Not much blogging from me from now until August 5. I’ll be doing some work-related stuff in the San Francisco area. I’ll have a couple people filling in for me while I’m gone.
Also too, open thread.
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Not much blogging from me from now until August 5. I’ll be doing some work-related stuff in the San Francisco area. I’ll have a couple people filling in for me while I’m gone.
Also too, open thread.
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Gin & Tonic
One of the best food cities in the US. I envy you.
burnspbesq
Flowers in your hair?
redshirt
Sounds liberal and progressive.
DonR9
If you’re coming down to the Carmel area, give a shout. I’ll buy you a drink: coffee, tea, beer, whatever. The least I can do for a great blog that I read daily
Valdivia
have a productive couple of weeks DougJ. Your perfectly matched musical titles will be missed :)
PZ
No SF meet-up?
DougJ
@DonR9:
Thanks! Don’t think I’ll be able to make it down there but I appreciate the offer.
DougJ
@PZ:
Might try to do one, yes!
Alexandra
Safe travels to that decadent leftist enclave on the coast. :)
BigD
DougJ, you should have at least three (3) people fill in for you in your absence. Your large pair of shoes to fill needs many toes.
Violet
Have a great time, you commie pinko soshulist.
Mnemosyne
Make sure you bring a jacket. We had a conference call with a company in SF today and they said they were wearing their winter coats every morning because it’s been in the low 50s.
Mark Twain didn’t lie, even though he apparently never said it.
Mark S.
Joshua Green speculating on Tax Return-gate:
Green’s theory is that since some McCain flack said there was nothing wrong with Mitt’s returns in 2008 when they examined them, this is all based on his 2009 return.
I don’t buy it. While it might be a bit embarrassing that he didn’t pay any taxes one year, Mitt could just say he lost a bundle in 2008 and then show all the years that he did pay taxes. It’s a lot better than petulantly refusing to release any of his returns.
There’s something a lot worse in there.
Wazmo
Where’s Cole?
Wazmo
Where’s Cole?
Lojasmo
Go run/hike some of the back trails in Muir woods. Lovely (the BACK trails)
Mark S.
@Mnemosyne:
Aw man, Twain never said that? I love that quote.
He also didn’t come up with “lies, damn lies, and statistics.” Next I’ll find out he didn’t actually write Huckleberry Finn.
ETA: BJ is creaky tonight. Are the hamsters on strike?
Alison
Yeah, I’m in the north BA but it’s been on the cool side all around the bay lately. Of course, that could change tomorrow and it could be back in the 90s. Our weather is flighty :)
catclub
@Mark S.: What about the one about “it is not hot enough to melt a brass doorknob, but is hot enough to make it soft”?
I think that was about either Calcutta or Bombay.
NotMax
Aww, jeez. Look what crawled out of the woodwork to sum up his presidency in a tight little package of sophomoric ego.
Mike in NC
Stationed at Mare Island in 1981. Last visit to SF was 2001. Wish I’d never left, I loved it so much.
S. cerevisiae
Me and my lovely wife will be rockin’ out here all weekend.
Camper is packed and the coolers are full – time to ROCK!!
+ 4
Hypatia's Momma
How about a Bongwater cover of Everybody’s Talking?
NotMax
BJ in San Francisco: Secret business in Pelosi Town.
Just anticipating the nutball conspiracists.
:)
Cain
OK guys, tell me that this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3cvAjIdEy0
Isn’t just totally ripe for a political attack ad against Mitt.. Just keep repeating that reaction from Mitt for any question on the ad.
It would be fucking hilarious. And that laugh.. do a little sound magic and OMG it would be awesome.
shortstop
Report back on currently hot Asian restaurants. Heading there and to Yosemite (yay!) shortly.
shortstop
@NotMax: You have been killin’ it for days.
Cain
WTF Dougj, how come no meetup in Portland? Are we too good for you?
satanicpanic
@shortstop: Yosemite is awesome, I love that park.
shortstop
@satanicpanic: We are addicted to national parks and hiking…it is ridiculous that we haven’t been there yet. BG was making fun of me for planning it way ahead, but I’m glad we did, because we snagged places to stay in the park.
Wazmo
Speaking of national parks, I snapped some pickies of a Moose at Rocky Mountain over the weekend. Surprised my friend (who I was out visting)
satanicpanic
@shortstop: I’ve heard it books out in under ten minutes the day they start taking reservations. We stayed at a state campground when we went there. There are some just on the eastern edge of the park which tend to be available. Super beautiful, especially Tuolumne Meadows. If you ever have a chance, the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada is great hiking as well.
NotMax
@shortstop
Thanks. Perhaps you might like this as well (really should change my cybernym here to my usual one from there but after 10 years of daily blogging passed by in ’09, have kept up my own space only sporadically).
shortstop
@satanicpanic: You can usually get something at a late date at Curry Village in the valley. It’s crowded, loud and unprivate, but so what, we say. We booked too late to make White Wolf or Tuolumne, but we’ll still run up to Tioga Pass Road for day hikes. The third baseman refuses to camp in bear country because it’s such a pain, and anyway we’re flying out with just our packs. I know we will have a ball, and we can go deeper next time.
@NotMax: Hey, thanks. I’ll check it out.
satanicpanic
@shortstop: You’re gonna have a great time. Despite being born and raised in CA I put off going until just a few years ago thinking it would be overrated, but it’s not. Have fun!
shortstop
@satanicpanic: Thank you! I surely welcome any suggestions for hikes. shortstopbats1000 at gmail dot com if we’re hogging the thread. (Yeah, the “batting 1000” is meant to be ironic.)
satanicpanic
@shortstop: I wish I had some but I don’t know that area too well, I mostly stay southern CA. I have done some backpack trips up that way, but it’s been a loooong time. Becoming a parent really changed the way I experience the outdoors.
James K. Polk, Esq.
While in the Bay area, not to be missed…
http://www.yelp.com/biz/viks-chaat-berkeley
Get Masala Dosa, then die happy.
Origuy
@shortstop:
NPS has been closing parts of Curry Village due to rockfalls. There will still be sites available due to cancellations, but not as many as in past years.
Cain
@James K. Polk, Esq.:
Hah, I had that for dinner at home. Although we didn’t make the stuffing. Just plain with sambar. Yum.
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
doug j, i’ve probably never told you this before, which is how you know i really mean it, you are the puss that drains from the open axe wound that is balloon juice.
burnspbesq
@Mark S.:
There are several items on the 2010 return that indicate that Romney may not have paid very much tax in 2009. There is a capital loss carryover, a foreign tax credit carryover, and a state income tax refund in included in income.
Zero? Doesn’t seem likely.
decitect
Slanted Door is a popular spot in the Ferry Building with a nice spin on Vietnamese food. But, there’s a ton of Vietnamese restaurants in/around Tenderloin to save pennies for more booze…
BerkeleyMom
Bring your fleece. We’re freezing our asses off here the last few days. If you have time: Tartine Bakery (for tres leche cake, a lemon cream tart or a chocolate croissant), Delfina Pizza, Bi-Rite Market (and their ice cream store across the street), In-n-Out Burger, the Ferry Building, some Acme Bread, Yank Sing for dim sum, and I haven’t even started on Berkeley!!
Herbal Infusion Bagger
Jesus. Bi-Rite. For those who think Whole Foods’ prices are too reasonable.*
Better ice cream is at Mitchell’s on 29th and San Jose, anyway.
* Another reason to dislike Bi-Rite is that the owner has been pushing for a charter Spanish immersion school. Never mind there are nine successful public elementary schools with Spanish immersion in SF and there wasn’t any support from the Hispanic community for a charter school. The reason for Bi-Rite pushing a charter school is that while a lot of granola-munchers like the idea of their kid learning a new language, they’re less keen on their kids going to a school where the demographics are very much ethnic minorities and poor kids. Which is what most of the immersion schools are like, demographically.
shortstop
@James K. Polk, Esq.: Damn, that looks wonderful. Thanks!
Amanda in the South Bay
@Herbal Infusion Bagger:
Thanks for the heads up. I don’t eat a lot of ice cream, but is another reason for avoiding the place (its usually pretty crowded, from what I can tell).
divF
Hope you’ll come to Berkeley – the Cheese Board (I’ve had Parisian food snobs walk in there and stare in slack-jawed awe, and that’s *before* they get to the baked goods), and the first Peet’s store at the corner of Walnut and Vine (where you will find me in the back room 6:30 – 8AM daily reading BJ, as I’m doing right now).
It’s particularly nice to be here after a two-day trip to DC (my hometown), where it was in the high 90’s / low 100’s. Now I’m in 55 degree weather with a deep marine layer.
DougJ
@divF:
I will definitely visit those.
James K. Polk, Esq.
@DougJ:
Careful, the Cheeseboard Coop (run by commies) gives themselves random days/weeks off during the summer. Make sure they are open before making the trek (totally worth it).