Having known John McGuire back then, he was great at working with people at all levels of fitness, emphasizing teamwork, providing encouragement, etc. As cringey as the whole "SEAL Team" shtick was, he was excellent at leading workouts.
Beyond that — intellectually — he's... good at doing push-ups.
Credit where due, at least Yudkowsky seems to finally be putting his money where his mouth is. No more of that Randall-Terry-type wannabe noise now that he's gotten that NYT best-seller bag.
That's gonna be one helluvan RCA... The five-whys are gonna be lit.
In the same vein as Sonnets[1] Georg[2]: If someone punches a Nazi, they hate Nazis; if they punch three hundred Nazis, they love punching people.
They may also hate Nazis. But they for sure love punching.
1: dedalvs.tumblr.com/post/1526697...
2: reallyreallyreallytrying.tumblr.com/post/4003302...
Of all the (unarmed) gendai budō to see busted out for a Chicago high school hallway fight, I think I would have expected sumō the least.
(Q.v. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekodam...)
The Climber (adapted by Shin-ichi Sakamoto [@14mountain.bsky.social] from Jirō Nitta's novel Kokō no Hito) is maybe the best story I've read about an ultrarunner, despite being 100% about mountain climbing with no running involved beyond a VO2-max test. Right up there alongside Murakami's WITAWITAR.
How long do you think until it comes out that CBP released the balloon themselves to test out their cool new toy?
From what I'd seen yesterday morning, I'd thought that Bliss had notified the FAA to close the airspace.
I had not, but probably should have, thought of the possibility of CBP firing off borrowed laser weapons willy-nilly like a Monster-fueled YouTuber on their fourth line of Adderall.
So, my bad.
Confusing a balloon for a drone is a disturbing level of incompetence or just absurdly bad luck, and not providing any details is hard to excuse. But closing the airport when there's a chance of burn-through-metal lasers pushing the sky, that part (and that part _*only*_) strikes me as a Good Thing.
The US Army mistaking a Mylar balloon for a drone? I got nothing. (Chaff's been a thing almost as long as radar...)
But my assumption would be they deployed something laser-based like SkyGuard or HELLADS, in the 50-150kW range, in which case you do NOT want civilian aviation ANYWHERE within 20+ km.
An unfortunately-kinda-blurry 360-degree panorama from this morning, maybe half an hour before dawn - sun peeking over the horizon, full moon in the sky. Standing in the middle of a sheet of ice stretching as far as can be seen over hill and swale across a park, with a split-rail fence sticking up nearby and buildings far-off up the hill and down the path. A week and a half of scattered passage has left barely a mark on the snowcrete expanse.
Morning run. Wish it hadn't ended up so blurry, but I was a bit off my usual pace and running late. (Plus, I've only ever shot, like... two? panoramas on my phone, counting this one.)
... And if I had a nickel for every time I used the "If I had a nickel / weird that it happened twice" snowclone in disbelief at the crazy stuff I find while out running, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
A vivid pastel drawing of a couple of pears on a plate, on a... table? bedspread?, under glass in a wooden frame, held in someone's left hand in front of a framed, centuries-old map of Africa hanging on the wall. An Ikea wing chair with a fleece gimme blanket tossed over it is in the background.
If I had a nickel for every time I found a nicely framed piece of art just lying beside the trail on my morning run, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
If I had a nickel for every time I found half of a torn-up Social Security card on my morning run, I'd have two nickels.
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Yesterday, I sent the city manager a video showing the cameras left over from a canceled pilot program - which Flock claimed they'd disabled and would handle removing - appearing to still be recording traffic.
Today, the city stopped waiting - Public Works was out before 7AM.
A welcome C'Ville W.
Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a fandom with rigor, and for my sins, I'm now integrating hyperbolic tangents and composing MLA citations for Street Fighter 6 and FX's "The League" in order to make a bilingual pun.
While working on a literature search of Romanian scientific biographies.
Welp, I've been running ultras for — bah gawd, a DECADE — and after this year's GEER, I've at last filled up my charm bracelet (iykyk and if you don't... best keep your bliss). So now do I:
a) Curate the choicest of charms?
b) Start doubling up charms on each link?, or
c) Turn it into a necklace?
"As of now, the industry standard overwhelmingly favors human-created work, from submissions guidelines to awards lists."
Absolutely nothing worrying about THAT little bit, nope, it's neither ominous nor foreboding AT ALL...
A small pleather pouch, five flat tassles at the bottom, with a black zipper (open) at the top and a long braided cord attached to the top, lying on a faux-wood-grain table. On top of the pouch is a flat circle of polished stone with a spiral pattern to it.
— and, as of this morning, I also have to worry about — on a scale from "a buck-forty costume accessory from Temu" to "in the centuries after the Edict of Nikaea, the Dathomiri witch-cults flourished throughout the western realms" — just how magick-y THIS might be —
A whole bunch of glass beads laid out next to a black !velvet bag (which I also found while running) - 38 aqua, 10 light green, 11 red, 8 frosted white, 2 green, 2 shiny magenta, 1 magenta, 2 pale blue, 1 shiny blue, and 2 shiny purple.
I don't know if it's because of mirth, magic, or mental illness, but every few weeks I've been finding colored glass beads scattered along the sides of the trail during my morning run. At this point, I don't know if I should be looking forward to a 1UP, or looking over my shoulder for ghosts...
Anakin-Padme "For the better, right?" (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/for-the-better-right) meme. First Panel: "I've filled 150 or so bankers boxes with books while reorganizing the house" Second Panel: "Wow, it must be so weird to see all those bookshelves empty" Last Panel: "Your bookshelves are empty now, right?"
Actually, a fair number of them are double-shelved and will be... I'd say "until the new shelves come online", but those new shelves are already allocated for (some of) the currently-boxed volumes, so... for the foreseeable.
You _may_ be able to use the python-kasa package (python-kasa.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cl...) to set it up to work with HA sans app (www.home-assistant.io/integrations...). It depends on what model your plug is and _maybe_ also how how recently its firmware was updated.
Yup, I've run into this too - apart from Kasa/Tapo/etc. API issues, I've found that a lot of smart bulbs / plugs require the app for the initial WiFi setup. After that, I _think_ that you should be good to go with a local HA instance. (I've never had to use an app for any non-WiFi devices, though.)
A screenshot of a passage from the e-Baker Street Journal: Philip S. Meckley, "Soteriology and Death in 'The Final Problem'", Vol. 49, No. 3 (September 1999): "- himself, but to annihilate the attacker, an effort which, we subsequently discover in EMPT, is successful. This would be the moral equivalent of watching Jesus turn, cinch on a black belt, and thrash the daylights out of Pilate and the centurions, an amusing yet wholly noncanonical portrait. Yet one could quibble about this observation, since we have been heretofore -"
pace Meckley, it's amusing that a very similar event actually is kinda-sorta canonical, per John 2:14-15. Imagine a random Temple-goer:
"Hey, Jesus! Whatcha doin'?"
"Makin' a whip."
"Oh. Huh. I, uh, I see that. Why?"
"For whippin'."
"Right..." <Goes about their business, nervously.>
Yeah, I'd originally had a parenthetical "(older)" before students, but I ran up against the character limit.
True; I'd been using their commodity filters as a budgeting benchmark. And while the noise can definitely be an issue during classes, not having a single desk's worth of free floor space nor being able to trust students not to mess with them is part of the overall sorry state of American education.
I'd started looking up HVAC filter prices - because no WAY could a Corsi–Rosenthal Box per room be _that_ expensive - when I remembered that 95% of teachers have to pay for classroom supplies out of their own paychecks...
A photo of a chair in a corner, showing a framed, centuries-old map of Africa; a painted notebook; employee vests from Wal-Mart and FedEx; the metal remains of a circular LARP shield; and a crude machete / Ork choppa. All of which, yes, I have found while out running around town - within the last year and a half, even.
Session 0, That Guy: "Wait, so our party is going to be a bunch of randos who not only found weapons, armor, and disguises just lying around, but also, *somehow*, happened to stumble upon an ancient map *and* a spellbook? COME ON, MAN!"
A few of the things I've found on runs in the last ~18 months:
A two-by-two set of images from the movie The Matrix. Upper Left: Close-up of Trinity's face (played by Carrie-Anne Moss), slicked-back hair and late-90's-cool sunglasses. Upper Right: Head-and-shoulders of Neo / Thomas Anderson (played by Keanu Reeves), looking skeptical. Caption - "Can you fly that thing?" Lower Left: Close-up of a B-212 (Bell 212 Twin Huey) helicopter. Lower Right: Trinity's face at about a 3/4 angle, slight forward tilt. Sunglasses off, eyes focused forward, expression set and determined. Caption - "Not yet."
When I hear "living in the Matrix", I think less about "tOtAlLy ReDpIlLeD, bRo!" and more about being out on a run and picking up a combination lock.
Without breaking stride, I got the make & model with a reverse image search, pulled up an LPL video, and cracked the combination within a mile or so.
A Mastodon post from Rod Hilton (@rodhilton@mastodon.social): "He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets."
The good ol' Gell-Mann amnesia effect slash Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Ma...)
