Thanks for the warning about the impending hurricane. I was planning to stay home today, but I will take the extra precaution of staying under the covers.
3.
Brachiator
Funny stuff!
Of course, Cinco de Mayo really isn’t observed in Mexico. Kinda like how Saint Patrick’s Day was not a big deal in Ireland.
And both holidays are mainly known for amateur drinkers making it harder for the professionals to get things done.
4.
Steeplejack
The dark, gray drizzle here in NoVA is like a white-noise sleep machine. I am struggling to stay awake. Baseball murmuring in the background is not helping.
The housecat has long since gone into a deep theta sleep, but she does that every day.
This is why I usually do my Cinco De Mayo celebrations at lunch time, and avoiding the bars.
TIJUANA FLATS FOR THE WIN
7.
oldster
“our thoughts are with everyone in her path” — those Onion writers are good.
8.
Patricia Kayden
Here’s a feel good story about an African immigrant to Greece who has done well in the NBA. This is why we shouldn’t hate migrants. Looking at you, Trump.
If only more Republicans would do this. Kudos to him even if he’s just doing it now.
10.
Raven
I’m taking a break from the beach and the sun. Caught two really nice “slot” reds this morning in the 24 inch range. I’ll grill one up on the half shell and go back down at 5 or so until dusk. It’s gorgeous here.
11.
johnnybuck
Well, it could easily be Al Shepard day. He went into space 58 years ago today.
@johnnybuck: We’re on 30A which is really exploding. Lot’s of music people coming down from Nashville and it was already Atlanta south. We are in the real sweet spot after spring break and before Memorial Day. The next week should be pretty mellow with a great forecast and the reds hitting. I was sad they closed amberjack early but I’ve already caught enough redfish that I would go home happy without catching another. A pompano or so would be nice!
16.
Belafon
The Latina custodian at work was telling me she is going with some of her friends to Las Vegas in September because Mexican independence is celebrated. Ricky Marin and Marc Antony will be there. She asked why they would do that and I said Americans are just looking for an excuse to hold a party.
I hear what you are saying, but we both know it is simpler than that. They are people who have done nothing wrong. And that should be the end of the story.
FWIW Giannis is also finally teaching an entire state how to pronounce those Greek sandwiches made on pita bread.
I’m really annoyed with flickr but with 20,000+ pics in there I’m a bit hamstrung…
Bummer
26.
johnnybuck
@Raven: It is, but I was thinking I remember you fishing over there at one time. Used to go down there quite a bit before the oyster trade disappeared.
As for those (raises hand) preferentially running an older version of Firefox specifically in order to maintain certain pre-Quantum add-ons, things remain unclear.
As one who lives in southern Mexico, it is unusually quiet. Normally, there would be lots of cojetes, very loud firecrackers, as there were on May 3, El dia de Santa Cruz, the day of construction workers and practicals jokes. Here, people don’t do anything for Cinco de Mayo, strictly a gringo thingo… However, in the state of Puebla, it’s a big deal.
30.
RAVEN
@johnnybuck: Writer Jess Graves grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, with constant visits to her grandmother’s place near the tiny seafood town of Carrabelle. But it took an oyster education in landlocked Atlanta to send her home and back to her roots. Join her on a journey along Highway 98 as she considers the old ways and changing practices in the oyster beds of Apalachicola Bay.
@RAVEN: Nice looking red ya got. Cooking them on the half shell is one of our favorites. Yum!
36.
Barbara
@Steeplejack: I did not sleep well last night and have had to will myself to stay awake. I am making muffins in an effort to stave off sleep.
The analogy to St. Pat’s day for Cinco is apt. I overheard someone in line cooing about how they needed to buy tequila for the holiday. Most Spanish speaking people in NoVa are not from Mexico. I am becoming such a curmudgeon, at least in my head.
She asked why they would do that and I said Americans are just looking for an excuse to hold a party.
I think there’s a bit more to it than that. Americans are looking for a way of demonstrating that we accept an immigrant culture, and one key way of doing that is to adopt one of their holidays. We’re just really bad at it. In some cases, we actually mange to pick a holiday that’s really important in the culture we’re trying to honor, like Chinese New Year. But far more often we will either blow some minor holiday out of proportion, as we do with Cinco de Mayo and Hanukah, or make up a new holiday out of whole cloth, as we did with Columbus day.
38.
Dan B
Seattle meetup came off without a hitch, phew! We had 12 people at a table for 10. I promised to tell everyone that Piratedan from warm Tucson (94 degrees) froze in the 40 degree steady rain, because it rains all day every day. /
I did end up taking a bit of a nap, but mostly because the housecat had me up at 5:00 this morning for a clarification of the dining hours on the platinum concierge plan (resolved in her favor, of course). But the quiet rain on and off all day made it very easy.
41.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: I’m relegated to google chrome for now, because in addition to the add-on problem, it’s refusing to load some sites for “security” reasons — like, you know, startpage or youtube or the one for the on-line course I’m taking — while other sites like this one show with absolutely none of the formatting. This is beyond disgusting.
Version 66.0.4 is available now. I just installed it.
Go to “Help | About Firefox” and you’ll be prompted to upgrade.
43.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: Did this last night. It works beautifully now although I had to reinstall all my old plugins.
44.
Aleta
Sally Jenkins, WaPo
A foul? They called a foul because Maximum Security with Luis Saez aboard swerved out of his “lane”? “He’s a baby,” Saez said rightly of his horse. Where, pray tell, was the discernible lane in all that muck and rain and screaming and flogging and young animal surging? Where is the “lane” in a sport beset by medication overuse and purse structures that incentivize racing horses even when they are hurt, in which the jockeys whip-beat their horses to the finish on a clearly unsafe wet surface the substance of farina?
.. …
This isn’t a sport; it’s a fancied-up vice. Horse people counted on the excitement of the Derby to obscure the fact that 23 horses died at Santa Anita this winter, and Churchill Downs, too, is one of the deadliest tracks in America.
All you could think, during the long 22 minutes that the stewards took to review the film, as the walkers led the steaming, mud-caked contestants in cool-down circles while great plumed exhalations came from their nostrils, was, “I don’t give a damn who won; somebody just please get these horses out of the mud, and check their legs, and dry their coats, and give them something to drink.”
Some tracks hurt horses more than others, Churchill Downs is one of them, and everybody in this beautiful-turned-rotten game knows it.
… …
(N)ot until two weeks ago, amid scrutiny of its track record in the wake of the Santa Anita debacle, did Churchill Downs move to institute any common-sense reforms. It will install an equine medical center and surveillance cameras in barns and advocate for medication reform. That’s a start.
45.
Manxome Bromide
@Roger Moore: I like to think of Cinco de Mayo as less “blowing a regional holidy out of proportion” and more “hey, thanks for turning Napoleon III’s forces back before they got to us.” This isn’t (“shouldn’t be”, I guess) us copying them badly, it’s us raising a glass to someone else’s victory that also helped us.
Rob
That’s brilliant!
It’s also Karl Marx’s birthday today.
Jerzy Russian
Thanks for the warning about the impending hurricane. I was planning to stay home today, but I will take the extra precaution of staying under the covers.
Brachiator
Funny stuff!
Of course, Cinco de Mayo really isn’t observed in Mexico. Kinda like how Saint Patrick’s Day was not a big deal in Ireland.
And both holidays are mainly known for amateur drinkers making it harder for the professionals to get things done.
Steeplejack
The dark, gray drizzle here in NoVA is like a white-noise sleep machine. I am struggling to stay awake. Baseball murmuring in the background is not helping.
The housecat has long since gone into a deep theta sleep, but she does that every day.
sukabi
lol. Seems about right.
PaulWartenberg
This is why I usually do my Cinco De Mayo celebrations at lunch time, and avoiding the bars.
TIJUANA FLATS FOR THE WIN
oldster
“our thoughts are with everyone in her path” — those Onion writers are good.
Patricia Kayden
Here’s a feel good story about an African immigrant to Greece who has done well in the NBA. This is why we shouldn’t hate migrants. Looking at you, Trump.
https://twitter.com/BrentNYT/status/1125076580013883392
I don’t watch basketball but love this story.
Patricia Kayden
If only more Republicans would do this. Kudos to him even if he’s just doing it now.
Raven
I’m taking a break from the beach and the sun. Caught two really nice “slot” reds this morning in the 24 inch range. I’ll grill one up on the half shell and go back down at 5 or so until dusk. It’s gorgeous here.
johnnybuck
Well, it could easily be Al Shepard day. He went into space 58 years ago today.
johnnybuck
@Raven: You on the forgotten coast?
trollhattan
@johnnybuck:
“Let’s light this candle.”
Al was this space kid’s favorite. And that was before golfing on da moon.
johnnybuck
@trollhattan: ditto
Raven
@johnnybuck: We’re on 30A which is really exploding. Lot’s of music people coming down from Nashville and it was already Atlanta south. We are in the real sweet spot after spring break and before Memorial Day. The next week should be pretty mellow with a great forecast and the reds hitting. I was sad they closed amberjack early but I’ve already caught enough redfish that I would go home happy without catching another. A pompano or so would be nice!
Belafon
The Latina custodian at work was telling me she is going with some of her friends to Las Vegas in September because Mexican independence is celebrated. Ricky Marin and Marc Antony will be there. She asked why they would do that and I said Americans are just looking for an excuse to hold a party.
Omnes Omnibus
@Patricia Kayden:
I hear what you are saying, but we both know it is simpler than that. They are people who have done nothing wrong. And that should be the end of the story.
FWIW Giannis is also finally teaching an entire state how to pronounce those Greek sandwiches made on pita bread.
RAVEN
My flickr has been borked for a week, I wonder how google photos displays?
johnnybuck
@Raven: Slot size on the Reds made me think you might be there.
Raven
@johnnybuck: I guess I think of the forgotten coast over toward Apalachicola, no? We’re on the other side of Panama City Beach.
JR
Harumph.
NotMax
@Raven
Pompano en Papillote.
Mmmmmmmmmmm.
jeffreyw
@RAVEN: It works well! Nice fish.
Raven
@jeffreyw: Great! I’m really annoyed with flickr but with 20,000+ pics in there I’m a bit hamstrung…
jeffreyw
@Raven: @Raven:
Bummer
johnnybuck
@Raven: It is, but I was thinking I remember you fishing over there at one time. Used to go down there quite a bit before the oyster trade disappeared.
johnnybuck
@jeffreyw: Yeah, nice fish!
NotMax
Update on the Firefox blunder: Firefox 66.0.4 Almost Ready With Fix for Disabled Addons.
As for those (raises hand) preferentially running an older version of Firefox specifically in order to maintain certain pre-Quantum add-ons, things remain unclear.
joax
As one who lives in southern Mexico, it is unusually quiet. Normally, there would be lots of cojetes, very loud firecrackers, as there were on May 3, El dia de Santa Cruz, the day of construction workers and practicals jokes. Here, people don’t do anything for Cinco de Mayo, strictly a gringo thingo… However, in the state of Puebla, it’s a big deal.
RAVEN
@johnnybuck: Writer Jess Graves grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, with constant visits to her grandmother’s place near the tiny seafood town of Carrabelle. But it took an oyster education in landlocked Atlanta to send her home and back to her roots. Join her on a journey along Highway 98 as she considers the old ways and changing practices in the oyster beds of Apalachicola Bay.
https://bittersoutherner.com/the-big-forgotten-coast-oyster-crawl
germy
May 15 is the anniversary of the Jackson State killings.
germy
@Steeplejack:
Theta would be a good name for a cat.
eemom
@Steeplejack:
Feh. I think it’s dreary as shit.
Just hope we’re not gonna have another rain drenched summer.
JPL
@RAVEN: That’s a beauty.
Virginia
@RAVEN: Nice looking red ya got. Cooking them on the half shell is one of our favorites. Yum!
Barbara
@Steeplejack: I did not sleep well last night and have had to will myself to stay awake. I am making muffins in an effort to stave off sleep.
The analogy to St. Pat’s day for Cinco is apt. I overheard someone in line cooing about how they needed to buy tequila for the holiday. Most Spanish speaking people in NoVa are not from Mexico. I am becoming such a curmudgeon, at least in my head.
Roger Moore
@Belafon:
I think there’s a bit more to it than that. Americans are looking for a way of demonstrating that we accept an immigrant culture, and one key way of doing that is to adopt one of their holidays. We’re just really bad at it. In some cases, we actually mange to pick a holiday that’s really important in the culture we’re trying to honor, like Chinese New Year. But far more often we will either blow some minor holiday out of proportion, as we do with Cinco de Mayo and Hanukah, or make up a new holiday out of whole cloth, as we did with Columbus day.
Dan B
Seattle meetup came off without a hitch, phew! We had 12 people at a table for 10. I promised to tell everyone that Piratedan from warm Tucson (94 degrees) froze in the 40 degree steady rain, because it rains all day every day. /
Actual report coming soon.
PaulWartenberg
@johnnybuck:
The Shepard’s Prayer: “Please Lord, Don’t Let Me Fuck Up.”
Steeplejack
@Barbara:
I did end up taking a bit of a nap, but mostly because the housecat had me up at 5:00 this morning for a clarification of the dining hours on the platinum concierge plan (resolved in her favor, of course). But the quiet rain on and off all day made it very easy.
prostratedragon
@NotMax: I’m relegated to google chrome for now, because in addition to the add-on problem, it’s refusing to load some sites for “security” reasons — like, you know, startpage or youtube or the one for the on-line course I’m taking — while other sites like this one show with absolutely none of the formatting. This is beyond disgusting.
Steeplejack
@prostratedragon:
Version 66.0.4 is available now. I just installed it.
Go to “Help | About Firefox” and you’ll be prompted to upgrade.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: Did this last night. It works beautifully now although I had to reinstall all my old plugins.
Aleta
Sally Jenkins, WaPo
Manxome Bromide
@Roger Moore: I like to think of Cinco de Mayo as less “blowing a regional holidy out of proportion” and more “hey, thanks for turning Napoleon III’s forces back before they got to us.” This isn’t (“shouldn’t be”, I guess) us copying them badly, it’s us raising a glass to someone else’s victory that also helped us.
tybee
@RAVEN: @Raven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0BhwLamL_8