February Made Me Shiver*

The Perfecting Equilibrium Digest, February 14-20, 2024

A long, long time ago
I can still remember how that music
Used to make me smile
And I knew if I had my chance
That I could make those people dance
And maybe they'd be happy for a while
But February made me shiver*
With every paper I'd deliver
Bad news on the doorstep
I couldn't take one more step
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside
The day the music died

*Not in Texas, where the temperature is flirting with 80 degrees.

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Thursday February 22nd - The PE Vlog: We’re taking a couple of weeks developing marketing graphics for Feola Factory as an exercise to understand how and when AI tools are useful. This week we’re continuing to Photoshop the steampunk camera we built in Adobe Firefly. Seventh in a series.

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Sunday February 25th — About that time I accidentally ate Japanese “Italian” food. One of the interesting things about living in Japan is their take on other cuisines. Italian restaurants don’t serve Italian food; they server what Italian food would be if Italy was entirely populated by the Japanese. A supreme pizza comes with everything! Including raw squid and baby corn-two ingredients no Italian in Naples or New Jersey would ever use.