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Photos from The Huntington
Yesterday, I went to The Huntington with some of my favorite humans. Though I prefer the California Botanic Garden for its locality, easily walkable size, and preservation mission, The Huntington is massive and never disappoints. I haven’t been back there for over six years, so it was good to reconnect with both it and my…
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Rewatch: Annihilation
Annihilation is a 2018 Sci-Fi/Horror film directed by Alex Garland, starring Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac. In the film, scientists are sent to investigate a mysterious area of mutated plants and animals that have been spreading from an extraterrestrial impact. I really love this film, but for a specific reason. There is this ideology that…
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The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
As both a fan of films and a former filmmaking student, I’ve been wanting to see The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures since it opened in 2021. To be honest, I was expecting a few more artifacts, but it looks like they are still expanding the museum, with one exhibit still being built and a…
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The La Brea Tar Pits
I haven’t been to The La Brea Tar Pits since I was a kid, so it was great to finally go back as an adult. It’s not only a museum, but an active research site where paleontologists have so far excavated hundreds of thousands of fossils from several tar pits. Whether foraging the nearby grass…
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Making my WordPress Blog Faster
Site speed tests are not a game to be won. The only way to get a perfect score is to have a static plain text site with no media and no styling. Instead, site speed tests represent a compromise. How fast do you want the site to load, and how much are you willing to…
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Why I Love Ultraman
I thought I’d do something a bit different from my typical Rewatch Reviews and instead talk about an entire franchise, because I simply can’t pick just one show to highlight. Tsuburaya Productions launched Ultraman in 1966, and between TV series, films, miniseries, specials, and comics, there’s a lot to talk about, so I’ll try to…
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Playdate Review
I wouldn’t call myself an early adopter of the Playdate, but I did buy one as soon as the shipping time became a matter of days rather than months. That’s right, this little handheld gaming console sold out quickly, and it kept selling out for quite some time. I suppose the secret to its success…
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Rewatch: Farscape
Farscape is a 1999 Sci-Fi show from The Jim Henson Company, and is quite possibly the best take on the forced-acquaintances-to-found-family trope we’ll ever see on TV. Ben Browder leads the cast as John Crichton, an astronaut from 1999 who is pulled through a wormhole and deposited into a massive space battle on the other…
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Earth Day 2024
Happy Earth Day, the one day a year that we celebrate the planet we’re living on (and hopefully care about for more than one day a year). It’s a great day to go outside if it’s safe for you to do so, and maybe visit a national park or botanical garden nearby. It’s also a…
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Basic WordPress Troubleshooting
WordPress is an incredibly powerful and free content management system, blogging platform, site builder, etc, but sometimes things can go wrong. One day, you visit your site, and it’s not working quite right, it’s full of errors, or you even have the dreaded white screen of death. The good news is, WordPress itself is rarely…