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What I *did* find out: licenses--either beer & wine licenses or full liquor licenses--are different and probably cheaper if the establishment is a "bona fide eating establishment," which means a majority of its revenue comes from food rather than alcoholic beverages. - walt crawford

For many years in my town you could get into bars when you were 19, though in theory you had to be 21 to drink. That was changed a few years ago, but you can still get an exemption if you are an entertainment venue. - laura x

You can have kids in a place that serves food. You can't have them in a pure bar. - Spidra Webster

When I first got to Wyoming, you could still get a mixed drink to go at the drive up window of the bar. Those were the days. - laura x

Here's the link: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2014... - walt crawford

And...now I'll go back to avoiding skitch commenting and doing my bit to bring actual facts to the discussion of access to scholarly articles, which apparently is an entirely different discussion. (I'd guess skitch and Beall both getsmany times the readership of C&I, but I'd like to be wrong on that.) - walt crawford

Editing all the ums, ers, repetitions and other effluvia from direct quotations: What any good journalist does. Removing wholly irrelevant swearing used for no apparent purpose: Censorship? Diminishing the Honesty of the interview? (I should note that these profiles would never, ever use the ***s.) - walt crawford

Yeah, I know, time to stop procrastinating and get on with what I should be working on. Which, in this case, is the Third Half of the Journals and "Journals" essay... - walt crawford

"I want to rant about THIS THING YOU MAY NEVER HAVE HEARD OF that's getting WAY too much attention" is, well, perhaps not an ideal solution to that thing getting way too much attention. - walt crawford

Unless, of course, that thing is in and of itself a serious problem. I don't regard A having a higher online-blather quotient than B as being a serious problem. - walt crawford

I pledge not to wzste my intelligence posting videos to my blog in the future, although I'll post just as many as in the past. - walt crawford

Just checked: Google does the same damn thing, not showing Cal until down at least two screens (with Charleston coming earlier than Cal). - walt crawford

Cal has a football team? *ducks* - laura x

Yes, and some day it may be populated with real students. Cal-calibre students. - walt crawford

Could be much worse--the University of Colorado. - Joe

Comments now enabled on that post (I'd forgotten that my default is now set to not allow comments). - walt crawford

Concannon uses special bottles with the Concannon archway in glass for its Conservancy bottlings: they're definitely heavier. So I weighed some other wine and a bottle of the C&C: a difference of 12 oz. per bottle, which is 4.5 pounds for a six-pack: the difference between moderately heavy and really heavy. - walt crawford

If you're interested, here's the story of the wine (and the Conservancy series--we really appreciate all that protected land to our south): http://www.concannonvineyard.com/legacy... - walt crawford

(37%? Safeway has sales once or twice a year where all 750ml. wine is 30% off, plus the usual 10% for six or more. In this case, that means the C&C was $7.55 a bottle, which is a *great* price. This time, the sale was for a full month, ending 11/16.) - walt crawford

(OK, so in practice, even if our cats were healthy, I don't think either of us would want to be gone for three months, and in any case we wouldn't spring for the fare, but...) - walt crawford

They've even added something my wife would love: later-in-the-day shore excursions specifically for cruisers who aren't morning people. There are lots of reasons why, with two ships that are aged by cruise industry standards, Crystal's consistently voted tops in Conde Nast Traveler readers' surveys. - walt crawford

Maybe the girlfriend figured out that this schmo just spent two years' income on a proposal and decided he was a less-than-ideal prospective husband... - walt crawford

Yeah, I would be kinda pissed if Philosopher spent 2 years salary on something like that. - Hedgehog

Library subnote: When I turned in Inherent Vice, a librarian or staff member waved me over to the circ desk because "the dragon"--the returns reader & belt--was tied up. She saw it and said she liked it, and had also given up on Mason & Dixon. And not to bother with Pynchon's next novel... - walt crawford

You got halfway through? Twice? You're more persistent than I am... - walt crawford

Among other things in this issue: Where all those no-fee Gold OA journals are, the (maximum average) cost per article in two dozen topics (guess which topic has an average cost of $0.00 per article among 55 DOAJ-listed non-Beall non-OASPA journals--and no, it's not LIS), and more. - walt crawford

FastCo is also the magazine whose management's answer to the "brick wall between editorial and advertising" rule for any kind of real journalism is, apparently, "wall? what wall?" - walt crawford

Laura: My sense is that your instincts are generally pretty good. I take it (and will through 6/16 because of dirt-cheap long-term renewals) partly because after getting rid of Wired I thought I should have one Bright & Shiny mag...and thought FastCo had become less of a cult than it used to be. That's the third problem with FastCo: there's more than a touch of cultishness about it. - walt crawford

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Heleninstitches #teamff

OK, I get it, Pete & Helen: Since there are *some* Portuguese-speakers in SA and no known group of Spanish-speakers, it makes sense to delete the Spanish interface but leave the Portuguese one intact. Thanks. And now I know just a little more about SA. - walt crawford

Not that I have any reason to believe the archives use Flash, but I'm grasping at straws...a journal that charges >$1,000 APC and has around 800 papers for the first half of 2014 damn well should have working archives. - walt crawford

Most probable explanation: the Chron ran a special wraparound commemorative "front page," probably a full-page poster on the back, and that didn't make it to the Kindle edition. - walt crawford

[C&P from Google News; sorry, no link.] - walt crawford

Oh, wait: Here's the link. http://www.cnn.com/2014... - walt crawford

Fortunately, just about the time my wife got up and I mentioned this--15 minutes later or so--I looked again and the bird was standing on those little feet--but still unclear whether it could do any more. Then, about 20 minutes later, it opened its eyes. After about 10-15 more minutes, it started hopping across the patio and testing its wings. Finally, to our cheers, it flew away more than an hour after the crash. (There was no blood on the window, so we were hopeful.) - walt crawford

Yay! - bentley

[Yes, we could have both AC and heat activated, since AC doesn't cut in until 80F or above and heat doesn't cut in until 70F or below, 66 at night...but we never leave both active.] - walt crawford

Watch the featurettes--specifically the 21-minute "Stargate Goes To the Arctic" one. Those really strong early scenes set in the Arctic, including the nuclear sub rising through the ice and most of SG-1 getting on the sub, scenes set on the sub, and the sub descending? Great special effects, right? - walt crawford

Except, as the featurette shows, they weren't special effects. The sub was real (and its crew was used for the sub scenes), it really was the deep Arctic, the team and a reduced filming crew spent more than a week in those conditions...amazing stuff. - walt crawford

This issue is Part 1 of the two-part "deeper look" into thousands of gold OA journals and "journals." Part 2 (December 2014), which I'll start writing tomorrow, focuses on 3,300 non-medical/non-biology DOAJ-listed journals and adds some new thoughts. Do use the single-column version unless you plan to print it out: the 48 tables are easier to read. - walt crawford

[Probably beaten to death in the popular media back then; I don't keep up with that stuff very well.] - walt crawford

Odd opinion formed because of alphabetic song playing sequence: When it comes to dissing dull small towns, I think Garth Brooks' "Nobody Gets Off In This Town" wins over S&G's "My Little Town." Although the latter is certainly more dramatic, the former's funnier & more pointed. (I like them both.) - walt crawford

OTOH, this does help remind us why it's so damn difficult to get scientists to do anything about OA. In practice, most [first-world, university-affiliated] scientists can get [almost] all of the articles they['re aware they] need. And, after all, it's only the scientists who count. - walt crawford

(and for California, Oregon and Washington that wage is at least $9/hour, a little higher in OR and WA). Montana and Minnesota have or will have *something* similar, but both allow smaller businesses to pay less. Just an interesting factoid... - walt crawford

Fortunately, the Feds don't say "and states can't treat workers any less shabbily than we do." - walt crawford

To wit, more than half of all rooftop solar/photovoltaic installations in the U.S. are within PG&E's service area, mostly northern & central California. I believe that, but it's still sad. (I think the state added 2.5gW of photovoltaic capacity last year, if I remember correctly.) - walt crawford

Oops. Just checked. California *has* about 2.5gW (or is it GW? gigawatts in either case) photovoltaic at this point; it's been growing rapidly, but it certainly wasn't all added last year. - walt crawford