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rural new hampshire dad & front end dev

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mikesusz,
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@jerzone broooonco

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Interesting story of Etak and in-car navigation.

https://maphappenings.com/2024/04/11/story-of-etak/

I worked at Etak in the 90’s, just before the internet took off. We were a remote office, making a “business intelligence" application that leveraged Etak's maps with 3rd party business data. I wrote a visual basic frontend, another guy designed spatial db queries, and others worked on geocoding. At one point a couple of us experimented with an online map search, a friend wrote some frontend web code and I made an api into the VB spatial engine. We showed it to a few folks, but there really wasn't any interest “why would you use the internet for this? how do you make money?”
The three of us eventually joined a startup of former Etak folks making online maps, driving directions, and business finders (which eventually got sold to MS).
I'd always thought the company name was someone's wife's name spelled backwards. 🙃
Also, the one and only time I worked (albeit indirectly) for Rupert Murdoch. 🙄

mikesusz,
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@jerzone The Weather Company has flight planning tools that help pilots choose a route in three dimensions, modeling the weather for the path at the time of the flight. it’s pretty amazing to see.

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Ephemeral ice texture from back in March. I'm used to finding ice with crystalline patterns but this looks so much like veins and skin texture.

larger view of the ice slab, which distorts the hand holding it to appear like there’s an extra finger

mikesusz,
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@jerzone our dog water dish on the deck does this also

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as I get older, I find myself doing certain things more deliberately that I used to do without any forethought. Like picking things up.

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I have joked that, depending on my current state, picking up an object that has fallen becomes a project management process:
first, let’s identify all possible outcomes – perhaps this thing is better on the floor?

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Went to fill the espresso grinder last night and one thing led to another. You know, take the top plastic off to clean accumulated oils, which exposes burr area rimmed with over a decade of caked on oils and grounds, and before I knew it the whole top mechanism is disassembled on kitchen counter with parts soaking in hot soapy water.
Essentially this thing is a giant motor thinly covered in stainless steel with grinder and bean holder parked on top. A friend gave it to me over ten years ago when he upgraded (!) and it hasn't skipped a beat since. My espresso machine, from the same company, is getting close to its 20th birthday. Solid built units.

the “burr” grinder blades

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@jerzone looks like yours is a flat burr grinder, and i’m wondering if i made the wrong choice (or another ‘upgrade’ is in my future) i recently moved to a baratza virtuoso+ conical, and while baratza sells repair parts (big reason i switched to this one) it still becomes less and less effective as the burr dulls.

looking at your pictures, i could take my tiny chainsaw tooth sharpening file to the edges of those burr teeth and make it last a zillion years :)

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snow turned to freezing rain and ice accumulation. 2,151 households in my town without power. (71%). i’d rather have just snow like they’re getting up north.

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Eleven years ago, after getting back into mt biking for a couple years, I decided to buy a new MTB. Compared to the 13+ year old 26” hardtail the full suspension 29’er was like cheating (totally appreciated cheating).
I told my wife, “Now that I’m 53 this will probably be the last bike I'll buy”.
There's been a few new mtb and fat bikes since then. 😉
Just bought my first gravel bike today. It's not that I’m going to stop mt biking, but I'm interested in exploring, maybe some bike packing, but certainly long meandering rides on gravel roads and woods trails in and .

mikesusz,
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@jerzone something i’ve been intrigued by (i may be attracted to the very slight elevation change ;) https://eriecanalway.org/explore/cycling

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Today in trains (and a tram).

Subway manufacturer card, made by Kawasaki in US and Japan
The 7 line high above roads in Queensboro
View from tram as it leaves Manhattan

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@jerzone you did the tram!

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Anyone know of esoteric/cool transit related things for the teen to check out in NYC? He's been pouring over Atlas Obscura and found a few so far.

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@jerzone i don’t think you can pass through the abandoned city hall station anymore without being a scofflaw. but that would be quite cool.

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Apple maps on the mac ticks me off for a variety of reasons (primarily that mouse scroll doesn't zoom), but the real head scratcher is that no matter where I navigate the map to in the US, if I do a “nearby hotels" it jumps to Boston. I have to go through extra hoops to fabricate a specific search term combo for the area I'm at to get it working.

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@jerzone i, too, am still trying to figure out the magical incantation to make it do that also. like “search within the visible bounds”

mikesusz,
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@jerzone wait i may have figured it out! not ‘here’ but ‘there’

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finished painting my repair of my quarter panel today.

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once again, i’ve learned several new things about CSS from reading an article by @5t3ph and i just discovered her buymeacoffee, wouldn’t it be fun (if you also benefit and you have the means) for us to all throw a little $ support her way today? https://www.buymeacoffee.com/moderncss

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wow a robot army from
px.mathias777.com followed me last night. hundreds of bogus accounts.

mikesusz,
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@jerzone yeah my couple from a few days ago was a lot more overnight (okay less than a hundred but then each one favorited everything i’ve posted in the last few days) fediverse growing pains i guess

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Winter in our house includes figuring out what the ladybugs are doing. They sneak inside late fall, somehow, and the reminder of winter will find them doing ladybug things like circling the rim of a water glass for a few hours or dropping into your latte just as you finish making it.
Here we find an odd pyramid of plastic bottle caps with a ladybug on the third tier. The day before it was on the first tier. Did it really spend twenty four hours scaling bottle caps? Will it summit??

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@jerzone also cats seem useless to help us deal with the ladybug plague. i’ve seen my cats try to eat them and become instantly and deeply offended. i guess they taste bad.

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You know that part in the earlier post where I said at least it's snow? Hahahahahahaha....

Well, it’s deeper than expected in spots, probably from drifting. And man oh man is it soggy. Like, the kind of stuff you'll throw your back out trying to shovel or shear the pins off your snowblower. Footprints fill with water immediately.

low light photo of dog walking down driveway
footprints in driveway snow, deep and full of water/slush

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@jerzone i shoveled my driveway yesterday just as it was rising above freezing. snow was super heavy but not yet saturated/slush. i probably could have just left it to melt today but i tend to err on the side of action.

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Anyone got tips on a -ray player or external drive? Turns out some films we'd like to access are cheaper as Blu-ray discs than via streaming services.

mikesusz,
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@sarajw i don’t know if they do the same over there, but a lot of public libraries in the US have discs to lend

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Welcome to America

mikesusz,
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@annika have you been away that long?

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Morning ride had a bit of everything: ice, lichen, fungus, and rooty climbs.

Light green lichen (right?) in bed of old leaves
Dog sniffing log covered in mushrooms
Mt biker (me) going up steep rooty section of trail

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@jerzone do you know the name for that ice-crystals-from-mud phenomenon? i get that a lot in my yard

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    @fox it was tough to explain oplatek to my kids but now i think they look forward to it. :) i need to research the 12 regions, something my (polish-american) family doesn’t do but i might try to introduce it

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    i picked the wrong day to wear a Weather Company t-shirt. lol.

    mikesusz, to random
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    everybody please stop using the red flashing sirens emoji in slack, thanks.

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    Found in mum's canal boat - blast from the past, totally bringing it home!

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    @sarajw also super fun - Above & Beyond did a warm-up set before one of their shows from a boat… this would have been fun to see : ) https://youtu.be/IrzO9GqS8BY

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