Very important question: are you guys pronouncing “root” as rhyming with “foot” or “boot”? I figure it matters if it is a proper name.

Oh hey, Chicano Park got the thing! Nice, nice.

AKA fucking over the tourism industry for something exactly none of the tourists care about. Also fucking over downtown, which would be a ridiculous place for a football stadium even if there wasn’t Mission Valley right there.

The King in Yellow.

Goodbye, Chargers and Spanos! Never forget that you could’ve built a perfectly good stadium in Mission Valley if you weren’t such a dick about it. Oh well, it opens up some prime real estate.

Engraved tablets, that’s what you need if you want it to really last.

Bulk canned tomatoes are pretty awesome, though. Off-season tomatoes taste like stale water. Crunchy stale water.

I like the Uni-ball Vision!

I taught myself TeX so I wouldn’t even have to take handwritten notes in chemistry. There are yet places where handwriting/sketching is more practical (o-chem was, alas!, beyond even TeX), and I will rejoice as each of them falls to superior technology.

Presumably stay Asian, which is a doubly (triply?) weird thing to say since they don’t.

Once, I was at Islands (burger-ish restaurant chain) and the ski videos thing they had playing got a good bit into a segment about orthopedic surgery (including cut-open person bits!) before someone noticed and changed the channel.

Longwinded update on a comment from like forever ago by a rando that you can totally ignore if you want because I just want to kvetch into slightly less than the void:

Dammit this was a stupid comment and I can’t fix the sentences right without doing the whole thing over. I give up! I was just trying to say that there have been a lot of drug tunnels. Here, article: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/border-baja-california/sdut-border-tunnels-2013oct31-htmlstory.html

The chunks of fence that exist are already bad for that. There are only so many water sources in the desert and animals frequently have to travel some distance.

Never! Someone do Sabriel next!

(pssst, 1976, you still have an edit window)

Aw, it goes into some zygote stuff but doesn’t mention the twin thing. Sidetracking into whether persons are divisible might be unproductive, but it is interesting! Monozygotic twins: sinister half-people y/n? Chimeras: should they get to vote twice?

y did you not say purrfect

Ah, but to be properly Angeleno about it, they’d have to call them the “Santa Monica” and “San Diego” freeways, if I remember correctly (I probably do not).

If it helps, down here we’ve been having the rainiest, dreariest winter since ages. Which…I’m sure doesn’t actually help much, but maybe a little?