Events

The Houston Astros won game 4 of the World Series last night with a no-hitter, which hasn't happened since 1956: Pitching like a Game 1 starter, the young right-hander Cristian Javier put on a clinic on a night Houston was in need of something spectacular, throwing six no-hit innings at Philadelphia and combining with three relievers for the first combined no-hitter in World Series history. Javier’s outing positioned the Astros for a 5-0, World Series-tying win in a Game 4 classic. Bryan Abreu struck...

It got up to 23°C at IDTWHQ this afternoon, and even now, three hours after sunset, it's still 17°C. Not a record, but not bad for November. I still have all the windows open. (Not for long though.) We've also had amazing foliage this year. For example, this ash tree a few blocks from my house still hasn't dropped all its leaves: And Cassie found another sunbeam after we got home: The forecast says we get three or four more days of this before we get back to normal autumn temperatures. I'm OK with that.

Here are some short thoughts that add up to longer thoughts today: John Scalzi muses about the car that Elon Musk caught. Brynn Tannehill draws parallels between the GOP's acceptance of anti-democratic anti-Democratic violence and the end of the Ba'ath regime in Iraq. Julia Ioffe interviews her old friend Robert Draper about the latter's new book Weapons of Mass Delusion, which explains how the Republican Party got from Liz Cheney to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Finally, from 2021, the Calgary Real Estate...

I've spent the morning playing matchmaker between disparate time-streams of data, trying to see what relationships (if any) exist between them. They all seem pretty cool to each other at the moment, which is sub-optimal from my perspective. If I can get a couple to get together amicably, then I can get baby time streams to analyze, which I need desperately. Speaking of sub-optimal: One more voice reminding people that "we" don't have a violence problem; Republicans do. One more beautiful old...

A week after moving, I'm averaging 30 minutes more sleep and my Body Battery score is back to normal levels after two weeks of waking up like a zombie. I might even have all the boxes unpacked by this time next year. Meanwhile, me shifting a couple tonnes of matter a few hundred meters did not affect the world's spin by any measurable amount: Max Boot reminds everyone that comparing right-wing and left-wing violence in the US is a false equivalence. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated...

It's a quiet day at Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters 6.0 as I bang away at the 60 or so boxes of books in the library. Only 10 or so of those boxes need to go all the way to my office loft on the 4th floor, so I should make do with only a few dozen Ibuprofens this afternoon. Meanwhile, Cassie has found a sunbeam on the front deck, just as she did yesterday: And as a bonus, here's our walk to doggie day care on Friday morning: Our fall colors just keep going this year. The maples have reached...

Thirty-five weeks into his 3-day war, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin woke up to a new IAEA report that his invasion of Ukraine may cause a permanent decline in Russian fortunes: The energy crisis sparked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is likely to speed up rather than slow down the global transition away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner technologies like wind, solar and electric vehicles, the world’s leading energy agency said Thursday. While some countries have been burning more fossil fuels such...

Can you tell when I moved from a first-floor walkup apartment into a 3½–story townhouse? I figure, Cassie has about 7 years of climbing stairs in her. We're both going to have much stronger legs (though only one of us needs them).

I'm starting to adapt my habits and patterns to the new place. I haven't figured out where to put everything yet, especially in my kitchen, but I'll live with the first draft for a few weeks before moving things around. I'm also back at work in my new office loft, which is measurably quieter than the previous location—except when the Metra comes by, but that just takes a couple of seconds. I actually have the mental space to resume my normal diet of reading. If only I had the time. Nevertheless: Texas...

I've unpacked all but one of the rooms in my new house: Yeah, but this is the "one room:" It's supposed to rain on Sunday, so what better day to unpack all those books? Cassie, for her part, only cares that I unpacked her smelly old blanket: