Events

University of Illinois at Chicago architecture professor Stewart Hicks had a cool video yesterday showing how house design influenced TV, until the relationship flipped in the early 1970s:

The vaccine-induced immune reaction from my Shingrix jab on Tuesday kept me from getting a decent sleep last night, again. My Garmin device even warned me that I apparently had a mild fever, with my skin temperature almost 1°C above normal. Fortunately I feel better now than I did even 12 hours ago, so I expect all this will pass by tomorrow.

I want to start with Anne Applebaum's complete takedown of right-wingers who say Victor Orbán accepting defeat "proves" he wasn't an autocrat:

I had a 10-minute appointment at my doctor's office yesterday to get my second shingles jab and a follow-up blood test to see how atorvastatin is working for me. It took until this morning for me to get all the data about how those things have affected me.

The premiers of Alberta and the Northwest Territories have announced in the last two days that they're done changing clocks:

The OAFPOTUS's unprecedented corruption has self-evidently made life worse for almost everyone in the world (except, notably, the Chinese), and his neck-deep involvement with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) president Gianni Infantino, a man almost as corrupt as he, has made the upcoming World Cup worse, too:

Apollo After Hours was last night, so today has been unusually slow for me. I got one of my couches sorted when a friend came to collect it this afternoon, which frees up space in my library for packing. Only 16 days left...better get started.

I finally had to make myself a schedule of which rooms to pack in which order, recognizing that some of them need two passes (once for the stuff to store, once for the stuff to move to the new place). I'm 17 days from the move, so I have plenty of time to pack. I also have plenty of time for 9½ full days of work, four choral rehearsals, two fundraisers (one tonight, one next Saturday), a play, a birthday party, getting my keys to the new place, coordinating with painters at the new place, and making...

The temperature has climbed quickly all morning at Inner Drive Technology World HQ. (The temperature/dewpoint split happened when I took the thermometer out of its rain shelter to air out.) From a low of 8.2°C this morning, it has already reached 23.2°C and might hit 26° before a massive squall line hits around 8pm. (The forecast predicts 24°C; we'll see.)

I just ordered what will probably be my last two pairs of Allbirds shoes, after the company announced yesterday that it was throwing its lot in with AI. Economics writer Kyla Scanlon observed that this is "a good example of why [the market increases] shouldn't be happening today," and I can't disagree with her.