Thursday miscellanea #480

I can’t remember the last time I had a piece of cherry pie. It was my favorite when I was a boy. I’m not sure how much I even like it now. I think pit anxiety might destroy the experience for me.
It’s 449 days to Star Wars Episode IX.
So far, this Alabama team 1) secures the game quickly with the most devastating passing game it’s had in my lifetime; then 2) already having decided the game in the first half, works on areas that need improvement. That’s quite a template, and LSU seems to be the first game at which there’s even a chance it will change.
Elon Musk has been charged with fraud, most prominently for casually tweeting that he was considering taking Tesla private and had secured the money to do so.
Most of the time, a potato won’t explode when you bake it, even if you don’t prick it with a fork. But it takes so little time and effort to prick it with a fork that you still should.
I used to love those quick get-your-attention recipe videos on Facebook, but some of them are getting ridiculously complex. My favorites (for laughs) are the ones that show the ten-step process for making a dumpling, a foldover, or something else enclosed like that, and then popping three dozen of them on a cookie sheet. Who’s going to sit there and futz with that?
We might barely touch the upper 50s tomorrow night and then again next weekend, but that’s it for the next ten days, if the forecast is accurate. Sigh. I’m bigtime ready for the weather to break for real.