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Cake day: September 24th, 2024

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  • I couldn’t cook a damn thing until Alton Brown showed me how/why cooking works.

    Then I learned about all the types of cooking and why they work.

    Then I looked at how the Michelin chefs do it and why they do the things they do.

    Now I cook pretty well and occasionally pull off something way above my skill level.








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    I want a better distribution of walkable white collar work and more work-from-home jobs.

    I used to live within easy walking distance to the light rail, and work was easy walking distance from the other stop. The stops were 20 miles apart through the center of the city.

    I could drive there, around the beltway, around the whole damn west side in 30 minutes.

    The train was over an hour on a good day.

    I tried it:

    Day one, there was some mid day stuff happening in town, the train was PACKED and spent 10m at every stop, that day was 2 hours.

    Had a few decent days, then they hit a car. We were forced to stay on the train for an hour in summer heat, no AC.

    Some days the train was every 10. Some days every 30, some days 2 in a row. It was supposed to change frequency with time, it changed rather randomly.

    By the end of my first month, there was an outage, so they did a bus bridge. That trip home was 4 hours.

    I know that the light rail here was just substandard. but that didn’t make it any easier.

    Trains need a specific ecosystem and population density to thrive. In the US, we seem to have an issue that installing train stops connecting suburbs to significant cities brings crime to the suburbs and pushes out boutique shops from the stops. Is there any of that in other countries, or does the train increase commerce in an area?




  • She has a lot going against her, even if people don’t think there’s a patriarchy issue.

    1. She’s very active politically and very vocal. Immediate resistance from conservatives.

    2. She is no friend to AIPAC. She’ll lose a good bit of the Jewish vote

    3. Policy-wise, she’s decently progressive. She’ll be easily demonized by the right-owned media.

    4. Voter Suppression. Even if we get a fair election, as soon as the right loses, they’ll martial law up and claim fraud, and you better believe they’ll find what they’re looking for if they have to make it themselves.




  • My kids screamed his head off two days ago. There’s ants in the house. I’m like yeah whatever. I go to check it out. There were thousands of ants in the house. They came in through a little spot near the garage went all the way down one wall along another wall straight through the kitchen under the fridge to a single crunchy snack thing that fell onto the floor.

    I’m not too worried about this fly or two or an and or two and I leave spiders alone If they’ve picked a nice quiet corner. But I can’t have thousands of ants in my kitchen.


  • This is the around the long way method, but it’ll start you on a crippling hobby to instrument your entire life.

    Raspberry Pi home assistant zigbee USB zigbee water sensor.

    you could stop here at notifications.

    or

    Descend into madness, put a small ac submersible pump into your dehumidifier tray with a smart outlet. When the sensor trips full, have it run the submersible pump for x minutes.