Since I started with the whole garden-and-stream thing a few years back, I’ve taken to updating existing posts instead of writing new ones when following up. That’s great for someone looking back at the old post from the future, but it doesn’t help anyone who’s following along.

So here are some pages I’ve updated recently:

The whale sculpture recovered from Marineland still hasn’t been installed at Point Vicente, a decade after it was approved, probably due to the higher-than-expected cost for restoring it. In trying to find out what happened with the sculpture, I discovered that Sea World’s midnight orca heist was actually worse than previous articles had suggested.

The camera shop with its masked American Gothic mural from the early months of Covid has since been demolished, along with a nearby bowling alley, to make way for a blocky lump of “luxury apartments.” Silvio’s still hasn’t found a new retail location, but they’ve been running an online/phone business out of a warehouse unit.

Anaheim GardenWalk is still around (even the Johnny Rocket’s!) 10 years after House of Blues moved in, though it’s still got a lot of empty spaces on its map.

I created a tiny subset font for *-and-a-half-star reviews, updating the how-to article with how I did it and updating my reviews pages to use it.

Torrance S-Mart closed a while back, and is now a Grocery Outlet.

The Spider-Man mural has been touched up at the former Dream World Comics building, though Superman changing in a phone booth has been painted over.

I finally got around to building a combined tag list for the blog and other parts of my website.

Bookshop.org’s app actually runs on my newer e-reader, though it still has trouble running offline. Which, I mean, it’s for reading books. This should be a first-class use case.