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Here’s what happened during the week of Feb 19—25, 2024.
Thursday was National Margarita Day, celebrating one of my favorite adult beverages.
Thursday was National Margarita Day, celebrating one of my favorite adult beverages.

Travel

😎 We wrapped up our long weekend in Orlando, where we enjoyed visiting with our longtime friends. We also did some reconnaissance work while we were down there, scouting possible neighborhoods for landing a retirement place. It’s still very early of course, but it’s a good time to collect information about what we do and don’t like.

✈️ I’ll be away again soon, but this time for an extended period. I’m not used to traveling this way so it’s going to take some extra planning.

Web Updates

I discontinued my paid subscription to Micro.blog. It’s a great platform with some awesome features, but I’m committed to omg.lol and I simply don’t have need of a second blogging platform. So it’s back to cross-posting by hand, like an animal.

📷 I posted My Photography Manifesto. As with all things, it’s still a work in progress.

🔗 I reswizzled my web navigation a bit, and gave my socials page a more meaningful name: Where To Find Me Online.

Internet Fun

🟢 I may not be able to draw a perfect circle with my finger on the iPad, but I feel pretty good about my attempt.

🍺 Thanks to Kagi small web, I found the Merseyside Pub Guide, a labour of love by Phil Wieland. He also has a travelogue and a catalog of UK foods.

📻 RadioSide is an elegant Internet audio streaming web app that I just love! It’s so simple and it just works. The only downside is that you cannot search the built-in database of stations. On the other had, it’s fun to click the “Random” button.

🌈 Color and Contrast is a great color reference site.

In Memoriam

🩵 This week marked what would have been my friend George’s 65th birthday.

Sport

⚽ 🟡⚫ The Columbus Crew started the 2024 season with a win against Atlanta. Go Crew!

Movies and TV

🤯 It took two sittings (because we started very late in the evening) to get through Oppenheimer, Christopher Nolan’s screen adaptation of American Prometheus by Kai Bird. I can’t say I loved it. Like some of Nolan’s other films, it employs artificial time shifting to amplify the story. This is the artsy-fartsist Christopher Nolan film I’ve seen (and that’s saying something) so I think it’s a matter of too much all at once when combined with a lot of abstract imagery and bad dialog in the first half hour. It does come together (more or less) in the end, but overall it was more work than entertainment.

Statistics humor: I did enjoy the exchange in which Doctor Oppenheimer tells General Groves that the probability of igniting the atmosphere and destroying the world with an unstoppable fiery chain reaction was near zero.

Gallows humor: Side action on atmospheric detonation

🐴 I finished season 3 of Slow Horses, but it was a bit of a letdown after season 2. Hoping for better in season 4.

Music

Today's Chill (Apple Music)

Reading