I received jury duty summons a few weeks ago and was ordered to report to the Queens County courthouse in Kew Gardens last Wednesday (Feb. 11). Technically I had gotten this back in November for the week of Thanksgiving, but deferred it 3 months since I had travel plans then.…
My friends are often surprised to find out that cannoli are one of my favorite desserts. In their defense, I talk about ice cream far more frequently. Still, I'm always on the lookout for cannoli when eating at Italian resturants and am often left disappointed. I had some fantastic cannoli…
Yeah, I burned out from wiki things. I flew too close to the sun, tried to take on too many projects and cool ideas and then crashed and let people down. I'm sorry. I participate in wiki communities because, aside from believing in free knowledge, etc., it's really fun. And…
I tend to spend a lot of time reading. When I was a kid it was as many books I could carry home from the library; later it would become newspapers, blogs and online things. I never bothered to track what I was reading, because there was so much of…
The first time I heard the song Welcome to New York, my reaction was something along the lines of "Eh, decent song, except she's wrong. West Coast Best Coast." I would like to formally apologize to Taylor Swift for doubting her and state for the record that she was absolutely…
I set some goals for myself at the beginning of the year. Here's how it went: Move out of my parents' house.✔️ I live in New York City now. This was definitely my biggest goal and accomplishment of the year. Contribute something meaningful to SecureDrop.✔️ I think so. I need…
Very glad to learn that Gov. Newsom signed AB 1800, "Charlie's Law", yesterday: https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/05/13/opinion-charlies-law-would-save-lives-of-with-blood-cancers/If you're under 40, you can join the Be the Match registry pretty quickly online: https://my.bethematch.org/s/join?language=en_US and they'll send you a swab kit in the mail.
Avery Brundage is Today's Featured Article on the English Wikipedia, which notes that he "fought zealously" against boycotting the Games in Nazi Germany.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avery_BrundageThe "Legacy" section spells it out clearly, noting he's well known as an anti-Semite, racist and admirer of Hitler.So it's a good day for me to re-post the…
Uh very cool, today's LWN article quoted and linked my blog post about Kiwix and Russian Wikipedia! https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/902463/0735202cb9eda4e2/ https://blog.legoktm.com/2022/03/15/how-to-mirror-the-russian-wikipedia-with-debian-and-kiwix.html
Finished off my West Coast trip with two new #stickers!A colorful Pacific Northwest on the left and an anti-war bird saying "There is more power in peace than violence" on the right.
Tested positive for COVID last week and it really knocked me out. Only today did I start feeling back to normal and not constantly tired/fatigued. All the doomscrolling didn't help either.Glad I appear to be over it now and sending love and hugs to anyone else dealing with it.
Happy Free Comic Book Day! #fcbd
Wordle 319 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 One of my favorite words too!!
This weekend I walked the entire ~6mi Central Park loop, which was easily the single longest physical activity I've done since the pandemic started (not counting the days I walked 10mi+ while apartment shopping).
LEGO Masters Australia, easily one of the greatest reality shows on TV, is back for Season 4 and the builds are already amazing. (The US version is okay, but doesn't focus enough on the LEGO, which is really the whole point...)