Althouse: At the Garden Walk Café...

April 21, 2015

At the Garden Walk Café...

... you can go down any path that suits your whim.

34 comments:

Curious George said...: Just when I was getting used to spring...snow today in Waukesha.; 4/21/15, 12:46 PM
Jaq said...: When does spring come here this year, I would like to know.

The grass is just starting to show a little green and the crocuses are blooming, but not much more.

Last time we had an early warm spring, my apple tree blossomed then it got hit by a hard frost late. I haven't gotten a decent crop of apples since.; 4/21/15, 1:00 PM
Hagar said...: Did Bobby Jindal campaign on the theme that it was time Louisiana elected an Indian governor?; 4/21/15, 1:02 PM
Jaq said...: One factor often overlooked is the effect of winter temperatures. Extremes in temperatures during December, January, February and March can also damage the flowers. In areas where the winter temperature consistently goes below -15 degrees F will not support consistent fruit production.

Aha! It's global warming's fault for those many -20 days the previous winter!; 4/21/15, 1:11 PM
MadisonMan said...: Aha! It's global warming's fault for those many -20 days the previous winter!

Madison was colder than -20 18 times in the 1960s, 16 times in the 1970s, 14 times in the 1980s, 11 times in the 1990s, and on Christmas Day 2000. No times since.

There were a couple of days in early 2014 when Madison dropped to -19...thought we might get to -20, but didn't.; 4/21/15, 1:48 PM
Jaq said...: Well, it was certainly warmer in the US in the thirties, if you are going to cite local weather.; 4/21/15, 1:51 PM
Coconuss Network said...: Japanese Cherry Tree has blossoms today, Her Majesty, Queen Elisabeth II's birthday, 89.; 4/21/15, 1:52 PM
MadisonMan said...: (So you need to plant your fruit trees in Madison, not in Vermont).; 4/21/15, 1:53 PM
Jaq said...: Not to mention, that as a city grows, it creates a heat signature of its own, local warming.

For instance Burlington Vermont has gotten warmer over the past couple decades, while Plattsburgh, NY, just across the lake, has not. Plattsburgh had an Air Force base close and has shrunk, while Burlington has grown.; 4/21/15, 1:54 PM
MadisonMan said...: Madison was below -20 8 times in the 1930s.; 4/21/15, 1:54 PM
Jaq said...: I am sure there was an equal population, and equal number of houses, an equal area of rooftops on such things and malls, grass areas and trees are all equal, etc, all of those things, I am sure are equal over the years, and so a local temperature in that city has global implications.; 4/21/15, 2:22 PM
Etienne said...: I went to the doctor last week because my arm hurt.

He said to drop-off a urine sample on the way to work, and he'd have the answer by noon. Urine sample?? WTF! I'll show him.

So I had my wife pee in the jar first. Then I had my daughter pee in the jar. Then to really confuse him, I had the dog pee in the jar.

After I added my own urine in the morning, I dropped it off.

I called around noon, and the nurse said he was having some difficulty, and to call again about 4pm. Ha! What fun!

I called him, and he he said it was pretty serious! I bet, I played on...

Yes, as near as I can tell, your dog has rabies, your wife has syphilis, and your daughter is three months pregnant.

What!!

Finally, if you don't stop masturbating, you're going to get a sore arm.; 4/21/15, 2:44 PM
MadisonMan said...: Madison's official temperature site moved in the early 1950s/late 1940s, from North Hall on Campus, to the airport. That had a huge impact. Madison's all-time record low, -37, occurred when the official record was at the airport, the much colder airport; The same morning at North Hall, the low was -28. (Highs were about the same).

So the actual number of -20s during the 1930s, at the airport, was probably closer to 12 or 15. But the official record has just 8. (There were 4 days with lows at -18 or -19 -- almost certainly -20 at the airport).

File under: More than you wanted to know. :); 4/21/15, 3:02 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Would a safe and legal slavery trade save thousands of people from certain death?; 4/21/15, 4:15 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Shelve that one under tweets I'm too chicken to post.; 4/21/15, 4:16 PM
retired said...: What happened to the super crazy angry african american commenter on this site?

Been a while and I can't remember his name. Garage is a faint echo of his angst.; 4/21/15, 4:50 PM
rhhardin said...: The horse raced past the barn fell.; 4/21/15, 5:40 PM
Hammond X. Gritzkofe said...: Still thinking about that Teacher Unions and Testing thread.

Yeah, how ya' gonna see if there is any improvement or disprovement goin' on if ya' don't got no metrics?

Then a link at Drudge to a school district in Indiana running a field trip to local colleges - black students only, whites not invited.

Yeah, how ya gonna see if them race relations is improving or disproving if ya' don't first get everone classed up into their proper race?; 4/21/15, 5:43 PM
Marc in Eugene said...: Why has Pierre Boulez made so many versions of his explosante-fixe? This, and reading about 'trench boxes', has consumed far too much of the day's free time.

Well, also have been thinking about how and what to think about a piece of music the composer (not PB) of which, describing it, begins his first sentence by asking that we accept as true something self-evidently not true. That is the modern and contemporary world, of course, in a nutshell; people are ordinarily too sophisticated to express themselves so plainly, however, so perhaps I am the one missing something there. It is a bit worrisome.; 4/21/15, 6:23 PM
Hagar said...: I heard Josh Earnest state that the United States hopes to assist with a peaceful transition of power in Yemen, or something like that.
Now, what could that mean?

And the carrier task force off Aden - is it there to oppose or protect the Iranian fleet underway to "protect commerce in the Gulf of Aden?"; 4/21/15, 6:29 PM
retired said...: It was Crack Emcee; 4/21/15, 6:52 PM
steve uhr said...: Packer 2015 schedule highlights:

Seattle AT GB in week 2.

Chicago at GB Thanksgiving night -- Favre's jersey will be retired.; 4/21/15, 7:29 PM
David said...: Coyotes seen in suburban New Jersey. Police urge parents to keep children indoors.; 4/21/15, 8:02 PM
Phil 314 said...: “You gave me hyacinths first a year ago;
They called me the hyacinth girl.”
—Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden,
Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not speak, and my eyes failed,
I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.; 4/21/15, 8:04 PM
SteveR said...: I think Judge Kluka needs an investigation to rubber stamp. Garage is running out of misinformation.; 4/21/15, 8:12 PM
cf said...: I cannot write here what I really think.; 4/21/15, 9:07 PM
SJ said...: @Hammond,

teachers like tests that show their students to be doing well.

Teachers don't like tests which are coupled with mandates that require lots of meetings, paperwork, new processes, new overseers, new structures, and new methods if the students don't improve enough.

Mix in the varying levels of funding from Federal/State/Local governments, each with strings attached that mandate tests and certain kinds of results...

And you may learn why teachers don't like testing.

Not that testing is a bad thing, but that testing can be used in ways that teachers think are bad.; 4/21/15, 9:13 PM
madAsHell said...: The head of the DEA is resigning....cuz her agents couldn't keep their pants zipped.

What is it with these people? Can't they keep the fucking at home?; 4/21/15, 9:35 PM
Static Ping said...: Lots of Things: Good
Government Run Lots of Things: Ugh
Government Union Run Lots of Things: Ugh

Testing is more or less the immovable wall of crap meeting the unstoppable force of feces. Somebody please flush.; 4/21/15, 9:38 PM
madAsHell said...: And the carrier task force off Aden - is it there to oppose or protect the Iranian fleet underway to "protect commerce in the Gulf of Aden?"

Our community organizer is putting men in harms way. Captains, and Admirals will protect their men before they consider 0bama's legacy.; 4/21/15, 9:39 PM
1775OGG said...: Ah, the Garden! Perhaps Spring is arriving soon, contrary to weather reports of impending doom and destruction of our climate. Still, pictures of this garden might be sufficient to make one hold out for the real such event.; 4/21/15, 11:20 PM
rcommal said...: Nature, nature.; 4/22/15, 12:26 AM
Rusty said...: This weather is going to set mushroom hunting back a couple of weeks.; 4/22/15, 6:06 AM
Hagar said...: I suspect it is more theater.
The task force certainly will keep the Saudis from getting froggy and hitting the Iranian fleet.; 4/22/15, 7:20 AM