Althouse: At the S-Shaped Café...

January 25, 2015

At the S-Shaped Café...

... find your path.

25 comments:

Lava said...: Looks like a Larry Welo etching...wonderful; 1/25/15, 7:40 PM
pm317 said...: Does anybody know why Obama is in India? Is it because nobody else will have him? Is it because he does not have any work to do in DC and no golf courses open (OMG, the storm is coming, the storm is coming) and wants to pretend he is working? Is this how he will while away his last < two years? Let us play a game: guess the next country Obama will go touring, just because he has a lot of time on his hands.; 1/25/15, 7:42 PM
pm317 said...: Thank God, the tour of Taj Mahal is cancelled. Who would want to see those two in front of Taj Mahal, of all places, played for eternity by the lapdog media.; 1/25/15, 7:44 PM
pm317 said...: The ads on the side were recently all chubby women in dresses. I hate that. I am not chubby. I may be in a certain age bracket, but I am not chubby. So I see the x in the corner and click on it and there is a dialog -- you don't want the ad? no, what is wrong with it -- irrelevant, inappropriate, and one more choice I forget? I said irrelevant and the ad went away and they thanked me for my feedback... Now they are showing skinny ones.; 1/25/15, 7:55 PM
pm317 said...: You can 'opt-out' of interest-based google ads in the settings.; 1/25/15, 8:00 PM
pm317 said...: There is an easier way to get rid of those ads -- use the 'opt-out' setting for interest-based google ads in the settings.; 1/25/15, 8:03 PM
chickelit said...: At the risk of sounding all annal retentive, the photo says "sigmoid Freude."; 1/25/15, 8:11 PM
Jaq said...: Sorry you had to look at fat chicks, pm. May the rest of your day be better.; 1/25/15, 8:17 PM
MaxedOutMama said...: Robert Frost?; 1/25/15, 8:23 PM
MaxedOutMama said...: Speaking of paths, I spoke to four people I respect this weekend about Walker. They had all been watching him and had all decided to support a presidential run. This may be an indication.; 1/25/15, 8:24 PM
pm317 said...: tim-in-vermont, they are assuming I am a fat chick and it is none of their business. This business intelligence data mining thing has gone too far. If they offend someone with their ads, it is the opposite of what they want. But who are they, right?; 1/25/15, 8:28 PM
Jaq said...: Whatever pm. Since Google doesn't know me, I don't get offended by the ads I see. Whatever they are. For a week or so google was showing me "Find an Arab girl" ads. I think it was funny. I googled "mensuration" and saw ads for precision measuring equipment for a while. I see golf ads all the time that assume I am stupid enough to believe that "one simple trick" is "guaranteed" to add 4 mph to my swing speed or "70 usable yards" to my drive.

What got me going on your post was your comment that you hate ads with "chubby women" in them. But you go ahead and resent it that somebody who doesn't know you has guessed you might be "chubby" based on some algorithm that does not work nearly as well as advertised, thanks god.; 1/25/15, 8:37 PM
rhhardin said...: In my survey of romantic (comedy) DVDs, trying to avoid diseases, tears and weddings, so far my favorites are Sandra Bullock "The Proposal" and "Two Weeks Notice," Julia Roberts "Noting Hill," Anne Hathaway "Get Smart" and "Love and Other Drugs," all for amusing dialogue or tiny insight moments.

Avoid anything with screenplay by Nicholas Sparks, which is filled with anti-insights and always the death of at least the guy, like a clockwork plot device to bring out the true love of the grieving.

"The Proposal" takes a couple viewings to spot the two-word one-liners. Nice ending.

Its end is isomorphic to "Love and Other Drugs"'s; 1/25/15, 8:40 PM
rhhardin said...: "This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before," New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference Sunday.

I'm trying to place the likely source of this awful cliche.

Not Hamlet

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.; 1/25/15, 8:56 PM
chickelit said...: I'm trying to place the likely source of this awful cliche.

De Blosio reads Althouse and what people wrote about Churchill. He's projecting from there out.; 1/25/15, 9:15 PM
Big Mike said...: It wasn't just Byron York who said Walker is boring, it's the hard core left wing as well. I guess the Republican establishment and the left wing loonies plan to push that meme. It's a mistake -- as this past weekend showed.; 1/25/15, 9:39 PM
rhhardin said...: Central Ohio weather setback.; 1/25/15, 9:43 PM
pm317 said...: tim in vermont.. yeah I am a bit shallow that way..

Walker was weak (and mumbling) on Kelly file a few nights ago, not at all interesting.; 1/25/15, 10:14 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: It was my turn to pick the movie with friends, but I didn't feel like researching movies, so when I saw that "Foxcatcher" starred Steve Carell, Channing Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo, I picked that. Surely a light friend-pleaser on a light, friend-pleasing evening.

Knowing absolutely nothing about that movie aside from the cast is, I think, the most disorienting, fun way to watch it. I think it was very good, but I'm not sure because I spent the first half wondering what it was that I'd picked.

When it ended, we couldn't get on Wikipedia fast enough.; 1/25/15, 10:35 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: In my survey of romantic (comedy) DVDs

His Girl Friday; 1/25/15, 10:36 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: The only modern romantic comedy I can think of that I liked is "Silver Linings Playbook."; 1/25/15, 10:37 PM
Freeman Hunt said...: I keep getting ads for a credit card made of stainless steel. Why is the card made of steel? Why is that a feature? Wouldn't that be rough on my wallet that is made to hold plastic cards? Wouldn't that be rough on the other cards that are made of plastic?; 1/25/15, 10:39 PM
rhhardin said...: Carell was good in Get Smart, and also Dinner for Schmucks.

I ran down a lot of the Hathaway and Carell oeuvre looking for more of the same after Get Smart.; 1/26/15, 6:58 AM
Unknown said...: Bob Dylan interview

http://reason.com/blog/2015/01/23/bob-dylan-to-aarp-the-governments-not-go; 1/26/15, 3:59 PM
Jaq said...: I see they are using climate models to predict the weather. Doom Doom Doom! Never mind.; 1/27/15, 6:09 AM