the fire at the Getty

The north 405 freeway offramps from the 10 on were shut down, meaning I had to get off the freeway and take surface streets for a few miles to get to the office here at Saltmine U. The view from my office: The Getty's the low horizontal set of buildings on the hill to the left; the smoke is coming from the right, which is north-northwest a bit, much closer to the Skirball, on the other side of the hill. When I was at the Getty on Sunday with my mother, we wanted to walk down the hill from the museum to the parking lot, but some docents warned us about a mountain lion that'd attacked someone the day before.

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the breakfast triangle

You might be familiar with the service triangle, the truism that you can only have two of the three qualities in a service provider: good, fast, or cheap.... But in what seems like the very instant a deadline is set for a project I'm doing for free, bugs, typos, and other errors inexplicably begin breeding like cockroaches.... You cannot find breakfast food that is all three of the following: good for you easy to make/acquire/consume in an undercaffeinated state tastes good Absolutely cannot be done.

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pack of deadlines

is shaping up to be a day where I narrowly escape from the pack of deadlines which has been chasing me for the last couple of weeks. I've been pulling late nights and weekends, and am pretty tired. One of my minions is off on vacation this week; the very last week he could take vacation before I send him off into a project that will take him a full month.

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