Sam Bankman-Fried is not a child
Molly White would like major news outlets to treat the accused fraudster like the grown-ass adult he is:[R]eading headlines and news stories, you would be forgiven if up until now you had thought he...
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Nice puppy
One of my neighbors sent this to the HOA mailing list this morning:Since the guy didn't have a box marked "Acme," and since the rabbit he seems to have under his paw looks quite dead, he's welcome to...
View ArticleNot worth engaging the clowns
John Scalzi explains why he doesn't write a lot of political posts anymore:[S]o much political messaging these days, particularly on the right, is so performative that engaging with it is also...
View ArticleBig sprint release, code tidy imminent
I released 13 stories to production this afternoon, all of them around the app's security and customer onboarding, so all of them things that the non-technical members of the team (read: upper...
View ArticleTeenage girls are in trouble
The Centers for Disease Control released its biennial Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System report for 2021, and things do not look good:Nearly three in five teenage girls felt persistent sadness in...
View ArticlePresident Carter goes home
The most accomplished former President of the past century has decided to spend his last few days at home in Georgia:Former President Jimmy Carter, who at 98 is the longest living president in American...
View ArticleQuod erat iactum
An Illinois hobby group seems to have lost one of its hobbies recently:The Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade, a hobbyist group that launches hydrogen-filled, radio-equipped pico balloons and...
View ArticleHappy Presidents Day
In honor of thus august holiday, Aimee Mann has painted portraits of our worst presidents:And Ezra Klein argues in favor of the current president's re-election:There is no end of commentary gently —...
View ArticleTaking a break from heads-down coding
I spent the morning going over an API for standards and style, which will result in an uncomfortably large commit before I leave the office today. I prefer smaller, more focused commits, but this kind...
View ArticleReally gross afternoon
We've had rain since about 9am while the temperature has held onto 1°C with two hands and a carabiner, so neither Cassie nor I will get our quota of walks this afternoon. But that does give me extra...
View ArticleWhen, in the corset of human events...
Let's start with combat-actor Jill Bearup explaining how the Netflix-ITV-BBC ban on corsets solves entirely the wrong problems:Meanwhile, in the modern world:The National Transportation Safety Board...
View ArticleWhy doesn't the AP want me to give them money?
I spent way more time than I should have this morning trying to set up an API key for the Associated Press data tools. Their online form to sign up created a general customer-service ticket, which...
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Not all that surprising, really
Newspapers around the country finally chucked "Dilbert" into the bin after the cartoon's creator, Scott Adams, gave them the excuse:Newspapers across the United States have pulled Scott Adams’s...
View ArticleDreary Monday afternoon
The rain has stopped, and might even abate long enough for me to collect Cassie from day camp without getting soaked on my way home. I've completed a couple of cool sub-features for our sprint review...
View ArticleBaroness Betty Boothroyd, OM, PC
The first female Speaker of the House of Commons died Sunday:She served as Speaker from 1992 to 2000, before going on to become a baroness in the House of Lords from 2001.The current Speaker Sir...
View ArticleSprint 80
At my day job, we just ended our 80th sprint on the project, with a lot of small but useful features that will make our side of the app easier to maintain. I like productive days like this. I even...
View ArticleHistoric mayoral election
For the first time since 1983, a sitting Chicago mayor failed to win re-election*, sadly keeping the total proportion of women not being re-elected at 100%. So the April 4th runoff will see the Chicago...
View ArticleFollowing up on a few things
Perhaps the first day of spring brings encourages some spring cleaning? Or at least, revisiting stories of the recent and more distant past:The Navy has revisited how it names ships, deciding that...
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Use-it-or-lose-it PTO, plus the oncoming storm
My company distributes each employee's paid time off (PTO) by distributing a certain number of hours of per half-month pay period. The hours accumulate in a bank that the employee can tap into at any...
View ArticleThe Flamingo Incident
The Atlantic's Ross Andersen recaps a mass murder at the Rock Creek Park Zoo in Washington, D.C.:Tales of fox cunning are as old as culture. Aesop’s foxes were constantly involved in deceptions. In...
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