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🎵 Main Title “Somewhere in My Memory” (From “Home Alone”) – Voice by John Williams, Boston Pops Orchestra
Jeremy Cherfas (Jeremy Cherfas)Podnews has a piece that many podcasters could usefully read. The bit that resonated was this quote from Roman Mars:
If you have 100,000 listeners and you edit out one useless minute you are saving 100,000 wasted minutes in the world. You’re practically a hero.
Not quite a hero, I can at least count myself a mini-hero.
Definitely some sage advice. I recall The Economist going a step further in their analysis a few years back and providing visuals on a 4 minute video: The hidden cost of Gangnam Style: What humanity could achieve if it weren’t galloping in front of computer screens
Now that micro.blog has a “show more” button at the bottom of its web interface, I find myself reading spending 1000x more time scrolling and reading. I find myself wishing other platforms would get rid of the selfsame functionality.
📺 “The Great British Bake Off” The Final | Netflix
Directed by Andy Devonshire. With Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood. For the finale, Mary and Paul test how far the bakers have grown in skill and creativity. The Signature challenge is a technically difficult picnic pie, packed with fillings that form a creative design, surrounded by shortcrust pastry with perfectly baked sides. The Technical is 12 perfectly shaped pretzels: six savory with rock salt and six sweet with poppy seeds topped with orange zest and ...
Not a wholly bad season, but there was just something missing here that made this not as compelling as others? Perhaps it’s just that I’ve seen so many now, but I’m suspecting it was more to do with skill and character here.
Something got me thinking about comments on my website here. Almost no one posts native replies on my posts. I’d have to think that 99.9999% of all the replies on my website are now via Webmention. Perhaps I should cut off native replies just to cut back on the amount of spam I get? Hmmm….
Bodega Norton Reserva Malbec (2014) wine
birdseye view of resting steaks and the tossed salad
Angle on the kitchen counter with steaks resting in the foreground with wine and salad in the background.
The first meal eaten from the meat we got at the cow party.
The Christmas tree has been up for a week, but I’ve finally got enough lights on it to begin thinking about other decorations. The secret seems to be to light the inside of the tree as much as the exterior.
Some supplies to hang up Christmas lights at the house.
They must have a bigger lumber operation here because their hardware store portion is just barely large enough to exist. It may be one of the smallest hardware stores I’ve ever been into. Fortunately they had the couple of things I was looking for today.
Snacked on these throughout the day. They’re a bit larger than most, nice and gummy without sticking to one’s teeth. Sadly, though there are some interesting flavors, they all have a sort of fake flavor and some, like the blue raspberry ones, taste like they’d make better cleaning product flavoring. They were alright at $2.99, but I’d have been disappointed to have paid the $10+ I’ve seen them at before.
16 in L x 9-1/2 in W, 1/2 in thick, Red, polypropylene(52072)
Manufactured in Canada
I’ve got three other cutting boards like this. They’re a nice size, sturdy, and have some nice slip resistance. Who couldn’t resist another for $5.99?
Also picked up some wrapping paper for the upcoming Christmas holiday.
