Summer isn't going quietly
I just walked Cassie about 7 blocks (1.4 km) and she took her sweet time, sniffing every blade of grass. Part of that I'm sure was that she spent 3 nights boarded, which she finds exhausting. The other...
View ArticleHeat wave continues
The forecast still predicts today will be the hottest day of the year. Last night at IDTWHQ the temperature got all the way down to 26.2°C right before sunrise. We have a heat advisory until 10pm, by...
View ArticleLast work day of the summer
A few weeks ago I planned a PTO day to take a 25 km walk tomorrow along the North Branch Trail with pizza at the end. (I'll do my annual marathon walk in October.) Sadly, the weather forecast bodes...
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Late summer at my house
During this last full week of summer, I haven't had a lot of time at home because we had to work in the office every day. And what a week.I got home from work (and got Cassie home from day camp) right...
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Lovely walk in the woods
As promised, I took a 25-kilometer walk up the North Branch Trail yesterday, which did not disappoint:The weather cooperated brilliantly (though it did get a little warm towards the end), and my...
View ArticleTuesday afternoon article club
Before I bugger off to get at least a couple of daylight hours in this sunny, 22°C afternoon, here are the most interesting stories that popped up today:Two Boomer economists point out that the Boomers...
View ArticleThanks for wasting my time, ADT
I spent 56 minutes trying to get ADT to change a single setting at my house, and it turned out, they changed the wrong setting. I will try again Friday, when I have time.Meanwhile, elsewhere in the...
View ArticleC'était pas absolutement horrible...
I just finished a 75-minute open-level French test as part of a QA study that Duolingo invited me to participate in. What an eye-opener. And quelle épuisement!The test started well enough but got a lot...
View ArticleLast office day for 2 weeks
The intersection of my vacation next week and my group's usual work-from-home schedule means I won't come back to my office for two weeks. Other than saving a few bucks on Metra this month, I'm also...
View ArticleMolly White on Hachette v Internet Archive
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit recently ruled in Hachette v Internet Archive that the Internet Archive's Open Library violated copyright law. Molly White today published the best...
View ArticleThe Chicago White Sox Tragic Number is 7
In September, all eyes in baseball turn to the teams likely to win spots in the post-season championship games. You'll see in the standings that some teams have a "magic number:" the combination of...
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Two happy photos from yesterday
I went out to Suburbistan to have dinner with an old family friend, and he surprised me with an unusual and very cool heirloom that his own father, Bill, left him:That's an HO-scale model that Bill...
View ArticleCool new Weather Now feature
I've just released a new version of Weather Now, which brings back a feature the app hasn't had since about 2002. Building on the release two weeks ago that added user profiles (as long as you have a...
View ArticleThe externalities of cryptocurrency
Other than having absolutely no real value except to scammers and thieves, cryptocurrency has no real value. But a lot of money gets laundered through crypto these days, so people will spend gobs of...
View ArticleThousands of Hezbollah pagers explode
This floored me. The Lebanese health minister reported earlier that 8 people died and 2,750 suffered injuries when thousands of pagers exploded this morning in Lebanon and Syria:Lebanon’s health...
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Did it right this time
The last time I took American 90, like this time, I stayed overnight near O'Hare so I could sleep an hour longer on the day of the flight. Unfortunately, last time I had a rehearsal the night before,...
View ArticleQuick update
I haven't posted anything since arriving in London because I made a grievous error choosing my hotel. The room I'd booked was, in fact, the worst hotel room I'd ever stayed in. Worse, even, than the...
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The trip so far
Other than the hotel debacle, I'm having a pretty good time in the UK. Yesterday I went out to Berkhamsted to do Walk #1 in The Home Counties from London by Train Outstanding Circular Walks (Pathfinder...
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Last hotel for a while
I've arrived in Marseille, after a short but perfectly pleasant trip from Aix-en-Provence by basic commuter train. I didn't realize the Gare Marseille was on a hill, however, so it took me a few...
View ArticleConnecting through Heathrow
I had the opportunity, but not the energy, to bugger off from Heathrow for an hour and a half or so connecting from Marseille. Instead I found a vacant privacy pod in the Galleries South lounge, and...
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