I went to my first Cleveland Orchestra concert at Blossom since the pandemic.
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Ideas: Waste material as shade structures
I saw an article about cities doing various things to reduce heat, including lighter road surfaces and planting trees. Trees provide good shade and reduce temperatures, and are generally good for the environment, but can require quite a bit of water for dry areas. I got to thinking that we could build artificial tree-like structures to provide shade. But it would require a lot of material, and it would be undesirable cost-wise and environmentally to dig up new materials for this purpose. So I wondered about building them from waste materials.
Continue reading post "Ideas: Waste material as shade structures"I updated to Mac OS Monterey (12.5) finally. It went smoothly but I’m still working through getting some of my dev software updated and working.
Continue reading post "#3780"In April when I had said I’d seen every Columbo episode, I was apparently wrong that I’d seen them all all the way through. I just watched “Candidate for Crime” and realized I had only seen from fairly near the end, presumably coming in at that point when it was on TV.
Continue reading post "#3770"I was reminded that one shouldn’t proxy non-web servers through Cloudflare (at least on their free plan).
Continue reading post "#3763"Ideas: Vanlife parking garage
A parking garage would be built catering to vanlife visitors. It would have amenities for them and both short and long term parking pricing. The price would probably have to be kept a good bit lower than campgrounds, as their natural settings and added space offer added value.
Continue reading post "Ideas: Vanlife parking garage"I took an at home Covid test today, which showed negative.
Continue reading post "#3751"I got bit by another tick, this one in my hair. I scratched my head and felt it, then scratched it off and grabbed it. I guess it’s time for my summer haircut.
Continue reading post "#3749"I have hit 100 consecutive wins in Wordle, winning every game I’ve played.
Continue reading post "#3743"Porkbun DNS was back up by the next morning after being down at least 4 hours on April 24th. The only word I got from Porkbun about the incident was from a ticket I sent them, in which they said they had a DDoS attack on their DNS servers.
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