Clik here to view.
I mean, it's southern California
I've got a little time before dinner, just enough to post this:I didn't collect any snake bites, scorpion stings, or exploding cactuses, but I think I did get a nice sunburn. I'll find out tomorrow.
View ArticleHeading home soon
American Airlines says my flight home has a 45-minute delay at the moment (though of course that could get worse). So I just spent 35 minutes walking in a bit circle around the southwest corner of...
View ArticleChicago's Near North Side will never smell as sweet
The Blommer Chocolate factory, just outside Chicago's Loop, routinely flooded the Near North Side with the delicious odor of chocolate several times per week until environmental laws required them to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ten years ago already?
I remember March 2014 very well for a number of reasons, not least this: (Photo credit.)It doesn't seem like 10 years ago, though.Oh, and it's also the 40th anniversary of the infamous Saturday...
View ArticleIsrael's growing isolation
The UN Security Council, with the US abstaining, voted to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza for the month of Ramadan just a few minutes ago:The breakthrough resolution, which is legally binding...
View ArticleMajor bridge collapse in Maryland
The Francis Scott Key bridge carrying I-695 southeast of Baltimore collapsed overnight after a container ship collided with one of the support pylons:Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed...
View ArticleJoe Lieberman dead at 82
Former US Senator Joe Lieberman (D, maybe?–CT) and Al Gore's running mate in 2000 has died:Joseph I. Lieberman, the doggedly independent four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut who was the Democratic...
View ArticleSBF gets 25
Today is the 45th anniversary of Three Mile Island's partial meltdown, and the day after Sam Bankman-Fried's total meltdown:Sam Bankman-Fried, the former cryptocurrency mogul who was convicted of...
View ArticleReally busy couple of weeks
Through next weekend I'm going to have a lot to do, so much that I've scheduled "nothing" for the back half of next week going into our annual fundraiser on April 6th. I might even get enough sleep.I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The dread of a colorful radar picture
Ah, just look at it:Rain, snow, wind, and general gloominess will trundle through Chicago over the next 36 hours or so, severely impacting Cassie's ability to get a full hour of walkies tomorrow. Poor...
View ArticleThe Internet runs on Doug's code, and Doug just got pwned by the SVR
Remember this XKCD from 2020? With a little help from what researchers think may be the Russian government, that little brick wobbled a bit in the past few days:The cybersecurity world got really lucky...
View ArticleLovely March weather we're having
We have a truly delightful mix of light rain and snow flurries right now that convinced me to shorten Cassie's lunchtime walk from 30 minutes to 15 minutes to just 9 minutes each time I came to a...
View ArticleCoding continues apace
I'm almost done with the new feature I mentioned yesterday (day job, unfortunately, so I can't describe it further), so while the build is running, I'm queuing these up:Philip Bump analyzes the New...
View ArticleRumblings in New Jersey
A 4.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Hundterdon County, N.J., about 45 minutes ago:The U.S.G.S. reported that the earthquake’s epicenter was in Lebanon, N.J., about 50 miles west of Manhattan. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
What I learned about Google Maps yesterday
Getting down to Whitestown, Ind., yesterday took about 4 hours and 45 minutes, including a stop to empty Cassie, which isn't great but isn't nearly as bad as I'd feared. Getting home, however, taught...
View ArticleSoooooo cooooool
The International Space Station caught some video of the moon's shadow yesterday:
View ArticleOne news story eclipsed all the others
Ah, ha ha. Ha.Anyway, here are a couple other stories from the last couple of days:A New York appellate judge took all of two hours to toss out a frivolous lawsuit by the XPOTUS seeking to get his gag...
View ArticleThings we probably could have predicted
The older I get, the less human beings surprise me. Oh, individual people surprise me all the time, mainly because I have smart and creative friends. But groups of people? They're going to be...
View ArticleNotorious murderer dies
Former professional football player, actor, and murderer OJ Simpson has died at age 76:The cause was cancer, his family announced on social media. The announcement did not say where he died.A jury in...
View Article