đ Want to read Friend by Diana Henstell ISBN: 9780553253153
đ Want to read The World Wasn't Ready for You: Stories by Justin C. Key ISBN: 9780063290426
Still blown away at how well my last video did, 54K views in a week, most of my videos have been averaging 2-5K views. Notably, I didn't do anything fancy with the production value either, once again proving that level of effort does not turn in to views.
Gentle reminder for legitimate businesses to not imitate scammers in their official communications to users https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/
Just saw a bumper sticker: âplease let me merge before I cryâ đ
đľ âWonderwallâ but make it Underoath youtube.com/watch?v=REzZs0t7uDY
I started reading Community care & relationship building combats burnout in political movements. Oof, itâs hitting hard, in a good way.
Strong relationships are the molecules that make up strong communities and strong communities are free. That should be our guiding light. Interdependence. To lay the soil for collective liberation, we need to build liberating relationships today where we enact and practice the values of the world we are building. The more we depend on each other for survival, the less we depend on the state and the more ungovernable we become. This is the fight. In the process of building life-sustaining relationships, we will dismantle systems, not the other way around.
This past Saturday: finished the #InsideTrail Redtail Ridge 30k #trailRace in 6:00:59.
A few notes:
This was my first trail race of 2024, and first in over 6 months, since last yearâs Marin Ultra Challenge 50k and Broken Arrow 23k races in Juneš. Saw pal Henri after changing into my trail shoes in the Lake Chabot Regional Park parking lot. The storms had scared many away, less than 100 showed up to the combined 30k & 50k start.
The muddy rainy adventure began when we veered off the initial paved trail around the lake and onto a rocky uphill stretch. It was mostly an out-and-back course, with a bit of a loop in the middle. On the second half of that loop there was one fork in the trail without race markings. After spending minutes taking a peek down both options, I guessed right. About a half mile later a wooden trail post validated my choice.
I kept a sustainable run/hike pace, with some sliding in the mud, stepping around many ruts and puddles of unknown depths. Slower finish than 5 years ago², yet this time with a negative split, and earned my first DLF award!
#30k #RedtailRidge #trailRun #trailRunner #runner #trailRunning #running #2024_048
š https://tantek.com/2023/178/t1/june-trailrunner-ultrarunner
² https://tantek.com/2019/048/t1/finshed-chabot-redtailridge-30k-pr
A few notes:
This was my first trail race of 2024, and first in over 6 months, since last yearâs Marin Ultra Challenge 50k and Broken Arrow 23k races in Juneš. Saw pal Henri after changing into my trail shoes in the Lake Chabot Regional Park parking lot. The storms had scared many away, less than 100 showed up to the combined 30k & 50k start.
The muddy rainy adventure began when we veered off the initial paved trail around the lake and onto a rocky uphill stretch. It was mostly an out-and-back course, with a bit of a loop in the middle. On the second half of that loop there was one fork in the trail without race markings. After spending minutes taking a peek down both options, I guessed right. About a half mile later a wooden trail post validated my choice.
I kept a sustainable run/hike pace, with some sliding in the mud, stepping around many ruts and puddles of unknown depths. Slower finish than 5 years ago², yet this time with a negative split, and earned my first DLF award!
#30k #RedtailRidge #trailRun #trailRunner #runner #trailRunning #running #2024_048
š https://tantek.com/2023/178/t1/june-trailrunner-ultrarunner
² https://tantek.com/2019/048/t1/finshed-chabot-redtailridge-30k-pr
a couple months ago I started locking the cats in the bathroom while I prepare their food, otherwise they'd climb on top of me and eat it all before I could serve it.
But now they've started locking themselves in the bathroom in order to manifest food...
But now they've started locking themselves in the bathroom in order to manifest food...
February 2024 kicked me, and then kicked me again while I was down. đĄ I have not been a happy camper. Yet hope springs eternal, and I want to acknowledge a few things Iâm currently grateful for:
- Good Coffee. No, I donât mean coffee thatâs good, I mean the local chain of coffee shops which seems to have taken over some of the best locations in central Portland and even in the âburbs (hello Cedar Hills!). Iâm currently partaking of a particularly tasty blueberry muffin.
- Bridgetown. No, I donât mean Portland (though yes itâs rad), I mean the Ruby website framework I develop. After a long dry spell, Iâm finally feeling pumped to be working on it againâeven the small maintainer-y things that only people who tinker in open source know what Iâm talking about.
- The Tourist. No, I donât mean a traveler I happened to strike up a conversation with, I mean the Netflix show starring Jamie Dornan and Danielle Macdonald whose first season was truly whacked-out and whose upcoming second season is set in Ireland (woohoo!). Iâm a huge fan of Jamie Dornan, but I wasnât sure if this was the sort of show that would get bogged down under the weight of its rather absurd premise. Thankfully it proved adept indeed, and I canât wait for the next season.
- Thoughts. No, I donât mean simply things I contemplate in my brain, I mean this specific type of blog post which in my content system is any #writing which sits between microblogging and long-form essays. Most of my âthoughtsâ over the years are safely ensconced in my Day One diary, but I like having a space where more publicly-appropriate musings can see the light of day. After all, what is a personal blog for if not that, am I right? đ
I was quite pleased to learn that a local theater has masks-required matinees! Iâm planning to go see Clydeâs at the Moxie Theatre:
COVID-19 Safety Policy
First Sunday Masked Matinee: During the First Sunday Matinee performance of each show masks will be required at all times when indoors. We encourage anyone who is immunocompromised or at high health risk to attend this special performance. See CDPH mask recommendations here.
Masks Encouraged At All Other Performances: For all other performances mask are encouraged but not required. A mask can be provided upon request.
More of this, please! Support the arts and our health.
I just learned far more about emoji and unicode than I thought I ever would need to, but I managed to update my emoji detection library to support Emoji 15.1!
The library just passed 1 million downloads too đŽ
The library just passed 1 million downloads too đŽ
Sunset at Mission Beach. San Diego is alright.
