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One of the least accessible places in San Diego
I've always thought to myself that there are several places in the city of San Diego that are extremely inaccessible in case of emergency. One of those would be Cowles (pronounced Coles) Mountain. Why is it so inaccessible? There are 2 ways to get to it on the ground; the first is up the winding narrow trail that won't support a vehicle and the second is a fire road up the back. My theory was proven correct yesterday as Copter 1 had to rescue a hiker off the mountain. The only other option was to have rescuers hike up the mountain and carry the injured person down on a backboard which would definitely not be a fun task. (Parts of Mission Trails Regional Park and some beach areas are also very inaccessible in emergencies.)
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Fire truck on fire
Yesterday's news showed a fire truck that caught on fire. That really was a bummer to see a $350,000 emergency vehicle up in flames. To top it off, I saw a big 39 on the side...that's the fire engine that serves my neighborhood. I hope that it gets replaced soon. (This is the second fire truck that has caught fire in the last few days.)
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Did you spill some perfume?
Lately I've noticed that when there are lots of treadmills open at the gym, someone is bound to get on the one next to me. Normally this isn't a huge issue, but the last few times I've been at the gym, women who dipped themselves in perfume have decided to stand next to me. It could be my stunning good looks that made them stand next to me, but I doubt it. So, today after about 10 minutes of having to inhale perfume, I stopped the treadmill, made a mental note of my progress, got off, and moved down about 6 treadmills (only 4 of about 12 treadmills were in use). The old lady wearing the perfume kept looking at me funny kind of questioning why I moved. Uggh; at the last gym I went to, there were signs up telling people not to wear perfume or cologne as a courtesy to other users. I guess people just aren't courteous.
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Sample code is great (when it works)
I think that it's great that companies like Apple put out sample code to help developers write code without having to resort to figuring it out themselves or doing something in a way that will break. Several years ago I wanted to add my application (NotifyMail) to the login items/startup items for a user under OS X when OS X was new. There was no documented way to do this, but a DTS engineer at Apple posted on a mailing list that if people wanted code, to send him email. So I sent him email and have been using the code ever since in a bunch of projects. It had a major limitation in that if System Preferences was open and you used the code to modify login items, the user wouldn't see the change which could be confusing. I had added an awkwardly worded alert indicating this and no one complained.