We all went to Mufasa: The Lion King tonight at Edina 4. I’ve always enjoyed the Lion King movies and this was a great one as well. 🍿
I spent some time this morning doing analysis of our electricity usage. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy XcelEnergy makes it to retrieve your historical data at frequencies as low as every 15 minutes! Related — we use a lot of electricity… ⚡️
Tyler and I decided to redeem the Pokemon 2014 #69 M Charizard EX card that we bought via Collector Crypt. Collector Crypt stores the graded card securely and you hold the NFT as proof of ownership. We burned the NFT and withdrew the card. It arrived today and is great!
Rides!
We completed the Cosmic Crisis room at The Escape Game in the Mall of America. 15m 19s remaining on the clock and no clues! Room 59!
Two full Wagyu Tenderloins came out incredibly delicious. 3 hours in Sous Vides with a finish on Big Green Egg at 450 °F.
Bottom starting the Big Green Egg and hoping I left enough charcoal in it to thaw the gasket so I can open it up. Finishing beef tenderloins on here for early Christmas dinner with my family today. 🤞🔥🧊
Weekly Thing Christmas Blogs
The random five winners of the Weekly Thing Christmas Blog gift have been selected!
A little Python to do the selection…
import random
# Define list of names
values = [
"name",
"name",
"name",
…
]
# Shuffle the list
random.shuffle(values)
print("Randomly selected values:", values[:5])
And the winners are!
jamie@tangerine ~ % python3 ./pick.py
Randomly selected values: ['Marcos', 'Claudia', 'Jesse', 'Phil', 'David']
Sending notices to everyone now!
One of my favorite activities for a Saturday morning is to enjoy a cup of coffee while reading a variety of emails and web pages I’ve received over the week on my iPad. It very specifically needs to be on the iPad, with no case.
Making Old Fashioned’s tonight for friends.
The 2024 Year in POAP is out and I was proud to again (see 2023) have one of my POAPs highlighted — our Thingelstad Ireland 2024 was the family trip mention.
- Celebrating life’s special times with POAPs: weddings, anniversaries, birthdays and birth days, graduations, family trips, and all the other moments that make life precious.
There are so many cool things happening in the POAP world and this annual roundup is a great recap. I 💛 POAP!
Was seven years ago today that micro.blog opened up to public signups. Doesn’t feel like it has been seven years! Even better it still is the fastest and easiest way to get words and images on the web.
I had guessed that Musk’s net worth would double in the next four years — which would be something like $700 billion.
Elon Musk’s net worth has climbed by more than $200 billion in 2024, a massive increase in the same year that the world’s richest person spent at least $277 million backing Donald Trump and other Republican candidates. — Washington Post, Dec 15, 2024
Leaves him at $442 billion now. Just another 50% to hit that $700 billion. 🎯
$277 million to get $200 billion? As Lawrence Lessig highlighted so well in Rebublic Lost — political grift has a very high ROI. 💸
We had a fun time watching Red One tonight. We like Dwayne Johnson movies and Christmas to boot. Was fun! 🎅💪🏆
When I got home today I walked into a kitchen filled with freshly made Amish Donuts! Mazie and her cousin Nora were busy being donut makers. They tasted incredible! 🤤🍩
Hey LinkedIn,
Do you remember in 2013 when you started routing emails through your proxy server without asking users about it?
I do.
Because of that you will never have an app on my device. You are only allowed in the web browser where it is safe.
I had a great time catching up with Paul Birkbeck tonight at Red Wagon Pizza. He brought a gift bag of delicious Canadian chocolate and Mackintosh’s Toffee. 🤤🍫
Tammy’s sister Corinne and her husband Denny hosted their annual Cookies with Santa event today. They had so many cookies, hot cocoa and cider, even homemade marshmallows. The weather was perfect with fires to warm ourselves by. 🎅🤶
