Month: June 2021

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Happy Philippine Independence Day!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date June 12, 2021
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Happy Philippine Independence Day!

We’re celebrating with some Filipino food from Mata’s Philippine Cuisine:

We went with:

Kare-kare (Oxtail/peanut sauce stew)
Dinuguan (Pork/blood stew — not for lightweights, and it’s Anitra’s favorite Filipino dish)
Lumpia hubad (The answer to the question “What if you took the vegetable filling from Filipino fresh spring rolls and just turned it into its own stir-fry dish?”)
Bibingka (Coconut rice cake)

I’ll be enjoying my dinner with an appropriate drink:

And we’ll probably watch this tonight:

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Every complaint about critical race theory boils down to this

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date June 12, 2021
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…and when I hear the people complaining, I think of Hank Hill’s common refrain about Bobby: That boy ain’t right.

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Happy birthday, Brent Britton!

Post author By Joey deVilla
Post date June 11, 2021
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Brent Britton, tech lawyer and friend to the Tampa Bay tech community, celebrated his birthday at the Bulla Gastrobar’s Luna Lounge rooftop bar, and we were there to join him. It was a gorgeous afternoon and evening, we were at one of Tampa’s nicest places to have drinks and tapas, and it was wonderful to see friends in person again (and the open-air venue helped).

One of my missions with the accordion is to make people’s special days a little more special, and I was only too happy to do that for Brent:

(Last year, Brent provided me with an incredibly helpful suggestion for dealing with a notorious copyright troll who was nastygramming me, and it worked. Even in small ways, he’s a big help to Tampa Bay techies.)

Happy birthday, Brent!

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