Grampa’s not going to get any better at driving in the next two weeks. Time to take the keys away.

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

Here's a cool idea! Seattle has a new e-cargobike freight/delivery initiative that will support sustainable and dependable deliveries throughout the city!

*frantically running to the nearest internet outpost to breathlessly deliver the punchline I thought of weeks ago* DON'T LET THE DOW HIT YA ON THE WAY OUT

Contractor says we can save 17% if we change it to PLAM Sunday.

Weird birthday for me this year, numbers-wise. 1984 is the year I was born. Half of 84 is 42, which will be my age on Thursday, 4/2. 84 years is roughly the average life expectancy for someone living where I do per the CDC. So I’ll also be halfway through that average life expectancy.

Meanwhile bike fuel prices have not changed at Costco.

Pinned on a number and raced bikes yesterday. It's important to do a warmup before the race starts. If not, you're likely to get dropped very early on, and have to take turns with 2 others that also got dropped just to finish second to last. Don't ask me how I know.

Been YEARS since I've read some longform from my old friend Phil Gaimon, but this is worth the wait. It's extremely honest. And Phil is among the sharpest writers of any current or former pro athlete in any sport. Worth 10 minutes of your time. philgaimon.substack.com/p/hey-phil-s...

RIP Blazing Bagels: Beloved Redmond-based bakery and bagel shop has shut down and laid off its employees Although no announcement has yet been posted to its website or social platform channels, former employees say on Reddit that they've lost their jobs, while patrons have reported encountering…

Oh no!

If you’re lucky enough to have a child that would go for this, I highly recommend throwing a birthday party for them where they take 2 friends to buy some new books, have dinner, then build a blanket fort to eat candy and read their new books. 13/10 perfect party.

As a public service, I thought I'd offer a little constructive criticism of the most popular styles of bike racks, since it appears that the entities that manufacture and install these racks are clueless about the needs of actual bike riders.

The Seattle Punter was the MVP. I will not argue about this

Every Washingtonian should visit claimyourcash.org to see if you have funds waiting to be claimed. Last year, our Department of Revenue returned $182 million. On Unclaimed Property Day today, we want to get your money back into your pocket.

WSDOT: Hi SEPA we want to build a massive "diverging diamond" interchange on I-90 at SR-18 to facilitate additional sprawl is that cool? SEPA: Sounds fine to me City of Seattle: Hey SEPA, we'd like to allow people to build more homes in the heart of our city SEPA: Slow down just a minute fella

I don't know who needs this information, but Netflix has a 6-episode Spanish murder mystery, "City of Shadows," that centers on Gaudi's buildings in Barcelona. With locations like this, the plot barely matters.

Found a copy of *A Pattern Language* in a used bookstore. At what price is it worth picking up (if any)?

At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus took up this question and said, "well, first off, definitely not the plumbers. As for sparkies, well..."

A couple years ago on the last day of school my neighbor had a bunch of her friends over playing badminton in the street and it was loud. I closed my window and let them be.

The new link light rail across Lake Washington on the I-90 bridge is slated to officially open to passengers March 28, finally connecting Seattle and the Eastside.

One of the Seattle middle schools where students had to shelter in place today because of ICE activity is named after a US citizen of Japanese descent who was sent to the Minidoka concentration camp as a teenager.

The panic when I open this app and see 20+ notifications. Luckily people just liked and reposted and didn’t start following me.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The best antidote to doom and despair is getting out in your community if you are able to and working towards something positive. Not everything has to be about fighting fascism directly. Simply building better and stronger communities is a worthy endeavor.

New bike day!!! Still need to unbox and put it together, but I’m so stoked.

oh my GOD we just saw the logo for the Kraken Pride Night this year and holy shit???

Context is US courts have ruled that standards organizations like the ICC lose their copyright on codes and standards once they are adopted into law, under the logic that you cannot copyright the law. ICC and others are trying to change that with the Pro Codes Act, which might make UpCodes illegal.

If you are visiting here from X because the CSAM thing was a bridge too far, welcome. I'd encourage you to carefully consider whether the things you heard about Bluesky on X are true or whether they were lies spread by the guy who owns X who controls what posts you see on his site.

Had a mini panic attack as I couldn’t remember whether I’d finished mine for the year. I’m good.

RIP

For anyone that gets that disorienting feeling of not knowing what day it is between Xmas and New Years and having very few obligations and things to do - that’s called being relaxed.

N+1 bike alert! I got the green light to buy a MTB for my Christmas present, but I’m not really sure where to start. Last time I went mountain biking was almost 15 years ago on a Raleigh M40 hardtail. Probably very underbiked for what I was riding (mostly single track on Moscow Mtn).

Finally getting around to working on some language for sustainable design criteria I've been too busy to work on the past 6 months. I'm begging jurisdictions to stop creating programs that amount to arbitrary or capricious requirements that do very little to improve your building's sustainability.

People's safety is a higher priority than creditors' balance sheets. Rad's filing lists $32.1 million in assets. Compensating customers who were sold unsafe batteries needs to come first, then the creditors can recover what's left.

Package I’ve been waiting on is loaded on the delivery vehicle for the second day in a row. Guesses on whether it will be delivered today?

Huge load of project deadlines done and a week-long vacation coming up. Time to clean the house for the dog sitter.

me noticing the DD estimate pop up in my inbox

Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...

Posting pintles

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

from my parenting seminar last month.

What a night and what a venue! Thanks @townhallseattle.bsky.social @cascade.org and everyone who came to our live show with @nerd4cities.bsky.social last night. I was blown away by the turnout and the thoughtful questions from the audience. Seattle is a great town!

I was flipping through this book the other day, and while it’s awesome, it also felt in a weird way like a missed opportunity—so for no reason at all here’s a (probably long) thread on plant morphology:

#RECALL: Lezyne Pressure Over Drive Bicycle Floor Pumps; The pump’s canister can forcefully eject from the base when pressurized, posing a risk of serious injury from impact to the user or bystander. Get replacement. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

King County elections confirmed to me that so far they’ve only counted ballots up to those submitted Monday or early on Election Day, and none from drop boxes. Wednesday reflects basically a wrap up of what they started counting Tuesday.

OVAL OFFICE CLUB NO GIЯLS ALOWD

Every hot dog stand will in fact be replaced by the deconstructivist falafel stand from the 1995 Parker Posey vehicle Party Girl.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font