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IAN: May 25, 2025 - The summer stuff begins [1]
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Date: 2025-05-24
It’s start time for the Rose Festival here in Portland — it runs (off and on) through June. There are a lot of events, but they’re spread all over the city and don’t necessarily happen every day. In fact, I believe the only thing that happens every day is the carnival.
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www.whatcanido.earth/... This site caught my eye because the ad I saw had the headline “The world won’t unf*ck itself”. This appears to be the header on their homepage. Check it out — it’s 30 days free and then either monthly or $20/year. It does look interesting.
From Allrecipes: Copycat Olive Garden salad. It’s the one item I’m really fond of on their menu.
What the Hubble telescope saw on your birthday.
I may have posted this one before: Chef John’s Drunken Noodles. What can I say? I like drunken noodles.
1440 is explaining the Internal Revenue Service.
From American Vinegar Works: Classic Mignonette for Oysters. Or a fancy take on sauce for fried fish.
Room for dessert.
From Brodo: Low-carb Pho
Intelligence evolved at least twice.
Dancing days of the Maya. The article is about performances developed after the conquest.
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A fairly large number of authors seem to be offering their books — completed series, at least — at a discount on their own websites. I’m seeing a lot of ads on Facebook, and have actually bought some of them. The rest I’ve seen are too dystopian for my taste, and I’m absolutely certain I’m not seeing anywhere near the number of offers that are actually out there.
Two Necromancers, a Fortress, and a Titan is more than 1500 pages long. They’re finally getting to the actual war and there are about 10 major characters and four or five secondary ones that have to be followed at one point or another. There will be one more book, but I have no idea when it will come out.
I’m making actual progress on the housecleaning. Which is all I’m going to say about it for the moment.
Fireworks for about an hour Friday evening. I do believe the Rose Festival is starting up. Of course, I saw the notice about the trash cleanup downtown to get ready for the parades and the carnival setting up across the river, so I have more grounds than just the fireworks to think so.
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