Free Museums

While I have mixed feelings about promoting my bank, I am excited to take advantage of Bank of America’s “Museums on Us” program, which allows me and a guest to go to a handful of museums — free of charge — in the Bay area during the month of May.

San Quentin, I Hate Every Inch of You

From The Roundup:

Legislators learned by accident this week that construction of the [new San Quentin execution] chamber was well underway when a couple of legislative policy analysts visited the prison for research and happened upon the new facility,” write Evan Halper and Jordan Rau in the Times.

“‘It is an insult to the Legislature. It is an insult to the public,’ Sen. Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles) said. ‘It really is outrageous what they have done.’”

“Administration officials say that they did everything by the book. Legislative approval, they note, is required for projects costing $400,000. The administration priced the new chamber at $399,000.”

Funny, we at the Roundup have never been able to build a death chamber with less than 401,000. Guess we’ve been overpaying for ours…

Wikipedia’s limitations

While attempting to bone up on my new home state via Wikipedia, I gleaned a fun factoid about the state’s motto.

Out and about in the Bay area

Got into Oakland about an hour ago after a lengthy and mostly painless drive up from Vegas. Hopefully a few days in these verdant surroundings will help console me after the crushing news of President Ford’s demise. That and a few beers.