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Posted on July 10 at 8:51 a.m.
Are these thumbnails supposed to be click-able? I'd love to see them. You rock Indy.
Posted on July 9 at 12:55 p.m.
Wow speaking of the Gato Trail, new stuff is showing up on my map every minute in Google Earth. I believe Ray, in his awesomeness, is updating such things as Broadcast Peak, the Gato Trail, etc on the map as we speak.
Ray is amazing.
Posted on July 9 at 12:37 p.m.
Thanks for staying on this Ray. The detailed descriptions and maps from you are always the best.
Posted on May 10 at 10:45 a.m.
Glad this guy pulled out of this OK. A 1989 Honda will get somewhere in the 50mpg range (remember we are talking about a 4 stroke here) and take up less parking space than a car.
That NB Fairview offramp backs up in the afternoon rush hour onto the freeway and there is often trouble from drivers unawares. If CalTrans would have re-built that bridge/intersection correctly it probably would have saved these sort of incidents from happening.
Posted on March 9 at 9:11 p.m.
Amazing report and photos once again Ray. The long lasting repercussions of the Zaca Fire are mind boggling. Thanks for keeping the community informed.
Posted on January 23 at 9:43 a.m.
Chuck's is a place to go for the ambiance and history. You walk through big heavy wooden doors into a dark steakhouse with a good bar that your Grandpa would go to. The drinks are great. The salad bar is timeless. The food is fine, nothing spectacular. A $25 8oz Filet Mignon was not worth is solely for the food alone, but add in the ambiance and the local character and it's worth a visit at least once.
Posted on December 13 at 2:11 p.m.
Unfortunately this viewpoint has been tainted by the other Big Business in this tango, the NFL. Not to say that the cable companies aren't being greedy in this dispute, but the NFL is being just as greedy. In fact us little guys, the consumers, are caught in a giant tug of war between two big ego's, Big Cable, and the NFL.
The first thing the NFL did to make this tough, is to ask all cable companies to put the NFL channel on it's basic tier, right along with CNN, which has a broad audience. The NFL did not want to allow cable companies to put the NFL Network on a premium sports tier, like other specialty sports channels such as NBA TV, the Golf Chanel, etc. I'm a football fan, so I enjoy watching football, but if I didn't like football but still had to pay for the NFL channel with the basic plan, I'd be angry. The NFL is asking .70 per user per month for the NFL Channel. This doesn't seem like much, but consider CNN only charges .45 and it has a much broader audience.
In addition, understand the NFL has been sticking it to fans for a long time with access to viewing games. They sold the Sunday Ticket to DirectTV exclusively, so you need to get a satellite to watch out of area games (however millions of people can't get DirectTV). They moved MNF to ESPN so you can no longer watch MNF on over-the-air TV. They've offered a way to stream the games online, but only to overseas users (and U.S. taxpayers fund stadiums).
Also, please understand that website linked in the above opinion piece, iwantmynfl.com, is owned and operated by the NFL. Pro football is great, and the NFL has a good "product", but they are risking alienating their customers with this power grab.
Posted on September 20 at 2:58 p.m.
A few good sites that track the various food blogs in the LA area are:
Posted on September 4 at 1:45 p.m.
Once again the Indy online is proving to be the best place for up to date information on disasters and local going ons.
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Posted on July 10 at 9:18 a.m.
Ray you have a great way of piecing this all together from a solid perspective. Here is a photo I took from Fairview a few minutes (timestamp is 5:49) after the fire started on July 1st: http://picasaweb.google.com/costales/Gap...
Also, do you know what ridge that dozer line is on that they made from the Haney Tract down? You can see that dozer line from all over town and I was wondering if you knew where it was on your Google Map.
Thanks Ray for your contribution to the community.
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