Car-free Lake Washington Blvd is amazing. I biked from my house to Mt Baker Beach, down to Seward Park, then detoured one block uphill for refreshments at Aslan. Stopped at lakeside for another snack on my way home. People everywhere. Beautiful afternoon. Unchartable vibes.

This is so good.

New McMansion Hell? NEW MCMANSION HELL. mcmansionhell.com/post/8178960...

I love the library and I love data, so when I found a super clean dataset about Seattle Public Library circulation, I went data spelunking hoping I'd yield fun facts to share at parties. Turns out, it was just the beginning of a rabbit hole into a larger cultural shift in how we consume books. 1/

I have apparently reached the age where I say, out loud, things like "oh, great, my new sun shirt came in the mail today."

Muxy is a cool project, approaching terminal-as-IDE. It may be too heavy for when I frequently just want a quick terminal, so I'm not sure it fits long-term for me. But it's neat!

TIL that Fuji's raw studio software has perfectly nice support for saving and editing film simulation recipes. It's been there all along! I exclusively used Lightroom when I primarily made raw images, so I never thought to explore it. Never stop learning, huh? prettygoodhat.com/note/177965...

This was such a good event. The group ride from Judkins was fun and joyful! Perfect vibes all the way through the celebration at the beach and the first cruise along the water. Great going, Jason!

So I began describing the protesters at the opening celebration for Bicycle Weekends today, but my wife cut me off by laughing uncontrollably when I said they were angry at the "bike lobby."

That scene when, after hours of deliberation, Treebeard finally tells Merry and Pip that they have decided that the hobbits are not orcs, but it's my health benefits management holding company telling me they have decided I can have an ankle MRI.

My neighbor sometimes sweetly brings over pastries from the neighborhood shop on a sunny Sunday morning, and, having celiac and allergic family members in the house, I have to sit on the porch in the sun and just eat them all.

This big orange crossed the street to get pets, purr, and roll on the sidewalk in the sun, so we're best friends now.

My Indigo experience on my phone is really good! Maybe worth an ongoing cost for a very good social media app; but the Mac experience feels bad: Type is still way too small, even with the update allowing for adjustments (still - thanks!), keyboard navigation is inadequate, and it's pretty sluggish.

This is super cool.

I can't decide if I'm more angry about the shitty slopgen logo depicting a saguaro in Monument Valley (where saguaro do not grow), the shitty careless typography, or the shitty and incompetent conceptualization of the whole thing.

"Evaporation would spike. The dewpoint could vanish, with devastating consequences on wildlife, plants and the fertility of land owned by other ranchers in the valley." We are destroying our futures for the speculative profits of oligarchs.

What a staggering fucking waste and betrayal of public trust in service of oligarchs.

This northern Utah project wanted to slip under the radar but public notice is taking off while the governor whines about obstructionists.

Ah, dang, I think I've decided to learn targets.

Quick question, when people post about their “homelab” they’re just talking about another computer, right? Like this is giving a nice credential to “dicking around on the computer?” Gotta get a new VM on the homelab so I can tailscale it from the Center where I run a Lab.

The sltrib generally does really good journalism, so it's wild how one-sided this story on a massive n. Utah data center project is. No quote from anyone not invested in the project, no critical reporting on water or the power consumption of the entire rest of the state from 100% fossil fuel!

This probably needs some more workshopping, but I'm getting the form figured out. If your Al be an Alan Well you've got a pal, man But if your AI be all hey You're absolutely right, Kurt Russell did not write Slaughterhouse Five, I will keep that in mind, Should I try again? Then, oh buddy, bye.

Not only did I come across Jon Hicks’ great UI pass on the Qobuz desktop app today (hicks.design/journal/qobu...), but there are big and excellent mobile app updates dropping in the beta tonight. -Kermit arms- like lyrics and super player UI updates!

I regret to report AGAIN that getting on the RIDICULOUS muscle heart rate machine AGAIN was good for my sorry-ass sense of WELLBEING.

All the kids are super into Peregrin and Pippin, that's called Tooksmaxxing. And when they venture off to trick a dragon with a riddle, that's called Smaugging.

If I just shortened my name to Al, think I could catch some stray financing rounds? I don't need much, big picture.

Sorry, is this saying I can pay EITHER, $129 or FIFTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS per ticket, for the SAME general admission ticket?

Is there any more perfect moment than coming down the stairs to the tracks, music in the headphones, and stepping seamlessly onto the just-pulled-in-train?

Fake pews

Every once in a while I have an idea for a very small change to the template of my Hugo blog and a reminded why I dislike making Hugo template changes so much.

"Good view of the moon out window 2. Looks a little smaller than yesterday, though." "Guess we'll have to go back." We can do great things.

Wow. Seeing crew module separation live is amazing. Just like that.

There's so much nonsense in this gripe about No Kings protests that I reposted my own blog post from TWENTY YEARS AGO (jfc) in response to _that era's_ moral scoldings about anti-war protesters Doing It Wrong: prettygoodhat.com/post/protest...

I can't even figure out how to take proper offense at this, it's so weirdly multi-factorially obtuse. Like, "typewriter font" wasn't an affectation, and using a mailing list is not a particularly arcane concept.

Rothrock's really good at soccer!

Once again, would you look at this ridiculous outdoor concert lineup in my lil old hometown. Two hundred bucks gets you season tickets and bus/rail passes for every show, are you kidding.

Oof, man. Some combination of Challenger trauma, astonishment at what we are capable of, and joy that we can do tremendous things, and I'm just a wreck at my desk here tbh.

Legit don't understand what the claim is in the middle paragraph that leads to the conclusion. You made a list of articles and blog posts, nice going dude.

I went to the opening day party yesterday, had a great time, and never made it onto a train. But today it’s just another quiet Sunday (the first!) on the cross-lake connection, so I took my bike to Mercer Slough.

Y’all, the great horned owl chick cam live from Tucson is the thing to watch tonight. tucsonbirds.org/great-horned...

Hell yeah, got a commemorative Orca card for the day.

I wrote about it. www.theurbanist.org/everything-y...

Does everybody have their 2 Line party plan for tomorrow? Judkins Park, let's goooooo, gonna ride a train across a lake!

Six Degrees week on KEXP has been a ton of fun, and there's still time to catch it. www.kexp.org/sixdegrees/

It was a pretty Good Friday evening for a walk with a bit of sunshine.

Checking back in again from Golden Bakery, where the croissant breakfast sandwich is huge and delicious.

Explaining to my kid that when I went to college, your dorm room had a phone and that was now your phone number. But only for that year. And then you had a different phone number at the place you lived for the summer, and so on.

Thinking of posting this in the chat every time the overnight data jobs run.