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Camera roll (Sunday, July 10, 2022)

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Friends from Canada were visiting Sarasota, so we drove down to meet them. It was one of those days where you’re enjoying the company so much that you  forget to take a lot of photos, but the ones I got were pretty good.

Bayfront Marina at twilight
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The Gulf at sunset
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Another day, another 10K.

My bike.
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I hop on the bike about 5 days a week on average, typically in the morning before it gets too hot (or in the summers, before the storms hit).

I typically cover a 10-kilometer (about 6.2 miles) distance. I often get the grocery shopping and other local errands done this way, which cuts the number of times I fill my car’s gas tank to about once a month and reduces my risk of death from heart disease, stroke, or just general First World Flab.

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Slice of Life

The philosophy chez Anitra and Joey

Sign: “We don’t hide crazy. We just put it on the front porch and give it a drink.”

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It Happened to Me Stranger than Fiction

Okay Google, I meant a *different* MF.

Earlier today, I Googled the proper spelling of the (ahem) colloquial Italian phrase “Che cazzo?”, a phrase that translates as “WTF?” (I’ll explain in a later post.)

I noticed that Google also has a translation for “MF,” but not the one you’re likely to mean unless you’re a sight-reading musician:

Google result for “what is the italian word for MF”: “Mezzo forte”.
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Go ahead, try the search out for yourself:

What is the Italian word for MF?

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America The Current Situation

Very timely pictures aplenty (July 10, 2022)














































































Previous Pictures Aplenty:

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Stranger than Fiction

I’d say it was cognitive dissonance, but that implies *cognition*.

It’s real. Here’s the original tweet.

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Stranger than Fiction The Current Situation

Possibly the best use of “Yakety Sax” (a.k.a. “The Benny Hill Theme”) ever [UPDATED]

As news of upper class twit of the century and UK Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson’s (yes, that’s his real name) resignation was announced, some merry pranksters decided to blast Yakety Sax (a.k.a. the Benny Hill theme) outside British Parliament, and it was perfect.

Update: Hugh Grant (yes, that Hugh Grant) requested it!

According to ITV News:

It’s now emerged that Brexit protester Steve Bray played the iconic slapstick music outside number 10 Downing Street, after a request on Twitter from the actor Hugh Grant.

The blaring theme could be overheard in live news broadcasts as journalists delivered the latest developments in the political drama.

Mr Bray celebrated the return of his speakers on Thursday morning, a week after having them confiscated under a new law that aims to cut down on loud protests.