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Charger and Jets

The NFL playoffs come to San Diego today. It's a great day for football in the Southland.
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How Can You Tell The Difference Between a Mayan and a Trojan?

The Mayan thinks it'll be another two years before the world comes to an end.

(The Mayan is wrong)

Tuesday Travel Photo (No. 264)

This is the famous San Francisco landmark, the St. Francis Hotel, where we shared a brief getaway last month with the USC family. The hotel was completed just two years before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The Crocker family built the hotel as part of their grand scheme to turn San Francisco into the "Paris of the West," and this hotel, built at Union Square, was their flagship. The two towers on the left were part of the the original building. After the earthquake, the interior of the hotel was burned, and almost every other building along Union Square was destroyed. Two years later, the tower on the right was built. The structure behind the brightly lit front is a much more modern wing - with really cool exterior elevators that afford guests an awesome view of the city. This picture was taken from across Union Square (named because it was a place where pro-union rallies were held), during the Christmas season, when the monument topped by a bronze goddess of victory, commemorating American Navy's victory at the battle of Manila Bay in the Spanish American War, is joined by a Christmas tree and an outdoor ice skating rink.

Immediately after taking this photograph, I resumed ice skating.