“It’s a favorite dumpster raiding spot. People out wandering, it’s something you get used to. It’s not that I want to choose that lifestyle, but it’s not that I don’t want it around me either.”
June 24, 1993
News & Stories
Heart Break Hotel: The Uphill Battle to Salvage Cortez Hill
Non-use makes bike tires go flat
Dear Matthew Alice: My bicycle's tires go flat if I don't ride my bike for a couple of months. Would they go flat just as fast if I rode my bike regularly during that period? …
June 24, 1993
H. Ross Perot's first name
Dear Matthew Alice: What is Ross Perot's real first name, and why has this information been so carefully suppressed in the media? — Curious, Clairemont If you promise this will stay just between the two …
June 24, 1993
Animals that aestivate: frogs, toads, salamanders, and lots of high school and college students
Mr. Matthew Alice: Hibernation: to pass the winter in a torpid or resting state. Aestivation: to pass the summer in a torpid or resting state. Question: What creatures aestivate? Thank you. — George H. Roberts, …
June 24, 1993
Dog smiles — what they mean
Matt: When my dog smiles, is he really smiling? He is practically human. He looks like he’s smiling, but I don’t know.... Do you? — Bob G., El Cajon That sort of grimace, when Bowser’s …
June 24, 1993
Amazing baseboard stories from San Diego County's highest paid carpenter
The monster jobs broke almost immediately. After brushing up on a few knockouts, it was off to Lawrence Welk’s for an 80-unit. Then a two-lift monster in Oceanside, then a three-lift monster in Corona,
June 24, 1993