Danny Baza Blas

March 28, 2019 at KUSI studios in San Diego, California  Take a look at the video from my appearance on KUSI San Diego 

pho tai nam - beef noodle soup with rare steak In the latest episode of the Pho Que Podcast , our reporter Dante Gucci visits Pho Hoa restaurant in City Heights, San Diego to review a bowl of pho and Vietnamese ice coffee. Inside Pho Hoa restaurant City Heights, San Diego

What our community looks like. 

Three feet between a vehicle and a bicyclist is the rule of thumb.  In this video, you will see a driver of a SUV passing without giving me the proper clearance of 3 feet. Many bad things can come from this.

Friday was the Spring Fling party at school.  SCPA Academic League team was involved with a game called petal pong.  There were cultural foods, performancs and dancing. 

I think drumsticks are my favorite part of the chicken to prepare these days. These were lime/chili-pepper blackened/grilled drumsticks which were prepared on Christmas Eve in a Big Green Egg barbecue grill. 

Honors U.S. History class (4th period) began a project this week called the World War II Letters Project. Sometime last summer I acquired a box of WW2-era letters written by Levi Kinsel to Rose Kinsel, both San Diegans. The letters were dated 1938-1946. In addition to the letters, the wooden box is filled with pictures and other important documents, including a bible and military discharge papers. Our class goal is to develop a personality profile of Mr. Levi Kinsel, based upon the written evidence in the letters he had written to his wife Mrs. Rose Kinsel, and to setup an online database of the correspondences with images and mood analysis. The letters are sometimes challenging to decipher for a few reasons. One reason is they are written in cursive, and many of the students are unfamiliar with that writing style. In addition to the colloquial words and phrases, these letters are quite fragile and many are written with pencil, which tends to fade over time. We are u...

Today is the last day of coring operations for this cruise! It's a significant day because three weeks of science have come to an end. Now we're cleaning up the ship and compartments, and preparing to disembark in a few days. This morning many of us on-board saw land for the first time in three weeks. Barrow was in sight on the starboard side, and what a great feeling it was to see good ole land. During this cruise, the Coast Guard team, or "Coasties" as they are known affectionately, were highly professional and extraordinarily helpful to all of us on the science team. One of the cooler happenings is to discover individuals with exceptional talent on-board. One such exceptional persons on-board Healy is Command Master Chief Sullivan, who's official work is to be the "liaison between the ship's enlisted crewmembers and the command." Master Chief Sullivan is an outstanding photographer, who also owns impeccable knowledge of the U.S. Coast G...

A ship's morale is often times based on food quality Current ship status : latitude: 71.40N; longitude: 150.54W; temp: 32F; speed: 4.7k; winds: 32k; water depth: 1450m Yesterday (Day 18) was Labor Day on the ship, meaning the science team and Healy crew labored all day, dropping our coring instruments into the Arctic Ocean from morning to dusk. Today we are experiencing rough seas again, and because of the sea situation, our science--meaning coring--is taking a brief pause. Teacher On-Board Today is the first day of school in San Diego Unified School District . Steve Walters (Mission Bay High School, San Diego) will have a brief respite from coring operations today due to rough seas . Yesterday, Steve's Labor Day did not include barbecue or relaxation; coring was the order for Steve's day. Danny Blas (Lincoln High School, San Diego) did not write a blog post yesterday in observation of Labor Day; however, did conduct video interviews with the entire Healy Fo...