wind gust max speed in the mission hit 27.7 mph on my little sensor in the alley so far today. neat.

I read this one back in 2013 and I’m sure there are more modern treatments (which I’d be happy to hear about) but if you want get a 1987 perspective on the failed promises of computer skill acquisition you would probably do worse than to read Dreyfus & Dreyfus’s "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039572.Mind_Over_Machine).

Mind Over MachineDefining the limits of computer technology, the authors…Goodreads

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Ah, jeeze, these hamsicks and circle-As are really picky about having the crust cut off of their diagonal cut PB&Js and the skins peeled off of their apple slices and etc, and etc. I really [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral)

peeking into the party around the person I don’t know who opened the door: Hey!

Slightly later over a beer: uh, so what do you do? (people love this question)

Oh me? I’m a founder. We make [unintelligible]. Haha, yeah, no, it’s software for cold calling people. No yeah it still “works” ha ha ha. You don’t answer your phone? Wow do you mind if I double-click on that, I [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral at the party)

inventing a new “federal housing insurance corporation” as a thought experiment and being tackled and beaten unconscious by 90 Stanford grad founder-in-bio posters wearing Fnord brand “punch left" gear I didn’t even know sports basement sold because that part of the store is invisible to me, a normal person

this guy is picky as hell about clocks

four other braun clocks throughout the house (the only other clocks in the house)