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Disney, Wear OS development, Kubrick, bluegrass, the Oxford comma, and who knows what else. I contain multitudes. At the Vatican pavilion at the 1964 N.Y. World's Fair, when the guard wasn't looking, I licked Michelangelo's Pieta. AMA.

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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 25/09/2026
Tonight's sky, pre-nor'easter
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/09/2026
Perfect. No notes.
Nurse Christine Chapel, in the season finale of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," saying "We have to deliver a space baby."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/09/2026
My band of sunflowers are posing for an indie album cover. L-R: Songwriter & lead singer, lead guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboards.
Five sunflowers: the first (songwriter & lead singer) is looking behind & to the left, the second (lead guitarist) down and to the right, and the other three (bassist, drummer and keyboards) straight at the camera.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 22/09/2026
Here's our Sammy, who looks A LOT like your guy. He's a beagle/lab mix.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/09/2026
Leave her alone, kids. Gertie's on the toilet.
Gertie at Disney's Hollywood Studios. They've drained her lake, and Gertie has a green rectangular pedestal where her legs would be.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 18/09/2026
Remember, like, a month or two ago everyone in the country was watching SOCCER? That was weird, right?
Clearance sign at our CVS: "90% off -- FIFA ONLY"
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/09/2026
How is this not a pangram
NY Times Spelling Bee grid with CDEAIHK. I've entered "Dickhead," but it says it's "not in word list"
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 08/09/2026
Beautiful shot! By any chance, do you have an Android Wear watch? If so, I'll be happy to send you a code for my app, StarHalo 2!
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 02/09/2026
Our local mall is doing GREAT. Why do you ask?
Looking down the main drag of the Broadway Mall in Hicksville on a Monday afternoon, where every single visible shop is permanently closed
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 22/08/2026
Backrooms (2026)
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/08/2026
If Owl (or any other owl) doesn't live here what are we even doing
An oak tree on the banana loop in Eisenhower Park that really, really looks like the Wolery, the beech tree where Winnie the Pooh's friend Owl lives. It a hole in it that seems custom-made for Owl.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/08/2026
Can anybody even IMAGINE today's Disney releasing anything as pointedly political as "Der Feuhrer's Face" (1942) today?
Donald, dressed up as Hitler with a Nazi armband, with a little brush moustache on his bill
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 14/08/2026
New restricted-parking-zone workaround just dropped! (Seen in Brooklyn on Monday: a schoolbus-yellow windowless van, on the side of which the owner carefully duplicated the DHL logo using red tape)
Seen in Brooklyn on Monday: a schoolbus-yellow windowless van, on the side of which the owner carefully duplicated the DHL logo using red tape
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 12/08/2026
Hard disagree.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/08/2026
Welp, they're admitting me for overnight, so I'm gonna miss tomorrow's solar eclipse. And, to put a tragedy hat on a tragedy hat, I'm at 26% and I don't have my phone charger...
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/08/2026
Got some interesting weather for tonight's 5-mile race
A dark wall cloud, with a lightning bolt in the center
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 06/08/2026
Seems like a missed opportunity that Moderna doesn't use moderna for its "moderna" (it's using a font called "FF Din"). Either change the font, or rename your company. #fonts
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 05/08/2026
Visited Captain Clark's Ottoman Empire yesterday, and found this in the basement
An original wooden dual telephone booth, with the shelf between the two booths that held hanging telephone books. The books are gone, the telephone themselves are gone, but the curved wooden seats and folding doors remain
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 04/08/2026
We bought a box of 20 Haagen-Dazs Dubai Chocolate mini pops at Costco today. Got home, and discovered that -- despite the label -- there were 27 of them in the box. I hope Haagen-Dazs continues to use AI in their Quality Control!
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 03/08/2026
It's a rainy, thunderstormy day, so it's movie time
Third Man on the Mountain
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 02/08/2026
It shouldn't surprise me, but it does: the Westinghouse Time Capsules are still there! 61 years down, 5,939 years to go!
THE TIME CAPSULES DEPOSITED SEPTEMBER 23. 1938 AND OCTOBER 16, 1965

BY THE WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION AS A RECORD OF TWENTIETH CENTURY CIVILIZATION

TO ENDURE FOR 5.000 YEARS
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 01/08/2026
What a difference a day makes. Sammy got into an altercation with the groundhog this afternoon, and lost a part of his ear. We're at the vet emergency room.
Yesterday, at doggy day care
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 31/07/2026
Trying out a new kennel for Sammy today. They just sent me a photo; Sammy has gone Full Derp.
Photo of Sammy (a yellow lab/beagle mix), which must have been taken with a fisheye lens. Sammy is smiling, and is 60% head
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 30/07/2026
Just visited Little Island this weekend for the first time! For some reason, the supports made me think of (1) a cathedral, and specifically (2) La Sagrada Familia...
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 29/07/2026
Still my hero -- and far more deserving of a Nobel Prize than any of the fascists and Nazis and mental defectives that interrogated him today. The future will remember what they did today.
The Fauci action figure that I got my wife, who displayed it prominently on her desk while she was head of her health system's COVID response in '20-'22.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 28/07/2026
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 26/07/2026
Just a better picture, taken from Pier 57
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 26/07/2026
Spent the day at Manhattan's Little Island -- an artificial island built over Piers 55-56, made into an awesome little park. Next door the trestle over Pier 54, where the Titanic was SUPPOSED to dock (and where the Carpathia did).
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/07/2026
This is something I never knew before (so I wrongly assume it's news to everybody). On my wife's Lexus hybrid (and other cars), each door handle has a little depression. It has a purpose. If you swipe your finger along it, it locks the car! You don't have to take your keys out of your pocket!
The nearly-invisible depressed line in the door handle (circled in yellow)
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/07/2026
If "The Odyssey" took place in Australia: behold the Trojan Horsearoo
The Trojan Horse popcorn bucket. The popcorn is spilling out of what goddamn looks like an open pouch
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 22/07/2026
Odysseus didn't even need to get involved with the Cyclops, Circe, the Laestrygonians, the Sirens, or anything else. He could have just taken 90 to 88.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 22/07/2026
Looked out in the backyard just now, and there's a groundhog. So I'll be seeing "The Odyssey" every day until I learn to love.
A whistle-pig that's eating clover and whatnot in my backyard. It evidently lives under the shed.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 21/07/2026
Okay, The Odyssey, I've got my RPX theater seat, my popcorn, my smuggled-in bottle of water, and my noise-cancelling earbuds. Do your worst.
My feet, and beyond them, the RPX theater screen
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 19/07/2026
Out at the Calverton lavender fields today to buy some French Lavender for the backyard
Purple coneflowers in the foreground, with the lavender fields behind it
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 18/07/2026
sure ok why not
FAA lets Boeing approve its own jets 

The federal agency is returning authority to the planemaker to clear 737 MAX and 787 Dreamliner jets for flight. Starting July 20, the company can issue its own safety certificates after months of quality reviews.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 18/07/2026
Four years ago. TBF, my wig is no worse than Dwayne Johnson's.
Years ago and many pounds heavier, me in my full Maui kit with absolutely no self-awareness during our last Halloween On the High Seas cruise. With Rapunzel on the Disney Magic.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 15/07/2026
Beware of off-course parachuting babies
An ineffable sign posted in the parking lot of last night's Long Island Ducks game
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 15/07/2026
New Caveman Lawyer just dropped
Billboard here at the Ducks game: "DOG BITE LAWYER (NYDogBite.com)"
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 12/07/2026
A side shot of the gazebo
A side view of the gazebo. The angles are just ... weird. The roof appears to tilt up at a 45° angle and the railing panels are all asymmetrical
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 12/07/2026
The gazebo in Schmigadoon! (designed by Scott Pask) is an AMAZING example of forced perspective (in use throughout WDW), but taken almost to its limit. It looks round from EVERY SEAT IN THE THEATER, yet it's only 2½ feet deep. On stage, my eyes and brain could not agree on what I was seeing.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 12/07/2026
Kimmy SLAYED it as Betsy tonight! She'll be playing Betsy for possibly a few more nights, because Mackenzie has laryngitis
Kimmy coming out for her bow The cast takes their bowMe, Eileen, Kimmy and her mom on stage tonight after the show
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 12/07/2026
The "At this performance" page of Playbill. 

"Archie" is Kimmy's dog.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/07/2026
Yeah, we're back here again
Outside the Nederlander Theater, home to Schmigadoon!
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 11/07/2026
Heads up: my niece Kimmy The Broadway Actress™ is playing Betsy (the oversexed farm girl) in Schmigadoon today at the 2:00 and 7:30 shows! (Yes, we're buying tickets)
No, that's not Kimmy, that's McKenzie playing Betsy in the gingham dress there on the left. But tonight, Kimmy's wearing the gingham dress...
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 03/07/2026
Idea for the new COP: instead of John saying "Whew, hottest 4th of July we've had in years," we utilize an AI agent feeding into the AA to have John give the ACTUAL weather. "Whew, it's currently 83° with the winds southwest at 8 and moderate humidity, going up to 87°. So warm, but not unbearable."
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 24/06/2026
Synchronicity.
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 21/06/2026
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 21/06/2026
Just saying, is all. Echoing the daddest movie of 2008, for Father's Day 2026
Me, about to take a Father's Day ride in the third seat in car 503 on the Indian Valley Railroad at the Essex Stream Train. Shia LaBoef and Harrison Ford in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (2008), filmed at the Essex Stream Train
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 21/06/2026
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This is my 1st rodeo @nickespo.com · 20/06/2026
So, this is new. In my nephew's church's missal (a collection of masses and hymns) is the following clause: "Without limiting any songwriter's or publisher's exclusive rights, any unauthorized use of this publication to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is expressly prohibited."
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