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Family selfie on Paoli.

Four smiling people posing in front of a colorful Meet Me in Paoli mural on a sunny day.
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Walking around Paoli, Wisconsin. Photos take with Project Indigo and processed in Lightroom on iPhone.

Stone cottage storefront of the Purple Goose at Paoli Mill, selling clothing, jewelry, shoes and gifts, with open door and flower beds.Overhead view of a mixed brick garden path with tan and red bricks laid in a running bond pattern, bordered by green grassRusty vintage red Chevrolet pickup truck with Lily's boutique logo on the door, clothing rack displayed in the bed, parked outside a white barn-style shop.Paoli Art Shop entrance with blue siding, red trim, wooden steps, and an Open sign beside a glass-paned doorColorful metal yard sculptures in red, blue, and yellow displayed in a green lawn behind a weathered wooden fence.

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My cousin @quinntchrest is speed-running the @POAPChallenge today! 🤩

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Giant flower.

Pink oriental lily in full bloom with dark brown stamens, growing in a garden with evergreen trees behind it.
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Milk jugs.

Wall display of vintage milk bottles on colorful grid panels in red blue yellow and pink
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Tammy’s has declared Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream the best — specifically This $&@! Just Got Serious®! We visited the Monroe Street location in Madison to have some direct from the source.

Four people smiling together outside Chocolate Shoppe Ice Cream on a sunny day, one wearing an FC Bayern jersey and one a Minnesota Lynx shirt.
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Gold Rush at Escape in Time

We solved the Gold Rush room at Escape in Time in Madison today. The room is rated hard and we definitely hit a couple of spots where we needed a clue and felt pretty stumped. But even with that, we solved the room with 13m 15s remaining on the clock. We thought the location was great and loved that the entrance is a Candy Shop puzzle room that you need to get through to check in for your game! Room 73!

Four people pose with a Mission Success sign at Escape in Time escape room, smiling after completing a challenge.Colorful candy shop escape room with rainbow-swirl floor, lollipop wall mural, candy-filled shelves, and oversized lollipop prop.

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We had a fun afternoon with Madison Adventure Tours exploring a 9-mile loop around town and hearing the history of various locations. The e-bikes were great and made the tour just fun and comfortable.

RadRunner e-bikes branded with Madison Adventure Tours logos parked in a sunny lot, water bottles in holdersGroup of helmeted riders on fat-tire e-bikes gathered on a field inside a stadium during a guided city tour on a sunny day.Four people in bike helmets take a selfie in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol building on a sunny day.Group of people in helmets standing with fat-tire e-bikes on a grassy park lawn beside a lake on a sunny summer day.

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Emerged from water

Saw this prompt and wanted to give it a try.

Me
Middle-aged man with short hair wearing a black jacket looks directly at the camera in a home kitchen setting.

A black and white close-up portrait with visible water droplets and small bubbles on the face like the subject just emerged from water. The mood should feel intense and cinematic, with a dark, minimal background.

GPT-4o
Bald middle-aged man staring intensely at camera his face covered in water droplets against a black background

Looks really intense to me. I’m not so sure it looks like me, but it does look a lot like my Grandpa to me. Oh wait, maybe I’m just old!? 😬

See my cousin Quinn’s.

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A brand new AI startup with great pedigree and a $12 billion valuation.

Thinking Machines Lab, a buzzy AI startup founded by Mira Murati, raised $2bn in new capital, valuing the firm at $12bn. Ms Murati has recruited an impressive roster of researchers from OpenAI, where she was previously chief technology officer. That helped to persuade Nvidia and AMD, two giant chipmakers, to invest, even though the firm currently lacks much of a strategy (or revenue). — Economist, World in Brief, July 16, 2025

These numbers make the “dot com” bubble look like nothing.