Spot Reviews 02/11/22
Feb 11 2022
Food - Trader Joe's Beef Tamales [+] Two beef tamales which you microwave for four minutes and they're ready to eat. I've had Mexican market tamales and restaurant tamales and these are about the same -- good not great but better than I'd expect from an American market. 480 calories for $3 or $4 I think.
Web Site - Nextdoor [/] Nextdoor is a neighborhood community site that wants to be a third place for communities. It groups people into communities and then people (and businesses) can post on various topics. I find that it tends to be more about bad news than good (and mind you even if it were say 25% bad news the world is far better than 75% good it's just that people are more likely to post bad/negative stuff, contented people don't tend to post). So I do find Nextdoor of mixed usefulness and mostly ignore it.
TV Show - Doctor Who s13 (2021) [-] This is Jodie Whittaker's third season as The Doctor. Series 13 is a six-episode arc, the Flux, about an event that's destroying the universe unless The Doctor and her companions can stop it. Since I haven't seen the two previous seasons it was a bit confusing though apparently most of the elements are new -- the current show runners don't do as many callbacks+development as previous ones. Also they were trying to do it more serially so you get a sort of mishmash of separate episodes cut up and assembled into each released episode. Overall a poor season which sucks as I don't want the blame to be female Doctor rather than poor show running.
Web Site - Nextdoor [/] Nextdoor is a neighborhood community site that wants to be a third place for communities. It groups people into communities and then people (and businesses) can post on various topics. I find that it tends to be more about bad news than good (and mind you even if it were say 25% bad news the world is far better than 75% good it's just that people are more likely to post bad/negative stuff, contented people don't tend to post). So I do find Nextdoor of mixed usefulness and mostly ignore it.
TV Show - Doctor Who s13 (2021) [-] This is Jodie Whittaker's third season as The Doctor. Series 13 is a six-episode arc, the Flux, about an event that's destroying the universe unless The Doctor and her companions can stop it. Since I haven't seen the two previous seasons it was a bit confusing though apparently most of the elements are new -- the current show runners don't do as many callbacks+development as previous ones. Also they were trying to do it more serially so you get a sort of mishmash of separate episodes cut up and assembled into each released episode. Overall a poor season which sucks as I don't want the blame to be female Doctor rather than poor show running.