Stopped by Kura, the conveyer sushi place on Lamar and Airport.  Pretty good.  Stopped by the Ranch 99 Market after to get some katsu sauce.  Got all sorts of other stuff too.

Related to the previous posting:

From the PBS Newshour:

In Louisiana, are billions of dollars in corporate tax exemptions paying off?

Still finding devices trying to log into my new router since I added password protection (Router Flash Fail).  This time it was our two Roomba knock-offs, which need to talk to the WiFi, at least if you want to control them from an app.  Wonder if there are any more cut off WiFi devices lurking around the house.

Hey friend, what’s with the cone?

Saw an article recently that had a similar map.  This one is from Slate in 2014 and probably not the same article, but has the same map.  Found the list of second countries interesting.

Ethiopians in Colorado, Cubans in Kentucky

What are the biggest immigrant groups in your state?

By BEN BLATT

MAY 19, 2014

4:15 PM

From The Verge:

WE’VE BEEN WARNED ABOUT AI AND MUSIC FOR OVER 50 YEARS, BUT NO ONE’S PREPARED

‘This road is literally being paved as we’re walking on it’

By Dani Deahl@danideahl

Apr 17, 2019, 10:30am EDT

At first guess I thought it would take longer, but then it reminds me of the similar ‘birthday’ problem.  From the Possibly Wrong blog:

Follow-up: I found two identical packs of Skittles, among 468 packs with a total of 27,740 Skittles

We finally sprung for a charger for the Tesla.  I have to say it makes a huge difference.  Originally we planned to charge at public charging stations or to just use the existing 110V plug in the garage.  The public chargers weren’t that convenient and the 110V plug took (literally) days to do a full charge.

Well, we just got our latest tax appraisal.  After being pretty stable for the last decade or so (we have been in this house for over 20 years) our value shot up by over $300k!

We looked on line and no one else in the neighborhood had any sort of similar jump.  We are now the most expensive house (by far) per square foot in our neighborhood while being one of the smaller and older houses.

We inquired and were told a building permit could trigger a change in tax appraisal.  Yes, we did have a permit to have a new line run into the garage by an electrician.  Somehow this seems to have added $300k in value to our house.  Going to have to fight this one.