Same vibes (no, it did not have disabled plates or placard). And when the douchebag owner saw me taking a photo, he threatened me and tried to start a fight. The US is literally teeming with these assholes.

I had the experience of a lifetime on Tuesday, seeing Rush in LA. Their new drummer, Anika Nilles, is off-the-charts f*king extraordinary. It seems like apostasy, but she's at least as good as Neil. @lawrensack.bsky.social was kind enough to accompany me and translate the lyrics from Canadian.

it makes you an 80s band, just better-educated

Here's where my first (and last) titanium bike spontaneously failed. Ritchey Breakaway Ti-Cross.

Reference letter writers: please do not use letterhead with big watermark designs in the background (unless they're extremely faint). The examples below are really distracting and make it difficult to read the text -- at least for me, and I doubt I'm the only one.

I've already had one frame spontaneously disassemble (Ritchey Ti-Cross)

Holy shit. That's my bike! Did yours just spontaneously break in half?

Late winter in California

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed

hmm

3D printed mold for custom PMS pressure chamber gaskets, and the resulting gaskets (for sunflower in this case, using silicone w/ varying hardnesses). The standard ones can't be tightened on soft or oddly-shaped petioles without crushing them. Put petiole thru hole, seal w/ parafilm, pour silicone.

not what I'm known for, but I'll take it

Not a bad office view!

I see your world class belly and raise you this:

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

I love me some Ube with brrkfkst

I see your Tweedy and raise you this

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.

My daughter's first professional art exhibition, at Wildwood Market in South Lake Tahoe.

We told you he would do this. We told you he was an antivaxxer fool. You confirmed him anyway. This is 100% on you. All the deaths that will occur because of this are your fault, Senator. You had the opportunity and knowledge to prevent it, but for craven political reasons, you refused.

May in Sacramento

First new climbing shoes in 30 years. (In 1996 it was cycling or climbing for me, and I chose cycling, but thanks to my amazing son I'm climbing again.) But my God, Italian shoes are the genuine article. In climbing as in cycling. They are a work of art.

Getting to be that time of year again

Holy shit, I didn't know Walesa was still around. Guy's a fucking hero. People should listen to him.

I often hear that California has super high taxes. True if you're rich, but not for most people. Here's total state income tax (using calculators at smartasset.com) for a married couple w/ given household incomes, for CA vs VA and 4 deep red states. (Yes I know, some states have no income tax.)

Our cat Mimi passed on in June. We just now finally felt OK getting another cat. He is a Maine coon, tentatively named Feather, and is the sweetest.

Here's the distribution of 1,000 estimates, each using 1,000,000 points.

I did something similar in R, for fun. It's surprisingly (to me) jumpy! Here's the % error in the running estimate of pi as you accumulate more and more points, up to a million. Repeated three times.