Spotify recommendations

Me:

Spotify: You've liked "Buddy Holly", "Road to Nowhere", "Harborcoat", "Don't Get me Wrong", "Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)", "Gloria", and "What's Love Got to Do With It"

Me: Yes, and..?

Spotify: [Begins playing "Xanadu"]

My primary experience with Xanadu is that it was one of the songs the Wanamassa school music teacher had us sing, along with "Movin Right Along" and "It's Still Rock n Roll to Me"

I liked "Xanadu". To celebrate, Spotify played "What a Feeling" 

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(note: published 1/12/2026, backdated to 2021 when I first shared with friends.  Spotify's recommendation engine and AI-generated playlists continue to amuse me.)

You are hereby sentenced to a nap on comfy blankets

I simply took a step to the left, and the change in perspective makes it look a little like the bars "slid shut", as long as you ignore all the markers of the change in perspective. 

(note: published 2026-01-03, backdated to 2021 when I first shared with friends on Facebook)

First cross-country skiing day of winter 2020-21

 First day with enough snow to ski at Ethan Allen Homestead.  I've never seen even half so many cars in the lots as today.  So great to see people getting out.

(note: published 1/2/26; backdated to 2021 when I originally shared with friends)