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Hilarious Sunday morning read,
“..I would bristle at a judge sentencing me to death in a Hawaiian shirt..”
I could interpret this a few ways, but I would bristle too, in each interpretation
Duck would like you to know that feeding the wildlife is ok
I’ve been riding along this part of the Amstel a lot and there is always at least one goat on this stump
I used an ice cream maker to make undiluted iced coffee today and that was quite pleasing.
This is one of those units where you pre freeze a bowl and we just always keep the bowl in the freezer now.
I precooled the cup of coffee some by setting the cup in an ice bath and stirring. I think the ice cream maker has plenty of capacity to deal with one cup of hot coffee but I didn’t want to assume the engineers planned for something so hot to be put into it.
It's June. Most of the men I came up with are gone, taken by AIDS while a government that wouldn't say the word looked the other way.
They started this fight at Stonewall, in drag. Now the same machine is coming for trans kids and drag queens with "protect the children" stamped on the side.
So I wrote down their names, and what I owe them, and what I'm not going to watch happen again.
Cows along the Amstel on a lovely morning after the storm passed.
It turns out that the used bike I bought in January was two sizes too small for my body which is a primary reason for my discomfort.
Well, I had been dreaming of a nicer bike already.
A typical view during my work video calls these days.
I'm often on video calls consulting with my old job, and my main contact will go out into the shop with his phone where I can talk him through things. And when he needs two hands, he just sets his phone down somewhere handy so I have been getting views of the roof.
I'm kind of fascinated with the monochromatic roof and the colorful overhead crane.
This is in a building that was used by the US Navy to repair aircraft, and it is pretty roomy.
Yesterday I rode for about an hour and a half and I’d really like to ride more today. Unfortunately the part of me that has contact with the saddle is saying absolutely not.
I probably need a new saddle or some kind of adjustment to the height or the tilt or something. Being able to ride for longer periods would be really nice.
Someone back in the US was asking me for my news and I excitedly told him how I had my bike back from the shop and how thrilling it felt after going without a bicycle for TWO WHOLE DAYS. I could practically see his eyes roll back in his head with boredom.
I told my Dutch neighbor the same thing and she commiserated, telling me how she couldn't find her bike briefly at the train station and the panic it gave her to
imagine not having a bicycle.
There was a time when adults could feel something without screaming at you about it.
We could disagree, hard, in a meeting and walk out with our faces still attached. Bad news arrived at the dinner table and the meal finished anyway.
Call it discipline: the capacity to feel a thing in full and still choose what to do next…
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/emotional-regulation-is-a-dying-art/
Does anyone have recommendations for a hosting provider for a VPS? Something in Europe would be ideal. anti-recommendations are also helpful.
My Dad told me a story from a trip he took to Europe with a friend after they both graduated from undergrad, in the early 1960s.
His friend had an aunt who ran a convent in Guernsey and she had resisted the nazis during the occupation. This had earned her a lot of appreciation in the nearby parts of France so when they were trying to figure out buying a car to see Europe in, she sent them to a friend in France who had a car dealership.
The car dealer showed them some choices and told them the most reliable would be the 1932 Peugot, so they bought that for $50 and drove it all over.
It did need some maintenance, which is unsurprising for a 30 year old car. At one point they were stuck at the side of the road in Vienna with a leaking radiator hose and someone came by and asked if they would like help. When they said yes, he went into a bakery, came out with a baguette and some tape. He opened up the baguette and wrapped it around the hose so the soft side was pressed against the hose and then he wrapped tape around the whole thing. He added water and then offered to replace the hose at his machine shop a mile away,
I was unfamiliar with what a 1932 Peugot might look like but if this page is accurate, then that was a petty cool way to travel around https://peugeotfrance.blogspot.com/2017/09/peugeot-301-193236.html
They later sold the car for $30 in Belgium because that was the easiest country to sell a car in at the time in terms of paperwork required and finished out the trip by hitchhiking.
I'm endlessly confused by the wave of legislation to ban children from accessing social media, rather than banning social media companies from harming children.
And yes I know Free Speech but now we know that we can torture and sicken people, including kids, in this medium. Some of the things we currently call Free Speech turn out to be poison, mental control, and torture.
At some point we have to separate the "innovation" from the digital lead and asbestos tech companies are feeding people.
failure to utilize epaper in a cool way is one of the greatest failings of modern technology
Springtime in #amsterdam is beyond lovely.
I always ride my bicycle to the grocery store the long way so I can ride next to a canal because of course. Today it was so beautiful that I wondered for a moment if I had maybe passed away.
I feel like any attempt I make to describe the moment will fall flat, so just imagine water and trees and birds mixed with beautiful old buildings and happy people enjoying it all, mostly on their own bikes or on foot.
Yesterday I was helping my neighbor with her garden and a man walked by, nodding to us.
She told me she knew him. She was born in Amsterdam and seems to know pretty much everyone here and I feel extremely lucky to have her as a neighbor. She explained that he is Jona Oberski and he wrote a very famous book about his time in a nazi concentration camp as a child. It is called Kinderjaren.
I of course had to buy the English translation. I have barely started it. I am going to have a lot of feelings reading this. One of them is gratitude for living in a place that has such clear and present memories about what it is like to be occupied by nazis.
I spend my Sunday mornings doing server updates and that is normally a chill activity, but this time there was a bit of a hiccup: https://ginabythebay.studio/posts/sudo_rs_undo/
How do you like to spend your Sunday mornings?
#pyinfra #sudo
I’ve been wondering about the climate impact is of using something like Claude code and found this https://www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01-20-cc-impact/
Does anyone have related information to share?