{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1", "title": "Jordon Wadlington", "icon": "https://micro.blog/jordon/avatar.jpg", "home_page_url": "https://jordon.me/", "feed_url": "https://jordon.me/feed.json", "items": [ { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/28/plenty-of-time.html", "content_html": "
Plenty of time
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-28T13:42:55-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/28/plenty-of-time.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/28/had-a-meeting.html", "content_html": "Had a meeting in New Jersey this morning, so yesterday took the NE Regional up to Penn Station and then MNE out into NJ.
\nDoing the reverse now and pretty sure I’m going to chance leaving Penn Station to get a slice of pizza before taking the Acela back to DC. An hour is more than enough time!
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-28T13:03:52-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/28/had-a-meeting.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/28/yesterday-was-a.html", "content_html": "Yesterday was a good day
\n(got to ride the train)
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-28T12:57:18-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/28/yesterday-was-a.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/27/complete-list-of.html", "content_html": "Complete list of people getting royalties from the Bible:
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Tomorrow is the moment of truth: am I courageous enough to wear this Vision Pro on the train?
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-26T20:17:22-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/26/tomorrow-is-the.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/24/happy-jesus-christ.html", "content_html": "Happy Jesus Christ Superstar-listening season to all who celebrate
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-24T08:38:05-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/24/happy-jesus-christ.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/22/to-be-clear.html", "content_html": "To be clear: there’s plenty of blame to go around. Apple probably* could have avoided this if they loosened up, but it seems like the DOJ case is trying to prosecute something other than what was stated.
\n*I say probably because politics is weird and tech is clearly in politicians' sights
\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-22T15:00:46-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/22/to-be-clear.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/22/my-hot-take.html", "content_html": "My hot take on US v Apple: the accusations in this case may feel right, but the legal case here is tenuous at best. If Congress would like to pass some laws to codify feelings, go for it.
\r\nAs of now, we live in a nation governed by laws. Pretty tough to prosecute an entity that doesn’t violate them
My hot take on US v Apple: the accusations in this case may feel right, but the legal case here is tenuous at best. If Congress would like to pass some laws to codify feelings, go for it.
\nAs of now, we live in a nation governed by laws. Pretty tough to prosecute an entity that doesn’t violate them
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-22T11:52:27-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/22/my-hot-take.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/21/make-sure-to.html", "title": "Make sure to plan a vacation from planning your vacation (aka Disney Cruise Check-in Logistics)", "content_html": "As I alluded to in a few earlier micro posts, there’s a lot to consider when planning a trip to Disney. It all makes sense once you understand it, it just takes a lot to understand it.
\nI like logistics. Planning this stuff is morbid fun for me, but I really feel for people who don’t want to watch a ton of YouTube videos and read a bunch of blog posts. I’m not going to go into all the details here, but below is a quick break down of completing check-in for a Disney Cruise. I’m hoping this may help someone navigate this better in the future.
\nOff the top…
\nLet’s take each of the three check-in periods separately.
\nSelecting Cruise Activities: opens up 90-123 days before your cruise. I believe it always opens at midnight Eastern no matter where you are. This is where you select things like special dinners on the cruise, paid character interactions, spa appointments, port excursions. Basically anything paid.
\nSelecting Port Arrival Time: opens up 30-40 days before your cruise. Also (I believe) at midnight Eastern. This is when you’ll complete registration and choose the time your arrive at the port. Here’s a great rundown of everything you’ll do at this time. Also weirdly enough, it’s when you can register for free character interactions.
\nPort Arrival: this is the time you selected in the previous step to show up the day of the cruise to complete all the paperwork, get your room key, etc.
\nTo be clear, nailing the timing of this is not 100% required. You do need to complete all of these at some point before your cruise, but you only need to do it right when it opens if you care about certain cruise activities or your port arrival time. But think ahead. There’s a wide swath of things that aren’t not possible unless you check in within minutes of opening.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-21T14:48:51-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/21/make-sure-to.html", "tags": ["Disney Cruise 2024"] }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/21/the-logistics-of.html", "content_html": "The logistics of this Disney Cruise are next level. There’s three separate registration periods whose opening depends on five distinct tiers based on how many Disney cruises you’ve been on and/or your room type. As you would expect with Disney, it’s all very well organized, it’s just…a lot
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-21T14:09:30-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/21/the-logistics-of.html", "tags": ["Disney Cruise 2024"] }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/21/ive-learned-more.html", "content_html": "I’ve learned more about logistics by planning trips to Disney than I have from any class I’ve ever taken
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-21T14:02:39-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/21/ive-learned-more.html", "tags": ["Disney Cruise 2024","West Coast 2024"] }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/15/dune-part-two.html", "title": "Dune: Part Two, 2024", "content_html": "Sometimes movies transport us to places that just aren’t possible. Other times they shine a light on us that we couldn’t normally see. And then there are times they do both and they transcend
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-15T22:53:55-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/15/dune-part-two.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/13/dune.html", "title": "Dune, 2021", "content_html": "Rewatched before our showing of Part 2 on Friday-- there was a LOT of this movie that I'd forgotten in the haze of COVID.
As he did with Arrival, Villeneuve does a superb job of tying grand epics to the personal.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-13T15:40:51-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/13/dune.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/10/i-liked-all.html", "content_html": "I liked all the best picture nominees this year, but there were three tiers for me:
\nTier 1: Oppen, Anatomy/Fall, Zone/Interest, Killers
\nTier 2: Past Lives, Poor Things, Barbie
\nTier 3: A/Fiction, Holdov, Maes
It was only nominated for Best Original Screenplay, but I’d put May December in Tier 1
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-10T11:43:59-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/10/i-liked-all.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/10/its-time-again.html", "content_html": "It’s time again for my 100% correct ranking of this year’s Oscar best picture nominees:
\nThere are periods of the year where time gets a little hazy. We need those times to find meaning
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-09T23:12:41-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/09/the-holdovers.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/08/lydia-tr-as.html", "content_html": "Lydia Tár as my fantasy baseball avatar is the kind of energy I’m trying to bring to this world
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-08T17:09:08-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/08/lydia-tr-as.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/07/like-to-be.html", "content_html": "Like to be clear, Britt’s speech was written by a bunch of old white dudes. She’s doing her best to deliver it, but…yeah. Old white dudes
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-08T00:11:45-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/07/like-to-be.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/07/ive-seen-enough.html", "content_html": "I’ve seen enough college forensics to know that Katie Britt will probably get there one day. But today is not that day
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-08T00:03:03-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/07/ive-seen-enough.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/07/yall-joe-biden.html", "content_html": "Y’all. Joe Biden seems like he’s up for it
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-07T23:35:34-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/07/yall-joe-biden.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/07/its-that-night.html", "content_html": "It’s that night of the year where it sounds like helicopters are going to land on my roof
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-07T21:46:42-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/07/its-that-night.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/05/its-been-a.html", "content_html": "It’s been a long time since I’ve watched cable news but CNN is on in this waiting room and I’m realizing I’m not ready for this election
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-05T11:18:40-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/05/its-been-a.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/03/125354.html", "title": "Killers of the Flower Moon, 2023", "content_html": "…it’s the inevitability of it all. There were people to be exploited, so they were.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-03T13:53:54-04:00", "url": "https://jordon.me/2024/03/03/125354.html" }, { "id": "http://jordon.micro.blog/2024/03/01/current-things-march.html", "title": "Current Things: March 2024", "content_html": "\nMay December: Haynes always does such a good job of contextualizing sexual power dynamics and its effects on everyone directly and indirectly involved. We think of power asymmetries as straightforward and bad, but they’re often complex (but still bad!)
\nAlso loved the 1990s made-for-TV style this was shot in– especially the score and the graininess of video.
\nShout out to these two diametrically opposite, but equally impactful lines:
\n\n\nI don’t think we have enough hot dogs
\n\n\nThis is just what grownups do
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\nThe Zone of Interest: The movie is in the margins.\n
We think of these people as monsters. And they were. But they were also humans. Humans did this.
\nMr. and Mrs. Smith, Season 1: I’m a sucker for marriage as war allegories, so I think I liked this more than most. But this was done 10x better and more natural by The Americans
\nRick and Morty, Season 7: It’s tough to review entire seasons of shows that aren’t really serialized (thematically or plotwise). Season 7 continues to be successful at what it’s trying to do. Its presentation isn’t my favorite, but it’s inventiveness and just plain weirdness more than make up for it
\nTrue Detective, Season 4: While previous seasons have been about masculinity, this one adds motherhood, femininity, and community to the mix with spectacular results. It centralizes on the idea of these concepts as “protectors” in their various forms. This is–by far– the best season of this show.
\nMaestro: This was fine. I like the ideas of how identity is complex and who owns it isn’t always straightforward. But ultimately I didn’t gain anything more than a surface-level understanding of how this duality affected Bernstein.
\nPast Lives: We’re not fated for things that are obvious. The allure for the other side of things will always be there.
\nAnatomy of a Fall: Even the truth is contextual
(The real moral of Anatomy of a Fall is to not find yourself on trial in France)
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