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Truth in Advertising
25 August 2025
There are some long traffic lights in our daily commute. We turn the engine off to conserve fuel and watch the traffic to anticipate when we'll get the green light.
Truth. Apple iPhone15 Pro Max back camera at 6.8mm, f1.8, 1/4444 second and ISO 50 captured with the Adobe Indigo camera app. Processed in Adobe Camera Raw.
Which is what we were doing when we were distracted by this HVAC tech's truck in front of us.
We can't help it but whenever there are words in front of us, we read. This is particularly annoying when we're watching a movie in a foreign language we understand that has subtitles in English. We'd rather read the subtitles than watch the movie.
In this case, our compulsion paid off in a little amusement. Here's a detail of the image above that shows what we mean:
Not that this testament is without hyperbole. One may know what one's mother thinks but God is not so transparent. And the enthusiasm of the wife and kids may only be a fleeting phenomenon at best.
But that's merely conjecture. We visited the Fuse site to research the matter and found a 4.9 rating from 56 Google reviews and a 4.9 rating from 229 Yelp reviews.
That would require an awful lot of kids.