Antonio!

From: North Park, San Diego, CA
When: August 16, 2008 @ 9:30pm PDT
Camera: Canon A530 set to automatic mode
Telescope: Orion SkyQuest XT6 with 25mm Plossl eyepiece

From: North Park, San Diego, CA
When: August 9, 2008 @ 9:00pm PDT
Camera: Canon A530 set to movie mode (multiple images combined using Keith’s Image Stacker)
Telescope: Orion SkyQuest XT6 with 10mm Plossl and 1.25″ Shorty Barlow eyepieces

Just felt my first major earthquake: a 5.6 near Los Angeles (Chino Hills to be exact). I work across the street from an air base and a truck yard so I’m used to the building rumbling when a low flying fighter jet or heavy semi truck goes by but this was a good 10-15 seconds of the building undulating. Weird!!! My coworker in Pasadena said a bunch of stuff fell off the walls/shelves in his office as he bolted out the door; at least he’s OK!

The folks over at FreePB.org have an alcoholic-friendly message for everything this summer:

It is now illegal to consume alcoholic beverages in many coastal parks, the beach or on any land area of Mission Bay. The City of San Diego has defined the boundary line between land and water in Mission Bay Park is the mean high tide line. Based on the following documents it seems clear that it is not illegal to consume alcoholic beverages below the mean high tide line, however, police and lifeguards have said they will ticket anyone touching sand, whether below the mean high tide line or not. So feel free to float in your inner tube, but please be safe.

Here’s hoping the stupid ban gets tossed out next year.

Courtesy of public.resource.org. And yes, it’s perfectly legal to download. Now I just need $250,000 and a plot of land that isn’t in the middle of nowhere and I can get started on building my own home!