Not quite sure what’s happening at my kid’s school today…?
Who had “Simone Biles’ husband scores a touchdown before NFL #1 pick QB Caleb Williams does for the Bears” on their NFL week 1 bingo card today?
Did the media learn nothing from its disastrous coverage of Trump and Clinton in 2016? | Rebecca Solnit theguardian.com
As much as I love my New York Times subscription (although getting a reasonable subscription price is like dealing with the cable company, constantly threatening to cancel) the obsession on Biden’s age, while minimizing Trump’s threat, gave me a bit of PTSD about “Hilary’s emails”. While I was never a big Hilary fan myself, (and the email server was a stupid thing she shouldn’t have done) she was clearly capable and the only reasonable choice, and the outcome of her Electoral College defeat—aided no doubt by “but her emails”—was disastrous for the country. Perhaps the news media needs to be done with the profit motive.
Apparently I’m not the only only person making a lot of use of their public library’s ebook lending…
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library Ebooks
BTW, if you’re not using Libby you’re missing out.
Conditions were very ripe for a record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season, so here are the storms? (PS-we are just getting to the peak of the season now in September) Why The Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Been So Quiet Recently
Spouse: “Smell my hands”
Me: “This never ends well”
(She had just harvested Lemon Balm and they smelled like a citronella candle.)
Is Penpot an opensource Figma alternative?
I get that working with time zones sucks for developers. I’m here to tell you that it’s no walk in the park for designers trying to spec UI behavior in an app that schedules things that happen across time zones, either.
This is a hard thing to say “I recommend you listen to this” but outside of the deviating nature of the topic, the conversation is truly fascinating. Jacobsen has written a book based on hundreds of hours of research and interviews with people at many levels of the US military about our nuclear protocols, as well as outside experts. Worth a listen.
And if you’re not familiar with the 80,000 hours organization, you should look them up.
You Don’t Really Need DC Fast Charging | insideevs.com
- This is how we survived outside of the DC Fast Charging (DCFC) world in Nova Scotia.
- ABC (“Always be charging”) only works if L2 chargers are available where you plan to be for a while. While in Canada, the National Parks had six plugs that shared 3 power sources. If all are in use, you looking at 5–10 miles added per hour charging. If you show up and all the spots are taken, you’re out of luck, because the people in those spots may not be back for hours. Or even worse, you could be ICE’d out.
- Their math feels off. For me, Supercharging usually matches my home price/kWh. Sometimes it’s 10¢ higher. The price they quote for home power is way lower than mine, and their DCFC price is significantly higher than what I’ve paid.
- Broadly, I agree with the gist that people shouldn’t see a fast charger as a gas pump. We should embrace “trickle charging”—I’m surprised that they didn’t mention it’s theoretically easier on the battery, too.
Left work early to take a shift driving the kids to activities. As they say, no good deed goes unpunished.
Sitting within eyesight of a Verizon 5G ultra wideband tower. Run an OpenSignal speed test (which the industry uses to brag about their performance) and get 150mbps. Run the Fast.com test that Netflix makes to show you your speed, 3.8mbps.
The last time Republicans won the popular vote for US Presidency was 2004 when G. W. Bush won with a 50.7% tally. Can you imagine how different this country could be if the popular vote determined the presidency?
I have one and a half teenagers interested in starting a blog. Anyone helped their kids start? Anyone using Micro.blog for that? Have any other resources to recommend? cc/ @manton
Bike workshop concluded. Problem was a tear in the valve stem itself, so I couldn’t demonstrate how to patch the tube. Then I realized my daughter’s bike is a 27.5” and my spare was a 26”, so I couldn’t even put a permanent fix. I finished the demo with 26 stretched a little.
Going to conduct a “how to change a bike tire/tube, and patch a flat” workshop for my kids. Somehow in the 12 years since any of them have had bikes, this is the first flat tire.
Nation Wary Of Suddenly Usable Website theonion.com
My family and I recently took a road trip through the Canadian Maritimes provinces, and I am going to post a few shots over the next week or so. This is low tide at Chignecto Bay, an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada, within the Fundy National Park. The Bay of Fundy is renowned for its extreme tides. Twice a day this area is completely devoid of water. Twice a day this very spot is under at least ten feet (roughly 3 meters) of water.
I am shocked that (a) they offered him the job, (b) that he took it. This could be very exciting, although I liked Berhalter (eventually) and Klinsmann, too: Mauricio Pochettino agrees to become USMNT head coach