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Critic trades in cell phone for a padded cell
This is the solution to annoying people on smartphones in venues such as theaters. It's a phone jammer. I bought one from a company in Israel. Works great with a 60 ft. radius. Once the first five to ten minutes of head scratching and turning devices on and off is over with, there is a peace and quiet not known since the 80's. Don't get caught snickering though or you'll find yourself at the center of an angry millennial mob. http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2016/n…— November 18, 2016 9:51 a.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
Billdo, I'm not sure I need to follow you down your rabbit hole. If a person has resided in, no less, reported about a city...for some 43 years I would measure my words calling them a transplant. That is a near half a century. They would be more San Diegan than 95% of the populace. So if I have this straight, you were born in San Diego. You think the Chargers are somehow San Diego property. You have no regard for the opinions of other residents, since they were not born here. Am I correct? Here's something to think about. I was born in San Diego (in a local hospital) but I was raised in Yorba Linda. My family moved to San Diego when I was 12. Am I a "native" or a "transplant?" And when you hurl insults like calling people "delusional" you will get a defensive response. Not to mention you lose all credibility when you post insults rather than facts.— November 17, 2016 9:55 p.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
I'm not sure I need to follow you down your rabbit hole. If a person has resided in, no less, reported about a city...for some 43 years I would measure my words calling them a transplant. That is a near half a century. They would be more San Diegan than 95% of the populace. So if I have this straight, you were born in San Diego. You think the Chargers are somehow San Diego property. You have no regard for the opinions of other residents, since they were not born here. Am I correct? Here's something to think about. I was born in San Diego (in a local hospital) but I was raised in Yorba Linda. My family moved to San Diego when I was 12. Am I a "native" or a "transplant?" And when you hurl insults like calling people "delusional" you will get a defensive response. Not to mention you lose all credibility when you post insults rather than facts.— November 17, 2016 9:47 p.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
Flapper, I contributed to the conversation about the Irwin Jacobs Balboa Park defacement plan in the recent story in The Reader. Here is the link to that story: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2016/nov/15/ti…— November 16, 2016 10:30 p.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
Before you attack the author, perhaps you should learn more about him. I suspect from your lack of knowledge about Don Bauder, you are the transplant. The reason the measure did not pass is because the taxpayers were not buying the deceptive contract, written by the Chargers - for the Chargers. It was not in the public's favor to adopt it because taxpayers would be on the hook for the bonds. The hotel tax is an unfair tax on tourists. I would not want my friends and family gouged to pay from someone else's business proposition. The stubbornness of Spanos to build in downtown, walling off a historic community and making the city, at its expense, move the MTS bus yard. Finally, the people, including long time season ticket holders, are exhausted from the Spanos and Fabiani circus and its tour from Chula Vista, to Oceanside, to Carson and then Inglewood. Nobody is saying that the people don't want the Chargers to stay, they just don't want to foot the bill or make San Diego a less inviting place for tourists and conventioneers by gouging them at our hotels. The hotels did not want it either and I trust their business sense a lot more than Spanos.— November 16, 2016 5:39 p.m.
Wall Street doesn’t seem impressed with either print or online newspapers
I am an "old folk." Over 55. I still subscribe to the SDUT, and sometimes wonder why I remain a subscriber. I also have an L.A. Times subscription I picked up 5 years ago with a $20 dollar Groupon coupon. I get the L.A. Times from Thursday through Sunday for $20 a year. They keep renewing me at that rate. I guess it would be several hundred dollars if I did not have some computer billing me for the same $20 Groupon deal year after year. But my reading habits are changing. I have a laptop on my bed and in the morning I peruse the digital editions of the Washington Post, Seattle Times, New York Times, and whatever pops up when I type "news" into Google. If one of them is stubborn about giving me content without an account, I use the Google "incognito" browser feature to open the page. Although I enjoy taking my paper to the bathroom (it's easier than a laptop), I think my paper days may be coming to an end. But I'll probably keep that cheap L.A. Times subscription.— November 16, 2016 8:52 a.m.
Leucadia shop talk soon to stop
Oh, and you need a lawn mower, weed wacker, et. al. fixed there are many places. But you have to drive south out of the whitetosphere and into the hood... like Art’s Lawnmower Shop in Spring Valley. He's just one of many in the South and East County that still fix stuff while you North County folks go out and buy a new one.— November 15, 2016 10 p.m.
Leucadia shop talk soon to stop
Electing people like Gaspar, a republican puppet, doesn't help keep the funky beach town keep its identity. Nothing will stop this, and expect even more aggressive development in Leucadia. It will follow Laguna Beach to a place were only the 1% can afford to live and only the wealthiest tourists can afford to visit. I give it 10 years.— November 15, 2016 9:56 p.m.
Balboa Park bypass bridge and parking project okayed
You don't get the point. This makes the park cost money to visit for those who don't plan out their morning or can't make it early. It opens the door to charging for parking everywhere in the park. In fact that is exactly what will happen within a matter of years. So I hope you enjoy your frequent weekly visits, until such time as your strolls over the grass covered parking lot pick $20 a day out of your pocket. Let there be no doubt about it. This is an agreement between another egomaniac, Irwin Jacobs, and a city that needs every gimmick to inject more sources of money into their hemorrhaging pension fund. Once this travesty goes unhindered, the city and zoo will collect money everywhere. Money will be the focus of being able to access Balboa Park. It will become like what the jerks at the Port are doing to Seaport Village. The almighty dollar is what this is really about, not beautification.— November 15, 2016 9:30 p.m.
Balboa Park bypass bridge and parking project okayed
I hope there are lawsuits filed over this. It's only going to benefit Ace Parking, who no doubt, will be awarded the service of collecting parking fees and towing cars. The developers will also gain from this work. It won't stop there. This is the camels nose under the tent. The parking fee will spread throughout the park and certainly to the zoo parking lot. The zoo will claim that people who are not paying to visit the zoo are parking in their lot. So it won't be long before there are ugly meters, fee collecting machines and paid parking at the zoo. If they want to close the traffic down, fine. But they can add trams to pick up people instead of inviting even more cars. If you thought there was crime where cars get broken into, this is a criminals dream... all those cars underground where they can hide and break into cars or assault people.— November 15, 2016 3:48 p.m.