Definitive ranking of Bordeaux canelés (that I tried):
1) Vanille Lina
2-Tie) Toque Cuivrée and Baillardran (regular)
4) Baillardran (vanilla)
5) Marty Hotel
6) Baillardran (praline)
7) Baillardran (caramel)
8) Getting hit by the TBM ligne A
9) Books & Coffee

At a bar in Paris. They were playing There Is a Light That Never Goes Out by the Smiths and then the power went out.

Paying tribute to the 50th Anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by also being unexpectedly grounded in Ontario. (Our flight back from Montreal last night was cancelled, they sent us to Toronto, now the flight from there is also delayed.)

Is it a good thing that a single company can take down basically the entire internet? Is that a sign of a healthy infrastructure?

The Verizon AI chatbot is going great.

The reason for our annual trip to NY: our friends’ Dog Days of Summer hot dog party. This year’s theme was cocktails, which we 100% did not know when we decided to bring fancy jello shots 😅 Raving success once again @nathanmiller.bsky.social

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Telling people in a regular train car "shh this is the quiet car" and enjoying the calm twenty minutes before they realize.

Dry January* is going pretty well**

*the month I don't put any vermouth in my martinis

**I ran out of vermouth and haven't bought more yet

I demand justice for Teddy and Lucy, who "behaved naturally." NYC is no place for polar bear captivity! https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/20/nyregion/polar-bears-kill-a-child-at-prospect-park-zoo.html

A spotted lanternfly had the audacity to land on my leg and now it's in hell where it belongs.

During my gap year, some high schoolers convinced my friend "swoop and scoop" was the latest slang in the US, but didn't define it. We spent the rest of the year using it all the time with no specific meaning.