Checked into Drago Centro
A rescheduled dinner with Scott and Carrie Nocas in downtown Los Angeles. 

I started out with a wonderful Old Fashioned in the bar while waiting for a few minutes. A very subtle, yet sweet mixing here with an incredibly welcome twist of orange.

We began with the burrata salad (burrata, eggplant, cherry tomatoes, pancetta, basil pesto) and a toro special for the night. 

For dinner I demolished the Ossobuco (braised ossobuco, brussels sprouts, cipollini, creamy polenta, and salsa verde). The onions were particularly fantastic.

I got voted down for dessert, but the chef sent out some small amuse bouche desserts. I suspect it had been a slow week, and definitely a slow night (by typical Drago standards), so they were carefully balancing getting rid of some of their leftovers here. They were delicious, though the pastry pieces were definitely past their prime.

In all, a lovely outing with some excellent company.

Liked a tweet by Matt MaldreMatt Maldre (Twitter)
Acquired Moon+ Reader Pro for Android (moondownload.com)
Your finger reader for fantastic reading experience in android
I’d read a couple books on the free version of Moon+ Reader this past year and it was a relatively pleasant experience. I saw they were having a New Year’s sale, and couldn’t resist helping out the cause.

They’ve got some reasonable highlights and notes functionality and sharing/export (though their HTML export doesn’t seem to be working).

Liked a tweet by Aram Zucker-ScharffAram Zucker-Scharff (Twitter)
I’m quite touched that Aram includes me in such a list.
Read How to do PESOS from Pocket to Micropub by Jan-Lukas ElseJan-Lukas Else (jlelse.blog)
After thinking about it, I finally figured out how to PESOS from Pocket to my own site using IFTTT. The first step was to retrieve an IndieAuth access token using the tool Gimme a token. Then I created a IFTTT applet with the a new favorite item on Pocket as the trigger and a Webhook to execute. I f...
Following in Charlotte’s footsteps?
Replied to a post by Chris AldrichChris Aldrich (chrisaldrich.net)
Testing out the Narwahl microblog plugin for posing quick notes to my website. Seems relatively slick, though the interface also includes the ability to post a title and it seems to throw a php error. I do wish the text box was a bit smaller along with a few other simple UI tweaks. Otherwise pretty ...
testing out a reply.
Hopefully this fixes it a bit?
Third time’s the charm? Sempress (includes reply context, but without proper markup)
How about with IW Publisher child? – has too big an h-card
And now with IW Publisher? – also too big an h-card for some reason
With Independent publisher? – did as well as mine; proper h-card; included reply context
With IW16? How will it look? – does perfectly for replies and doesn’t include context, but don’t like the way it appears on my own site.
Finally circling back to my slightly modified 2016 child.
Let’s also not forget to see how replies look from a relatively standard TwentyFifteen site, which is a good simple look for a personal site.

The question now is will having added h-entry to 2015 bork replies to others?–let’s see if the second time is the charm?–third time is the charm with h-entry in seemingly the correct place now.
Those all failed, but if we wrap the_content with e-content, maybe?

Making sure I haven’t broken anything yet. Circling back again to see if the h-card is working properly again.

Watched "Explained" Billionaires from Netflix
With Maggie Siff, Mark Cuban, Luisa Kroll, Bernie Sanders. Explained looks at the recent growth in the number of billionaires in the world. With much of the world's wealth in the hands of so few people, what impact does that have on society? It looks at the first billionaires who were the products of the gilded age and discusses how most billionaires make their money.
Watched "Explained" Cults from Netflix
With LaKeith Stanfield, Catherine Oxenberg, Laura Johnston Kohl, Janja Lalich. How do cults lure people in and exert control? Learn a cult's telltale signs, and how loneliness and life online makes indoctrination easier than ever.
A fascinating short take on cults with some relatively recent history within the United States. It’s interesting to think about how the definition and details presented here relate to how our current US president has turned the Republican Party into a cult.

I haven’t heard it in a while, but Reza Aslan mentions the old saw “cult + time = religion” in here.

Read Joining the Indieweb, the web that's been here all along by Bill Doyle (vil.lv)
It's been a long time. How have you been?
I left Twitter over one year ago, with the intent that I would reappear on some more open platform. Mastodon seemed like the obvious choice, but profile migration still doesn't exist, and I didn't want to join what was effectively yet another silo.
Congratulations Bill!