Events

As I had planned, I made three visits to Ribfest this weekend, and as I had hoped, the weather cooperated. I don't have a full After Rib Report yet, but I will say that Hell's BBQ from Oswego had by far the meatiest bones of the 7 samplers I tried:

We definitely have summer weather today, with temperatures passing 31°C and dewpoints already up to 24°C by me and 21°C at O'Hare. That won't stop Cassie and me from going to Ribfest for the second time in about half an hour.

I had a maddening experience last week in this app's dev/test environment: Azure Table Storage stopped working. But it only stopped for table storage, and only in one storage account. I tried everything I could think of to reach it, but it stubbornly refused all read and write requests, even though it allowed me to list the tables. So I could see the tables but not what was in them. This seemed a lot like an authorization problem both to Google's and Anthropic's AIs, and I could find nothing by...

In a happy coincidence with my activities yesterday, it turns out that today is the 150th anniversary of the first cross-country express train, which pulled into San Francisco on 4 June 1876 after a 4-day trip from New York City. Tickets cost $40 for third class (about $1,245 today) up to over $100 in first class ($3,112 today).

As promised, here are some photos of Big Boy 4014 from yesterday:

I had planned today to see the Big Boy locomotive, visit two new Brews & Choos locations on the same train line, and end up at Aba for their transcendent tamarind BBQ pork belly bites.

Stephan Pastis toots Tuesday to start the day as well. Elsewhere:

This is the MV , a 306-meter (1,004-foot) bulk carrier steaming south on Lake Michigan: