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Driving home from Janesville, Wis., yesterday, I got caught in some light single-cloud rain right before sunset. That's exactly the phenomena required to create this delightful optical effect:

Mars Cheese Castle

No main post today as I'll be in the car for 5 hours today, with a memorial service in the middle. Regular posting should resume tomorrow.

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I'm waiting for the go-ahead on two already-approved projects with two separate clients, and I don't really feel like banging my head against a 3rd-party API to advance a story I've been working on for this app, so I'm going to catch up on my reading today. I've also got a lot going on this week, including two rehearsals, Markdig.Syntax.Inlines.EmphasisInline last night, and my 103-year-old great-aunt's funeral in Wisconsin on Friday. Even tomorrow I've got an annoyingly-timed meeting that will...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago 2026/27 Season kicks off with a thrilling fable of deceit and retribution. Under the baton of Music Director Enrique Mazzola, sharp humor, high drama, and an exquisite score intertwine in the story of a charismatic seducer whose unrepentant lustfulness brings about a most spectacular demise.

Part of why enshittification happens is economic consolidation: large companies buy up small companies until there are so few companies that they don't really compete. We're at peak merger right now because the Democrats are weighing conglomerates twice and finding them lacking: when we get control of the government (my bet is on 2031 but it could be sooner), we're cracking trusts.