Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Goleta Bluffs

From Bing maps:

Bluffs, Pacific Ocean, California, Goleta



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Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Art Deco and E. Harding


www.themoneyillusion.com
E. Harding

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www.themoneyillusion.com
Art Deco


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Monday, July 25, 2016

Friday, July 15, 2016

Trump / Pence Logo (censored)

The Trump / Pence logo with the naughty bits censored:



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These guys had basically the same idea I did (I think we were both inspired by the same tweet):
http://abc13.com/1429889/

Saturday, July 9, 2016

How to do a blockquote on TheMoneyIllusion.com

Hi Scott,

Here's a simplified experiment<blockquote>in blockquoting text</blockquote>to see if it works. 

That seemed to work.

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Now if you'd put this string at the top of a post (using your HTML editor, and yes, you must have one in wordpress somewhere):

<script type="text/x-mathjax-config">   MathJax.Hub.Config({tex2jax: {inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']]}}); </script> <script src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS-MML_HTMLorMML" type="text/javascript"></script>

Then we could annoy the fuck out of you with formatted mathematics in our comments (e.g. see below).

Sunday, June 19, 2016

Reuter's Daily Poll Embed Experiment

I found this real-time updated poll embedded in this RedState post:
http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/06/19/sunday-morning-poll-results-terror-guns-presidency/

Here's it is on the Reuter's site:
http://polling.reuters.com/#!poll/TM651Y15_13/filters/LIKELY:1/type/smallest/dates/20160401-20160617/collapsed/true/spotlight/1

 Now let's try embedding it following the instructions on the Reuters site:


Share: Elections & Politics Selection for president, if the 2016 presidential election was between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton Reuters/Ipsos Poll: Trump vs. Clinton View All Results
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Saturday, June 4, 2016

Hillary Clinton Visits Port Hueneme, 2016

My niece and her grandmother went to see Hillary Clinton today (June 4, 2016) in Port Hueneme¹. The primary is on June 7th. The local news said she also visited Santa Barbara, but it wasn't a campaign rally: it was a private meeting with a relatively small group at a restaurant called Jill's Place². Here's the local news story about  both events³:

http://www.keyt.com/news/hillary-clinton-campaings-in-oxnard-and-santa-barbara/39905282

They must have arrived there early because the news story says that a lot of people had to stay outside. She said they were standing about 20 feet from the podium. A couple of her thoughts on the event:

"...it was awesome! We had a great view! ... It was really exciting!"

And some pictures she texted me:


Figure 1: Congresswoman Julia Brownley at Hillary's campaign stop in Port Hueneme, June 6th, 2016

Figure 2: Hillary in Port Hueneme, June 6th, 2016

Figure 3: Hillary in Port Hueneme, June 6th, 2016


[1] Really it was at Hueneme High School, which is actually just outside Port Hueneme's city limits in Oxnard.
[2] A restaurant I've been to at least once myself.
[3] Unfortunately my niece couldn't find herself or her grandmother in the crowd on that video.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Santa Barbara "I Madonnari" Italian Chalk Painting Festival 2016

Here's a couple of shots from Saturday, 2016.05.28 (start of memorial day weekend):

Figure 1: My friend and ex-coworker Craig does his annual chalk painting sponsored by his wife's veterinary clinic: 2016.05.28

Figure 2: I Madonnari Italian chalk painting festival at the Santa Barbara Mission, 2016.05.28





Monday, May 23, 2016

HRC Bumper Sticker

Figure 1: HRC bumper sticker, Arrellaga & Santa Barbara Streets, looking NE, May 22, 2016


A new one spotted June 9th, alongside an older Bernie sticker:

June 9th, Goleta CA


Thursday, May 12, 2016

Dana Milbank's newspaper menu

... because he said he'd eat his column if Trump got the nomination, and on Hardball on 2016.05.11 he said he intends to follow through, presenting the following menu:


Figure 1: Dana Milbank's chef prepared menu for him for his column (the one he said he'd eat if Trump was the GOP nominee)

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Duck

Figure 1: Mother duck and ducklings in Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden, May 8 (Mother's day), 2016