Chris Lumens

I'm sure Star Peak is someone's favorite mountain, but not mine - a long, dusty, doubletrack grind of a hike. Views were decent at least.

I regret that I had but one NYT games subscription to cancel

@kenjennings.bsky.social Thank you for finally saying "... where the scores can really change"! My wife is tired of hearing me complain about this every game.

I keep noticing this too and it's bugging the hell out of me. You have one chance in your life to say "I'll make it a true daily double" and you don't?

Ugh, what an unpleasant movie

I spent all day climbing this stupid mountain in the middle of nowhere, Nevada just because it happens to be a lot taller than anything else around. #peakbagging #hiking #ultraprominent #nevada #greatbasin #starpeak

Every AI bro's post can be responded to the same way every New Yorker cartoon can be captioned:

Christ, what an asshole.

What a colossal load of shit. God, I'm sick of this stupid AI bubble.

It pains me to say "The Downward Spiral" is almost, but not quite, perfect. So close.

10 GHz & 24 GHz operation from Kearsarge today. Best DX was 486km, but the contacts with Mt. Washington bounced off the hills were pretty great too. #amateurradio #microwave #contest #dx #hamradio

Klingons do NOT make advertisements.

And here's the moxon deployed on today's #summitsontheair activation. It's taller than it looks. Contacts included Puerto Rico, Spain, and France. Not great conditions overall but a successful test. #sota #amateurradio #antenna

Gear ready for tomorrow's #sota activation - 10-40m efhw antenna, #elecraft kx2, 10m moxon antenna. I just finished the moxon, so hopefully it works. #amateurradio #summitsontheair

Yeah I don't feel like there's any good choices at the moment. I don't have a lot of trust that there won't be some Treasury stupidity in the next four years either.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for. I like that they have an ETF, but I would have to dig into its contents. Thanks!

Thanks! Great suggestion and I know a bunch of people who use it, but I'm self hosting mail and web.

Throwing this one out to #finsky #econsky... Any investment or shopping suggestions for protecting against this lawless administration and their asshole techbro enablers? I've already gotten rid of Amazon and Facebook accounts and cut Google out as much as possible.

Next up on my project to stop enriching asshole techbro billionaires... telling Google it can no longer have access to the photos on my phone.

I've got self-hosting figured out. I just need to copy everything off the phone, make sure it's not backed up in the cloud, and get a new camera app.

If it makes you feel any better, it also takes insane amounts of power to run as well.

On Thursday, I took the day off to go cross country skiing with Sarah at Waterville. We finally made it up the very steep Beanbender trail, which was once a downhill trail. We used all the techniques - herringbone, side stepping, and carrying our skis in disgust.
#nordic #crosscountry #xcski

When I'm not doing this, I'm counting how many times I have to use single signon in the work day.

Black Manhattan three ways. Averna Amaro (the standard ingredient) was the clear favorite, followed by Amaro di Angostura, and then Amaro Lucano way behind.

Please excuse the messy background.

#drinking #cocktails #amaro

THUD.