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I'm very fortunate to have home-bases for the moment in both San Francisco and San Diego, so dear reader, you'll be seeing links fro...

If you're interested in sports meta-issues, here's another question: does it really matter, ratings-wise, which teams are in the Wo...

From world-of-waterfalls.com. The falls are still going even after this dry winter (although picture above is not current), and after tom...

In fairness, Born to Run is about a lot more than barefoot running. But as a takedown of athletic and exercise cults in general this is pre...

You can hear the thought process..."No snow in the Sierras, so what else can we do...wait, it's cold and we can get to the high lak...

The Union-Tribune has other details - happened 6:30pm, Saturday 28 January.

The Ridge Trail is putting on the 16th annual Ridge to Bridge on Saturday April 28 2012, raising money to help complete the trail - and as...

How bad is it that I see this video from Boing Boing about a ger-raising (filmed in real time and accelerated), and I'm drooling at the ...

View of Mt. Lee from Mt. Hollywood in Griffith Park. From Planetrambler.com . I have to admit I always thought of LA city parks as proba...

Finally, been wanting to double this for a long time, and got there early enough in the afternoon (gate closes at 5:15, and it's dark ...

This is a lot more useful, and user-friendly, than the ARJIS system. Here it is centered on San Diego , but with this one site you can look...

...at least the Onion says so. This very subtle, totally nuanced piece, " Unpopular BCS Crowns Alabama National Champions, Endorses Ri...

Point Reyes Happy New Year to all! To those of you I got to see, it was great. To those of you I haven't seen enough of in the last...

Happy holidays! In case you needed reminding, a weekend in SLO is never wasted at any time of year. And I guess this is where I tell you I...

Via Boing Boing, Check out this color film of a 1955 San Francisco (thank you filmmaker Tullio Pellegrini.) It's long, so here are the...

There are some. What do you know! No I didn't see any, but i was just doing some research to see if there are any in the Ventana or Sa...

At Grantland there's a great article than answers why a system so unfair and unpopular as the BCS rankings persists, written by Kevin Gr...

If you read Christopher McDougall's Born to Run about the Tarahumara, you'll remember Jenn Shelton as the party girl. That's an...

Southwest Indians are supposed to have eaten chia seeds on long runs when they started to get tired, and in Born to Run Christopher McDougal...

The cold weather in SoCal recently has been fantastic for running; also for scenery. I took these purty pitchers at Mt. Laguna , about an h...

An article by Richard Thaler . Mathematic evidence of the sheer stupidity of BCS rankings here .

UCSD physics professor Tom Murphy does something I was always curious about and calculates the MPG conversions for walking and biking . The...

From The Onion , which always has great BCS-mocking humor, as linked in this article .

"There is a small subculture on the Right , known as 'free market environmentalism,' that offers an alternate path toward envir...

Autumn woods from my mom's back porch: The warm Thanksgiving weather made PA's woods and fields and rolling hills even more fun ...

Sports are great, but private enterprise is better, so don't stick taxpayers with the bill for stadiums. And here's why: "Few...

...at Penn State, besides (obviously) the fact that so many kids were hurt, and people didn't go straight to law enforcement over it, ar...

I went to Penn State. So did my dad. He was a Penn State football maniac. Despite his best attempts to reproduce this part of himself wit...

Since a) I'm done with boards and a lab project and b) the weather is BEAUTIFUL (i.e. cold and rainy) I have gone for long runs for the ...

There's a great article at Voice of San Diego about the blackout we just had, and how the answer is not to depend more on foreign energy...

It turns out people are willing to pay a premium to live near bike trails (nine thousand smackaroos to be within a thousand feet). That is...

Needless to say, while San Diego is having the most awesome weather evar - that is, cold and foggy and marine layery, I can't run much ...

It's not a surprise to many people that there are coyotes there, but what's interesting is they seem to be there, or at least be noi...

It's worth mentioning that there were two robberies reported on Saturday, in broad daylight at two and three in the afternoon, next to R...

If you like to eat or catch fish from the California coast, read this . If you've ever read Mancur Olson's Tragedy of the Commons p...

If you live in UTC, in 24 hours you won't need this reminder, but the Miramar Air Show starts tomorrow, and goes until Sunday. They...

In Queensland (where else). For tigers those are some bigguns.

Inspired by Patrick Makau Musyoki's new marathon record in Berlin yesterday, I looked for trends in the marathon world records for eac...

[Note: On Facebook? Look for " Move the san Diego Air Show Way Inland ".] Miramar Air Show is next month. There's no prob...

Support micro-brewers in the brand-new country of South Sudan ! How we get their beer I don't know, but I bet here in San Diego a) l...

I just read Encounters with an Angry God , by Carobeth Laird. It details her time with John Harrington, an interesting character who did a ...

Not confirmed, but be careful out there! Here's the story . Below is a video from The Running Fat Guy so you know what a rattler soun...

FOX has canceled a show that "mocks" USC students who didn't know anything about football. A clip from it is below. But I...

Yikes! In Rawah Wilderness in northern Colorado, courtesy Jeff (who was there with his son): He told me he actually saw them and they...

Monday it rained in Southern California, which some of us actually like. There was even a little thunder. The air smelled great and the su...

From an article in Wilderness and Environmental Medicine (Caldicott DG, Croser D, Manolis C, Webb G, Britton A., " Crocodile attack in ...

Great whites eat seals. That's why it's not good to swim where the seals are. So it's surprising that it's taken this long...

A group of citizens is forming to preserve Palomar Mountain State Park in the face of its imminent closure. Join and become part of the sol...

I have a neat story about Tomales Bay S.P. (most people who've been there do). It's right next to Inverness and Point Reyes Nationa...