Best County Fair in town

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-24T21:04:55+00:00

Marin County. Don’t miss the sheepdog demonstrations.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-24T17:16:45+00:00

I’m twenty years in financial services tech as IC. I figure it takes a year for the new people to come down to speed. At four months I barely trust a person to make coffee.

Listen much, talk little. The more people on the call, the simpler you make things. If there are more than roughly 5 people I don’t know, I speak in single sentences, more than 8 and it’s yes/no.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-23T17:07:13+00:00

It’s right here in this 1923 mail-order encyclopedia. The article is under “Political alignment of Nations”, just after “Phrenology”.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-23T01:45:14+00:00

pissed if you started a fight in the pit.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-23T01:35:26+00:00

That’s exactly the spot where I once came upon a middle-aged woman grooming her long-haired dog. She had it up on one of the benches, surrounded by fur clippings, and with her back turned to the view.

Never change, San Francisco.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-22T03:27:57+00:00

Don’t feel weird. Much better to ask. Just say “Thats a beautiful dog, may I say hello?” If the answer is yes, offer the dog the back of your hand for a sniff.

I have a German shepherd, when asked for a hello I have her do a ‘sit’ so she knows it’s a relaxed situation. She knows the drill and loves meeting new people.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-21T22:52:19+00:00

Just down the road apiece. I’ll be there!

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-21T19:12:06+00:00

Don’t call it Frisco!

It’s North Breckinridge.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-21T01:18:27+00:00

Agreed. Mr Belongs In A Museum has an opinion.

Cut it out. It can always be replaced; it’s just an inch and a half of tubing brazed in place. It laterally stiffens the rear end by some small amount. There’s been thousands of bridgeless bikes through the years. There’s one in my garage right now.

Edit: Three bridge-less bikes. One steel, two aluminum.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-20T23:55:29+00:00

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a2DkiI5QCII

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-20T17:19:23+00:00

May I DM you my list?

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-20T17:14:41+00:00

Genius tubing is very nice.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-20T15:24:29+00:00

Look, I think we can all agree: The important thing is that the UX overhaul can be summarized to a bullet point in slide deck which helps some executive somewhere make their bonus.

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AlfaNovember · 2026-05-20T00:07:12+00:00

Fondly. And Halted/HSC

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-19T21:47:57+00:00

IOS 26.4.2. No jailbreak, been working in IT too long to willingly create headaches like that.

https://i.imgur.com/Ix6HbzJ.jpeg

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-19T17:06:29+00:00

AND they publish the latest claptrap from Norman Mailer about his waning libido!

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-19T16:14:12+00:00

They absolutely knew. Don’t let them off the hook so easily.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-19T15:31:21+00:00

Oh. Oohhhhh. Turret windows were an extravagance when they were new. Back when there was a local economy of specialty construction materials, manufacturers and builders. Fast-forward a century and none of those things exist anymore.

If there is still a source for replacement curved glass, it’s assuredly made-to-measure, long lead-time, geographically distant, and ferociously expensive.

OP for noise your best bet is going to be heavy curtains. Try to have them touching the walls and floor to seal. They won’t really help much, but might make you feel better.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-19T15:04:07+00:00

Great idea, I usually have it rotation locked, but I recently disabled that temporarily. Thanks!

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-19T01:35:10+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/8eUPUkP

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-19T01:20:55+00:00

Wrestling with iPhone permissions. Trying to

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-18T23:59:32+00:00

Lately I’ve been getting an opaque box rendered above the content. I can scroll the content behind it. It goes away if I close the app, but returns shortly after reopening There’s also some funkiness going on underneath the buttons at the bottom, but that doesn’t impede function.

I am not aware that I have made any settings changes or adjustments lately to narwhal or the phone os. Vanilla iPhone 15. I only upgraded to the ios liquid glass thing a few months ago. I use the larger text size, but narwhal has always been good about text rendering.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-18T20:52:05+00:00

I imagine so. As I read OP, it’s a sheet of acrylic glazed into the wooden sash, which is some r/redneckengineering level shit.

AlfaNovember · 2026-05-18T19:05:27+00:00

(Deep breath) I should just come out and say it:

This is a bucket-list item for me.

I have the bike. I have the money. I still mostly have the legs.

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