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Anthony Bourdain
Happy Bourdain Day to those who celebrate. Bourdain would have been 70 today. I dearly loved watching his TV shows – since his death I’ve only watched them sparingly as they give me a feeling of utter sadness. I have quite a few of his books. I haven’t read them except to skim a…
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3 Open Tabs
Three interesting links open in my browser tabs… Absolutely amazing video of a Ballista spider capturing the evening meal of a green ant in a snare trap made of webbing! If you are American (or are simply curious about regional US dialects) take this quiz – I found it moderately accurate. The quiz tagged…
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Celebrate!
Happy Father’s Day! Happy Summer! Happy Solstice! Happy Sunday! Go celebrate a great day for any reason you see fit!!
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Three Open Tabs – Interesting Links
From time to time (on an extremely variable schedule) I’ll be posting three links I’ve found interesting for a variety of reasons (and many of those reasons likely only make sense to me!). First edition – the OG to use the modern term! Tubewringer – where has this thing been hiding! Use ALL that…
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They (A Pantoum)
She mastered the art of appearing sincereHe wandered after her just to keep her nearShe rambled away only to reappearHe tore his soul out and seemed to disappear He wandered after her just to keep her nearShe pranced around with him as her souvenirHe tore his soul out and seemed to disappearHe begged and…
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Glimmer of Climate Hope
In our current political climate, climate itself is looked upon in a bad light (unfortunately). Given that fact, it’s really encouraging to see that solar energy has overtaken coal power energy for the first time in the United States: 12.8% solar versus 12.2% for coal in term of electricity generation. Maybe there’s hope for…
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Road To Improvement?
I totally love sites like this one – 25weeks.now You set a weekly “thing” and publicly commit to doing it 25 weeks in a row (there is a option to keep it private but that defeats the purpose IMO). This is why I still love the web!
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8 Years
8 years ago today Anthony Bourdain passed – we all need to look out for each other – Jose Andres puts it eloquently: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZUy_-uuldR/?igsh=MW9jaTF0MXAzeHpibQ== View this post on Instagram A post shared by David Eng (@davidengnyc)
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Sound Files
I migrated all my old entries (around 1400 or so) from Tumblr in April via a custom script. The transfer went great except for the sound files which I need to re-upload to the correct WordPress post. I suppose I could script this as well or maybe do it via Claude/Codex agent. Apparently I…