The numbers are better but the feelings aren't
Last night I went to the "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" taping at Harris Theater in Chicago, and afterwards my friend and I talked about how gloomy the weather and darkness of winter are. I pointed out...
View ArticleEarth to Warren...come in, Warren...
One hundred years ago today, President Warren Harding installed a "Radio Phone" in his White House office. As the Tribune reported, "Navy radio experts commenced work to-day installing the latest...
View ArticleDid someone call lunch?
Eighty years ago today, the US imposed daylight saving time as a wartime energy-saving measure. It took until April 1966 for Congress to enact a permanent regime of changing the clock twice a year. But...
View ArticleGoo goo g'joob
A Dutch prankster has started a Facebook group that has so far attracted 13,000 people who want to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos' new superyacht:"Calling all Rotterdammers, take a box of rotten eggs...
View ArticleSlow-ish afternoon
I've sent some test results off to a partner in Sydney, so I have to wait until Monday morning before I officially mark that feature as "done." I'm also writing a presentation I'll give on March 16th....
View ArticleMore about the dangerous situation in Ottawa
Via Josh Marshall, Canadian journalist Matt Gurney raises the alarm about the other group of truckers camping in Ottawa:You may have heard reports of a secondary encampment that is well removed from...
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Cue the weekend
The temperature dropped 17.7°C between 2:30 pm yesterday and 7:45 this morning, from 6.5°C to -10.2°C, as measured at Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters. So far it's recovered to -5.5°C, almost...
View ArticleI heard there might be a sportsing game?
Something about some sheep defending their pasture against cats? Do I have that right?I'm working through Best Picture nominees and generally chilling out, so I might have to miss it. Let me know which...
View ArticleHappy 20th birthday, .NET
Today is the 20th birthday of the Microsoft .NET Framework. I remember it vividly, because of the job I had then and its weirdly coincidental start and end dates.I joined a startup in Chicago to write...
View ArticleMore about the insanity of crypto
A couple more resources about "web3" (cryptocurrencies, NFTs, DAOs, etc) crossed my inbox this week. Even before going through these stories and essays, the only way I can understand the persistence of...
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Ah, spring
Winter officially has another week and a half to run, but we got a real taste of spring in all its ridiculousness this week:Yesterday the temperature got up to 13°C at O'Hare, up from the -10°C we had...
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Pretty, snowy Midwest
Enjoy this great photo from the GOES-East satellite showing the band of snow that fell yesterday:And if you look closely at the animated version, you can see the snow melting along the edges.
View ArticleMissing the point of the sport
I don't understand why Russian figure-skating coaches have such a bad reputation:One of the joys of watching the Olympics is seeing moments like this, dreams realized. I have indelible memories of such...
View ArticleSome questions about Ukraine
Russian president Vladimir Putin asserted yesterday that Ukraine doesn't exist, reasoning that Russia created the territory sometime in the past and therefore it remains part of Russia today. This...
View ArticleBusy couple of days
I've had a lot to do at work the last couple of days, leading to an absolute pile-up of unread press:Casey Michael outlines how Russian President Vladimir Putin's aims in Ukraine have little to do with...
View ArticleStill the top news story
My friend in Kyiv posted on Facebook an hour ago about how many parking spaces are available in her neighborhood. She also couldn't figure out for a few seconds why there was a pillow in her bathtub...
View ArticleFake design firm in London "jobfished" its entire staff
A truly bizarre story from the BBC:Madbird hired more than 50 others. Most worked in sales, some in design and some were brought in to supervise. Every new joiner was instructed to work from home -...
View ArticleProductive first day of spring
I finished a sprint at my day job while finding time to take Cassie to the dog park and make a stir-fry for lunch. While the unit tests continue to spin on my work computer, I have some time to read...
View ArticleEurope's 9/11
Julia Ioffe remains one of the clearest voices about Russia in the Western press, not surprising as she was born in the USSR and lived the first few years of her life in Moscow. Her analysis of the...
View ArticleWeather Now 5 close to launch
Last night, I finished the last major feature in the Weather Now upgrade that I started in earnest back in October 2020. That means the development app can do most of what the version 4 can do, except...
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