Thank you! AROW is... terrible 😞

Screenshot: Key lunar flyby times, milestones All times Eastern, subject to change based on real-time operations 1 p.m. NASA+ coverage of lunar flyby begins 1:56 p.m. Crew passes distance from Earth record set by Apollo 13 in 1970 2:45 p.m. Lunar flyby begins 7:02 p.m. Orion closest approach to the Moon (4,070 miles) 7:07 p.m. Orion reaches maximum distance from Earth (252,760 miles) 8:35 p.m. Orion enters solar eclipse

NASA #Artemis II flyby coverage schedule; all times in Eastern. You can follow along live on NASA+ (plus.nasa.gov) or on the NASA YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@NASA).

It should be amazing to watch!

Good chance the muscle car parked outside my house was stolen and dumped. I could report it, but since it's not the kind of vehicle that should be driven within earshot of society, I'ma let this fucker sit in timeout.

Technical diagrams from the CCU paper highlighting construction and droplet travel

You heard: space toilet broken.
I heard: successful test of the Collapsible Contingency Urinal
ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/c...

at least it's just an amber fault light and not a brown one... yet

KCPD also the sole reason it didn't run for the championship parades. Cops ruin everything.

@beertheist.bsky.social when are we all moving there?

I will never ever understand the people who race-walk through the terminal only to freeze like a statue when they touch an escalator. Where did your hustle go, friend? They're speedy stairs, not a teleporter

Any group rides in Chicago this week or is it too cold? #bikechi

wx sirens in midtown now for... what?

Image from kc1940 tax assessment 11-300-8, a house built over a business signed "Brown Bobby Do-Nuts"

The same house captured by Street View in 2022 but five blocks north. The Do-Nuts are nowhere in sight.

Here you go, neighbors research indicates parcel 8 moved from 40th Way & Main to 3631 Wyandotte in the 80s. kc1940.org/district-no-...

There's a house on our block we believe was moved here, it definitely doesn't match the rest of the stock.

Starting the new Star Trek game with my Voyager super-fan kids: "haha fuck yeah! yes!!"
Me not getting to play today because they have homework and piano lessons: "well this fucking sucks. what the fuck."

but sure let's regulate ebikes

on the left: two way vehicular traffic. on the right: a two way cycle track. in between: a poured concrete curb topped with a "bollard" which is actually hollow plastic and has been toppled over revealing the scrawny bolt straining to keep it from blowing away in the breeze

Flexpost cosplaying as bollard. Safety is an illusion.

On the left: a car lane ~closed to traffic~ since before the snow storm has been cleared to pavement before the well-traffiked multi-use ped/bike path on the right, which is crusted in ice

Fuck you, MODOT.

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul

Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.

So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

Electric cargo bike loaded with a big bag of cat food and other groceries parked in front of a Costco

Yes! Why use a 5000lb vehicle to pick up 40lbs of groceries when a 100lb vehicle will do?

Not surprised. GLL lost me when they plowed all their snow into the bike lane, along with scooters.

Plane makes safe emergency landing in Colorado without a pilot's help, in first "Autoland" use On Saturday, a plane landed at Colorado's Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport without a pilot's help.

Number of taps required to tell your Garmin device...
🛬 to land a plane with no pilot: 0-1.
⏰ to set an alarm on your watch: 37+

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and that vid is sped up!

Rummaging through basement storage. A stack of 5.25" floppy discs in sleeves. The one on top is labeled "The World's Finest Software Disk #452 Solar Winds (1 of 2) Insert disk in drive and type WOW to start". Further back in the stack is another disc labeled "Stare-EO Workshop V1.21" because I was 💯 making my own stereograms in middle school

found it! there's no way these still work, right?

Solar Winds! definitely a disk I bought in the supermarket. haven't thought of that in ages but could instantly picture the shield schematic 🥲

Tired: flat streets

Wired: Speed humps, tables, etc

Inspired: Speed *dips*, because modern clearance and suspension makes taking speed bumps at speed no big deal, but dips still make drivers worry they'll damage their car, and that has the highest level of encouraging compliance

what seems to be a hookah hose (?) lies in the sidewalk at an intersection

Somebody is one pipe shy of a hookah

Cranberry sauce with a candle in it.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate.

Might rewatch Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) tonight. No particular reason.

I think I have a referral code if it helps!

I started using Sleepbuds (was Bose now Ozlo) almost 3 years ago once the trusty Dohm fan was no longer a match for my partner's snoring. The cost is not trivial but they've probably saved our marriage!