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• Went to watch Jess run the Richmond (half) Marathon on Saturday. We were able to walk over to Bellevue, which was a rather happenin’ segment of the race. That neighborhood goes all out for the race, with all manner of booze, candy, and pickles for the runners.
• Had my first “range anxiety” experience with the Bolt. Drove up to have lunch with for family friend’s surprise birthday celebration, and didn’t take into account the range estimation being based on our usual city driving and not so much for highway driving. We still made it there and back with a whopping 15 miles left on the battery, so no big deal!
• Well, the 2024 MotoGP season has ended, and we’ve got a new champ! Congrats to Jorge. And also congrats to Cynthia for whippin’ everyone’s ass in the fantasy GP again this year.

• After some schmucks stole our car’s catalytic converter I took the car to a local mechanic to see what it’d cost to fix. They quoted me over $4k. I’m much too cheap for that nonsense. So I bought the parts myself, and just completed the work tonight. All in, it cost me about $400 and a couple hours wrenchin’ with my dad. Not a bad deal!
• Relatedly, I’ll be installing a couple security cameras outside the house. Just acquired a spool of cat 6 cable, some reolink cameras, and will be trying a proper PoE setup after my current wifi cameras failed spectacularly.
• Oh yea. An election happened. And… what an indictment that is of us Americans. We are a stupid, angry, hateful bunch of people. We need help.
• We binge watched Disclaimer this week. It was really good. My only gripe is that it was maybe a bit too graphic at times. It took me a bit to recognize Kevin Kline, who’s less hilarious than in his usual roles.
• I went to a bar that had live music. The artist started singing a song with the lyrics “who put PCP in the lobster chowder?”. It was a catchy little tune, so I had to look it up, and was shocked to discover that this was a real story that happened while filming The Titanic in 1999.

• Ah, yes. Continuing my trend of very infrequent updates, I see.
• Some life updates: we bought a house in the suburbs. We (well, I) hated it. We sold that house. We bought a new house in Richmond and are much happier. I got a new job, back workin’ as a lowly individual contributor, and that also makes me much happier. Management ain’t for me, it turns out. New gig’s at Ride with GPS. We visited Taiwan. I met my in-laws, two nieces and one nephew for the first time.
• Been watching a bunch of Halloweeny movies. Standouts: 10 Cloverfield Lane, Oddity, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe.
• Speaking of frightening… this damn election is in 4 days. Hold onto your butts…
• Some schmucks stole our Prius’s catalytic converter. We had been just sharing that one car, and I’m committed to fixing it myself, so we needed a functional set of wheels. I’d been wanting to acquire a Chevy Bolt for a while, so this gave me an excuse. So.. we now own a sweet-ass Chevy Bolt, and I could’nt be happier with the thing. It’s a massive upgrade over the Prius, plus there’s no risk of catalytic converter theft!
• Jess and I ran in a goofy Halloween 10 Mile race on the Capital Trail last week. I’m still recovering from a rough go of bronchitis, so it was a slow one. But one of those “in hindsight it was fun” things.

Watch as Jorge Manrubia Díez uses Turbo 8 to make a responsive UI in a Rails app.

Good grief. The way Turbo 8 is shaping up is really impressive. It really does feel like another giant step forward for Rails productivity. Also really wild just how simple the DOM diffing technique is—how have none of us thought about doing this since pjax’s inception in, what? 2011?

50 Years of Hip-Hop Samples 1973-2023. This thing is really well done.

Kemosabe’s a hedgehog. And he’s got a voice like an angel

Some Scots can’t say “Pulple Burglar Alarm”

The band of Intergalactic Monsters. Tiny Desk Concert. Solid.