Hilarity ensues
Chicago-based humor magazine The Onion has won the bankruptcy auction to acquire Alex Jones's InfoWars Media:The Onion said that the bid was sanctioned by the families of the victims of the mass...
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I've got a couple of minutes before I descend into the depths of a very old codebase that has had dozens of engineers mucking about in it. Time enough to read through these:Michelle Goldberg sticks her...
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Creator of BASIC dies
Thomas E Kurtz, co-creator of the BASIC programming language, died November 12th at 96:Dr. Kurtz and John G. Kemeny, then the chairman of Dartmouth’s math department, believed that students would come...
View ArticleMust be November
We're having gray, rainy weather for our few hours of daylight today. We haven't yet had a freeze this fall, and none is forecast before winter officially begins in two weeks, so all the moisture in...
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Gingkoes and maples not letting go
I mentioned yesterday that the gingko and maple trees in my neighborhood have held onto their leaves for much longer than usual. Yesterday's snowfall melted overnight, as predicted, but we did get...
View ArticleBrews & Choos walk today
The weather doesn't seem that great for a planned 15-kilometer walk through Logan Square and Avondale to visit a couple of stragglers on the Brews & Choos Project. We've got 4°C under a low...
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Solid walk, Brews & Choos reviews incoming
My Brews & Choos buddy and I trudged 15 kilometers yesterday to visit two previously-unreviewed breweries and two old favorites. Correction: I visited two old favorites and two new ones, she...
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Ravinia Brewing, Chicago
Welcome to stop #118 on the Brews and Choos project.Brewery: Ravinia Brewing, 2601 W Diversey Ave., ChicagoTrain line: CTA Blue Line, Logan SquareTime from Chicago: 16 minutesDistance from station: 1.4...
View ArticleQuick morning round-up
This morning's stand-up meeting begins in a moment, at the only time of day that works for my Seattle-Chicago-UK team (8am/10am/4pm respectively). After, I have these queued up:EJ Dionne lists some...
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The gingkoes give up
The temperature in my neighborhood fell below freezing around 4am and kept dropping, bottoming out just a few minutes ago at -1.7°C, the coldest it's been since March 18th. So despite valiantly holding...
View ArticlePre-Thanksgiving roundup
The US Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow provides me with a long-awaited opportunity to clean out the closet under my stairs so an orphan kid more boxes will have room to stay there. I also may finish the...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving!
Also, kudos to the UK Home Office. I just applied for my UK Electronic Travel Authorisation, paid my £10 ($13.06), and almost immediately got approved. It helps that (a) I just entered the UK twice in...
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Last day of autumn, 2024
We had our coldest morning since February 17th today, cold enough that Cassie didn't want to linger sniffing her favorite shrubberies. The temperature bottomed out at 7:45 am, hitting -8.6°C at IDTWHQ,...
View ArticleBad, bad move, no matter how understandable
I believe the precipitating event that led to the OAFPOTUS winning re-election was President Biden's decision to run for re-election—something he promised, in 2020, he would not do.This evening the...
View ArticleThe Noodle Incident
Today is the 30th anniversary of the trope-namer first appearing in Calvin and Hobbes, making the comic strip self-referential at this point. (It's the ur-noodle incident.)Unfortunately, today's mood...
View ArticleRumble rumble rumble (splash?)
The USGS (and no doubt millions of fish) has detected a 7.0-magnitude earthquake off the coast of California. People as far away as San Diego and Hawaii have gotten tsunami warnings. So far no tsunamis...
View ArticleThree items of interest
First, Andrew Sullivan makes a very good, nuanced point about President Biden pardoning his son:A consensus of sorts has emerged among historians. Little abuses of power in the Roman system slowly...
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Long walk on beautiful afternoon
Today may wind up being the last nice day of 2024, even though long-range forecasts suggest next week may have unseasonably warm and dry weather as well. Yesterday had nicer weather than today, with...
View ArticleDaily Parker trap
Over the weekend, the Washington Post ran an interactive feature showing you the walkability of your neighborhood, in average minutes of travel time (by any method) to get things you need. They divided...
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