Althouse: At the Sidewalk Café...

July 31, 2015

At the Sidewalk Café...

... you can find the light.

10 comments:

Original Mike said...: "... you can find the light."

Don't go to the light!; 7/31/15, 9:20 PM
Guildofcannonballs said...: "A sidewalk (American English) – known as a footpath, footway or pavement in Australian, New Zealand, Irish English, and British English – is a path along the side of a road. A sidewalk may accommodate moderate changes in grade (height) and is normally separated from the vehicular section by a curb. There may also be a road verge (a strip of vegetation, grass or bushes or trees or a combination of these, referred to as either a verge or a nature strip in Australia, and as an island in parts of the United States) either between the sidewalk and the roadway (British English: carriageway) or between the sidewalk and the boundary.

In some places, the same term may also be used for a paved path, trail or footpath that is not next to a road, for example, a path through a park."

Oooh better charge a few score to legalese (justify power for power's sake)!; 7/31/15, 9:43 PM
Bay Area Guy said...: Road trip next week - with wife and 2 kids. Driving south - first stop Santa Barbara. Ever been there? One of the prettiest cities on the planet. The Mission, the Beach, the famous courthouse , Reagan's old ranch up there, then on to LA for friends and family.; 7/31/15, 10:24 PM
Quaestor said...: Greetings from my new dual-booting Mac Pro - OS X Yosemite on one SSD, Windows 10 Enterprise on another. I've managed to fully disable SecureBoot, which Windows uses to prevent any other bootloader from operating other than its own. My Mac now boots either operating system with so far perfect alacrity and harmony. At this early stage my machine is now one of only a handful so capable in the world. The Mac-side even has fully read/write access to the Windows drive.

I've accomplished this miracle by hacking the GPT signatures to make the Windows bootloader operate in legacy mode, as if installed on a computer without UEFI firmware control. Microsoft's haughty exclusivity has been thoroughly ravaged! Windows, you are in me clutches, muahahaha!; 7/31/15, 10:28 PM
Big Mike said...: @Bay Area Guy, on your way down from the Bay Area you might stop for a couple hours at the Hearst Castle. It's what God would build if only He had enough money. (Or perhaps you've been there already?)

The restaurants on Stearn's Wharf are very good. Not gourmet, but very good. Just watch out for this sort of thing.

Whale watching from Santa Barbara is great! Depending on time of year you can see pods of large whales (Greys, Blues, Humpbacks) without going very far out to sea because they tend to route themselves through the channel between the mainland and the offshore islands. The Condor Express is our choice. This time of year you might see a Blue, which is quite something.; 8/1/15, 7:51 AM
pm317 said...: Beautiful picture!

Almost impressionistic in its detail and granularity, (ok, don't laugh, I tried).; 8/1/15, 9:11 AM
pm317 said...: Flowers look like Phlox. I like Phlox. They are the most reliable and abundant, even fragrant flowering plants in a garden. Being deer-resistant is a bonus.; 8/1/15, 9:13 AM
rhhardin said...: Tim Blair (podcast) is amusing on the lion.; 8/1/15, 9:40 AM
Bay Area Guy said...: @Big Mike

Thanks for the tip re whale watching. Sounds good. How do they swim thru all those nefarious oil rigs in the ocean? Yes, we are planning to hit Hearst Castle on the way home. I think Julia Morgan built it for 100 Grand back then, which today in Berkeley would buy you a nice outhouse:); 8/1/15, 10:22 AM
Big Mike said...: @Bay Area Guy, I haven't been to Santa Barbara in 7 years, and back then there was only one rig, well inshore. Just west of Santa Barbara, where the coast stops running east-west and resumes tending in a northwesternly direction, is Coal Oil Point. Here the water has a thin, near-permanent slick due to natural seepage. The oil is that close to the sea bed.; 8/1/15, 10:47 AM