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