Lightly Seasoned Miscellany

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:22:05 -0500

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Season 1 of this show was just so good. Writing this after finally watching through all nine seasons. Raymond Burr (or maybe it was the writers) refined the character in the next 8 seasons to have Perry not so willing to really push the envelope on how he handles cases. They also really pushed the hinted-at relationship between Mason and Della Street.

And as a red-blooded, cis white man, oh the women. So many gorgeous women in all 9 seasons of this show but I’ve got a real soft spot for Barbara Hale. The then 35-year old Hale was … 🚬🔥

Yowza.

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:10:41 -0500

Watched: Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness: An almost History of America S1E2, Farewell 🍿

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Episodes one and two have been a bit uneven in my book. Thumbs up because the last skit in episode 2 hit a bit too close to home on this 4th of July Eve 🤣

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:08:46 -0500

Watched: Silo S3E1, Who Are You? 🍿

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Great to see the series back for another season. First episode was great and started introducing how things ended up with everyone in silos.

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 19:37:33 -0500

Every time he writes about it I never understand why John Gruber spends so much time railing against Electron and Electron-based applications, while at the same time using the phrase “Mac-assed”. I know which is worse and it’s not Electron 🤣

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:15:20 -0500

As cool as the Chicago street races were It’s great to see NASCAR back at Chicagoland Speedway this weekend. It’s been 7 years since the last time on the 1.5 miler!

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:36:28 -0500

Thankful that it’s going to be significantly cooler today here in Chicagoland. I feel fortunate that we didn’t have a run of heat like they had in Europe.

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:01:39 -0500

I keep wanting to like the Vivaldi web browser but something about it is just off for me.

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:51:00 -0500

Just a friendly reminder that today, 7/2, is the midpoint of the year. It’s all downhill from here! 🤣

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:51:00 -0500

Watched: The Woman in Cabin 10 🍿

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Terrible. Tomatometer rating of 28% for a good reason. Nevertheless there are 4 and 5 star reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. I guess you can never count on someone having good taste. One reviewer gave it 5 stars and said “I love a film that leaves me gasping.” Me too when it’s not a film that leaves me gasping for the wrong reasons. How does Guy Pearce go from movies like L.A. Confidential, The Kings Speech, and Memento to trash like this?

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:48:58 -0500

Ever feel like a bunch of small failures might lead to something that finally feels right and sticks? Me too.

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:37:29 -0500

Gruber writes at Daring Fireball:

Gergely Orosz, writing at The Pragmatic Engineer (which, sadly, is a Substack blog)

Sadly? Easy for a very popular tech blogger to say.

Why do you care man? It’s a huge platform with seemingly very few downsides for the average person using it.

These folks need to get over themselves.

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:36:28 -0500

Good to see that not only did Anthropic release Sonnet 5 to the world but Fable/Mythos will be back soon.