I’m here in Everett at Kaiser Permanente waiting around while my wife as a 6
month checkup at the Ophthamologist. And it’s another beautiful day meaning that I think we’ll be checking out the small arboretum here in town before heading back to Edmonds.
We drove down to the Pacific Science Center yesterday to watch Oppenheimer on what the projectionist said is the biggest IMAX screen in the Pacific North West. Of course it was a digital projection but I wasn’t willing to drive for 3 hours or so to see it with a film projection in a Vancouver suburb.
Just finished filling out the voting card for Snohomish County. I now need to take it over to the main library in Edmonds to drop it off. Washington State certainly makes it easy to vote. :).
Cricket in Seattle.
Last night my wife and I decided to watch an early film by Greta Gerwig in which she stars in rather than directs. The film in question, Francis Ha, is directed by her partner Noah Baumbach and is something of a quirky comedy that reminds me a little bit of certain Woody Allen movies. It’s definitely worth a watch but be warned, it’s in black and white which is probably not to everybody’s taste.
I read a book called Our Angry Earth back in 1997 and was quite concerned about what was happening, even then, to the landscape of Northern New Hampshire where we were staying at the time not to mention the rest of the world. I figured that something would be done about the droughts and floods that seemed to be increasingly written about in newspapers and mentioned on tv news broadcasts. So now I just shake my head at the lack of global warming mitigation progress made over the past quarter of a century when it was obvious that some sort of government action was going to be needed to head off the worst of the effects coming down the line.
The front gardens of houses along this stretch of the road are particularly attractive.
I’m trying to book tickets for Oppenheimer at the Pacific Science Center here in Seattle but it’s all booked up through the weekend. Oh well, I just need to show some patience. I did but a couple of tickets for next week
Passing by the outside Cafe of Anthony’s Restaurant at the Edmonds Marina on another pleasant evening here in Pacific NW.
Looking for the best venue to watch Oppenheimer in Seattle.
I’m happy to see that my bookmark entries in pinboard.in are now getting archived again. I’m paying for this service and I’d not had sites being archived since mid March or so this year. I just saved a site and within a few minutes I notice it’s been archived. This is possibly related to the owner/developer of pinboard.in doing some work on the backend of the service recently.
And now I’m patiently waiting for an update of the Pins application for both MacOS and iOS. Pins for Pinboard is from a separate developer however and I’m a little concerned since there’s a history of good third party apps for pinboard.in eventually having their developers move onto other interests and not keep the software updated.
I like this paragraph from Heather Cox Richardson’s recent newsletter.
Greene incorrectly called this program “socialism,” which in fact means government ownership of production, as opposed to the government’s provision of benefits people cannot provide individually, a concept first put into practice in the United States by Abraham Lincoln and later expanded by leadership in both parties. The administration has stood firmly behind the idea—shared by LBJ and FDR, and also by Republicans Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower, among others—that investing in programs that enable working people to prosper is the best way to strengthen the economy.
Article describes how Marjorie Taylor Greene is criticizing the US Presidents’s Build Back Better plan in an attempt to presumably persuade some voters to vote Republican in the next election. The problem is that all of these Government programs are popular with the public.
This one’s taste is a little hard to describe but I like it. As the writer in this article says there’s a subtle cherry/cinnamon flavor to it.
Sandcastle competition on beach in Edmonds, WA this afternoon.
I’m looking forward to seeing my cousins on my mother’s side since I only have vague memories of visiting their house in Rotorua, NZ back in 1966. Showing my age here.
Our New Zealand trip is gradually coming together. Planes, Trains and automobiles!
Steven Novella of the Skeptics Guide to the Universe on the anti-vaccine beliefs of RFK Jr ending by calling him the Democrat’s Trump. When he is interviewed reporters need to ask him persistently about his anti-science attitudes.
So now I have a Bluesky account to go with my new Threads account but I think that I’m happy to stick around using Micro.blog. The community is definitely a little smaller but not so overwhelming.
So I got onto Threads once I downloaded the iPhone app but I’m still waiting for an invite to Bluesky.
Although we went out to escape the heat here in the Seattle region the lower level of the condominium where I am typing this is still only 71 degrees and we are due for a cool change tomorrow. I can’t be too upset about that! Maybe we won’t have to run the AC after all.
I like getting to see the latest Indiana Jones movie for only $7.00 a ticket at the Edmonds Cinema this afternoon.
Hunkering down in the lower level of our Condo where the temperature has great difficulty getting up to 70C. This is good on these early Seattle summer days where it’s over 80 outside.
I enjoyed the final episode of the final season of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel last night. I’m sad to not have any more episodes to watch after getting to know these fascinating people over the last 5 years or so. I’m also old enough to identify with the era.
We didn’t get down to Richmond Beach for low tide because the parking lot was full. We did manage to find parking in Edmonds however just in time for the super low tide maximum.
I’m excited about the super low tides this week on Seattle shoreline. We are heading over to Richmond Beach today to check out the exposed sea creatures.