FRANK.MCCONNEL

Would really like to thank the organizers of the Mountain View Art and Wine festival for being something VTA needs to route their bus service around. Near as I can tell my neighborhood west of downtown had entirely nonexistent route 21 service from late morning to sundown.

It all makes sense if you think of the LLM as a new programmer who doesn't know to quote environment variables that could contain spaces and has cargo-culted a shell script that was written to use HOME for whatever purpose was desired.

Those little wheels might tip their vehicle's contents out if the bumps are that bad

I vaguely remember paying about $5 for new vinyl records in the mid 1970s. People sometimes express frustration to me about newly manufactured vinyl records being $25 or whatever today.

"According to MTMA, services are suspended due to the expiration of the shuttle operator’s California Public Utilities Commission license. The City of Mountain View has been informed that the shuttle operator, WeDriveU, operates statewide for private and public agencies."

Give me the most 80s song you can think of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRv...

rlogin(1) is a lot like your computer being able to convince the remote computer you are who your computer says you are, have fun with that

s/Facebook/NextDoor/

Post something random or you will have an awful April

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

Familiarity breeds contempt, and nowhere is this so pronounced as by the behavior of non-commercial motor vehicle operators driving in their own neighborhoods.

Just deleted the @archive.org "Donate Books" app from my phone. It's nice when it works, but needs a restart some random number of lookups in because it stops recognizing that it has something to scan. Then I get tired of working with it, and then one of the other volunteers discards my candidates.

Is it just my phone, or is the Transit app for iOS really messed up for notifications since iOS 26.3?

One good use of augmented reality would be to walk into a Shopper's Drug Mart and have a HUD showing me all the brands owned by shitbags

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

and in those days a star called wormwood will fall to earth

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? There's the one I heard on the radio at the time, and the one I didn't find out about 'til later.

The perfect #summerreading, music and more can be found this weekend, Aug. 9-10 at the Friends of the #PaloAlto Library Book Sale. Details at FOPAL.org #libsky

Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books: Greg Benford James Blish John Brunner Tim Powers Alastair Reynolds Melissa Scott Bruce Sterling Charles Stross John Varley Karl Edward Wagner I could probably go on a bit more too.

I usedta think that "Does the pope shit in his pants?" would have to involve a whole lot of lossy compression but now I have despair that we will manage to overcome the technical obstacles

Helping someone fill out a form in Preview, macOS 15.3.2; finding that if you've left it with the cursor in a PDF form field it leaves that field blank on the printout even if the field has data on-screen and the file has been saved with command-S

#Baltimore Streetcar Museum looks to grow as it looks to lease 1910 roundhouse https://www.baltimoresun.com/2025/03/22/baltimore-streetcar-museum-looks-to-grow/ https://archive.is/7YW2b #BSM #transit #streetcar #museum #history

not that it’s not already apparent that his claim to never see Nazis and not know how to find them is a blatant lie, but I have personally drawn Hamish’s attention to several Nazis on Substack and watched him squirm. he knows they’re there.

So where we are with the COVID-19 pandemic is that today I have (DKIM-signed!) spam for something claimed to "erase brain fog", or more likely separate sufferers from their money.

The mark of QVALITY! (I do Perl, C, assembler, machine code, connector conspiracies, cut-and-jumper, wire-wrap, blobs of solder)

On my walk to Palo Alto round 1730 on 31 Dec 2024, someone took the exit off San Antonio Road to the frontage road that leads to Alma. Their white Tesla turned its brights on at me. Thinking the pilot in commmand might be having trouble seeing I presented Figure 1 to help them focus.