Doug's photo blog — originally a photo a day, now not so much
I volunteered as a fix-it guide at our library’s Fix-It Clinic today, guiding people to try to fix about 10 lamps, 3 flashlights, and an electric teakettle, with varying degrees of guide-vs.-do and varying degrees of success. Here are my tools at my workstation.
I installed a string of color-changing lights on our front porch. I can change up the colors & animations to suit the season. On this rainy, wintry evening I hope our neighbors appreciate a pop of color.
Gandalf is helping!
A helpful woodpecker pointed out a soft spot on our house’s trim this fall, and we’re having a carpenter in to fix it. Turns out the previous painters used a nonstandard way to fix this section: jam a rag in the hole, caulk it, and paint over the whole thing. Sharpie for scale.
I went out with colleagues to a great restaurant in Carlsbad, CA and for dessert you can make your own s’more.
Tell me without telling me that there was no line at security and now you’re 90 minutes early for your flight.
Lis and I went to a dog halloween costume parade in Boston. The very first group out of the gate was also one of my favorites. If you can’t see it well, their chihuahua, in a lobster costume, is inside the trap.
Friends Michelle and John are retiring to Malaysia and threw a bitchin’ “Bye, bitches!” party with a great Duran Duran cover band.
My new phone’s camera can zoom to 30x optically, and then if you zoom in more it will use AI to enhance/sharpen the image. But like all AI content it’s just making stuff up that looks like it should be there. This is a picture of some text on a bag of lawn fertilizer, pretty far away.
The original before AI processing:
Anna’s Taqueria is opening a location close to my work, which I’ll be happy to add to my regular rotation. I had an appoointment at MGH today so I grabbed a preview burrito from their store near there.
