Din din: smoky taro hummus inspired by Merriman’s. Tip, it needed considerably more fresh lemon juice and olive oil than this recipe suggests; 3/4 cup lemon juice and probably about the same for oil. www.recipezazz.com/recipe/smoke...

Din din: sourdough pub cheese avocado toast with smoked salt, microgreens, and red onion.

Some winter joy to brighten your day.

Maybe (likely?) this is all on me, but for years my Insta FYP has been weird to the point of jawdroppingly surreal. I’m not sure what to make of it, other than it’s an extremely interesting and heads ratching business choice/strategy.

Vail Resorts needs to pick itself up out of this “Epic” yard sale of a season start, take care of its patrollers, and take care of its customers. No brainer. Still last place in the Powder 8. #vailresorts #vailskipatrol #aspenextreme townlift.com/2024/12/park...

Friendly reminder. 🎅🎄🩲

listening to the only Christmas album that matters

When you move from Northern California to Southern California it’s a form of treason on par with Benedict Arnold. There’s no denying, however, that palm trees in winter are cool.

Hummingbird moment. (Beats wrapping 😉)

I often think of the calculator when wondering whether judicious use of genAI is productive and positive for students. Also the thesaurus. (I did say “judicious.”)

Something shady/potentially actionable is going on at UPS/The UPS store. Staff are given upselling scripts that try to get customers to upgrade from Ground shipping.

Today I was told that using Ground was unlikely to get my package there until MID-JANUARY. Actually, it should arrive in 4 days.

Fun use case for when genAI meets an open API: Bluesky Roast, by @fekri.io, via @mmasnick.bsky.social): blueskyroast.com/roast/denise...

Honestly, #lifegoals: “Denise is the type of person who could host a summit on tech policy and still have everyone leave with a smile, possibly a meme or two.”

Small but mighty, and more to come I’m sure. go.bsky.app/CKDQHMQ

Got a message from Threads to review my political content filter settings. A sign Meta is feeling heat from Bluesky? Also, this filter is irrelevant to my Threads experience because I only look at the Following feed - which, two strikes against Threads, is off by default/hidden on the home page.

Well isn’t that just prettier than a November California sunset?

#underwhelmed

I don’t know why I expected more enthusiasm for writing holiday cards.