Thursday miscellanea #251

Had a wonderful Labor Day breakfast with a few Rocket City Bloggers. If you’re a Tennessee Valley blogger looking to connect with others, this is your group!
Such a cool summer, and now the 90s are settling in? It’s all right, though. The humidity is low.
It is now, at most, slightly less than five days between college football games. Have I mentioned that I like college football?
Had a quesadilla last weekend with Goya Mojo Criollo chicken, sharp cheddar, and one of Aaron’s fresh habaneros, finely chopped. It was outstanding. I was more careful with pepper prep this time.
Microsoft has purchased Nokia’s handset business for $7.2 billion, which would seem to make the 1020 the last “Nokia Lumia” device. I’m heartened to see this move. It’s a strong indicator Microsoft is going to stay in this space.
This piece on affordable exotic cars is interesting, but it only makes passing mention of maintenance costs, and they were definitely prohibitive when I idly explored Ferrari 400 ownership one pre-children evening long ago. A valve adjustment, needed every 5-10K miles, was $2800, and the car had to go to Nashville for it.
According to RadarOnline.com, Jack Nicholson has retired from acting, citing memory loss as the cause. Thank you for a pile of wonderful performances, sir, as well as what I considered a blogworthy dream.