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Watched: Raiders of the Lost Ark 🍿

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Watched: The Mummy 🍿

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Big kid (10.5) thought it was funny. He was scared of the scabbards. Funny how all these years later that’s what scary. I recall the effects being terrifying, but in hindsight they are pretty dated.

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@macsparky @JohnBrady – I just saw this piece on my transom from Orin Kerr, Border Searches, a chapter from his book on a Digital Fourth Amendment. Here also is a link to his tweet on it.

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Saw this accident on the road, a few minutes before the power company emailed and texted that there was an outage at our house.

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ETA on restoring as late as Friday. Pitstop at the house to put essential food in our cooler. Off to kill time and pray for the lineman working the issue.

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@JohnBrady I need to reset up my traveler vaults. At least for now if I get stopped, there’s no way to know or prove that I left more vaults at home. I quite like the idea of a burner but does seem somewhat impractical for most.

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TFW your five-month old falls asleep on you while you sit on the couch. 🫠❤️

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@macsparky Thanks for sharing the link. I will hazard a hypothesis that at least in the instance of the case, the traveler gave a wrong password that triggered the wipe, rather than activated Travel Mode before leaving the house. Still… not a good precedent.

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@jaheppler yes!

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@danielpunkass holler!

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Find someone who loves you the way this girl loves ranch on her pizza.

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@gabz sure it went well. One day you’ll be the Big Boss ™️

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@gabz I mean if it’s not critical that’s what I do. But I took “critical” to mean “only managers can authorize”.

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A few picks from the Ohio State Fair earlier this week.

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This girl has the spirit and temperament of Paco: never a dull moment with her.

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It isn’t a family adventure until mom gets her family pic.

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I need to dig up my picks from the Irish Festival last weekend. I’m behind.

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@gabz go up the chain until you find someone. Short email (always email for a paper trail): “Managers out, we need to decide on this. I recommend X for the following reasons. The best reason for Y (or Z) are the following…”.

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Or something like that.

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@agiletortoise ooooooo! I’ve ignored the chat console because I’m an idior and thought “when I use AI, it’s for work or code projects so thus not for my use case.” But now I see that I underspecified how I could use it.

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Many many thanks. 🙏🏽

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@manton No spoilers but that last scene (not the after credits): it was perfect, just perfect.

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My oldest has read the first five Harry Potter books in July. The kid is on a mission. 📚

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Watched: Spider-Man: Brand New Day 🍿

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Remarkable film full of real emotional moments, a rarity on comic films but seems much more common in the Spider-Man franchise than others. I have my complaints but they’re few.

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@gregmoore I’m stoked. I know my kids are going to love it

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I can neither confirm nor deny that I may or may not have purchased Arrow Video’s 4k remaster of the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trilogy, at 50 % off during the sale at Barnes and Noble.

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My oldest is speedrunning through Harry Potter this summer. He didn’t start until after Independence Day and is already a quarter through the fifth book.

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@agiletortoise YES… But, as a Sienna owner many a friends who are Carnival drivers picked it for, the moment, understandable reasons: more affordable used vs Toyota or Honda, more available at places like Carvana or Carmax, better terms when buying new. The Sienna is, I think, all else equal the best. But not all is equal all the time.

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Watched: The Odyssey 🍿

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It’s happening, folks. No IMAX 70 near me alas. But also, no spoilers at least until Monday or Tuesday.

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The theater bar was closed, so we’re getting popcorn.

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@ReaderJohn That goal was a clinic from Messi. He knew they could make that shot, drew the defenders away by making them think he was going for it before passing.

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Ruh Roh! Looks like I need a dentist asap. Feels like I chipped part of my molar off. (Thankfully I got an appt for right away at the first place I rang.)

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@manton World Cup has been instructive on this point. Much our collective discourse about Elon/X is myopically really a debate about US politics. But the rest of the world doesn’t care or doesn’t see it.

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I’m constantly reminded that in the period before and after Elon purchased Twitter, the data suggested that less than 1 percent of the voting public was on Twitter but it was overwhelming those who identified as “extreme left” and “extreme right”.

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@manton

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> “Micro.blog doesn’t “support” Elon Musk any more than we support Mark Zuckerberg. We support users who want to blog and reach an audience on other platforms.”

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This is so good, man. I mentioned in my feedback that I think some academics use Twitter/X because that’s just were the discourse is. I closed my Github Pages academic profile for Carrd this year, but if I ever build it up again, Micro at the premium tier makes perfect sense.

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Double header this past weekend in between World Cup matches. 🍿

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Finished the entire saga with the boys. It holds up as a complete story even as some films fell short.

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@gabz YOLO

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@gabz well, when 105 is the low, “fine” takes on a new meaning.

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@ReaderJohn No spoilers: it’s a banger. 🤙🏽

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@rom England found a way.

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@gabz I used to live in Phoenix. This is fine.

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Once more into the breach, my friends, once more! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (I might be the only one cheering for England and I feel vindicated!)

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Watched: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 🍿

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Might be the best in the film series. At a minimum it’s the most memorable.

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@MitchWagner I think that makes him all the more remarkable. His views changed from around the Revolution onward when many of his fellow Virginians held on to both slavery and their views about slaves.

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@MitchWagner It’s obviously more on the hagiography side and it certainly won’t win any awards. But Washington is such a remarkable character and it’s hard for us moderns to think a man of such virtue could have existed.

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Disaster of a game for the USMNT. 💔

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Proud of them anyway. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Lot of great shots from the weekend but this one is my favorite.

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The son of wife’s childhood friend watches the fireworks. You can see the crowd in the foreground. Big city fireworks make the news but it’s small towns and suburbs that epitomize the celebrations of Independence Day.

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@miljko I want one!

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Watched: Young Washington 🍿

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Don’t sleep on this. It’s good, and over the holiday weekend is a great way to spend some time. (And fwiw, it’s very accurate—a rarity of historical drama these days.)

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@gabz oh shit. My bad. You left it at my house, dude.

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Watched: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 🍿

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Big kid just finished the book earlier today, so we’re letting him watch the film.

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Watched: Jumanji 🍿

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The project of ensuring my children are “classically trained” continues. Big kid was enthralled, terrified, and full of glee.

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My modest Criterion Collection haul this year: lukemperez.micro.blog

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@miljko we’ve never paid for packers, but movers are one of life’s underrated hacks.

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Watched: Thor: Ragnarok 🍿

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After a short pause of a few weeks, introducing my 7 and 10 yo to the Infinity Saga resumes.

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Currently reading: Academic Writing as If Readers Matter by Leonard Cassuto 📚

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Currently reading: The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore 📚

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Getting ready for Nolan’s film. Already read Emily Wilson’s translation before Ralph Fiennes adaptation, The Return, a couple years ago. So we’re going with Lattimore this time.

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Currently reading: Themistocles The Rise and Fall of Athens’s Naval Mastermind by Michael. Scott 📚

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