Great to see the Orion announcement. Had done some gesture work as part of some user study a while back and it looks like it was part of the feature outline.

Rebranding.

Helene’s precursors are off to a thunderous start here in Atlanta.

Spent some time threads recently and it’s been chaotic to say the least.

While I’m sure it’s not trying to actively commit genocide, it does feel like every top level post is dumbed down intentionally/posted without context to invoke engagement, irrespective of the topic.

Doctor’s office removed the hard candies they usually have at the checkout counter. Time to look for a new PCP.

Did every ad break begin right after a “Thank you Mr.President!” ?

Local Library branch is showcasing its wares as usual by the front desk but given tonight’s media event schedule, “The Federalist Papers” copies are taking the limelight.

Linkin Park - moving forward. apnews.com/article/l…

Hope they put out more fresh work quick and soon, so that Emily can get not judged on how she can’t do what Chester did on tour.

Rob’s going to be missed on the drums though.

If I ever paint a deck again, I’m never touching the railing again. Boards are just 10% of the job.

Trying to extract all my photos / videos in their original resolution from both Google Photos and iCloud has been a outright nightmare.

Once I am done with all of it, hope I am left with a semblance of patience to write about it.

Saw our elementary school’s designated Police Officer after the summer break at the Open House. I felt he’d lost a lot of weight, slimmed down substantially so I mentioned that since we usually riff about something.

He replied that this was the first time I’d seen him without his vest on.

Pillowforts are fun

Interesting afternoon yesterday to say the least. Casual weather forecast of light rain for a couple hours, within 30 minutes turned into a full blown Tornado warning with sirens blaring while we hunkered down in the basement from 80mph gusts with hail sized rain and lightning.

2 hours later it was a clear starlit night. Midwest is chaos.

USMNT Copa America match, Debate chaos and to add it all, a relief thunderstorm after close to 3 weeks of heat ended up shortening the Airport drop off plans - Waze started incrementing the ETA through Midtown ATL by 10 minutes, once every 5 minutes.

MARTA drop-off FTW.

Kids got to enjoy that chaos of a match-up. Thanks Pakistan.

Wearing out shoes has been a pleasant side effect of having the dogs around.

Houston we have a problem

The Houston transmission line damage pictures all over the internet were apparently in my cousin’s backyard in a new development they moved into just last year.

Given the nature of the damage, they are moving out of town indefinitely with no realistic ETA for power restoration.

Named Aurora after the Solar Flares. Couldn’t see one because the solar flares badly affected my health after an afternoon in the sun.

Feel sorry for Coventry fans. They made it happen for the team with the constant support throughout.

Jimmy Carr seems to have hired Mrs. Maisel’s cinematographer for his new special on Netflix.

For a small airport like what Austin is, it’s got amazing choice of food, beverage, desserts and coffee.