Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 3 - Why Cant We Go On As Three?
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Sci-Fi
Warning! this contains spoilers!  I find myself looking forward to this show from midweek onwards and luckily, episode 3 arrives. This episode is much darker than the previous episodes as next week e quickly get to the midpoint of the season.  We seem to not know who really anyone is but find ourselves cheering for our hero and heroine&nb...
Navigating the Cities Skylines 2 Milestones
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Video Games
This game, unlike the first does not depend primarily on city population for milestones though it certainly helps. This is historic as even the early Sim City games depended on the population mechanic, instead this game gives you experience points (XP) for various actions from building roads, placing districts to putting down buildings. Here we sho...
Heritage Fire Tour - Heritage Fuego - Miami 2023
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Miami Restaurants
The Goya Heritage Fire tour this year in Miami was held at the Biltmore in Coral Gables, Florida. The festival celebrates local heritage breed livestock farmers and emphasizes live fire cooking. To me, I treated it as an excuse for a good time with good food and good spirits. The different booths are set up in an all you can eat fashion a...
Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 2 - Wreckers
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Sci-Fi
The episode continues with cool tech from body implants to sonic guns. In the end, it is the story of being together or alone that is on display. Show Summary and Recap The cliffhanger from episode 1 is resolved through the course of the whole episode as some thugs from QTA (unclear what it stands for) invade the Beacon looking for "something ...
Beacon 23, Season 1 Episode 1 - Corbenic
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Sci-Fi
Starvation is an interesting phenomenon, as the directors and screen actors guild strike finally come to a close, I feel starved from good sci-fi since Silo season 1 ended. Sure, there were some good morsels, such as Star Trek Strange New Worlds and Ahsoka, but I miss the intricate writing of Hugh Howey as he builds a new world for us to discover. ...
Cities Skylines 2 up to 200k population
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Video Games
There continues to be a mass complaints on the steam forums, the colossal order forums and reddit.  However in my next full weekend able to play, I was able to build a city from scratch to a megalopolis and 225k population.  I did see a few issues that I had to overcome in my cities: traffic got out of control pretty quicklya lot of traff...
Los Felix in Coconut Grove
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Miami Restaurants
When you want a Michelin star meal and want to get away from the truffles and the caviar that are in so many fine dining dishes, Los Felix offers a corn or maize forward menu with offerings of the day's catch. No chef's tasting menu at this place, but the serving staff will recommend items for you based on any preferences.  What I particularly...
Cafe Monarch in Scottsdale, Arizona
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Other Restaurants
Fine dining in Scottsdale, Cafe Monarch has a changing menu adding a new dish every 2-3 weeks. They offer several menus including an eight course chef tasting menu as well as a vegetarian along with meat eating four course with two different wine recommendation lists. Every member of their serving staff is trained and certified via the Court of Mas...
Kai at Wild Horse Pass in Chandler, Arizona
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Other Restaurants
A very good meal, a very good experience. The only restaurant in Arizona to have both the AAA Five Diamond and Forbes Five Star restaurant award, Kai (meaning seed in O'odham or Pima language) restaurant is set in a resort just outside of Phoenix. The cuisine showcases local American Indian tribal ingredients. The service was quite exceptional as w...
Cities Skylines 2: My first weekend
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Video Games
After putting in a solid weekend with the game, I have to readily admit that it is quite the enjoyable game. Only having close to 600 hours with Cities Skylines 1, I am eager to spend time with this one  There are quite a bit of annoyed peeps on the Steam discussion as well as the paradox interactive forums. Some of it is pretty well backed up...