Our first time at a Michelin star restaurant was in Tail-Up Goat a few blocks down from our first DC apartment in Adams Morgan. It was one of those places where you needed a flashlight to see your food, and the crispy salt cod was more salt than crispy. We have avoided Michelin stars ever since.

These signs work for raising awareness as much as they do for prevention. Case in point: we were half an hour too late to see those sea turtle eggs being deposited, so the next few mornings we were up even earlier for our morning walks hoping to catch another nesting. Without any luck, of course.

🍿 Paddington 2 (2017): even better than the first. It doesn’t look like Paddington 3 is in the cards, but what a fun set of movies this has been. Just compare it to what we had back in the day.

The new and improved list of recommendations made using the new micro.blog interface is now on my profile. The next step is to figure out why they’re not showing on this page even though I’ve included the shortcode.

Three key ingredients for well-being: a good cup of coffee, a clear view of the outside trees, a trusted mouse-catcher.

🍿 Paddington (2014) is the perfect family movie to which we were 10 years late, but it was worth waiting for every family member to be able to appreciate it. Too sappy and twee for adults? Perhaps. But did it make our kids laugh and cry? Also, yes, and you don’t often find the crying bit in movies like this any more.

A perfect sunny day in the Windy City, which may not be called “Windy” for the reason you think.

The Paxlovid Phase 3 trial in the vaccinated population showed no difference from placebo. The gamble didn’t pay off, and $10 billion went down the drain instead of funding many, many clinical trials. The best science in the world won’t help if you don’t have the right priorities (and conversely, stamping “science” on your priorities doesn’t make them right).