End of a busy day
Some of these will actually have to wait until tomorrow morning:Adam Serwer thanks Justice Samuel Alito (R) for confirming Serwer's complaints about the Court.A trove of XPOTUS-branded gifts meant for...
View ArticleDying for the cause
Former Chicago Fraternal Order of Police president Dean Angelo died yesterday of Covid-19. And yet the current FOP president, John Catanzara, has promised to sue the City over the requirement that...
View ArticleThe power of the press
After ProPublica's story about Rutherford County, Tenn., judge Donna Davenport, things have not gone well for the judge:In the days after ProPublica’s investigation of the juvenile justice system in...
View ArticleBusy day, time to read the news
Oh boy:Voters have defeated billionaire, populist Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš through the simple process of banding together to kick him out, proof that an electorate can hold the line against...
View ArticleThe Battle of Bamber Bridge
In June 1943, a group of white American MPs attacked a company of Black American soldiers in the town of Bamber Bridge, England (near Blackpool). The English took the side of the Black soldiers:During...
View ArticleFirst performance in how long?
671 days.The Apollo Chorus of Chicago last performed in public on 15 December 2019, 671 days ago. This morning we performed at the Chicago History Museum, outside, without masks, to an audience of...
View ArticleHappy Mason-Dixon Day
On this day in 1767, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon completed their survey of the disputed Maryland-Pennsylvania border, which became even more contentious in 1780 when Pennsylvania aboolished...
View ArticleTest of formal operational thought
I found this quiz in a (virtual) pile of things from my first year at university. Have fun! Answers and more questions tomorrow. (The answers may surprise you, unless you really dig in to the logic.)1....
View ArticleFormal operational thought, part 2
Had fun yesterday? Try these next 10:11. All dace are platy. Some dace are cod. Therefore:(A) All cod are not platy (B) Some cod are not platy (C) Some cod are platy (D) All platy are dace (E) All dace...
View ArticleEvening reading
I was pretty busy today, with most of my brain trying to figure out how to re-architect something that I didn't realize needed it until recently. So a few things piled up in my inbox:David Corn is...
View ArticleCrisp fall morning
Cassie and I both love these crystal-clear autumn days in Chicago, though as far as I know she spent her first two autumns in Tennessee. Does Nashville have crisp fall mornings? I don't know for sure,...
View ArticleFormal operations thought, part 3
If you've enjoyed (or at least attempted) Tuesday's and Wednesday's pieces of this quiz from William Bart at the University of Minnesota, you get to finish it now:21. All ashes are not poplars. All...
View ArticleYou wanted rain, California?
A collection of weather phenomena off the west coast of North America, including a bomb cyclone, will give northern California record rainfall over the next day and a half:Amid an exceptional drought...
View ArticleCatastrophe?
I said before lunch I wouldn't post barring catastrophe. This may qualify:Over the weekend in California, a storm system dropped to a barometric pressure of 945.2 mB, making it the strongest storm to...
View ArticleHow is it 9pm already?
Quick hit list of stuff I didn't find time to read:There is an online map of the most pleasant walks in London, and an app that will get you from one place to another down the most...
View ArticleStupid request limits
I had to pause the really tricky refactoring I worked on yesterday because we discovered a new performance issue that obscured an old throttling issue. It took me most of the morning to find the...
View ArticleWeekend reading
As the last workday in October draws to a close, in all its rainy gloominess, I have once again spent all day working on actually coding stuff and not reading these articles:Andrew Sullivan says the...
View ArticleNice bit of news from the UK
The Department of Health and Social Care now allows visitors to the UK to satisfy their testing requirement with a £22 lateral-flow test, rather than the more expensive (and invasive) PCR test:Eligible...
View ArticleTsar Bomba
Sixty years ago yesterday, on 30 October 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the most destructive bomb ever designed:The bhangmeter results and other data suggested the bomb yielded around 58 Mt (243...
View ArticleAbout Virginia
I'm not even a little surprised that Republican Glenn Youngkin beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Viriginia governor's race last night. The margin of 80,000 votes is just over 2% of the vote, so...
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