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So much to do...
I'm not quite done with my kitchen, master bedroom, or master bathroom, but I have absolutely no energy left:The big spikes around 3pm were the concert I performed in this afternoon.So, I'm going to do...
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So many boxes
Today's theme song is U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," but I know it's somewhere in the new house...Unpacking proceeds apace. Last night we were both exhausted and we both had trouble...
View ArticleWhy Empirical closed
I reported Saturday that Empirical Brewery, one of my favorite hang-outs just 400 meters from my new house, closed unexpectedly on Sunday. Block Club Chicago's Alex Hernandez found out why:Empirical...
View ArticleLunch reading
I'm starting to adapt my habits and patterns to the new place. I haven't figured out where to put everything yet, especially in my kitchen, but I'll live with the first draft for a few weeks before...
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A side benefit of moving
Can you tell when I moved from a first-floor walkup apartment into a 3½–story townhouse?I figure, Cassie has about 7 years of climbing stairs in her. We're both going to have much stronger legs (though...
View ArticlePutin remains master strategist
Thirty-five weeks into his 3-day war, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin woke up to a new IAEA report that his invasion of Ukraine may cause a permanent decline in Russian fortunes:The energy crisis...
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Unpacking continues
It's a quiet day at Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters 6.0 as I bang away at the 60 or so boxes of books in the library. Only 10 or so of those boxes need to go all the way to my office loft on...
View ArticleThreads to read
Here are some short thoughts that add up to longer thoughts today:John Scalzi muses about the car that Elon Musk caught.Brynn Tannehill draws parallels between the GOP's acceptance of anti-democratic...
View ArticleWorld Series no-hitter
The Houston Astros won game 4 of the World Series last night with a no-hitter, which hasn't happened since 1956:Pitching like a Game 1 starter, the young right-hander Cristian Javier put on a clinic on...
View ArticleCount me among the Standard Time "stans"
The Daylight Saving Time arguments that crop up twice a year encapsulate American decision-making so well. People argue for one position or another based on what works best for them; people predict...
View Article0.6% not unpacked
I'm so close to being completely unpacked (except for the books I plan to put on the bookshelves that I plan to have built), and yet I'm stymied by trivial things. At the moment, I would really like to...
View ArticleBetween a demo and a 5-point feature
I'm running all 538 unit tests in my real job's application right now after updating all the NuGet packages. This is why I like automated testing: if one of the updated packages broke anything, tests...
View ArticleFifteen minutes of voting
Even with Chicago's 1,642 judges on the ballot ("Shall NERDLY McSNOOD be retained as a circuit court judge in Cook County?"), I still got in and out of my polling place in about 15 minutes. It helped...
View ArticleThe burning pile of money has attracted the Feds
The Federal Trade Commission, which has become the de-facto enforcer for Silicon Valley shenanigans, has decided the smell coming from Twitter HQ can no longer be ignored after their top privacy and...
View ArticleStories to roll your eyes to
I mean, why? Just why?The XPOTUS, as predicted, announced his run for the 2024 election, despite looking like a total loser in the 2022 election. But narcissists gonna narcise.The Illinois Worker...
View ArticleScary deployment today
I'm just finishing up a very large push to our dev/test environment, with 38 commits (including 2 commits fixing unrelated bugs) going back to last Tuesday. I do not like large pushes like this,...
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Three photos
Photo number 1: Cassie, from above. (My office is in a loft over the master bedroom, where Cassie has a bed.)Photo number 2: can anyone give this 1½-meter (5'3") scratching post a good home? I'm...
View ArticleFTX was not a "tech company"
Josh Barro explains the FTX collapse in simple terms:[T]his is not a technology story, because FTX was not a technology company. Sure, FTX’s business relied on technology, but so do most businesses....
View ArticleForty years ago today
...this happened:I admit, I never heard of "The Play" before this morning, and I'm not even really a football fan. So when this popped up on my history feed, I had to Google it. I'm glad I did; reading...
View ArticleAbove freezing and clear
With only about a week of autumn left officially, we have some great weather today. Cassie is with her pack at day care and I'm inside my downtown office looking at the sun and (relative) warmth...
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