Mount Rushmore: Movies

Arrival

Interstellar

Dazed and Confused

Good Will Hunting

Mount Rushmore: Pixar

WALL-E

Incredibles

Monsters Inc

Cars

Mount Rushmore: Sandwiches

Turkey club

Banh mi

Pulled pork with coleslaw

Fried chicken

Mount Rushmore: Old Money Last Names

Lightfoot

Moneypenny

Poindexter

Drinkwine

Favorite Foods

Blueberries (fresh picked)

Pineapple

Roasted broccoli

Banana with peanut butter

Rice

Pad thai (must be spicy)

Tuna avocado sushi roll

Fried chicken sandwich (must be spicy)

Mexican breakfast

Guacamole

Things To Do When You Visit SD

Encinitas

Coffee: Necessity Coffee, Bump, Lofty, Rose Hill Purveyors

Breakfast: Le Papagayo, Goodonya, Nectarine Grove

Food: Fish 101, Temaki Bar, Seaside Market, Hamburger Hut, Birdseye Kitchen, Corner Pizza

Drinks: Duck Foot, Fox Point Farms, Saloon, 1st Street, Roxy, Shanty, Kraken, Leucadian, Sago, Shelter

See: Meditation Gardens

Walk: Coastal Rail Trail

North Park, South Park, Mission Valley

Food: Sunnyboy Biscuit Co, Grand Ole BBQ, Louisiana Purchase, Buona Forchetta, Bosforo, Tribute Pizza, Finca, Cassette Pizza, Fortunate Son, Dunedin

Drinks: Polite Provisions, Pure Project, Fall Brewing, Oddish Wine

See: Balboa Park, The Lafayette Hotel

Bay Hill

Food: High Dive, Bay Hill Tavern, Pit Stop Pizza, Siesels Meats and Deli, Bay Park Coffee

Drinks: Sidecar, Coronado Brewing

Little Italy & Downtown

Food: Allegro, Morning Glory, Monello, Barbusa, Crack Shack, Nolita Hall, Cocina 35

Drinks: Vino Carta, Ballast Point

Pacific Beach & Mission Beach

Food: Nico's Fish Market, Costa Brava, Leilani's Cafe, Harry's Taco Club, Enoteca Adriano

Drinks: PB Pub, Maverick's Beach Club, Duck Dive, West End, Tavern, Silver Fox

Walk: The strand or the bay (good people watching)

Ocean Beach, Point Loma, Sunset Cliffs

Food: Ikes Love and Sandwiches, OB Noodle House, It's Raw Poke

Drinks: OB Brewery, Harbor Town Pub, Eppig Brewing, Wonderland Ocean Pub, Sunshine Company

See: Cabrillo National Monument, Sunset Cliffs

La Jolla

See: La Jolla Cove (seals), Mount Soledad (views)

Walk: La Jolla Shores, Torrey Pines Nature Reserve

Del Mar and Solana

Food: Stratford Court Cafe, Bangkok Bay Thai

Drinks: Monarch Ocean Pub, Viewpoint Brewery

Walk: Tide Park Beach

Coronado

See: Hotel Del

Walk: Coronado Ave / Ocean Blvd

Things I'm Curious About

Why a pork chop is called a chop

The real whale behind Moby Dick

Where the name "Hoosier" came from

Why tigers are orange instead of green

Why the marathon is the distance it is

The Medici family

How Europe conquered the world

How the US population nearly quadrupled in the 20th century

Wealth inequality and its historical cycles

Elite overproduction

The Network State

Sanctions enforcement and shadow fleet tracking

The physical economy buildout

Late bloomers, like Colonel Sanders

The best strategy for the Prisoner's Dilemma

Why humans can live in groups of 150+ when most animals can't

Mimetic desire

BJ Fogg's work on behavior design

Sports as a form of specialization

Sleep talking

The endocrine system

Predictive processing

Photosynthesis as a quantum effect

Neutrinos

The cosmic microwave background

The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall

The Ising model and critical points

Bayesian prediction

How backpropagation works

Cybersecurity and cryptography

How Turkish Airlines became so widespread

How the ad market decides which ads you see