Archive for November, 2004

Everyone Loves a Parade
 
 

One of my favorite local holiday parades is the Parade of Lights.

Something about having all those electrical 
blinking  lights
  gliding by on a body of water.

Here’s a few other parades I’ve heard about

Encinitas Parade
5:30 p.m. Dec. 4
Coast Highway 101 between D and J streets
San Marcos Holiday Parade
1:00 PM Dec 5
Starts at Palomar College and travel […]

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2005 US Chess Championship in La Jolla
 
 

The tournament is free and open to the public. Matches begin most days at 1 p.m. at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines. There’s a Chess Blog. Maybe I’ll dust off my Ruy Lopez opening.

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Digital SLR Group for San Diego
 
 

Just got this news for photo nuts from my buddy Mark Holmes:

We have just launched the Web site for San Diego Digital SLR photography group. It replaces our Yahoo group, which currently has aproximately 80 members. We welcome new users of digital SLR cameras, as well as experienced photographers. Our aim is to help […]

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Latest Frye News
 
 

Things are not looking great for the Frye campaign, check Donna Frye For Mayor.com — a big sticking point is that there’s a new lawsuit to measure voter intent. Seems as though some of the votes are not being counted because the voters failed to fill in the black oval, and merely *wrote* out the […]

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San Diego Podcasting
 
 

Is anyone else out there completely addicted to podcasts yet?
I’ve been wanting to make my own for a few weeks now and have even toyed with the idea of an independent San Diego News Podcast, but as it is I can’t even keep up with blogging.
Brand new San Diego Blogger, Alex Kessinger (who is currently […]

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Racist Music Distributed to Local Schools
 
 

Racist hate music is being distributed to your brothers and sisters and children in schools in San Diego.

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Donna Frye “Count The Vote” Vigil; Petition to “Count the Votes”
 
 

Today only:

Please join us, community leaders and civic organizations at the San Diego County Registrar of Voters (5201 Ruffin Road, Suite I San Diego, CA 92123) for a “Count All the Votes” Vigil on Thursday, November 11 and Friday, November 12 from 4pm to 6pm.
We need to let the Registrar of Voters know that […]

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XD3: Experience Design Event
 
 

AIGA is the American Institute of Graphic Arts — San Diego AIGA is hosting XD3 — a design series exploring the latest trends in experience design from November to January.
What’s Experience Design?

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Taking Aim at the North County Times
 
 

North County San Diego will soon have a new daily at its doorsteps. Today’s Local News dubs itself as:
Our newspaper–your newspaper–is brand new in Carlsbad, Oceanside, San Marcos, Vista and Escondido, but as you can see, we’re really just your neighbors, local people working hard and having fun. today’s local news is full of […]

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Casting Event: TRADING SPACES in San Diego
 
 

TRADING SPACES SEEKS HOMEOWNERS THE SAN DIEGO AREA!
WHAT: TLC’s hit series TRADING SPACES, where two sets of neighbors swap homes for two days to redesign one room in each other’s house, is looking for San Diego area residents to participate in episode tapings.
WHEN: TRADING SPACES will film in the San Diego, CA AREA from Jan […]

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Surfing San Diego
 
 

Indepundit gives us an updated mayoral vote count as of today.

Carl Luna says our local elections were quote unquote gnarly.
Padres deal for a pair of pitchers
Reza explains the passing of Prop C

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And they continue to count
 
 

As the votes continue to be continued for San Diego mayor, the Donna Frye campaign just sent out an email clarifying that ballots in which Donna Frye’s name is written in without the bubble being filled in will not count. That decision could have a crucial affect on the outcome.
Also: Andrew Phelps has got some […]

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San Diego Election Excitement
 
 

Well, the elections couldn’t possibly be more exciting than they are right now in San Diego.
It’s still too early to declare the winner in the following races and ballot propositions as absentee and provisional ballots continue to be counted:

San Diego Mayor
City Attorney
78th District Assembly
Oceanside Mayor
TransNet
Several smaller races

As provisional and absentee ballots are counted, results will […]

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Voting Guides
 
 

I can’t agree with Joe enough. Here’s a last minute election run down.
If you’re still wanting to read up on some of the ballot initiatives and candidates, the non-partisan San Diego County Voter Information page from smartvoter.org seems to be the best.
The Union Tribune has an Election 2004 page and voter’s guide. The North County […]

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San Diego Blog Word Of the Day
 
 

Vote

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World’s Largest Book at La Jolla Public Library
 
 

Jason Kottke wrote yesterday about the world’s largest book, Bhutan: A Visual Odyssey Across the Last Himalayan Kingdom. As it happens, a copy of the book is also on display at La Jolla Public Library.

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Arnold at Megan’s Cafe
 
 

News Flash: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared at Megans’ Cafe in the San Carlos neighborhood of San Diego at 10:00am this morning. route66 was there and shook Arnold’s hand! Every local television station in San Diego was there. Check it out on the evening news. Images taken at the restaurant by me will […]

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Dennis Ross On Isreal/Arab Peace Process
 
 

Dennis Ross, chief Middle East peace negotiator for both GHW Bush and Bill Clinton will give an insider’s perspective about the Israeli and the Arab peace process on Thursday, November 11, 6-7pm at LFJCC Book Fair in La Jolla.

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San Diego Bloggers Added October 2004
 
 

SDBs Added in October, 2004

2004-10-31 Left Coast Law
2004-10-31 Ramona Rotary Club (Atom)
2004-10-29 Inside Plants Live (Atom)(RSS)
2004-10-22 Summer’s Bloggity Blog Blog (Atom)
2004-10-21 the*juliet*files (Atom)(+)
2004-10-18 Ipso Facto: a law student’s blog (Atom)(+)
2004-10-13 Ethic (Atom)
2004-10-13 Economics with a Face (Atom)(RSS)(+)
2004-10-09 space is just a click away (Atom)
2004-10-06 Goodmanson.com (Atom)(RSS)
2004-10-04 Reza Torkzadeh (Atom)(RSS)

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