙂
Now, this one, I thought was really fascinating:
