I'll take it.

Yeah, more later.

Coffeeneuring Stop #2: PJ's in The Bay

Right on schedule, the madness continues.  Today's particulars:
1. where: PJ's Coffee, Bay St. Louis MS  (it's new, not a lot at the link but it is there)
2. date: 10/14/18
3. what: 16 oz medium dark roast "Grind 35" or some such.  Had a chocolate cake ball with it.
4. ride details: warm October day in the mid-80's.  Took the neighborhood backroads there, took the railroad gravel shortcut back. 
5. 4.5 miles round-trip.

CX bike can be seen leaning against stairway railing.

Other stuff... finished reading Always Another Dawn with my coffee.  Expect a post on that book soon.

Also... I know at least some the scoop on this PJ's.  I don't want any crap from friends about this trip.  Just taking a look-see while getting another easy coffeeneuring stop in.  The coffee and cake were fine though, the staff was friendly and efficient, the place looked really nice – new, clean, & well laid-out, and I even saw a few people I know while there.

Crusin' the Coast Video

Over at the Sea Coast Echo site: here.  Worth a couple minutes' look.

Coffeeneuring Stop #1: Mockingbird Cafe

As with last year, this madness had to start with the Mockingbird.  Here are the particulars:
1. where: Mockingbird Cafe, Bay St. Louis MS
2. date: 10/13/18
3. what: triple macchiato (the real kind)
4. ride details:  a nice September-ish day in mid-October; CX bike
5. 4.4 miles round-trip
 (if you're wondering what all this is about, here's the intro page)

CX bike can be seen behind stairway railing, at the right.  Click to embiggen.

Other thoughts... Took along the kindle and read another chapter in Always Another Dawn.  75% through, will post a few wrap-up comments here at the blog when done.

Curtains for Pilot Wave Ideas?

Yeah, pretty much.  Article Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness at Quanta Magazine.  Don't ask me to explain it here, just go read.  I still need to read it a couple more times.

Yeah, but is it art?

Banksy artwork shreds itself after #1m sale at Sotheby's

Personally and for once, I'm at a loss to comment.

Update: I have it on Good Authority that yes, this is legitimately art.

Update #2: You can see the actual shredding happening here.  Banksy shouldn't have cheaped out on the batteries, it looks like they gave out half-way through.

Update #3: Speculation on the internet has it that this incident, its results, and notoriety have instantly increased the value of the work by 2-5x.  We shall see.

Scott Crossfield, Remembered

By coincidence, last night I picked up a kindle copy of NACA/NASA test pilot Scott Crossfield's 1960 autobiography Always Another Dawn, and then this article about Crossfield popped up today on the This Day in Aviation site.  Interesting stuff so far, but I'm barely a chapter in.

BTW, Amazon seems to be putting a fair number of older books on kindle for cheap.  This one for example was just $0.99.  Oddly enough, it was nearly $4 for direct-to-kindle.  Pricing algorithms, go figure.