Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

My understanding is that mastodon itself supports so-called "quote tweets," but they aren't implemented on most servers. They're implemented on the server I use, though, so this should appear to be quoted.

#nerdery #mastodon #QuoteBoost

I’m beginning to think that signing up for Cinemark’s movie club might have been a mistake. Not just because it's a bad deal, although movies in theaters have seemed to be somewhat rubbish since I signed up, or unsuitable for reasons peculiar to my family. I was excited when the Black Panther movie was released… but found no passes were allowed, which I think left me out. (Although maybe not, I only realized today, since I have credits, not passes. Oops!)

Finally today, we decided we’re going to see something, anything, because it's Christmas Eve. We picked a 2:55 showing of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and… because it’s a matinee showing, it’s cheaper than what I paid for the saved-up credits.

So here I am with six stored up credits for free movie tickets, paying $30 for three people to see a movie I could maybe have seen months ago but was scared away from.

I'm not saying Cinemark's movie club is a bad deal, I'm just saying it might have been a mistake for me to sign up for it specifically.

#blog #cinemark #BlackPanther #WakandaForever

At my house for the Winter Solstice Festival (in Chinese: 冬至 Dōngzhì), we enjoyed hotpot. Very spicy hotpot!

#blog #food #photography #dongzhi #solstice

I’ve posted a couple of Fiat-related things recently, so why not one more? I asked MidJourney to give me an image for “fiat 500e gran prix hyperrealistic” but it was four months ago, so I’m not exactly sure which version of the model was active at the time. This was the result.

#AIart #midjourney #fiat

I’ve had this picture on a series of computers for a few years now, but before posting it I tracked down where I originally got it from, and dimensions.com is pretty amazing. It seems like a person could spend a lot of time poking through the site looking at the size of things.

https://www.dimensions.com/element/fiat-500

For an arbitrary comparison, the 2023 F-150 King Ranch edition with SuperCab is 6.36 meters long, 2.43 meters wide, and 1.96 meters tall. Its wheelbase is 4.17 meters, which is quite a bit longer than the Fiat 500’s entire length! This helps to explain why I’ve seen trucks like this try to make U-turns and block traffic for a while.

I’m not sure I’d be able to drive something that big safely. Perhaps others can.

#blog #fiat

You know what’s delicious? Peanut brittle!

You know what’s really hard for me to stop eating as long as there’s any left? Also peanut brittle!

Next time I should buy less of it. Or more. I haven’t decided which.

#blog