Zero Day (TV 2025)

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Zero Day (TV 2025): A cyber attack takes out the electric grid, comms, and transportation systems, but just for an hour. Robert De Niro plays a respected ex-President tasked with finding who is behind it, before they strike again. The plot gets too complicated for its own good, with too many unresolved plot points for my liking. C+

Netflix

Disclaimer (TV 2024)

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Disclaimer (TV 2024): Award-winning journalist (Cate Blanchett) finds herself canceled when a secret from her past is revealed. Classic kind of she-said/she-said story told through narration and time jumps from the present to the past incident. B-

AppleTV+

Charter Review: Articles 6-8

Artist: John Trumbull.

On March 6, 2025, the Richardson Charter Review Commission continued their review of the Richardson Charter, covering Articles 6 (City Manager), 7 (City Attorney), and 8 (Administrative Department).

(Still no video by the City to link you to. One commissioner said, "I know I wasn't here last week, but I watched it on the video, so I'm completely caught up with the discussion." He didn't credit Justin Neth, but I'm guessing it was Neth's personal video he was referring to. It's ironic that the City Council voted 4-3 against video recording of Charter Review Commission meetings, citing an unwillingness of commission members from having their discussions video recorded, only to have the value of a video record demonstrated so quickly and clearly by the commission itself.)

POTD: Poseidon in Götaplatsen

"Proud, worn, ever strong,
gazing over Gothenburg,
Prompting our judgment."

— h/t ChatGPT

From 2024 07 04 Gothenburg

Today's photo-of-the-day was taken in Götaplatsen, a public square and the cultural hub of Gothenburg, Sweden. It is "enclosed by the Gothenburg Concert Hall, the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Gothenburg City Theatre and the City Library."

In its center is a statue of the sea god Poseidon by Carl Milles. The statue was inaugurated in September, 1931. Opinion on it is divided, some saying Poseidon's face is ugly (a subjective judgment), some saying Milles himself was a Nazi sympathizer (fact). Art is never just art.

POTD: Swedish Meatballs and Lingonberries

"One day in Sweden,
but Gothenburg's tastes remain,
meatballs, berries, joy."
— h/t ChatGPT

From 2024 07 04 Gothenburg

Today's photo-of-the-day was taken in a restaurant in Gothenburg, Sweden, the only city we visited in Sweden. When you have only one day in Sweden, you just have to eat Swedish meatballs, right? And so we did. They were served with lingonberries. Sweden on our tongues.