California’s Great America amusement park is shutting down. The current owner, Cedar Fair, sold the 112-acre site for $310 million US to Prologis, a real estate developer. The park will continue to operate for the next six to 11 years. I’m sad that Great America will be shutting down since it was a part of my childhood and young adulthood. I’m also excited by what this prime piece of Silicon Valley real estate will become in the future.
Read more “Great America Is Shutting Down”AVOID National Doughnut Day!
Today is National Doughnut Day. Depending on the doughnut shop, you may get a free doughnut. If you’re overweight like me, you avoid doughnut shops like the coronavirus. Here are four doughnut shops from bland to pure evil you should avoid today.
Read more “AVOID National Doughnut Day!”My “Hair-Raising” Personal Experience With The Pandemic
Philip DeFranco called for videos about personal experiences with the pandemic. The timing was great since I wanted to make a pandemic-related video. I can also put his picture on the thumbnail to get more clicks. Here’s my “hair raising” personal experience with the pandemic.
Read more “My “Hair-Raising” Personal Experience With The Pandemic”The BIZARRE Story Behind The Home Depot Fire
The Home Depot store on Blossom Hill Road in San Jose, CA, burned down to the ground two weeks ago. One of the largest Silicon Valley fires in recent memory. I told friends at the time that someone probably tossed a lit cigarette in the lumber department. Authorities announced an arrest and revealed the bizarre story behind the fire this week. It wasn’t a lit cigarette.
Read more “The BIZARRE Story Behind The Home Depot Fire”TOP 5 HOSPITAL SMELLS for PC Techs
If you got an I.T. support job at a local hospital, expect to encounter a wide range of smells. That’s right—smells. Here are my top five hospital smells from uncommon to common.
Read more “TOP 5 HOSPITAL SMELLS for PC Techs”The Worse Hospital Smell for A PC Tech #SHORTS
One of the worse smells that I’ve ever dealt with while working at a local hospital was replacing a PC inside a maternity room. The nurse told me the room was ready. It wasn’t. I walked inside and it smelled like a slaughterhouse. It was that bad.
A Pandemic of Nightly Fireworks
The battle for my Silicon Valley neighborhood began at 9:00 PM every night. A steady round of pop-pop-pop, several loud booms, and missiles exploding in brilliant displays of light. An occasional ka-BOOM rattled the windows, setting off car alarms and dogs in equal measure.
Was it the police firing rubber bullets and gas canisters at Black Lives Matter protesters hurling Molotov cocktails in the streets?
Oh, hell no.
The nightly fireworks show of firecrackers, cherry bombs, and bottle rockets started on Memorial Day and kept going until Fourth last year. Each show lasted 15 minutes in case someone did call the police and a patrol car showed up 20 minutes later. The shadowy people who lit the fireworks slipped back into the night. The pungent smoke in the air and the spent fireworks in the gutters were the only evidence that any illegal activity took place.
Not in my neighborhood, but in everyone’s neighborhood.
Scrolling through the #fireworks tweets on Twitter in the days leading up to July 4, 2020, nightly firework shows were a regular complaint for many neighborhoods throughout the United States. Three different groups may have been responsible for the pandemic of nightly fireworks.
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San Jose City Hall Waterfall #SHORTS
A short clip of the San Jose City Hall waterfall with the tinkling of water that went from calm to busy to calm in this time-lapsed video. Check out the original video.
Does Your Home Need A Verified Blue Checkmark?
Are you an authentic influencer, public figure, or brand in the San Francisco Bay Area? A new service rolled out to add a “verified badge crest”—a Twitter-style blue checkmark—to the outside of your home. It’s called Blue Check Homes. I’ll walk you through the process of getting your own home verified.
Read more “Does Your Home Need A Verified Blue Checkmark?”Pacific Retail Eastridge Mall Reopens Indoor Stores
On Monday, August 31, 2020, the State of California updated its coronavirus guidelines to reopen indoor retail stores at 25% capacity. I did a walk-around at Pacific Retail Eastridge Mall in Silicon Valley on Sunday, 9/20/2020. Most stores were opened. None were really busy. This is the third video in this playlist.