{"id":10210,"date":"2015-05-03T16:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T23:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10210"},"modified":"2015-05-03T16:15:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T23:15:17","slug":"a-day-late-and-a-dollar-saturday-stew-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10210","title":{"rendered":"A Day Late and a Dollar&#8230; Saturday Stew on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8131\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stew.jpg\" alt=\"Observation Stew\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>The smell of stew cooking in the crockpot reminded me I need to post a stew of my own; with vacation and such, it&#8217;s been a few weeks. So let&#8217;s clear out those links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Burger Continental is Gone.<\/strong> We discovered this as we returned home from the Ren Faire a few weeks ago: <a href=\"http:\/\/la.eater.com\/2015\/4\/13\/8396045\/pasadena-burger-continental-shutter-45-years-burger-week-closed\">BC has closed their doors<\/a>. No more can Adrian, their long-time waiter (and one of the owners, from what I&#8217;ve heard) flirt with my wife. They were a reliable dinner when we were going to the Pasadena Playhouse. I&#8217;ll miss them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Airline Safety, Take 1: Fitting In The Butts<\/strong>. As we all know, airlines are squeezing passengers closer and closer together, both through thinner seats and decreased pitch. The big problem: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-airline-seat-risks-20150414-story.html?track=rss\">That may not be safe<\/a>. A consumer advisory group has asked DOT to look into the matter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Airline Safety, Take 2: Reading the Signs<\/strong>. An interesting airline risk has just come to light &#8212; significant if you are flying Boeing 787s. It appears there is <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2015\/05\/01\/boeing-787-dreamliners-contain-a-potentially-catastrophic-software-bug\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+arstechnica%2Findex+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29\">a software glitch that could cause power units (APUs) to go into failsafe mode after running continuously for more than 8 months<\/a>. Specifically, if all four APUs were started at the same time, and run for 248.55 hours&#8230; they shut down. 248.55 just happens to be the point where a signed 32-bit integer holding time in hundreths of a second overflows and goes negative. No problem: That age old advice still works: &#8220;Have you tried turning it off, and back on again?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cleaning Out the Stash<\/strong>. One of the problem when your parents die is cleaning out what they left at the house. That problem turns weird when you discover their adult stash &#8212; i.e., their porn collection. Yes, your parents think about sex &#8212; who do you think made you the horndog you are? Yes, I&#8217;m looking at you. Luckily, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/the-adult-bookshop-where-londoners-can-dispose-of-their-dead-relatives-porn-stash-10191974.html\">an adult bookstore in London that will take that porn off of your, umm, hands<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ah, Catherine the Great<\/strong>. As you probably remember, I loved Steve Allen&#8217;s <em>Meeting of Minds<\/em>. Therefore, it is with sad news that I report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/tv\/showtracker\/la-et-st-jayne-meadows-20150427-story.html\">the passing of Mrs. Steve Allen, better known as Jayne Meadows, who started in numerous episodes<\/a>. She made it to 95 and had a good life. I thank her for her contributions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Security and Maturity<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s an interesting metric: <a href=\"http:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2015\/04\/whats-your-security-maturity-level\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+KrebsOnSecurity+%28Krebs+on+Security%29\">Brian Krebs on measuring a company&#8217;s security maturity level<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Damn. Yesterday was National Naked Gardening Day<\/strong>. Here&#8217;s an interesting article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/home\/la-hm-glaser-garden-20150425-story.html\">a garden rework in Beverlywood that not only saves water, but grows vegetables<\/a>. For future reference&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where to Go For Dinner<\/strong>. Another &#8220;for future reference&#8221;: Here&#8217;s a listing of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.welikela.com\/best-places-to-eat-the-valley\/\">20 recommended places to eat in the Valley<\/a>. We&#8217;ve actually been to about 2\/3s of these.<\/li>\n<li><strong>But What Will I Watch in Hawaii<\/strong>. I don&#8217;t know what you did when you visited Hawaii in your college years, but I&#8230;. programmed. I have fond memories of listening to the Jerry Lewis Telethon (back in the late 1970s, mind you) and programming for the UCLA Computer Club. Today&#8217;s children will have to find something else to do: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2015\/05\/01\/muscular-dystrophy-association-ends-labor-day-television-telethon\/26709717\/\">MDA has cancelled the Labor Day Telethon<\/a>. I&#8217;ll note that it had really gone downhill without Jerry Lewis and the folks he drew in, and MDA parted ways with him a few years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s your stew for this Sunday. Now go work out&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The smell of stew cooking in the crockpot reminded me I need to post a stew of my own; with vacation and such, it&#8217;s been a few weeks. So let&#8217;s clear out those links&#8230; Burger Continental is Gone. We discovered this as we returned home from the Ren Faire a few weeks ago: BC has <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=10210\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,56,98],"tags":[119,254,200,302,73,171],"class_list":["post-10210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-news-chum","category-security","tag-airplanes","tag-gardening","tag-meeting-of-minds","tag-pron","tag-restaurants","tag-san-fernando-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10211,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10210\/revisions\/10211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}