New Location for Siena Pizza and Mikey is On It

It has been about a week at the new location now. I've done much of the Mashgiach work there so far.

In the image, Michelangelo is looking at the menu which is pretty much the same as at the old location. George didn't have pizza today so Mikey could only speculate on the awesomeness of the pizza. The chairs are pretty though.

IMO, the main thing wrong is that the pizza ovens don't get hot enough (they are electric) and this makes the cheese take a little too long to melt.

The first Monday they were open was orientation day at two of the Jewish schools and by 1115am the restaurant was already getting crowded (even though the seating capacity is about 75% greater than the other location.

Wily Advises on Plumbing Job

 Here is Wily Coyote looking at the main intake after the PVC pipe was installed and joined to the cast iron pipe on each side. More images of that job are here.

Wily was disappointed that the installation didn't include a giant spring and a catapult but otherwise he was pleased.

Also he didn't get a chance to evangelize the plumbing team as they took off right after the job.

Successful Gaslighting by Gretel

Gretel got an interim security clearance recently and will get to go onto Walter Reed Military Base with Ann (that's Gretel looking at an announcement for a beer festival).


Some of the people who security interviewed remember Gretel making problematic comments when her clearance application was initially reviewed. 

However, Gretel has managed to get those people to doubt their own memories (gas-lighting).  The image is of Ingrid Bergman from the 1944 film "Gaslight". She plays a woman whose memories are manipulated by her husband. One of the memories is of the gas lights in a house being dimmed.

When I asked Gretel how she felt about her successful gas-lighting, she said,

"Hey I don't even know what that means since I'm a dog, you know... bark bark bark"

Yeah I guess that makes sense. Maybe I remembered it wrong.

Ann took Gretel in to work today.  

Gate and I Discuss Administrative Law

Gate took a break from reading the paper to look over some of my tax records as I was making photocopies of them for our upcoming appointment with the Social Security Administration.

I said, "Should you be doing that without a warrant?"

Gate responded "Its an administrative search, look it up."

I looked it up and then asked Gate, "Well, the controlling opinion is a 1988 finding by the Supreme Court of Illinois in the Case of People vs Madison, and in that they quote an earlier finding that, 

"...One of the fundamental principles of administrative searches is that the government may not use an administrative inspection scheme as a pretext to search for evidence of criminal violations...""

Gate responded, "what do you mean pretext, I'm just looking for some... uh...stuff..."

George adds that Gate may have cited a case that is less than national,

"Fourth Amendment reasonableness is predominantly an objective inquiry.  We ask whether the circumstances, viewed objectively, justify [the challenged] action. If so, that action was reasonable whatever the subjective intent motivating the relevant officials. This approach recognizes that the Fourth Amendment regulates conduct rather than thoughts, and it promotes evenhanded, uniform enforcement of the law. 

Two limited exceptions to this rule are our special-needs and administrative-search cases, where actual motivations do matter." (emphasis added and internal citations and quotation marks omitted).

Ashcroft v. Al-Kidd, 563 U.S. 731, 735-36 (2011)

 A few days after I posted about Hard Rock Bear's comments about North Carolina, I saw a business article that was interesting.

Hard Rock will be opening a franchise in Guyana as part of a 'high end development'. 

In the first image, the person on the right Dereck Chin, CEO of MovieTowne, Guyana said that... Hard Rock Café will provide a dining event that includes a unique visual and sound experience..."

I asked Hard Rock Bear if the corporation paid a substantial fee for the right to be in Guyana. He said, "well, let's just say some money changed hands".

Hard Rock Bear Comments on a Business Decision

 Hard Rock Bear is frequently telling us that he is 'very unique' (he was the 147th Atlanta Hard Rock bear as I recall from when we still had the authentication card).  Nonetheless, we brought him with us to North Carolina in May 2018. This was because he wanted to scout out some areas to place another franchise.

Hard Rock cafe is, as of now (and has been for several years) a completely owned subsidy of the Seminole Nation.  I have suspected that the Seminole Nation uses the restaurant chain to invest tainted proceeds from their casino operations and then retrieve, untainted cash from the restaurant's customers. 

Anyway, Hard Rock obviously saw the physical appeal of both Chapel Hill (top image) and Durham (2nd image).

When I asked where he thought a franchise would be best placed, Hard Rock bear said, "Wherever the opportunity for money launde... I mean wherever the best business climate is.... heh heh."

vampy washed

Beth visited and Vampy got a wash.

It took several days for him to dry because we didn't put him in the dryer (might not be good for vampires).

He wasn't too happy about that. He did get on the Weiss chronology blog however.

Mischief Big and Small

Vampy has been up to some mischief lately.

In big items, he was able to mess up the Navy's Bethesda Medical Center computer operations (now three weeks without digital medical coding being done).

In small items, he hid my car keys in my tallis bag before I went to a shiva minyan so I had to go back in the house and use a different set of keys.

Vampy says he likes to keep in practice since his gig as US Ambassador to the Underworld may someday be gone.

Pengy and the Professor's offspring discuss

Pengy and the Professor's offspring (we will call him/her Junior Postmodern or JP) had a little talk.

Pengy said, "We look for a sale that is gevinen, gevinen. Parnose for me and a metsiye for the faynshmeker."

JP said, "Your precultural capitalist theory is a mythic construct based on discourse missing the acknowledgement of elitist context as the common structure of the paradigm.  Even in a neodialectic subnarrative, the class structure of the observing theoretically conscious entity is obviously exploitative.  Furthermore, the latent sexism and postconceptual colonialist intrinsic renders the semanticist faux reality as dehumanizing. Only a deconstructive dialectic could lead to a functioning form of neotheory that would satisfy a descriptive aesthetic of those diamonds."


Pengy said, "What?"

JP said, "What?" 

I got some hyacinths in the image for color enrichment.

Also, I think JP is interviewing for a higher position in one of the critical studies field in the Gender and Ethnic Studies Department.  

I used the postmodern jargon generator for this. Also, it gives me an excuse to place this long ago Calvin and Hobbs cartoon (click on it to enlarge) in the post.

Lev Studying

Tonight we got some images of Lev studying Tractate Makkot.  Lev might use them in the marketing phase of the build out of his for profit learning and doing yishiva.  This would assist in the vertical scaling of the enterprise (although Lev admits that he doesn't know what words and phrases like "build out", "marketing phase" or "vertical scaling of the enterprise" mean. 

The first image is from an interior page 22b which is part of perek III of Tractate Makkot. It shows a type of whip made from the hide of a donkey and the hide of a calf. It also has some commentary by RAMbam. 

The second image is of Lev examining the back of the volume. As you can see, the volume includes both Makkos and Shavuot (vows). 

 




The third image shows the same page as the first image but from a greater distance so you can see Lev studying it. 

The fourth image is a smaller version of the first image. Somehow it popped up on the post and it is hard to get rid of it. 

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