I filled my plate from the bountiful table.

And it was a Google executive – Sheryl Sandberg – who played the role of Typhoid Mary, bringing surveillance capitalism from Google to Facebook, when she signed on as Mark Zuckerberg’s number two in 2008.

Mardi-gras was ushered in with various ceremonies, offering a strange mixture of devotion and profaneness.

I worked all day and managed to get all the boxes unpacked.