Halloween is Coming -- October 10, 2026

Halloween is coming. Cal Jumps Pumpkin Patch at Pedro Point. So far, this is the only one I have seen in Pacifica.

I took the photo on 07-October-2026.

PGE Power Outage -- October 9, 2026

Pacifica Patch

There is a power outage this afternoon in the north part of Pacifica. The group chat from the school says that power is out there. The expected time of resolution is 07:00pm. We'll see.

Margaret Hamilton RIP -- Otober 9, 2026

 

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Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton has died. My condolences to her family. She led the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory team which created the onboard software for NASA's Apollo program and later for the Hubbell Space Telescope.

She spent many years trying to get more women into software engineering. That is a subject that I feel strongly about.

The famous photo shows her with the listings of all the Apollo 11 software. When I started at Wells Fargo, we had to make a listing of each COBOL program that we created or updated. I very rarely looked at them.

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Halloween is Coming -- October 8, 2026

Halloween is coming. Halloween decorations in Pacifica. I took the photo on 07-October-2026.

Remember Their Names -- October 7, 2026

Linda Battle

The masked thugs of ICE continue to kill and injure people for no reason. This image goes back to July.

Paramount + Warner = Skydance?! -- October 6, 2026

ABC7 San Francisco

It looks as if Paramount has finally succeeded in taking over Warner Brothers. They have agreed to stay in California for some number of years and to spend some amount of money every year for a while. I worry about the Ellison family of oligarchs having control over so much of our media. They have already crippled CBS News. They seem to be working on Turner Classic Movies.

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Pigeon Point Lighthouse -- October 5, 2026

On 19-September-2026, we visited the Pigeon Point Lighthouse for the first time since the scaffolding was removed. The only buildings that were accessible were the restrooms, the shop and the fog signal building. 

The original first order Fresnel lens is on display in the fog signal building. It weighs one ton.