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Behold my brilliant commentary during this Merlin Bird ID recording.

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🕊️ answering my own question: I’m playing with spreadsheets and thinking about 40-hour fasts.

a spreadsheet showing two 40-hr fasts, Mon afternoon to Wednesday morning, and Wednesday evening through Friday midday

🕊️ Watcha doin' for Lent this year?

🏉 public service announcement:

Six Nations has started. Due to the size of the league, this is a great way to watch rugby if you don’t want to commit a ton of time to it. In the USA, they’re on Peacock. Protip: search for “six nations” because if you look other ways, they show the scores.

Indy-area people:

Share the locations of your best recent restaurant experiences.

Going from never seeing antlered bucks all the way to seeing two locking antlers this morning!

There’s a big new micro.blog premium feature coming soon. I’m hopeful, but the track record is poor: Main product: great overall blogging systems, good interoperability among fediverse and cross-posting for other places, has a lot of long-running open issues (quality of life, etc.) that are not addressed ... blog.grotenhuis.info
📚 Finished Reading: The Blacktongue Thief (#1) by Christopher Buehlman The narration by the author made this much more special, as did the magic system, the low/intimate perspective for learning about the world, the dark humor, and the unexpected plot structure & choices. All those things appreciated, I ... blog.grotenhuis.info

Not a great photo, but I finally saw a buck with a rack at Heron Haven. (Looked like a family of 6, as there was a big deer up front, 4 small ones, then the antlered buck.)

We see deer all the time, including herds of more than 15, but antlers are rare. (I suspect they get hunted pretty quickly.)

Buck on a berm between a pond and creek.

📑 Sunday Quote: unfortunately still holds up.

"Every job will be automated until only five remain: a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal." (Ben Werdmüller)

Courtesy of @benwerd

🎲 Reminder for self: bundles (itch, drivethru, etc.) come with the cost of getting added to all those mailing lists, and while it is possible to unsubscribe from them, there is an attentional/time cost to unsubscribe to each.

Has anybody tried Readwise Reader and Kobo on the BOOX Palma?

😷 Looks like my covid-free run is likely over. Had 3 team dinners and 3 days of small-room meetings with someone who tested positive when they arrived home from our leadership meeting this week.

🎶 happy new KMFDM day to all who celebrate.

If you live in Indiana, can you help prevent this bad bill?

My new hobby is cutting the rind off of 🍊 and trying to make my own sugar-free orangecello

Numbers were expected to go down this week, but went slightly up. #COVID19

chart showing transmission rate in top 85.7% (source: https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php)risk profile based on number of persons (source: https://www.pmc19.com/data/index.php)

📺 TIL about Walter Presents. It’s like Masterpiece, but is the non-English-language (European?) collection.

🏈 I don’t watch much gridiron.

Was that a typical amount of errors or did they have a really bad day?

🎲 Stalk the Rushes is a solo game where you play a Great Blue Heron.