I just checked some of my old notes and I see that I had a blood test back in 2016 that showed antibodies for measles and mumps. Good to know that I have immunity after being exposed sometime as a child in the late ’40s or ’50s.
As usual low tides are always good for patterns.
My teeth cleaning appointment at the dentist yesterday could have turned out better, although it’s probably for the best. Today I was back getting a temporary crown with the permanent coming in a few days.
Beach reflections at low tide here on a sunny Edmonds afternoon.
A protest of a few hundred people happened in Edmonds yesterday. A lot of this sort of thing happening around the country at the moment.
Good to see that tapbots is developing a client called Phoenix for Bluesky
Worth a read if you are interested in accurate weather forecasts.
She describes the interaction exactly as I heard and saw it.
And more color appearing on the landscape.
I’m finally getting to see some hints of spring around here. Walking along the Edmonds shoreline yesterday I came across these.
Actually I meant Lightroom adaptive profiles.
My guilty pleasure is listening to library Audio “Alex Rider books as a 76 year old. He’s a kind of 14 year old James Bond. The author is Anthony Horowitz of “Foyles War”, etc fame.
Discovering the joys of Adobe Lightroom’s new adaptive presets.
Downtown Edmonds on a wintry day.
My wife and I were all prepared to see the Oscar nominated animated shorts at our local cinema yesterday and were surprised to find out we were at the nominated short documentaries! Still interesting but perhaps not as much fun.
Another excellent entry by Rebecca Soling today.
I’m starting to reread (actually listen to this time) Robert B. Parker’s Spenser novels.
I’ve been enthusiastically reading Rebecca Solnit’s Facebook entries over the last week or so and now I see an entry where she announces that she’s finally leaving that platform and has a new location for her essays. Well, actually she made this announcement on February 2nd, but the FB algorithm just surfaced it today in my feed! Check out the following.
More snow for Seattle but not too much.
This is an excellent article by Timothy Snyder and contains some information on how to resist what Musk and his assistants are attempting.
Down at the shoreline in Edmonds on a very cold day.
Keith Olbermann actually had two special podcast bulletins today concerning Trump’s response to the airliner and helicopter accident. It’s a great listen.
Ways for the Democrats to be fighting back.
I’ve been reading the rather long authorized biography of Robert A. Heinlein by William Patterson. I’m only reading the second book which details his life from 1948 until his death and I’m intrigued by his quoting the Greek philosopher Epictetus. Now I’m wondering if Heinlein was a serious student of Stoicism. I probably need to read further to get more insight about such matters since I’m only on page 277 of 671 pages.
Why Paul Krugman left the New York Times.
And as a consequence:
For Krugman, “leaving has been a total liberation; no regrets at all. I hope it’s obvious from the Substack that I’m having fun.” He’s lost some of his “reach,” but his new column is now at 100,000 subscribers and growing quickly; a recent piece lauding California’s liberalism—at a time when the Golden State is a foil for pro-Trump conservatives—had more than 180,000 readers. “I’m getting a lot of feedback from readers who’ve found my Substack about how much better it is than the columns I was allowed to publish—no euphemisms, room for some humor, and yes, graphics where they help,” he said. “I think my California piece has been the best so far, and I shudder to think of what would have happened if I had tried to say anything like that at the Times.”