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Rue Coursol, Little Burgundy, Montreal

So, Constable Crabtree invented Red Bull?

I use Piwigo. My gallery: https://photos.desmondrivet.com/ I'm interested in the idea of statically generated galleries but it's unclear to me how this would work if you have GBs of photos.  Where would you store the images?

Did anyone else learn where Pennsylvania was just this week?

I learned the word "magniloquence" today and I'm warning all of you, I will be using it frequently.

Finished season 2 of Ozark and I guess Wendy is Walter White, not Marty?

Ohhhhh... This looks awesome!

While it's perhaps inaccurate to call the current Covid-19 crisis "unprecedented" (given that the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 led to many of the same measures), I think it's reasonable to say that it's unprecedented in my lifetime - and I'm not exactly young.

Accordingly, in these heady times, I don't think it's uncommon to discover a thing or two about yourself. Hell, introspection is almost inevitable, given the circumstances.

In that vein, this is my "Things I Learned In Lockdown" post. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

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https://asoftmurmur.com/ I often use this site with custom "storm" sounds.

Chorizo stuffed olives

I never fully understood how spot on Maya Rudolph's impression was.

I seriously don't understand the point of the time limits in these debates.

Does anyone else have a problem with the song "You're So Vain"?  The song is not supposed to be about him and yet it's totally about him, right?

I have just realized that "I'd be down for that" and "I'd be up for that" mean the same thing 😮

I'm not entirely sure that I am. I've fried thick slices so they develop a crust. The result is tasty enough, but not great.

Apple butter is in our future

Made Tres Leches cake.  It was good, but I was expecting it to be...I don't know...drippier?

I don't think I'm ever going to be a fan of polenta.

Outdoor popup library, apparently.

Maybe you could just say "hello", but with a French accent :-) I'm only half-joking. If the language you're using doesn't have a word for the concept you wish to express, I sort of feel like you're justified in borrowing a word from another language.

TIL about chicken pudding, a dessert popular in Turkey, made with milk, sugar, vanilla...and actual shredded chicken breast.

It's funny how I can suspend my disbelief about most things in movies or on TV except when people in restaurants order "a beer" or "a whiskey". People never do this! They're always more specific.