Wednesday afternoon notes
I'm just noting a few things and moving on with my day:Pilot Project Brewing has announced plans for a second brewery/taproom in Wrigleyville, just 500 meters from the Addison Red Line station.Google...
View ArticleA cyber attack in plain sight
Security expert Bruce Schneier can't believe the damage that Elon Musk's team have already done to US national security, and worries it will get much, much worse:In the span of just weeks, the US...
View ArticleOne last cold snap coming in
Winter ends two weeks from tomorrow, but climate science and meteorology can only study nature, not command it. That explains why, despite ample sunshine, the temperature at IDTWHQ has stayed around...
View ArticleNew Weather Now release
I've added a couple of new features to Weather Now, including a view of the best weather in the world. More usefully, I've added a release notes page.This weekend, I plan to to rebuild the Gazetteer,...
View ArticlePunzun Ltd: 25 years (this iteration)
Punzun Ltd. (an Illinois corporation doing business as Inner Drive Technology) turns 25 today! I set up the corporation before I moved back to Illinois from New York, so that I could take either a...
View ArticleSo much Dunning, so much Kruger
It seems like so much of the news I've read today concerns people behaving stupidly, but thinking they're behaving intelligently. Sadly, it's mostly the same group of people:James Fallows makes it...
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Butters assimilating quickly
My friends have gone to a tropical beach for the week, which means I get a second dog for a few days. She has been here many times before (most recently on Saturday), so she knows the drill. Still,...
View ArticleRibbentrop, meet Rubio
The US meeting with Russia and not Ukraine to discuss the fate of Ukraine seems unmistakably similar to the Molotov-Ribbentrop discussions in August 1939 that divvied up Poland between the Nazis and...
View ArticleToo many things to read today
Time got away from me this afternoon. I might read all this tomorrow morning:Nicholas Kristof says the Musk/OAFPOTUS administration prostrating to Russia will make the world more dangerous. So does...
View ArticleWeather Now update
Last night I released Weather Now v5.0.9183, with a few bug fixes including a patch to the Gazetteer that recognizes the UK's four constituent parts (example). I've spent a few evenings the past week...
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This little dog has lungs
Yesterday afternoon, houseguest Butters found a sunbeam:This morning, she found a corner of the couch:Then this afternoon, after I took both her and Cassie on a let's-sniff-everything 15-minute walk...
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She won't leave me alone
Butters, possibly traumatized by Cassie and me leaving her alone for almost half an hour yesterday, has decided to stake out my office:Incidentally, this is what Cassie and I walked past in the local...
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National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency removed from the Internet
By yesterday evening I managed to import all the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agencycountry place data through the Bs. This morning, I couldn't get to the NGIA website.All right, sometimes these...
View ArticleStill chugging along
The Weather Now gazetteer import has gotten to the Ps (Pakistan) with 11,445,567 places imported and 10,890,186 indexed. (The indexer runs every three hours.) I'll have a bunch of statistics about the...
View ArticleWhy The Daily Parker costs so much
A longtime Daily Parker reader asked this about yesterday's post:"The Daily Parker costs $4.87 per day" -- I'm really hoping that's a misprint, because that's almost $150 a month, which is ten times...
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Reading while the world compiles
One of my work projects has a monthly release these days, so right now I'm watching a DevOps pipeline run through about 400 time-consuming integration tests before I release this month's update. That...
View ArticleIt's all about the grift
James Fallows highlights how the OAFPOTUS and Clown Prince of X have put their own enrichment ahead of public safety in ways that will be hard to miss: In aviation, almost everything about safety is...
View ArticleToday's OAFPOTUS corruption watch
It's entirely possible that I will have something to post about the OAFPOTUS's self-dealing almost every one of the next 1,417 days. One hopes not, however. I mean, we only have 608 more days until the...
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Wow, this totally bites
I got some bad news this morning: my dentist, John C McArthur, announced his retirement as of March 17th.I started going to Dr McArthur in 1974. In fact, I was one of his first patients after he took...
View ArticleSupport The Daily Parker on Patreon
As threatenedpromised, I'm starting to beg for money to help support The Daily Parker and Weather Now. You can go to Patreon and sign up to help us, with special member benefits as you contribute...
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