Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) [/] A $150M budget Netflix movie. Thirty years later Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returns to Beverly Hills to find missing old friend Billy Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and also help his estranged defense attorney daughter Jane (Taylour Paige). Jeffrey (Paul Reiser) is Foley's boss back in Detroit, John Taggart (John Ashton) is now Chief of BHPD, and Serge (Bronson Pinchot) makes a cameo appearance. Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Detective Bobby Abbott, Jane's ex-boyfriend who ends up being Axel's partner in crime... It's an 80's style action movie with modern sensibilities. Better writing than BHC 1 and 2 which I just watched. Acting is mostly good though Murphy lacks a little vitality (then again he is playing an old wise-cracking cop).

Super Leap Day (2021) [+] This is an Apple Arcade cartoony arcade game vertical platformer. Your little guys is constantly moving back and forth (he bounces off walls) and you have one control: tap to jump, though you can also double jump. You are constantly moving up platforms and sometimes side to side to different screens. Collect fruits. Various items to interact with such as trampolines, grab handles (to make you stop), and pipes that suck you in. Also supports two players playing on the same level for maximum chaos. Seems quite polished and a fun game though not for me. Seems like a game kids would like but it maybe requires too much skill.

INKS.+ (2021) [/] INKS is a pinball puzzle game. Each level is a different pinball layout with flippers on the bottom and maybe other places. You are trying to hit all the targets in the fewest number of balls. Visually appealing game and fairly challenging if you want to get gold star on every level.

Falling Free (1988) [/] Science fiction novel by Lois McMaster Bujold. Although set in her Vorkosigan Saga it's like a couple of hundred years previous to anything else and is a standalone story. Human engineer Leo Graf is assigned to a corporate space station that's been developing Quaddies, a genetically modified human race with two extra arms instead of legs. When the corporation decides the project is a failure Leo comes up with an audacious plan to save the Quaddies from extermination... The story moves quickly, mostly interesting, and I like the engineering bits (Leo often has long speeches about various space engineering things).

Trader Joe's Braised Pork Shoulder in a Fig & Apricot Sauce [/] This is pretty good. Pre-cooked so you just heat it up. I opened the package and cut out some slices and used some sauce, microwave then eat with rice or spaghetti. It is sweeter than I'd like (which is close to zero sweetness). $8 per pound and comes boxed about 1-1/2 pounds.

Doctor Who gets a new regeneration (though the 14th Doctor once again played by David Tennant is still around somewhere). Doctor #15 is playd by Ncuti Gatwa who brings a whole lot of energy and life to the role. Modern day Londoner Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) joins the Doctor this season which ran 8 episodes plus the Christmas-time prequel that introduced Ruby.

14.0 (Prequel) The Church on Ruby Road. Airship goblins steal a baby because even goblins need to eat.

14.1 Space Babies. A space station where ultra-smart babies operate it and hide from the Boogey Monster.

14.2 The Devil's Chord. A 1963 after music was killed in the mid 1920's.

14.3 Boom. The Doctor steps on a futuristic land mine and needs Ruby's help to disarm it.

14.4 73 Yards. In this Doctor-light episode he disappears and Ruby is stalked by a mysterious woman who always keeps 73 yards away from her. This is a really creepy episode and reminds me of when the Weeping Angels first appeared. The ending though leaves the question of what the woman was saying to anyone who talked to her.

14.5 Dot and Bubble. In a world where everyone lives in a VR bubble that even tells them where to walk, people are disappearing because there are monsters outside which the VR system apparently does not detect.

14.6 Rogue. Georgian era England. A posh party is infested with cos-playing aliens who use human bodies as their costumes.

14.7 The Legend of Ruby Sunday. The Doctor enlists Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) and UNIT's help to find out who Ruby's mother really is but instead unleashes a great evil (from the Tom Baker era) on the Universe.

14.8 Empire of Death. With everyone in the Universe dying it's up to the Doctor, Ruby, and Mel Bush (Bonnie Langford) to save life itself.

I love this Doctor. I love the episode 73 Yards. Everything else is fairly good if you accept the bonkers that is current Doctor Who (it's a show that is mostly internally consistent with itself but not with reality, even sci-fi reality).

I've used Apple Notes app for years. The best thing is that it's on all Apple devices and syncing has gotten really good so it's a reliable information repository.

I used to organize notes by folders but that's a little inconsistent between Apple devices (Mac shows it a bit different than iOS/iPad OS). I find it's easier to have one big folder and just name the notes with Category: Note Name then favorite/pin my 7 often used note pages. That keeps the notes list consistent between devices.

I often use lists and also todo lists. TODO lists are slightly finicky -- I sometimes try to double tap to change a word and sometimes it selects the line and moves it. It's not a real TODO list app since all a Notes TODO list is a bubble checkmark -- it doesn't archive the done entries nor can you prioritize them.

I stopped using the table feature. If you just create a simple table and don't update it then it works fine. If you edit entries a lot often the cursor not track the text correctly. Also hard to reorder entries and there are no table formatting options.

I do like the search since it searches all notes at once, though I guess I don't use it much since each of my Note pages is fairly small.

What I used to do is have BBEdit and a folder of notes and have one window hold multiple open files. Then on the left is the file list and I could just click to get to a note page and edit it. And BBEdit auto-saves the working copies so I've never lost data.

Notes app replicates that experience and adds syncing (and tables and lists).

Actually Notes app undo is quite bad. BBEdit I can edit a document, edit a second document, go back to the first document and start undoing (unlimited undos). Notes app you can only undo while you're on the page. Even going to another Mac application and back to Notes undo has already reset to 0 undos.

+ List view organization of notes pages
+ Simple text editor pages for info
+ Syncs quickly between Apple devices

- Undo is not dependable
- TODO list support is minimal
- Table support is both minimal and a little buggy

As an example of usage these are my frequent Notes pages:

Diary - jot down entries which I then copy weekly to a Journal entry.
Purchases - things to buy, with links
Purchases from Podcasts - Fear of a Black Dragon and Between Two Cairns reviewed RPG products
Reviews - list of things to review later, sometimes small reviews I can copy to Spot Reviews
TODOs - my main TODO list but mostly a "what did I do today" tracker for the last two or three days
Twitch Streams - info about Twitch, mod notes
Watching - tv shows I'm watching so I remember what episodes I'm on and make sure I watch broadly not narrowly

Lessons in Chemistry (2023) [+] Eight episode drama mini-series on Apple TV+. Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson), a chemist in the 1960's, falls in love with fellow chemist Calvin Evans (Lewis Pullman). When he dies she's kind of shoved out the door because she's a woman and never got her PhD and (skip a few years) she somehow becomes the host of a popular cooking show. Now a single mother she and her strong convictions are at odds with television behind-the-scenes reality and meanwhile her daughter Madeline (Alice Halsey) goes searching for more information about her father... Episode one not that interesting but it picks up and by episode three it's a surprisingly interesting story. I'm not sure there's much of a point to the story other than looking at this two periods in Elizabeth's life.

Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) [/] After Captain Bogomil (Ronny Cox) is shot while working on a case Detroit Detective Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) returns to Beverly Hills to find the mastermind behind the Alphabet Crimes. Once again he's joined by Detectives Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton) and they have to do the investigation on the down low... I think this is better than the first movie. A bit more polished and more focused on the story and the action scenes are better.

Jetpack Joyride+ (2021) [/] This is the Apple Arcade version of Jetpack Joyride, an endless runner where you are a man with a jetpack running forever to the right. The only control is tap on the screen to launch yourself up and you keep your finger down to keep the jetpack going. It's all about carefully jumping or jump gliding to pick up coins and avoid obstacles. There are powerups which change your behavior, like a small mech that hops and doesn't stay up in the air but can absorb one hit. Graphics are like a coin-op arcade game and gameplay is smooth.

Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector+ (2021) [-] Apple Arcade version of the 2014 Neko Atsume. In this game you accessorize your back yard in order to attract stray cats. There are lots of different cats, some of them rare, so it's about finding the right combination of stuff to attract them and then seeing how they play with things. A cutesy yet boring game.

Signature Select Classic Crinkle Cut French Fried Potatoes [-] Even bad frozen french fries come out ok and these are bad frozen french fries. I cooked half according to instructions and they came out a bit cold. Second time I cooked three or four minutes longer and they came out ok. Perfectly fine with thousand isle but not great like Ore Ida fries (then again about half the price).

Oh My Ladylord is a Korean romance drama running 16 hour-and-a-half episodes. Han Bi-soo (Lee Min-ki) is a brilliant crime drama television writer who is a perfectionist and sees actors as merely props that must say the script exactly as written. Oh Joo-in (Nana) is the leading lady of romantic dramas but wants to get a serious role and Bi-soo has rejected her three times.

Joo-in finally buys her childhood home not knowing that Bi-soo has been living there. But Bi-soo has written all his hits there and his work area is the only place he can write. They make a deal: Joo-in can star in Bi-soo's drama and he can room there and use his work area until all sixteen scripts are written. Naturally close contact lets them see that Bi-soo is actually a fairly decent human being and Joo-in is a serious actress.

One complication is Yu Jin (Kang Min-hyuk), an childhood friend of Joo-in just returned to Korea in part to confess his love to her. The other bigger complication is that Bi-soo is going to die in 49 days. He was in an accident that should have killed him but a spirit saved him but only delayed the inevitable so that he can become a better person.

I like this story. The romance is good. Joo-in is doing the most emotional suffering as the two fall in love then Bi-soo rejects her in order to save her the pain of his dying soon. But she never gives up on her love and even though she hides it well every time Bi-soo seems be coming back to her she breaks down again.

I'll spoil it and in the end he does die and then there's a year break and we see how Joo-in's life has changed and that she is coping and still feels his spirit.

I see that this show did very poorly though as I said I quite enjoyed the story and actors.

Homebrew is a package manager for macOS. It allows you to easily install various Linux/Unix applications and libraries in the macOS subsystem (i.e. these are applications that either don't have UI or their UI is based on X-Windows or something not native macOS).

One thing is that everything installs in /usr/local/opt (Intel Macs) or /opt/homebrew (Mx Macs) so it shouldn't overwrite existing macOS stuff and it updates your path to use homebew directories first. You can search their web site for packages and when you find the one you want the page has the command needed to install. Most package are pre-compiled so it's merely download and unzip which install fast. Similarly run "brew update" and "brew upgrade" to update everything to latest version and it even warns you when packages are obsolete and no longer being updated.

I've used Homebrew to install various packages on my server machine:

Apache 2 - web server
certbot - to update ssl certs from Let's Encrypt

postgresql@15 - database
pgadmin4 - UI admin tool (this is a Mac app and the brew script downloads it from pgAdmin web site)
node@16 - Node JS, this and postgres is for running Wiki.js

emacs - editor cause I'm an emacs guy not vi
wget - sometimes you need to download stuff

Homebrew installs any pre-req packages as necessary.

Homebrew is easy to use. It's very popular so has lots of packages and they are frequently updated as the base applications are updated.

Other package managers:

Fink - older than Homebrew but does not currently support macOS 14 (and 11-13 supported added last year and you need Xcode installed), which brings up the point that Homebrew only support latest macOS, currently 12+ and they'll probably drop macOS 12 when 15 comes out. Fink on the other hand is supported on macOS 10.9+

MacPorts - easy install on macOS 12 to 14 and more complicated on older macOS (down to macOS 10.5 Leopard). Tends to be more download source and compile though now also supports pre-compiled binaries.

Jolt (2021) [+] Action film on Amazon Prime Video. Lindy (Kate Beckinsale) was born with a condition where she is easily triggered and rages out against people and it makes her stronger while raging out. She controls it via an electric shock system. When she finally meets a nice guy and he is murdered she goes on a rampage after the criminal boss who had him killed... It's a better film than I expected. Good cinematography and fight scenes on what is probably not a huge budget. Lots of humorous bits. Beckinsale is fit and believable as a tough girl fighter. Stanley Tucci is great playing Lindy's psychiatrist who also made her shock system.

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) [/] Eddie Murphy plays Axel Foley, a streetwise unconventional Detroit detective who visits Beverly Hills in order to find out who had his best friend murdered. Fish out of water comedy as he clashes with the prim and proper police department and high class society... I watched this again and it's definitely dated though still funny at times because Murphy is quite good. But I wouldn't say it's an 80's movie that new people need to watch.

Mr Cooper [+] My current mortgage is held by Nationstar Mortgage LLC and their consumer website identity is Mr Cooper. it's actually a pretty well implemented site in that you can login see your status and make payments quite easily. You get email notifications and once I make a payment the site is updated in a couple of days so I can see what went into principal and what went into interest. It is a bit aggressive trying to get me to refinance or apply for a line of credit. I've used several mortgage companies over the years and this is the best one.

Game Dev Story+ (2021) [/] The Apple Arcade version of Game Dev Story. 8-bit retro-graphics simulation of a small game development studio. Hire four people who each have scores in four skills: programming, story writing, graphics, sound. Pick the next game you'll develop (choose two attributes) then go at it. At each stage you can hire third party people to help out and random events are thrown your way. Meanwhile bugs accrue and at the end the debug phase you can keep going until you run out of money. Then the game is released and you start getting reviews and revenue. Train your people, fire and hire people, then start the next game. Eventually the company grows and you hire more people... I found the game ok. Concept is not bad but even with four people the learning ramp up was a bit steep. I'm fine with the graphics but the UI menu system is clunky although perhaps the game would play better with a mouse and keyboard. Overall after an hour I didn't find it compelling enough to continue.

Angry Birds Reloaded (2021) [-] This is a new game developed for Apple Arcade. Physics-based knock 'em down side-view game where you slingshot various birds to knock down buildings where pigs live. Different birds have different capabilities. Cutesy graphics and challenging gameplay especially to get three stars on a level... I've never been into Angry Birds and this version does not change my mind.

Soundtrack 1 and Soundtrack 2 are two Korean romance dramas revolving around music.

In Soundtrack 1 long time best friends, photographer Seon-woo (Park Hyng-sik) and lyricist Eun-soo (Han So-hee), end up living together for a couple of weeks so that Seon-woo can help Eun-soo write song lyrics about unrequited which she doesn't understand at all and he's been living with for almost a decade as he's been secretly in love with her (though he explains it as an unrequited love for Jennifer, a woman he met while studying in the USA).

The complication is a competitor seems to have struck first so Seon-woo doesn't tell Eun-soo how he feels and would rather support her in a relationship with someone more compatible. Meanwhile Eun-soo has been suppressing her feeling for Seon-woo because she doesn't want to ruin their friendship if a romance between them fails. It's only when Seon-woo leaves for a year on a photography gig that she comes to realize she loves him.

Soundtrack 2 is a new story. Su-ho (Noh Sang-hyun) and Hyun-seo (Keum Sea-rok) are a couple that broke up. Now a decade later Su-ho is a successful CEO of a media company specializing in YouTube shows while Hyun-seo is a former pianist with a failing piano teaching school. They end up living at Su-ho's place for a couple of weeks along with potential star Kei (Son Jeong-hyuk) as they help him create his debut music video and Kei becomes a competitor for Hyun-seo's affections.

The complication here is that Su-ho ends up with Hyun-seo but her hangups force them apart again. She has no self-love and he's rich so every time he takes her to an expensive restaurant or helps her out with rent she feels inadequate because she can't pay him back. The story ends when she realizes she needs to reflect on herself and decides to walk the Camino de Santiago and in the airport Su-ho surprises her ready to do the walk with her and she accepts.

Soundtrack 1 is a good story. Four 45-minute episodes so it's quite fast. Soundtrack 2 is an ok story not as engrossing. It runs six 45-minute episodes. Overall I recommend Soundtrack 1 whilst Soundtrack 2 can be skipped.

Rick Atkinson, who wrote Black Hawk Down which I like and In the Company of Soldiers which was ok, wrote the three volume Liberation Trilogy which focuses on the American Army in WWII's European Theater of Operations.

v1 An Army At Dawn (2002) - the invasion of North Africa
v2 The Day of Battle (2007) - Sicily and Italy
v3 The Guns at Last Light (2013) - D-Day to Victory in Europe day

These are big volumes with extensive end notes so he did his research. Atkinson gives the overall picture, operations, battles and small unit fights with lots of quotes and anecdotes from the highest level to the fighting soldiers. But of necessity it's still more of an overview with lots of stuff omitted (for example Sicily is 150-odd pages which is a lot but, even omitting the British side, is a lot less detail than the Sicily book I read recently).

There are a good number of maps though not for the tactical stuff. Atkinson covers the British in summary since his focus is the Americans but they often fought with the British. Similarly Army Air Corps and the US Navy is not dwelt on except as they impacted Army operations or in summary.

I'm not sure I actually like these three volumes. On the one hand a very thorough work. On the other hand it's such a big area and he wants to cover it down to low level that I feel I didn't get as much out of it as I should have. I think the low level stuff I'd rather read separate books because what he has gives a feel without substance..

The other thing I didn't appreciate is that he doesn't like Patton, doesn't like Eisenhower, doesn't like Montgomery, doesn't like most of the generals, sort of in that order. I guess he wants to bring up deficiencies for a more balanced coverage but Atkinson has a "this is shameful and disappointing" tone which is a bit grating.

Overall it's a series good enough to keep in my library but mostly because I have nothing else like it. Perhaps when I read another multi-volume series on WWII, even if more broad than Atkinson's treatment, I will find a replacement for The Liberation Trilogy.

The Idea of You (2024) [/] American rom-com. Single 40-year old mom Solène (Anne Hathaway) meets and has a romantic European trip with veteran boy band member Hayes (Nicholas Galitzine) -- I think he's supposed to be late 20's and his band has been around for about a decade. Unfortunately the attention from photographers and hate from fans threatens to break them apart... This is a Prime Video original film. Good production value. Story and acting are quite good. Ending maybe misses a bit though it's not a bad ending. I enjoyed it.

Cute Bodyguard (2021) [-] Chinese romance drama. Wealthy heir Gu Rong (Liu Te) hires Su Jing Jing (Ling Mei Shi) as his feisty bodyguard/assistant because she seems to be the only person he can touch without panicking. They don't get along and he keeps interfering with her attempts to get closer to childhood crush Han Ran (Chang Zhe Kuan), now a successful author... I watched four episodes and I'm sure the turn is coming but boy is the guy really annoying and the girl not much better. My Prime Video is expiring and with the remaining time I'd rather watch something else.

The Intrepid Saga (2016) [/] This three novel series mostly follows Tanis Richards, disgraced ex-special forces assigned as new head of security for the Intrepid -- a new class of colony ship -- which will be completed in a year if terrorists don't destroy it. In book 2 the Intrepid is on its way but suffers sabotage near a desolate star and Tanis has to save the ship. In book 3 the Intrepid limps into an uninhabited star system to repair but finds an unexpected ship of refugees who they help over the next 100 years whilst a criminal mastermind plots the downfall of Tanis and the Intrepid's leadership... This series is set in the Aeon-14 universe and starts in Mars of the 41st century. Lots of high tech and body mods but no FTL (later in the universe timeline FTL is developed which sparks an interstellar war). It's an interesting universe but I found these three books not that engrossing and I don't think I'll read the Orion War series set in the same universe. Perhaps if I had read it instead of listening to an audio book.

Leo's Fortune+ (2021) [/] This is the Apple Arcade version of Leo's Fortune, a side-scrolling platform puzzle game where you maneuver Leo (a furry head muppet) using left, right, and jump buttons. You go from start to finish picking up coins, pushing buttons, and avoiding traps. It's a cutesy game though better with a controller than touch.

Izakaya Mai, San Mateo - Curry Champon [+] "Creamy pork broth with Japanese Curry topped with stir fried veggies, pork, seafood mix, fish cakes, sesame seed, jalapeno, and green onions." I had this with Champon Noodle (wheat flour and egg). It has a light curry flavor and maybe a little spicy though I didn't notice. It has cabbage but very soft. Quite filling. $21 via Doordash.

The Expanse is a science fiction series that aired on SyFy for three seasons then Amazon Prime Video for another three after SyFy cancelled it.

It's set maybe 100 years in the future where mankind is split into three polities: United Nations of Earth and Luna with the bulk of humanity and bulk of resources, Martian Congressional Republic with a bit better tech to offset the UN's numbers, and the independent Belters downtrodden by both major powers.

The series is mostly two parallel tracks (they're based on books written by two authors each of which wrote one plot line). The crew of the Rocinante is the primary plot: James Holden (Steven Strait) as Earther captain and moral compass, Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper) as Belter engineer with a dark past, Amos Burton (Wes Chatham) as Earther mechanic quick to resort to violence but in an unfeeling way (violence is an easy tool not that he enjoys or hates it), and Alex Kamal (Cas Anvar) as Martian pilot and former military. An eclectic group worthy of the settings (which was originally developed to be an RPG).

In season one the other plot line follows Belter detective Joe Miller (Thomas Jane) trying to track down the runaway daughter of a business tycoon. There's also UN official Chrisjen Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo) investigating terrorist Belter activities. After season one Avasarala is the focus of the second plot line.

It's a setting of rising political tension between the UN and Mars which escalates once Protomolecule is discovered. It's an alien organic compound that can transform Earth life and one of the big corps has been developing super-soldiers with it (humans changed into alien lifeforms with super-human abilities and alien thoughts such that they're no longer human). Mars wants it, then Earth wants it, then the Belters want it as the WMD that can bring recognition for an independent Belter Nation.

This through-line continues as the Protomolecule establishes a base on Venus which is then launched into the outer planets and forms the Ring. Investigation reveals it's a portal into Ring space which is not that big but has thousands of portals to other places in the galaxy (and beyond?). But no alien inhabitants who were all apparently wiped out by something that humanity is now attracting with its usage of the Ring portals.

The series ends with maybe humanity knows how to use the portals safely and maybe the hostile entities now know humanity exists. Unfortunately season 6 is both short and sets up a continuation of the universe (it introduces a family living on a colony world and then stuff happens that's not resolved at series end). That makes season 6 the weakest of the series though in general I think the series starts strong and slowly gets less interesting from season to season, with the exception of Camina Drummer (Cara Gee) who is a freaking badass Belter minor character in season 2 and 3 and a regular afterwards.

Each season tends to be a standalone-ish story (makes sense since they follow a series of books) and the settings vary. Season 1 has Ceres, the largest Belter city, season 4 is mostly on the colony world of Ilus, season 5 has subplot on Earth.

It's a fairly hard sci-fi universe with the big human tech being a space ship engine that can pull high Gs quickly and uses almost no fuel but humans still need aids to handle high Gs. Weapons are mostly projectiles and ships have missiles and rail guns. Computers are easy to use but no AI. Body mods are low, the big thing is Belters being tall with weak bones not suitable for gravity. The Protomolecule bends existing laws, like perhaps cancelling the mass of an asteroid so it can dodge missiles and instantaneous communication across the solar system.

Overall it's a good science fiction series that is hard sci-fi and tells a large story. Compares favorably with Babylon 5.

Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set (1983) is part of the BECMI series where, for the first time, D&D eventually had rules that got characters from levels 15 to 36 and to being demi-gods.

The boxed set (from what I remember) is two rules books and plastic dice. The Player's Manual starts with a tutorial section and even has a small solo adventure and that's the first 22 of 64 pages. Character classes -- 4 human and 3 demi-human -- is another 30 pages.Th rest is advice about group play and some more advanced rules (e.g. weapon damage is 1d6 and advanced is variable so that small weapons do less damage than large weapons).

Dungeon Masters book is 52 pages which starts with an intro dungeon with level one described out and that's about 10 pages. About 10 pages of rules situations advice like how to handle certain spells or how to do timekeeping. About 20 pages of monster descriptions, some fairly high level and you have to have dragons as a possible monster. About 5 pages of treasures and another 5 pages on dungeon design.

When I was 10 or so and read this as my first RPG it was a great introduction. I think it's still a good introduction although I do miss not having a real adventure module included (previous editions had one rulebook and one module). The one level of dungeon in this set is good enough for a session or so but B2 Keep on the Borderlands has lots of intro advice and enough material for a few sessions of play.

Overall I still think this is a good introductory RPG especially for D&D-like play (which I guess is obvious but there are a lot of OSR RPGs nowadays that try to do Basic Set better).

The Bloody Hundredth (2024) [/] Companion documentary to Masters of the Air. Post-war interviews (not sure anything really recent but into the 2000's I think) with the real people portrayed in the series. War-time footage and narration by Tom Hanks. It's 100 minutes long so it's easy to follow the story and plots that went into the series. It's a nice contrast to the series, which did use a lot of the elements in the documentary.

Promise in the Summer (2023) [-] Chinese romantic drama. After finding out she's the only person Han Qilu (Ma Haodong) can touch safely, An Chuxia (Liu Nian) is hired to be his constant close companion to cure him. But being the new girl in high school who is suddenly close to handsome Qilu brings jealousy from rivals... This is 24 episodes each about 6 to 10 minutes long. Each episode is like a regular Chinese tv show episode but cut down to its essentials so that over the course of the series you get the same sort of subplots and twists as in regular length series. Still, it does kind of make everything superficial, including the characters and main romance plot. I'd say this is not a good format for romantic dramas and though this series was pleasant to watch I wouldn't recommend it.

US Air Force Doctrine Document 2-3 - Irregular Warfare (Aug 2007) [-] This is an old version but I couldn't find the current version on the Air Force docs site. Although 100+ pages it's more of a beta doc of how the Air Force can contribute to Irregular Warfare (insurgency and counter-insurgency being the two primary IW). I guess it's mostly common sense which is why I was unimpressed with this document.

Harborview Restaurant and Bar, San Francisco [+] We've had ex-WCBS dim sum here two or three times. You need to reserve and want to get there early like 1100 on the weekend. You order the dim sum and they bring it out to you. This week we had 10 dishes including porridge for five and it was $140 with tip. So not cheap but it's really good food. Atmosphere is nice -- we sat on the patio and it was a cool day. Plenty of parking.

Kirkland Everything Seasoning Breaded Cod [/] Small cod fillets breaded. You bake for 25 minutes and it comes out ok. I guess about as good as others I've tried -- tough to get breaded fish right.