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With local weather finally approaching comfortable temperatures, I broke out my bicycle for some much-needed exercise. The mild evenings also brought out many flower blooms--and this bench, located along a nearby trail, particularly caught my eye.
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We flew out of Boston, MA at the end of the weekend. As we turned west, I had a fantastic view of the city out of my window. Unfortunately, my current smartphone's camera tends to wash out images, requiring heavy contrast filtering to bring out the details.
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A farm-themed park in the Kansas City area opened for the season on Saturday. High winds kept many locals away, allowing us an unexpected amount of freedom to roam the park. One of the many attractions was a pen full of baby goats--and we were allowed to buy bottles with which to feed them.
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My wife runs a table RPG session for me and some of our friends. While picking up game supplies at a local board game shop, we discovered a small Star Wars AT-ST painted model in one of the display cabinets. For some reason, I don't think Vader or Palpatine would have allowed a walker in the field with this paint scheme.
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We needed to pack like madmen to get our house ready to list for sale. At the end of each evening, all we wanted to do was watch a show together and let our exhausted muscles rest. We were amused to find that Netflix had incorrectly tagged the G-rated "Great British Baking Show" with content warnings for gore, off-color language, and violence.
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A gaming convention occurred this weekend. I quickly ignored the comically-overpriced vintage consoles and used Pokemon cards to visit the game room. A local rhythm game buff brought a Sound Voltex arcade cabinet to the convention, but he decided to run a very different game on the hardware.
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My wife and I went out for breakfast on Saturday morning. While waiting by the front counter for an open table, a little girl and her parents came in. The girl may have been coming from or going to some kind of event, as she was wearing a dress and a plastic tiara. She immediately walked up to us--total strangers in her eyes--and handed us small pieces of blank paper, saying we were invited to her princess party. I knew I had to take a picture to "save the date".
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One of my college friends is an avid home cook and sometimes invites us over for hot pot. I've attended several times, but my wife never had the chance until this week. Luckily for her, this time he prepared quite a spread, including shrimp, bok choy, and pork belly.
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Kansas City International Airport has a new central terminal. Ahead of starting operations, and before even some of the gates had finished construction, the building opened for limited tours for the general public. It was odd seeing a terminal with no open businesses, no airline staff, and no aircraft: observant viewers will notice the empty ramp on either side of the walkway joining concourses A and B.
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I was a big fan of Harry Potter when I was young, so I decided to buy Hogwarts Legacy for PlayStation 5 last week. I tried to pre-order it on Wednesday, but it turned out the local video game shop had broken street date, and I ended up getting a physical copy two days early.
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The college campus I visited last week has a display shelf near the mathematics department office. Among curio such as tangrams and Rubik's Cubes, I spotted these glass drinking cups. Each one describes a mathematical constant and marks that number of fluid ounces in the cup.
Week 04: Beating an NES Classic
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I loved the cartoon show "Bucky O'Hare" as a child. Many years later, I discovered that it started as a comic book series, and it had two video game adaptations. A friend sold me his copy of the NES title, and while I love playing it, the game is very difficult. This week I finally beat it on-console (without save states) for the first time--and I happened to get a 1cc to boot.
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I don't visit the airport nearly as often as I used to, since I now work from home and our house is a very long drive away. This week I had a chance to visit during the day, and I jumped on that chance. It also gave me an opportunity to test my new smartphone's camera on a subject I've taken many photos of.
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A small creek runs through our neighborhood, and a footpath follows part of it. The creek has many bends and curves that erode one bank much more than the other. A prominent example is the soil underneath this tree, much of whose roots are exposed and dangle seemingly precariously over the water.
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I purchased an interim smartphone while waiting for my F(x)tec Pro1 X to arrive. The Nokia G21 is fairly cheap as far as smartphones go, at least in the United States, but it boasts a 50-megapixel main camera. While on a walk around a local park, I decided to test it out.
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