¶Shame on me for not documenting the name of this extinct marine mammal…I was too busy trying to catch Renee as she stood in the center of the frame.
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¶We met Jonathan for lunch in Harvard Square, dropped our bags in his dorm room, and headed to the Harvard Museum of Natural History. This is the third museum we’ve visited since he started here. It was fantastic, just like the others.
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¶There’s a lot to see in this photo!
¶Our flight path took us north of Detroit, across the Detroit River and into Canada. This photo is looking south downriver, with Canada to the left and the United States to the right. Fighting Island (Canada) is in the foreground in the river and Grosse Ile (United States) is in the background.
¶The twin plumes of the Fermi Nuclear Power Plant on the western shore of Lake Erie are just visible in the background.
¶And you can see the moon just off the winglet.
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¶This is usually when I’d take a picture of Jake looking out the window. I miss that. I am enjoying having the window seat, though.
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¶Renee and I are on an early morning airport mission today, by ourselves. We’re headed to Boston to visit Jonathan for the weekend, and Jake is staying home with Grandma.
¶It’s been a long time since we travelled without the boys. Feels a little weird.
¶But, security was less stressful, as we only had to worry about ourselves.
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¶“Florida law dictates that special districts created by the legislature can only be dissolved with a majority vote of the district’s landowners. For Reedy Creek, that’s the Walt Disney Company.”
¶This is political theatre at its worst. DeSantis isn’t just dancing for the camera, he’s doing so knowing that the bill is legally dead on arrival in the courts. We haven’t heard from Disney yet, so I suppose it’s possible they will accept the loss of the district in exchange for something. I seriously doubt that, though, and I doubt Orlando taxpayers are happy about absorbing a billion dollars of debt.
¶Part of me hopes DeSantis presses forward with his clown show, just so we can watch Disney kick his ass. The lawyers are already on it, I’m sure. Moron.
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¶We had some pretty great pizza at the Stoked Pizza Company in Cambridge tonight. Great pizza, and a decent beer selection to boot. I had the Night Shift Whirlpool, which was a little more citrusy than I expected, but was still very good.
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¶I don’t have to fill up very often, but, when I do, Costco usually saves me at least a quarter per gallon.
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¶“[I]t’s time to love RSS again.”
¶I fell in love with RSS when I started my first blog in 2004 (Promote the Progress, one of the three original patent blogs started during January of that year). It fascinated me as a tool for consumption and distribution of content. I’ve loved it ever since and still use it extensively today. I read this post from Dave Winer (who invented RSS) with my feed aggregator (NetNewsWire). I’ve also built it into Daystream from the beginning. I’m glad to hear Dave’s fixing to shine a light on it again.
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¶It takes significant time and money to earn your pilot’s certificate. And everyone I know that has done it will tell you that the FAA doesn’t mess around when it comes to enforcing rules and regulating pilots. This idiot got exactly what he deserved.
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¶I love everything about this, including the fact that the research was supported by the federal government. I’m sure, sooner or later, some anti-science, clueless politician will cite it as an example of wasteful spending on basic research.
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¶Disney should grant immediate and automatic licenses for such uses, and tell YouTube to adjust its algorithm accordingly.
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¶I couldn’t resist, had to order a slice of coconut cream pie for dessert.
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¶Netflix is no longer our most-used streaming service, although we do still subscribe. We seem to be watching Prime video more and more, lately.
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¶Spring in the Midwest can be a little crazy. Snow arrived right on schedule this afternoon. And we’re supposed to hit eighty degrees this weekend.
¶By the way, I’ve been watching that caulking gun on the ledge in the photo for at least a few months now. They did some work on the gutters on the building next to my office awhile back, and one of the workers left it behind. So there it sits, four or five stories off the ground and out of view from nearly everyone. Something tells me it’s going to sit there for quite awhile. I can’t imagine they repair gutters or the roof on that building very often, and it looks like it’s shielded from the wind pretty well (I think it would take quite a gust to knock it down anyways). Months at least, maybe years. We’ll see.
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¶We woke to a beautiful pastel sky this morning. It feels a little disingenuous though, as we supposed to have rain (and even some snow!) later this afternoon.
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¶It’s tax day eve, so I’m headed to the post office to drop our returns in the mail.
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¶“Kind of Blue is the pinnacle of a certain type of playing, recorded by a group of men who had developed a certain telepathic sense of line and melody and how to step up and when to lay back.”
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¶I just cut the grass for the first time this year. I’m already behind. It was so long that I had to put the mower on the highest settings, which means I’ll get to cut it again in a few days. Spring has definitely sprung!
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¶I completed a pretty major update to Daystream last night. I’ve been working on upgrading to Rails 7 over the last couple weeks and, while doing that, decided to switch from Bootstrap to Tailwind CSS. Last night I pushed everything to production.
¶Getting Rails 7 to work on Elastic Beanstalk is far simpler than the process for doing so for Rails 6. And deleting node and yarn from the process felt way better than I expected.
¶And I’m loving the flexibility Tailwind provides. There’s still a lot to do on the design front, including a lot of cleanup, but the Tailwind’s approach to CSS is more logical to me and, dare I say, has me excited about improving the design of the site.
¶So, the work continues.
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¶Jake sat in the row behind Renee and me on our flight from Honolulu to Los Angeles, which gave me an opportunity for an interesting angle on my now traditional photo of him looking out the window as we fly. Here I caught him glancing at the first signs of land with the last bit of sunset still visible as we started our approach into LAX. I just love watching him watch anything to do with flying.
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¶So long, Hawaii. Mahalo nui loa. See you again soon.
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¶Renee, Mike, Jake, and me made it to the top. Pam paused at the half way mark.
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