The deployment I concluded yesterday that involved recreating production assets in an entirely new Azure subscription turned out much more boring (read: successful) than anticipated. That still didn't stop me from working until 6pm, but by that point everything except some older demo data worked just fine.
That left a bit of a backup of stuff to read, which I may try to get through at lunch today:
- Duke University basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (aka "Coach K"), the winningest basketball coach in NCAA history, plans to retire at the end of next season.
- United Airlines has made a deal with Boom Holdings to purchase 15 of the company's 65-to-88 seat supersonic airplanes for travel starting in 2029.
- Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid formed a government last night, but outgoing prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu may try to forestall his ouster with parliamentary shenanigans Josh Marshall calls "Israel's January 6th."
- The Atlantic's Kate Julian worries that the pandemic has shifted Americans' drinking from social (good) to alone (bad).
- A skunk ate the three eggs endangered piping plovers Monty and Rose laid a few weeks ago, but the couple have reportedly started trying again.
- Geologists have determined that the 1861's 8.5-magnitude earthquake off Sumatra was actually just the last rumble of a continuous 32-year-long earthquake.
- On this day in 1800, President John Adams moved into the Union Tavern in Georgetown, D.C., to await the opening of the Executive Mansion on November 1st.
Finally, summer apparently arrives in full force tomorrow. We're looking forward to temperatures 5-10°C above normal through mid-June, which will continue northern Illinois' drought for at least a few more weeks.
