I like to watch things on TV

[cyrano]

So yesterday was spending hours in the library researching and then doing the thing stupid people do where you start to read, then you read more, then you search for more, the whole time inside you is the rising thought "Holy God how can I ever know enough to write authoritatively on this subject? I need to check out all 2454524345234 of these books and read them all and then memorize them and then *maybe* I could write this without looking stupid screw it that's way too much work I'm just going to go home and watch television."

So today is a no research day. So far I've spent about two hours fiddling with my music collection--editing mp3 tags so they say 'Lemvo, Ricardo' rather than 'Ricardo Lemvo' and moving files from the 'Various Artists' folder into their actual artists' folders.

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[sararainmaker.livejournal.com]

San Francisco, eh? hmm. That was about the time of the great earthquake wasn't it? or was that 1906? I can never remember anymore. History has always been an interest of mine, but I generally go back more into the middle ages. :)

An idea for you: For the electricity thing, the government kept very good records on things like that, it may be an idea to head down to (or better yet, call) the hall of records or something like that and see if perhaps that is a question that could be answered better there than in the library. :)

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

The great SF quake was in 1906. And yes, the city would have had electricity by the 1920s, especially in the more posh areas.