Winter in the air
We officially had our first freeze last night as the temperature at O'Hare dipped to -1°C. At Inner Drive Technology World HQ it only got down to 0.1°C, barely above freezing, but still cold enough to...
View ArticleNot the long post I hope to write soon
I'm still thinking about propaganda in the Gaza war, but I'm not done thinking yet. Or, at least, not at a stopping point where a Daily Parker post would make sense. That said, Julia Ioffe sent this in...
View ArticleFor once, not all is gloom and doom
Today's roundup includes only one Earth-shattering kaboom, for starters (and I'll save the political stuff for last):Scientists hypothesize that two continent-sized blobs of hot minerals 3,000 km below...
View ArticlePeople behaving badly
Just a couple to mention:A jury convicted Sam Bankman-Fried of committing the largest fraud in US history. He faces up to 110 years in prison.House Republicans passed a bill that would provide $14...
View ArticleDon't sell your streets
Climate advocate Rollie Williams looks at the legacy of the 2008 Chicago parking meter deal:Contra Williams, many Chicagoans, including The Daily Parker, saw the problems with the deal at the time, and...
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Confusing weather
Remember how it snowed six days ago? Today it didn't:Unrelated, I'm monitoring some frustrating slowness with the Daily Parker. I'm not sure what's going on. Doubling the VM memory didn't seem to help....
View ArticleWhen Tuesday feels like Monday
We've switched around our RTO/WFH schedule recently, so I'm now in the office Tuesday through Thursday. That's exactly the opposite of my preferred schedule, it turns out. So now Tuesdays feel like...
View ArticleEvening reading
I actually had a lot to do today at my real job, so I pushed these stories to later:Sure, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is a crazy Christianist who has fantasies about Israel, but not exactly the...
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Seasonal, sunny, and breezy
We have unusual wind and sunshine for mid-November today, with a bog-standard 10C temperature. It doesn't feel cold, though. Good weather for flying kites, if you have strong arms.Elsewhere in the...
View ArticleMy car is watching me do what, now?
Via Bruce Schneier, your car does not respect your privacy anymore:Mozilla recently reported that of the car brands it reviewed, all 25 failed its privacy tests. While all, in Mozilla's estimation,...
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Quick photo dump from yesterday
I spent part of the afternoon at Spiteful Brewing yesterday and made good progress in Iain Banks' second Culture novel, The Player of Games. It was a lovely fall day:Cassie enjoys going to the brewery...
View ArticleProductive day, rehearsal tonight, many articles unread
I closed a 3-point story and if the build that's running right now passes, another bug and a 1-point story. So I'm pretty comfortable with my progress through this sprint. But I haven't had time to...
View ArticleIn other news...
Despite the XPOTUS publicly declaring himself a fascist (again), the world has other things going on:Josh Marshall plots out how House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) knows he has to pass a budget that...
View ArticleQuickly jotting things down
I hope to make the 17:10 train this evening, so I'll just note some things I want to read later:Monica Hesse can't help making fun of the dude-bros in the US Senate who think they're still in middle...
View ArticleLong day
I have tickets to a late concert downtown, which means a few things, principally that I'm still at the office. But I'm killing it on this sprint, so it works out.Of course this means a link dump:The...
View ArticleFifty years ago today
Ah, Tricky Dick, you were far worse than a crook:For context, Woodward and Bernstein had only just started investigating Watergate, and he still hadn't gotten us out of Vietnam. But good thing he...
View ArticleHobby airport collision NTSB preliminary report, explained
Good explanation, and no, it's not looking good for the Hawker crew:
View ArticleSunny Sunday walking
This may be the last warm (enough) weekend of 2023, so oncemore, I'm planning to go for a long walk. This time we plan to start at Metropolitan Brewing, which will close for good in 5 weeks. We then...
View ArticlePosting in the future
I'm setting this to post overnight so I can read these things tomorrow morning:President Biden published an op-ed in Saturday's Washington Post, laying out the necessary steps for ending the Gaza war,...
View ArticleHistoric nightclub closed; owners blame union
After a month-long boycott of Chicago's Berlin Nightclub organized by Unite Here Local 1, the venerable institution closed for good today:The announcement came hours after Unite Here Local 1, which...
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