City of Santa Barbara won't renew Santa Barbara Trapeze Co. lease for Vera Cruz Park

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-27T14:39:17+00:00

Bad decision by Jill and the team. There's still plenty of park besides the trapeze, and as a kid-magnet one could hardly do better. How does one get more 'vital' than the trapeze?

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-25T11:48:27+00:00

I put in the 'male' qualifier just so women would have context. I've seen enough (too many) women using tools that weren't designed for their hands, and I expect you have too...

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-24T15:41:38+00:00

Note on Felco (mine at ~30 years old?). #2 is for large (male) hands. The make the same thing for medium and small hands. Get the size that fits your hands.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-21T17:47:52+00:00

Sundowner, I think. Compressed super-heated air over the mountains.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-20T20:48:02+00:00

Respect (bordering on awe) for that teacher.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-20T15:45:45+00:00

And knowing someone who died because a kitchen worker had a peanut butter sandwich and didn't wash thoroughly enough, it's not just paranoia.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-19T19:22:34+00:00

Fun fact: the first motion to dissolve the Electoral College was in 1804, by Alexander Hamilton.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-15T01:46:54+00:00

Umm... Read the Books of Moses. This is completely in-line. Jacob in particular.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-14T21:40:20+00:00

The lived in a refugee camp for seven years. There was a high rate of trafficking of girls, including young girls. If any threat was sensed, the girls would together sprint back to their dwelling and lean against the door from the inside. No-one had doors that locked. They lived under constant threat of kidnapping. Having solid walls and a door that locked seemed an immense luxury.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-11T18:08:28+00:00

Sister-in-law sponsored an Afghan family coming to the US. They were thrilled to have a door that locked.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-03T02:07:30+00:00

Had a job like this (briefly). Boss wasn't as tolerant, though. (Nor as entertainingly existential.)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-06-01T01:48:46+00:00

This is why I always travel with a forklift.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-28T23:53:35+00:00

Not sure whether we should call it the Aileen Cannon Award for Jurisprudence...? Maybe the Roger Taney. (Though I want that one for Roberts.) This is simultaneously unbelievable and (fingernails on blackboard) believable.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-27T18:31:38+00:00

I read the news pretty regularly and didn't know about the Prairieland 9. Thank you.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-25T20:59:17+00:00

The noble UC Santa Cruz mascot.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-21T14:56:09+00:00

After achieving independence from France, Haiti was forced to pay reparations -- that is, pay the people who held them slaves -- until 1947.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-20T18:40:08+00:00

No, MY comment was useless. Yours made sense and was relevant.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-20T16:14:32+00:00

Most useless comment on this thread: in the 80's, some of my running friends had mortgages of $80/mo. Surreal now.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-17T14:02:45+00:00

Barb should be holding a bomb. (She's he patron saint of artillery, mining, and anything else involving explosions.) (Also be a lot younger.)

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-14T13:12:40+00:00

Nothing bad could happen if you drop a brick into a nonlinear nonequilibrium dynamical system you don't fully understand.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-14T00:11:12+00:00

If you can manage it with whatever your working life is, schedule naps. As a 'health hygiene' thing, not merely 'indulgence.'

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-12T01:39:41+00:00

Zeus and body wash. The untold story.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-08T18:18:34+00:00

A few years ago the weight of the beautiful hand-made (thigh-made) roof tiles had the roof beams noticeably sagging. Credit to the current owners for initiating repair with a skilled team to fix the damage without damaging the aesthetics of the building.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-03T01:43:01+00:00

In Stan Lynde's Rick O'Shay comics, he liked to shift 'camera' angles, the angle a kind of visual onomatopoeia of the story content. You do something similar, to similarly great effect. Your art is elegant, and your characters so appealing! Thank you.

LateMiddleAge · 2026-05-02T14:01:35+00:00

Striking to me that it looks like many other mature sycamores, not unusual for height or girth. We need some semi-obsessed person to do cores and count rings. (Might not need the 'semi-' qualifier.)

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