We're heading down to the North Michigan Ave part of the world in a little while. Hopefully it'll be early enough and far away enough that we won't run into any traffic issues. Looks like all the closed streets are well south, down in your neck of the woods.

Weird response.

Strawberry Mac sounds good and it reminds me of a watermelon salad that I had at a friend's house. I've made several variations on it.

The original recipe is chunks of watermelon, slivered onions, chunked feta cheese, sprigs of mint, and an oil and vinegar dressing. The proportions of each are totally up to the cook.

I'm on the fence about the cheese, so I usually leave it out. I'm not wild about mint, so I swap it for dill or cilantro, but basil would also work. I season the oil and vinegar dressing with salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and powdered garlic. (I prefer fresh garlic most of the time and I'm sure it would be amazing in this dish, but it would also make the recipe all about the garlic. The powdered garlic stays in the background better, IMHO. Also the salt, ground black and cayenne peppers, and ground garlic seem to help the vinaigrette emulsify.)

I'm sure this would also be good made with other melons or a medley of them.

This salad is great the first day and arguably better on the second, after the flavors have blended, although this may be more true of my non-cheese version. It doesn't seem like feta would be happy in watermelon juice for very long. A

That is hilarious! Thank you, Doug.

A very surprising source.

I wondered about how you get those things on a horse. YouTube to the rescue.

Speaking of algorithms, what I really want is the ability to search, and specify what not to see, particularly on Amazon, esp since the minus sign thing seems not to work anymore.

How can anyone be surprised?

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@Mik

Very cool! I didn't know you are still consulting.

Medical issues are one area where I think AI can be valuable. I've been following Eric Topol's blog on Substack. He's had some interesting stuff on AI. And a whole bunch of other medicine and science topics.

https://erictopol.substack.com/

@Jodi said in It's about my age:

Such a pretty color.

I thought so, too! It's a happy color and it made me smile when I saw it.

Oh my....

How awful, esp because the victims are so young 😞

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I looked at it and saw that it was unembedded and though it was probably better that way, but thanks! 😅

ETA but I fixed it anyway, since I think everyone needs to see this.