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It seems that so many minor parts of the day don't work as expected and my attention is destroyed by a thousand annoyances. My watch only unlocks my computer 1/3 of the time. My ca…

Northwoods Baseball Radio Network is my favorite. It’s a fictional baseball league based primarily in Wisconsin. Games are called by a droning announcer. Even the fake commercials …

My wife had a grandfather with the first name Bill and middle William. After 12 years together, I'm still not sure if she's just messing with me.

The park across the street from me in Minneapolis has a stick library. It's well-stocked and popular with both dogs and little kids.

2.5 years in of regular PET scans. At this point, I’m almost humored by what gets flagged as suspicious by the radiologist - usually mosquito bites and stomach bugs (kids in daycar…

Should the government of California lead by example and also limit the maximum level of fines levied by any entity within the state (state, county, city, or other org)? Why is a fi…

I live in a city where people are shot and killed every week (no exaggeration) and car jackings weren't even tracked until the last couple years. The city government can't manage t…

But why obviously? Is city really the best level? Seems to me much easier for people to move between neighborhoods than between cities. When I was younger, I had no problem with lo…

Sure, but which government body - city, county, state, federal? I don’t particularly like my HOA, but I could live elsewhere and at least feel like I have more say in my HOA than a…

Visiting my parents this summer with my kids, I was excited to find that the zoo served beer. That definitely wasn't an option for my dad when I was growing up.

History major. First job was managing inter-modal shipping in a giant Excel spreadsheet and emailing it to our India office every night. At the time, I thought Excel was so cool be…

I haven't read this in a while, but remember this Malcom Gladwell article discussing why other ketchups haven't had much success: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-…

David Benioff’s (Game of Thrones show runner) City of Thieves is a very entertaining book set during the siege. It was an inspiration for The Last of Us video game (and later HBO s…

EB Sledge - With the Old Breed is the account of a combat infantryman in WWII in the Pacific. It's about the fear, misery, and despair soldiers faced as they struggled to survive t…

When my first kid was born, I committed this poem and about a dozen more to memory. In the middle of sleepless nights, and zombie stroller walks, they kept me sane because I felt l…

The museum also includes the battleship USS Alabama, a good collection of aircraft, and then some tanks, artillery, and other equipment. My grandpa took me there every summer as a …

I've been seeing more and more places also include the taxes and other fees in the total used to calculate the suggested tip. That seems pretty slimy to me.

My mom grew up in what was then mostly farms northwest of Detroit. When Eminem's Eight Mile came out, I immediately connected it with the street we turned off to get to my grandpar…

Wow - thank you!

I lived in Dallas for a couple years, and while driving the Hive Five interchange (mentioned in the article) always seemed a little crazy, what really blew my mind was that a speci…

The alcohol really surprises me given how meticulous they are about everything else - especially sleep monitoring. After a big win, it's not uncommon for the entire team to have sp…

John Billings Hardtack and Coffee is a detailed account of camp life during the war. Here’s the section discussing rations and (obviously) coffee: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/e…

The creator of pandas Wes McKinney is on the Posit team and working on this project too. Gives some additional credence to the idea of the convergence of tooling.

If this analysis is from 2012, I wonder if the results would look much different using data since then? Would any patterns have changed that much? Other than more birth years in 20…