Terri took me to The Enormous Room. They don’t seem to have their own web site, so I’m giving my meager pagerank to the Globe review over the Phoenix review mainly because the Phoenix reviewer was clueless enough to complain about the punctuation of the menu when the place’s very name is an e.e. cummings reference. You’d expect someone in Cambridge to catch that…

Anyway, it was very dark and we lounged on carpets with cushy pillows while some random stuff was projected on a screen on the side wall. There was a live DJ, and the food was very good. Something about the vibe reminded me of Barcelona, and it wasn’t just the presence of patatas bravas and tortilla on the menu. I just had a few glasses of wine, and two days later, I am still vaguely hungover. What is up with that? Is my body reminding me that I’m getting old?

I also had many well-wishes from friends and family during the day. It’s nice to be remembered. I think it helps to have the groundhog for a reminder.

From the NY Daily News via A Full Belly, 100 places to eat for under $10 in NYC. Just noting this for myself for March.

Dervala.net, especially A Marriage Proposal and Hardware.

Kinky Friedman, of Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys, is running for governor of Texas.

“We’re Number One in executions and we’re Number 49 in funding public education,” Friedman said, and then later told the crowd he’s for nondenominational prayer in public schools.

“What’s wrong with a kid believing in something?” he asked.

An animal lover, Friedman vowed to outlaw the declawing of cats and promised to appoint singer and well-known marijuana smoker Willie Nelson as head of the Texas Rangers.

PS: I’ve changed this entry because I decided to spell “governor” right.

So, the thinking behind how I used to have this page organized was that the sort of news-y stuff that I found from news sites or blogs I’d repeat in the little left-hand area, and the main original posts would go in the main area. I was already finding that this was an unworkable distinction, because there were newsy items I wanted to quote big swaths of, or that I wanted to comment on, that ended up in the big section, but little personal things that didn’t seem to warrant a full post but that seemed to fit better on the left. So I’ve done away with that distinction to make room for my fabulous listing of Flickr Tags.

And it’s made me realize that what I really want there is an idea of “recent” Flickr tags, but that’s a programming project for another day.

Last night I finished up documenting my FlickrTags Movable Type plugin, found a home for it on realfake.org, and submitted it to the MT Plugins directory. Next up: actually using it on these pages.

My cousin Margaret read my kvetching about Netflix’s selection, and pointed me toward Green Cine, which seems worth checking out.

The Flickr tags BSOD or bluescreenofdeath show photos people snapped of Windows errors on public computer displays. I just had the random idea to look for those tags, but I feel like someone else blogged it last year, so maybe it’s not original. Stilly, funny funny.