1. A 20-something tailgated me through one of the new door sized bart gates this week, clearly waiting for the right person to follow, and I knew exactly what to do, keep listening to my podcast, acknowledge nothing, even with the stupid new turnstile, which is slow and annoying, beeping behind me.

    hell yeah, we’re doing the moves, fare dodging, and we’re walking down the stairs like nothing happened, gg

    (fwiw the tone is a solid beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for idk how many seconds)

  2. Ah, the boys sang Pocket Calculator in Italian for Italian TV

    love the tiny instruments on this

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZiTr4hwHXI

  3. Got a barcode, will be in DC Thursday through Sunday 🤗

  4. Oops, forgot to try for a shmoocon barcode one last time

    might do lobbycon anyway, it being the last one and all that

    I don’t go to security conferences much anymore but a friend not on here and I were both on sg-dc and lived in DC in 2004, so, when the CFP got posted there ( https://marc.info/?l=sg-dc&m=109509914217942&w=2). It got his attention.

    '[sg-dc] Shmoocon 2005 CFP (and registration announcement)' - MARCmarc.info (opens in a new tab)

    I didn’t end up getting a barcode until November 30th. I walked to and from the con at the Wardman each day from my place in Adam’s Morgan.

    One of the nights, we got dinner w/ @webjedi (his boss) and a few months later I quit my IT job started working for 'em as a security engineer.

    So.

  5. a photograph of the right side of a concrete highway overpassthe top sevenths or so of the photo is crossed by the hand rail and concrete barrier over a smooth concrete wall probably 10 foot tall on the left diminishing along the bottom rising up to 6 feet on the rightthe entire bottom half of the photo is green scrubs, weeds, bushes, and other overgrowth wet from rainthe wall has been tagged in scrappy turquoise block spray-paint letters, the first line has been over-painted again in purple:GRAFFITI REMOVAL1-800-WET-PAINTTo the right is in the base turquoise is a tag of a simple cut gem, resting on one side
    Figure 1. a photograph of the right side of a concrete highway overpassthe top sevenths or so of the photo is crossed by the hand rail and concrete barrier over a smooth concrete wall probably 10 foot tall on the left diminishing along the bottom rising up to 6 feet on the rightthe entire bottom half of the photo is green scrubs, weeds, bushes, and other overgrowth wet from rainthe wall has been tagged in scrappy turquoise block spray-paint letters, the first line has been over-painted again in purple:GRAFFITI REMOVAL1-800-WET-PAINTTo the right is in the base turquoise is a tag of a simple cut gem, resting on one side.
  6. Junior on working through some math (addition of single digit numbers, kindergarten-appropriate):

    “it’s like there’s a teacher in my head, teaching me, all the time”

  7. Content warning: alcohol

    Ordred some tacos and a dos equis at the tacqueria last night, clerk rang me up, I paid, he turned around and handed me my tacos and dos dos equis.

    what a scam, but I’ll be drinking that second one that’s in my fridge now eventually anyway I guess

    math-knowers in chat have pointed out that I should have parlayed this into quarto equis on account of dos times dos producing that quatro, but this is one of my locals and I can’t get quatro equis every time I go to keep in order to service that charade

  8. This hot tip was solid, Eric Isaacson had a lot to share and I’m pretty glad we went even if we ended up not getting home to relieve our high-school aged babysitter until after 9:30. “It’s OK, tbh I stay up until midnight anyway.”

    The tour winds down in Fort Bragg and then Bolinas: https://www.mississippirecords.net/calendar-2024

    Also: check out the 4 Star, which is also a record shop

    I never make it out the Richmond so I guess this rec is for people like me and not like, some sort of personal insight

    Photograph of the 4 Star theater from kitty-corner on 23rd and Clement, at night. The venue is a 2 or 3 story building with a vertically oriented neon sight of a white star over red letters S, T, A, and R rendered as neon block oblique outlines in front on Clement, and a smaller, lower neon sight on the 23rd that simply says 4STAR in oblique neon linesas a result the top half of the building is washed in red neon glowthe marque is a simple protruding and hanging letterboard with 4 white stars above it, proclaiming tonight: THU: A PEOPLESHISTORY OF NORTHAMERICAN MUSICThe entrance winds past a box office window to a door near the corner brightly lit from above
    Figure 1. Photograph of the 4 Star theater from kitty-corner on 23rd and Clement, at night. The venue is a 2 or 3 story building with a vertically oriented neon sight of a white star over red letters S, T, A, and R rendered as neon block oblique outlines in front on Clement, and a smaller, lower neon sight on the 23rd that simply says 4STAR in oblique neon linesas a result the top half of the building is washed in red neon glowthe marque is a simple protruding and hanging letterboard with 4 white stars above it, proclaiming tonight: THU: A PEOPLESHISTORY OF NORTHAMERICAN MUSICThe entrance winds past a box office window to a door near the corner brightly lit from above.
  9. Having been futzing with it for a few weeks now, 11ty pathing and globbing as seemingly intended in the current reference setup https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-base-blog is still pretty befuddling, specifically how “Images can be co-located with blog post files" is done.

    the example “home” index doesn’t include any post contents, just titles and dates. if you want to include content, that’s easy, but it won’t be able to find the images

    weird. anyway, https://gravely.pizza lives again

    pizza slow (high quality)pizza slow (high quality)gravely.pizza (opens in a new tab)

    this kinda stuff is better thought of as sets of idioms* in the it “cannot be understood from the individual meanings of its elements" sense than as whatever adjectives advocates like to throw around like “simple” or “clean” and so on

    it is a skill to be able to onboard and adapt various idioms, I’m just coming at this pile of them a little cold I guess

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