Big cats vs big dogs
This surprised me. One or more mountain lions in Washington state has decided that wolves taste good:Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) staff have documented cougars killing six collared...
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Worth the time
I tried something different yesterday after watching Uncle Roger's stab at adobo:Ng's basic outline worked really well, and I got close to what I had hoped on the first attempt. Next time I'll use less...
View ArticleShould I retire to the Netherlands?
Not Just Bikes celebrates 5 years living in the Netherlands by raving about how the Netherlands' anti-car development patterns make just about every city in the country nicer to live than just about...
View ArticleEverything I love about movement conservatism in one story
The religious right's endless struggle to steal billions of dollars from American taxpayers to fund their own religious schools dovetails nicely with the penchant for right-wingers to steal millions of...
View ArticleHigh time for a schedule change
The Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS) has signed off on rescheduling THC as a Schedule III drug, the first of three steps required for marijuana to become just another medication:A top official...
View ArticleLast day of summer
Meteorological autumn begins at midnight local time, even though today's autumn-like temperatures will give way to summer heat for a few days starting Saturday. Tomorrow I will once again attempt the...
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Third marathon walk (in 4 attempts)
I did it again:Of my three attempts to do this (2020, 2021, and 2022), this was 3rd best. Considering that last year I didn't even make it out of Evanston, it wasn't really that bad:So even though...
View ArticleQuick reminder about titles
Even though the United States Constitution prohibits the US or the States from issuing titles of nobility, the longing for lifetime honors still exists in certain status-conscious professions....
View ArticleLast hot weekend of 2023, I hope
The temperature has crept up towards 34°C all day after staying at a comfortable 28°C yesterday and 25°C Friday. It's officially 33°C at O'Hare but just a scoshe above 31°C at IDTWHQ. Also, I still...
View ArticleNo, there is no nude beach in Rogers Park
That's just one of the absurdities that I encountered over the course of the last 24 hours:A prankster put up an official-looking sign declaring Loyola Beach on the north side of Chicago...
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After 12 long years, we got to use the roof
This morning, for the first time since the inbound Ravenswood platform opened August 1st (and therefore since mid-2011), I actually got to shelter from the weather while waiting for the train:Rain was...
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Birthday present
My 3+-year-old Garmin Venu 2 Plus has about 40 hours of battery life and doesn't have a host of features that Garmin has developed since I got it. So, voilà, a Garmin Venu 3 appeared yesterday:I'm...
View ArticleRecycle all your creds in LastPass
Via Molly White, thieves made off with data from LastPass containing the encrypted passwords from 25 million users. They still have to crack the vaults to get at the data, which takes a long time, but...
View ArticleCooler and cloudier with a chance of hypocrisy
Today's weather feels like we might have real fall weather soon. Today's XKCD kind of nails it, too—not the weather, but the calendar.In addition to nice weather, we have a nice bit of elected-official...
View ArticleFriday lunchtime reading
It never stops, does it? And yet 100 years from now no one will remember 99% of this:A group of psychiatrists warned a Yale audience that the XPOTUS has a "dangerous mental illness" and should never...
View ArticleRidiculously cool engineering
I mean, look at this rotating boat lift in Falkirk, Scotland:Archimedes' principle makes this a lot easier than it seems. Both gondolas have exactly the same mass (about 600 tonnes), and they oppose...
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Perfect early-autumn weather
Inner Drive Technology WHQ cooled down to 14°C overnight and has started to climb up into the low-20s this morning, with a low dewpoint and mostly-clear skies. Perfect sleeping weather, and...
View ArticleThe other 9/11
Fifty years ago today, Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew the democratically-elected government of Chile:U.S. officials were especially concerned about Salvador Allende, a self-proclaimed Marxist and a...
View ArticleLovely autumn day
IDTWHQ got all the way up to 16.9°C this afternoon under clear skies, a nearly perfect early-autumn day ahead to start a week-long string of them. Fortunately the landscaping company comes to my...
View ArticleOther events of the day
I didn't only read about leaf blowers today. In other news:For reasons no one can fathom, there seems to be a relationship between how much scrutiny the individual Justices of the United States have...
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