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man, google's mobile services (ie anything from my cellphone, regardless of whether it's on data or wifi) are hella screwed up; wonder if I'm still pegged to the London region

Let's explore the IceCube Neutrino Observatory! Constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, it embeds ~5,800 ultra-sensitive light detectors (DOMs) in 90 strings through 1 cubic km of ultra-clear glacier ice sitting at very nearly the precise geographic South Pole.

Ah, the his of discovering you have either zero or five of any given tool or supply at the rent's house because they get put away in arbitrary and disparate places Today's haul: three modular jack crimpers, zero cable hook clips

The Bears-Eagles game had a mariachi band play the national anthem - and boy oh boy, amongst the players and staff there were *so many* sour faces. I hope they do this more often. (The performance, FWIW, was great and the crowd loved it)

Happy autumnal equinox (or spring for the upside-down folks)! I will celebrate by complaining about my feet being cold for the next six months

Welcoming committee, post vcfmw and Johnnie's Beef (boy, was he interested in the latter)

@blank.org ultimateclassicrock.com/stevie-wonde... two shows in daytwah and tickets mostly go on sale tomorrow

I think the dialect map thing shows that I speak "General American", pretty much; most similar at 51% and least similar at 46% strikes me as within margin of error of each other (I'm also not convinced Californian ain't just the average American vocab, given how many people move there)

It's 99F at 5pm and the only people in the park are me and Elwood and the other two guys with their dogs The dog park is pretty much entirely in the shade and has a filled kiddie pool, which helps

An American interviewer asked me about my political beliefs. #VoteBinface

happy bandcamp friday to all those that celebrate

Dog's at the groomers so we're having Korean cheesesteak and hot dogs at Budacki's

Went to Kashgar Uyghur Dining/Uyghur Cafe this evening; it's still in the squooshy opening/shaking-things-out stage. That said: the hand-pulled noodles are great; the laman is wonderful. (They currently don't have lamb, which was a surprise. Also, the acoustics are ass; the place is *loud*.)

Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.

nothing like a surprise "go to parents and re-flip their circuit breakers after dad is befuddled, and then build them a Corsi–Rosenthal Box" on like four hours of sleep. got Burt's Place pizza out of it, though

Friend shared this -- local air quality monitoring data within the City of Chicago! More granular than AirNow. map.clarity.io/open-air-chi...

it's always fun donning a respirator to go walk the dog and still being able to taste the air

librarian: I suspect I'd be fine; I worked at the library long before my sis did law prof: if I could crib my bro's notes and lesson plans, might be able to fake it; not sure - but given some of the law profs out there, I could hardly be worse

You know what's crazy is this video had a whole section about "Hmmm, do news editors have squishy feelings about farmers because of Nepo Baby Solidarity?" but then I cut it bc it was too long & kinda mean. It seems folks have smelt what I was cooking anyway 🤔

Hammock view

a reminder to sports-enjoyers in the US: Telemundo has way better coverage of soccer games than the English-language stations

And it's why the biggest internet safety advice I give parents of teenagers is to make crystal clear that they will never blame their kid for being the victim, because that is the ONLY way they will ever know there's a problem. bsky.app/profile/raha...

looks like the worst of the storms are past chicago, woo

Somebody's enjoying the warm weather

The Alley you say? Time to dust off this old thing

Amazing things happening at Montrose Harbor today

Des Plaines has gotten way more interesting since I was a kid, at least in culinary terms - you can get jibaritos at Jibarito Time, decent-if-pricey ramen at Chicago Ramen, Polish groceries and the pierogi bar at Shop & Save, etc

So @jvl.bsky.social once called this one of the most important pieces ever published at @thebulwark.com Of course, this essay is built on the preeminent work of people like @hcrichardson.bsky.social @jbf1755.bsky.social and @angiemaxwell.bsky.social But I think it is especially relevant today.

Boy, am I glad my dog doesn't freak out at helicopter noise

He's exactly the same kind of genius as Elon Musk, i.e. he simply buys something created by someone else

NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.

Somebody likes the weather

Found out today that almost all of Swedish Covenant's healthcare is covered by my HMO... *except* for SCH's pathology. WTF.

Been a while

Margie's Candies, Chicago, IL, 2015. All the pixels, open late, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/21135096034 #photography

today's technology fun: the color photocopier at the Niles library utterly refused to make a color copy of my grandfather's NM death certificate