This summer we instituted Sandwich Fridays with some local friends. We block 12pm on our calendars and meet at a sandwich shop for lunch while the kids are at daycare. Highly recommended.

Hydrangea in the front yard looking lovely. We think it is a ‘Limelight’ Panicle Hydrangea.

Loving these Magic Bullet tomatoes we planted this year.

Amazon delivery recently switched from Sprinter vans to electric vans from Rivian here. Started noticing them around town last week.

I asked my wife if she has tried Mastodon yet: "I keep confusing that with Evernote." Me: "Have you tried Bluesky or Nostr?" Her: "Now you’re just making up words."

The tomatoes are loving the rain and humidity, even if we aren’t.

Power had been out for 5 hours and the power company keeps bumping the time estimate back an hour at a time, so it is time to get the generator out.

Overheard from a NY pizza maker: "Hawaiian?! confused look and gesturing Nah. I got regula pizza."

One benefit (maybe the only one) of the basement flooding is that it is now cleaner that it has been in a couple years.

Removed ~80 gallons of water from the basement with the shop vac, not including the dehumidifier, which drains into the sink. Thankfully it is starting to dry out except for a few spots where water is still slowly seeping up.

If Threads doesn’t meet its revenue benchmarks in 12 months, I bet Meta will shut it down just like they did with Bulletin (remember that from last year?)

Currently sucking up water in the basement. Fun.

What are your favorite lamb recipes? I have a bunch of random cuts in the freezer. Looking for something beyond curry or ragu.

I love using it in the Xian Famous Foods noodles recipe, but lack the time to make everything from scratch.

Does anyone have an AI tool that I can feed thousands of old bookmarks and have it come up with a reasonable taxonomy for me?

I will admit that it is amazing how many people I recognized on Threads on Day 1. Finding people on Mastodon and Bluesky is kind of a pain, but Threads seems to have figured it out. Even people I know but don’t follow on IG are showing in my feed.

Initial thoughts on Threads:
– App is smoother than Bluesky
– No public API that I can find
– No way to filter your stream for just people you follow.
– Content so far is a mix between LinkedIn and Twitter. So it is the worst in its class.

I’ve been on Threads for 5 minutes and it is already filled with garbage. No thanks.