It’s not really her singing but OMFG.....

(Ignore the screen name; I am an middle-age/older guy)

This is not in Atlanta but past the northern suburbs: Gibbs Gardens. Crazy crowded on nice weekends so try and go during the week. Before or after your visit, eat at Les Bon Temps Louisiana Kitchen nearby.

This article from the Smithsonian Institution has a lot of info on this topic. I read in the article, and never knew, there was a “Rosie the Riveter” song in 1942.

I have seen Lady Bird and Three Billboards and liked both of them.

I also saw The Shape of Water and liked it.

I need a guide to the Three Billboards backlash.

The familiar “We Can Do It!” poster is not “Rosie the Riveter”.

Any conversation concerning swans, ice skating and the Olympics should include this video. Sublime....

I have had one of these for a year or two. It works well and somehow does not dribble onto the countertop. The small rectangular buttons on the top are labeled “+” and “-”. They are for adjusting the amount of soap dispensed. You may have to tweek this if you change to a soap with a different viscosity. There is also…

I have had one of these for a year or two. It works well and somehow does not dribble onto the countertop. The small…

Strategy to avoid that: When it’s time to upgrade (car, PC, camera, running shoes, etc), buy the best you can afford. You will never say, “I should have bought XYZ instead”, because you bought the best you could afford at the time.

Girls Scouts and a puppy. Don’t forget the puppy.

Hamilton Pool, about a 45 minute drive west of Austin. There is a small parking lot that gets full early in the day, then a less than half-mile easy walk to the pool.

Several years ago the Blue Angels (US Navy demonstration air squadron) were in a city for a weekend air show. They did a practice run in the afternoon ... then announced they were leaving and would not be in the weekend’s air show.

The reason came out months later. During the practice they lined up one of their show…

Lily James as a young Meryl Streep?

This part of the lede picture represents a Huffman Coding tree. Very appropriate, since the HBO show Silicon Valley (pictured) is partially about a company trying to monetize a more efficient data compression codec. More info here.

That’s exactly what it is, and that picture is from one of the funniest series episodes in the history of television.

I was working as an editor at XXL magazine and living in Astoria, being a cool, single person in general.

Drag him through sewage then feed him to starving rats.

I will just have to be satisfied with this: