Finished watching: Alien: Romulus. I’m not exactly a huge fan of the Alien franchise, but neither was this a particularly good installment. Parts of it were beautifully done, but most of it was unmotivated horror.
And the last conflict in the …
Reading
How to Take Smart Notes
Sönke Ahrens
My daily exercise minutes reflects the season and the temperature somewhat cleanly.
The tall spikes are all ski trips—yes, even into April—except the most recent, which was a backpacking trip.
Relatedly, we’re less than a hundred days from the start …
Watched Borderlands last Friday thanks to the Alamo Drafthouse pass. Not remotely worth seeing otherwise. Kind of a fun bubblegum summer action movie though. 🍿
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And speaking of backpacking, I can now add a 🏕️ next to Wyoming for having spent the night outside (three nights, really), and I can justify moving Idaho to “visited” since we spent the night in Soda Springs on the way back (in a hotel). …
First day back at yoga 🧘 after a few days of backpacking 🎒 and camping 🏕️ was instructive.
I almost wrote “demoralizing,” but it’s good to know which muscles work just fine (legs) and which ones need more work (core).
Maybe “trail yoga” should be a …
Stopped in Snake River Brewing in Jackson on our way up to the campsite. I can now check off two more states on my record of Where Have I Been.
Dinner and drinks tonight at Wasatch and Hopkins with Salt Lake City friends; the real adventure starts tomorrow.
travel
Heading out on my first backpacking trip since before COVID. It’s only a few days on the trail despite needing to take a plane to get there.
I’m a little bit nervous, but that’s what packing lists are for.
So far this week I’m in a cycle of not sleeping enough, then drinking too much caffeine so I can stay awake, and as a result not sleeping enough.
Today is a good day to try something different.
My crew is about to start a new adventure, ironically immediately after @TSindelar@zeppelin.flights and the TPK crew just finished it, seventy-four episodes and a thousand years later…
I finally took the time to write a few more VerseNotes newsletters. Each one takes a surprising amount of time considering that I’ve had dozens of drafts written for ages. (ConvertKit’s refusal to let me paste Markdown properly …
Finished watching: Deadpool and Wolverine.
Exactly as irreverent as you expect. Gratuitous violence, fourth wall breaks, some fantastic cameos of both actors and characters. All kinds of in-jokes. Unfortunately, a criminal paucity of Morena Baccarin. …
books
Finished reading: Assassin’s Apprentice (The Illustrated Edition) by Robin Hobb.
I know I’m late to the Farseer trilogy/universe, but I really enjoyed this first installment. An unexplained Skill, a Wit, a Fool, more than one father figure, …
Somehow I managed to avoid almost all of the CrowdStrike travel chaos on Friday but get caught in weather yesterday. My original flight was delayed four hours before it was canceled, and my would-be connection was delayed almost two hours (but …
I love renting a car out of DCA. Within minutes of leaving the airport, you see the Capitol, the Washington Monument, the Potomac, the Pentagon… I’m sure residents are bored, but I’m always filled with a sense of power and history.
photos
In summer 2023, we couldn’t bear the heat in Texas, so we took two huge escape trips: one to Santiago, Chile, and one to Queenstown, New Zealand. As a result, I have snow skiing🎿 pictures like this one dated in August and September.
Unfortunately, we …
I just learned today that Weird Al had released a Hamilton Polka. And this amazing soul edited the show to match the polka.
Enjoy.
travel
Just realized I didn’t update Where Have I Been after my recent trip. Got to add three countries! Luxembourg 🇱🇺, Netherlands 🇳🇱, and Belgium 🇧🇪.
(I also spent a night in Paris, but France 🇫🇷 was already on the list.)
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travel
The Atomium in Brussels is another one of those World’s Fair buildings (like the Eiffel Tower, but 69 years later) that looks cooler than it has any right to be.
The inside is apparently some sort of digital art museum and cultural archive, but Meera …
My Microblog Is Now My Only Blog
I converted my microblog to be my primary home page.
First, I converted my microblog to the Alpine theme. I love the aesthetics of the Tufte theme (GitHub) I was using by @pimoore, but it hasn’t been updated in a while and Micro.blog has been …
Took a little longer than I expected, but Meera now has a proper website with a nice headshot (photo by yours truly), a professional timeline, and contact info.
Based on Kirby Turner’s timeline-jekyll-theme with a new color scheme, a little …
Feeling dangerously productive today. Let’s see how long I can get it to last.
I have three targets for the afternoon: two quick ones and one big thorny one. So naturally my brain wants to focus on the thorny one instead of letting me get the …
“What is a TikTok dance mash up if not a digital Dorito?”
The hierarchy Newport builds up here seems to make sense, but I’m reminded of this Dilbert strip, which makes the point that the medium may encourage certain content, but doesn’t necessarily …
The previous post courtesy of Alamo Drafthouse’s season pass, which we just signed up for yesterday because for the next couple of weeks the second month is free.
Gonna try to get out of the house a bit more this summer, and into somewhere else with …