Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Not all heroes wear capes.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Everybody saw this coming.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

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Today, pictures from valued commenter PAM Dirac.

Growing up in the D.C. area the summer getaway was to the MD/Delaware beaches. For some reason our crowd started out always going to Ocean City, MD and drifted farther north as we got older. We are now definite oldsters (my first SS check comes in Aug) and not only to we go to Rehoboth, but we go in October or November and avoid the more rowdy crowd.

Rehoboth Boardwalk

Rehoboth, DE

Boardwalks are boardwalks, but in the off season not only is it less crowded, but things are slower and calmer. A big plus is that dogs are allowed and everyone knows that life is better with dogs, especially when the population, like their owners, seems to be enriched with the calmer, slower varieties.

Rocket Launch

Rehoboth, DE

In 2016 our visit luckily coincided with a Antares launch from Wallops Island, which is about 60 miles down the coast. The hotel has a rooftop hot tub, which was a very civilized place to watch a launch, wine in hand. From this distance you don’t get the bone shaking rumble, but you get to see a very graceful arc across the sky.

Capy May-Lewes ferry

Lewes, DE

I don’t ever remember even considering taking the Cape May Ferry in the past, but last fall we did just that. The trip was fine, although I can see where this is something that would work much better in the warmer months. Cape May was a very pleasant day trip, with some nice wineries.

Wine at the beach

Rehoboth, DE

This is our idea of a great vacation: Dolles caramel corn, Black Ankle Passeggiata, and a balcony overlooking the beach.

 

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  2. 2.

    EveryDayIHaveTheBlues

    Nice nym! Paul Adrian Maurice Dirac, superb physicist, is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.

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    PAM Dirac

    @EveryDayIHaveTheBlues: I figured at least a few of the jackels would recognize the name. I have noticed a few have even admitted to training in the dark quantum arts. They probably have the secret password to Hilbert Space.

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    satby

    @PAM Dirac: lovey pictures, it looks very inviting. And it reminds me that I never made it to the beach at all last summer, so I need to carve out time this year. I sunburn, so I go in the evening close to sunset. A beach walk followed by watching the sunset is the best!

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    PAM Dirac

    @Bobby Thomson: Oh come on! Thrasher’s is for fries. And besides it insists on the apostrophe. I would accept Fisher’s into the caramel corn discussion, but that’s as far as I go.

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    arrieve

    I love beaches in the off season. I think it’s because I grew up in San Francisco and so some part of my brain thinks hot and sunny + beach is just wrong. Great pictures — made me want to go there.

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    schrodingers_cat

    @PAM Dirac: FWIW I always thought that the Dirac’s formulation of quantum mechanics was far more elegant than Schrodinger’s. Although Schrodinger’s formulation can be applied to many more systems.

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    PAM Dirac

    @schrodingers_cat: I agree. I still read his “Principles of Quantum Mechanics” just for the clarity of thinking. QM is often called counterintuitive, but it has always made more sense to me than classical mechanics.

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    Waratah

    My favorite time to travel and beaches are a big favorite. I love the glasses but I would have a bag of that fresh saltwater taffy on the table also, the only time I eat it.

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    tobie

    Thanks for the pictures. Maryland resident here–I was just telling a friend yesterday that I’ve never been to Rehoboth and would like to go there this spring. Your lovely photos are an extra push in this direction!

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    Another Scott

    @gbbalto I assume it’s one of Amazon’s pricing algorithms run amok. It’s not a first edition (1930) or anything (it’s a 1947 edition).

    Yeah, the Principals thing threw me for a loop, also too. I actually searched for “PAM Dirac Principles” and it didn’t show the paperback. After all these years, Amazon’s search still needs a lot of work.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

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    Himahamma

    My dad hails from slower lower de, and we’ve been going to Bethany forever. The area keeps growing but is still lovely. Thanks for sharing, rehoboth has such a great boardwalk.

  26. 26.

    Butch

    The traffic jam on the bridge kept me from visiting there often, but I got to know Rehoboth at least a little during the years I spent in DC.

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    EveryDayIHaveTheBlues

    @PAM Dirac: I read PAM Dirac’s biography (The Strangest Man, a biography of Paul Dirac – Graham Farmelo) a few years back, and he was a fairly troubled dude. Almost a tortured genius, one might say. Schrodinger was a cool polymath, who was often ostracized for his rather unconventional (for the time) views on marriage and sexual relations. But his greatness lay in applying fairly standard wave principles to QM.
    Surprisingly, in the Dirac biography, Heisenberg seemed the most “normal”. Too bad he went to work for the fucking Nazis.

    Re: Hilbert space, it’s an open-and-shut case…

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    Aleta

    @PAM Dirac: Through no talent of my own I feel a little connection to Dirac. He’d been the PHD supervisor of a physicist who came one semester to give a lecture class concurrently with our thermodynamics class. Arranged because he was friends with our professor. … Then at the end of the semester, that physicist brought one of his former students to give a public lecture, Steven Hawking. It was a very very big deal, both the lecture of course, and because of the cool physicists who’d come from bigger institutions to sit all around us grimy students in the audience. Though not intellectually worthy of the link myself, the chain of connection and the beautiful equations were a huge thrill.

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    HuCat

    Raised in northeastern Maryland, but had similar beach habits. Black Ankle vineyards must have a story to tell, or is it all in the name?

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    PAM Dirac

    @Aleta: It would have been awesome to meet him. My thesis research was all QM calculations, but then I moved in to biochemistry and drug discovery and lost touch with more basic physics. As I said before I like to read his writing just to get a taste of how differently he saw things.

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    PAM Dirac

    @HuCat: the name turns out to be fairly boring. The vineyard comes from a couple who made a fair bit of money in some sort of consulting. They wanted to open a winery and they spent a year or two looking for a property that would work for what they wanted to do. It ended up being on Black Ankle Rd and they just went with it. They do make very good wine. In fact there are a number of Maryland wineries these days that are making excellent wines and are attracting national attention. I think both Black Ankle and Old Westminster have been on some big name magazines top 100 wineries in America lists.

    ETA – Black Ankle is committed to be an estate only winery. All their wine comes from grapes grown on their proerty

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    PAM Dirac

    Thanks for all the comments folks. I have a few other off season trips that might be of interest. I really recommend avoiding the crowds. You feel like to can take the time to enjoy the place, watch sunrises and sunsets without any time or people pressures. Oh and if you go to Rehoboth, my wife and I have very much enjoyed our stays at the Boardwalk Plaza.

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    HuCat

    @PAM Dirac: Thanks for the info on Black Ankle and Maryland Wineries. My brother set stakes for some between Montgomery County and Frederick County (Lime Kiln Rd?).

    I cannot remember the names of places I stayed in Rehobeth, only that I preferred it to Ocean City (MD). Camped with some of my relatives over the years near Snow Hill, and Pocomoke ~ to be closer to the beaches. Aloha.

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