Wonderful things!
Today is the 100th anniversary of Howard Carter poking his head into the 3,000-year-old tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamen:After World War I, Carter began an intensive search for Tutankhamen’s tomb and...
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How my weekend is going
Remember the stew I made Wednesday? It turned out one of my best:And I had a lot of leftovers:Remember Cassie getting a long walk to the big dog park Thursday? We did the same thing yesterday:And after...
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Foomp
In the last couple of days, I've observed a phenomenon I don't remember seeing in years past, perhaps because the city has a different mix of tree species around my new place. It looks like all the...
View ArticleStill a "good" landing
A pilot crashed his Mooney M20J into power lines in suburban Maryland last night, but everyone got out of the plane alive:A pilot and a passenger were rescued from a small plane that had crashed into a...
View ArticleSpring, fall, winter...Chicago?
It's 14°C right now, going down to -3°C tonight. Then it's back up to 8°C on Friday. Because why wouldn't the beginning of winter feel like April?While you ponder that, read this:Tom Nichols warns that...
View ArticleSlash and burn for sanity
Even though I'm president of a medium-sized non-profit organization who understands the importance of keeping in touch with constituents, I have run out of patience. For the last couple of weeks, I...
View ArticleWinter is here
Meteorological winter begins in the Northern Hemisphere today. In Chicago right now we have sunny skies and a normal-for-December 2°C. And any day above freezing between December 1st and March 1st...
View ArticleMaking progress at work, slacking on the blog
Clearly, I have to get my priorities in order. I've spent the afternoon in the zone with my real job, so I have neglected to real all of this:Lawyers who don't subscribe to the radical right-wing...
View ArticleForgot to post yesterday
Derp.Yesterday was the 30th birthday of the SMS, too.Also, I came across a nifty live CTA tracker, so I now know where part of my bonus is going. I feel seen! (They have a bunch of other live trackers,...
View ArticleI still need a new drivers license, though
My drivers license expired in 2020, when all the Secretary of State's offices (what we in Illinois call the DMV) were closed, so I just renewed it online. I had hoped to upgrade to a Real ID, but it...
View ArticleBoring after all
The deployment went so smoothly, it bored me to tears. Perfect.Oh, and the XPOTUS's company got convicted of tax fraud. Where's my popcorn?
View ArticleHow is it 6:30?
With tomorrow night having the earliest sunset of the year, it got dark at 4:20 pm—two hours ago. One loses time, you see. Especially with a demo tomorrow. So I'll just read these while devops...
View ArticleFinally turning in
We've got a big demo at 8am that we've just put to bed, which means I get to go to bed. While the pipelines ran I came across Cory Doctorow's latest post on how DRM ruins everything:[In 2002,] we...
View ArticleCraft beer woes
The Tribune has a cheery article today about the decline in craft beer sales and concomitant decline in craft breweries, citing the two closest breweries to where I'm sitting as evidence:In recent...
View ArticleMore things at the end of their time
I posted this morning about the decline in craft brewing that seems to have started, thanks to market saturation and the pandemic. Two other things have reached the ends of their runs as well, and both...
View ArticleAnals (?) of bad URLs
Crain's reported this morning that a company I used to work for has laid off 180 workers, about 10% of its workforce. I hope none of the people I'm still friends with was affected.Also unfortunate is...
View ArticleMaps and trees
New York City has a huge online map of every tree they manage, and they just updated their UI:Near the Tennis House in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park grows a magnificent white oak that stands out for its...
View ArticleThree cheers for the Secretary of State's Office!
Because I moved, I had to change my drivers license in-person at an Illinois Secretary of State Drivers Services Office (our DMV). Let me tell you how hard that was:I went online yesterday morning and,...
View ArticleLong weekend
Both of our Messiah performances went well. We had too few rehearsals and too many new members this year to sing the 11 movements from memory that we have done in the past, which meant that all us...
View ArticleSuch a quiet neighborhood
Before you freak out, I need to remind you that this made the news because this sort of thing happens so rarely. Still, two armed robberies followed by the getaway car bursting into flames just a few...
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