Microsoft personal subscription (365) is set to jump automatically from $69 to $99. I just noticed by accident. There's an option to step down to a classic level, "without AI", for, you guessed it, $69.

if you don't want google gemini training on your messages and location, turn off Keep Activity.

another embarassment on the UN stage.

Yikes, colleagues there said their houses were flooded. :(

Foo Fighters: I dare you to play a $30 show at Man Ray, Cambridge

Weekly boomerangs. Stupid sanctions, later reversed. Tylenol and Kimmel the latest.

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Magician, misdirection.

tomorrow in GIS class we will discuss georeferencing (chapter 4 in the Longley et al text) and we will watch the first part of this documentary on Costa Rican (tica) addresses. Poetry. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Darn, my Mac PowerBook 145B no longer starts. Bricked. 🤩

Ok, so NOW you can talk about the end of summer.

One of the bands in town for the annual fiestas.

Frogs sitting in hot water: please listen to outsiders.

Hope connecting at EU airports doesn’t become ( more of) a Russian roulette

Everything on Earth but no healthcare for all: too hard.

Hilarious. If economy is tight don’t spend money on a box of salt and spices.

this exists it is called thinking

The cyclist stop for “sandwich and coffee” is figurative language.

Barcelona streets, 2 years ago today. Gotic, Born.

airline check-in option: would like to contribute $100 to our sustainability efforts? (trust us)

Critical minds please do check out the Sept 18 episode of The Daily Show (on YouTube).

Is that an evergreen image?? 😂

Lots of people did not know that the famous Cuban tune Guantanamera (which to the untrained ear sounds like wonton amera) is about a rural woman (guajira) from Guantanamo.

Mid ride stop for sandwich, drink, carajillo (pictured)

New ice cream brand called Ben’s

Beso de la flaca. Aunque sólo uno fuera.

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

This Madrid restaurant is celebrating its 300th birthday. Great if you like roast suckling pig, and tourists. www.facebook.com/share/1BFe2T...

Our Erasmus+ Masters in Geospatial Technologies kicked off last week at UJI and here are the first students to arrive; 4 more this week. Seems to be a strong and diverse cohort.

First climb in a while, slow…

Looks like riders will not even make it to Madrid, as protests are heating up there. These are exceptional times.

Final day of #LaVuelta, like that of many of the Grandes, is a slow parade of photo-opps. Other sports have more exciting finishes…

Ryanair threatening to cancel a million passenger seats to Spain next summer. (Residents who are not bar or AirBnB owners are delighted) www.ft.com/content/0749...

Neighbors playing with friends. Good they didn’t choose accordion or death metal.

Pro-Palestinian (anti-genocide) protestors just cut the #LaVuelta stage, temporarily.

Bummer: the course was changed, again, due to fan protests in/near Cercedilla. So a key curvy section was missed.

Today’s stage of #LaVuelta should be quite scenic, thru the mountains near Madrid! Good stuff starts in 1 hour…

First #gravelbike ride in 2 months due to travel and extreme heat. Still hot today. Pic: tuna and tomato

United 737 in Asia?? Curious.

Past Joltin Joe and past the hapless Sox

Alpecin (Philipsen) in the sprint. #LaVuelta

- nobody … - me: if your mattress comes rolled up it is crap.

Extreme heat and critical infrastructure storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/a115...

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StoryMaps.

Geometry isn’t just useful for measuring/managing land, it was invented in Mesopotamia for that purpose. Hence the name.

In case you missed this while on your summer holiday... NASA global mangrove data now available on the Living Atlas of the World. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Oracle as a cloud company. CEO as richest human (on paper).

Wake up walk

so be it.