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my racist facial recognition software
Thursday, July 22 2021
At lunchtime today I drove down to Rhinebeck to get falafel from the one good restaurant in that village. It was a beautiful day that felt more like September or May than late July (normally the hottest days of the year). I plugged my car into one of the chargers behind the Rhinebeck police station and then walked over to Aba's. The concrete sidewalk was being replaced directly in front of the restaurant, so all orders had to be placed through a side window and the only dining area was the outdoor garden (one of the best outdoor dining areas in the Hudson Valley). Being the best lunch spot in Rhinebeck, Aba's was busy, and as I waited in the queue to place my order, I thought I saw Ray over against the wall. Or was it just some other 50-something Filipino and my racist facial recognition software thinks all Filipinos look alike (which, let's face it, they kind of do). But then I saw Nancy. I waved at her, and she and Ray (who were just finishing their meal) came over to say hello. They ended up sitting with me as I ate my falafel, and we mostly talked about electrical cars. They said they were in Rhinebeck to try out a new Subaru mechanic.
I came home at the end of the day to find Gretchen making pupusas and cortido from scratch. While she was finishing that off, I went out to the garden and did some long-procrastinated weeding. I also planted the five sunflowers I'd grown from seeds in pots to keep the slugs from immediately eating them. (Their stems are now covered with hairs, which I think slugs prefer to avoid.) To keep rabbits or voles from cutting down the sunflowers like little lumberjacks, I wrapped tin foil around their lower stems. They're all about eighteen inches tall.
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