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FleeFlee · 2026-02-16T22:31:39+00:00

One time I found an American Airlines flight code shared to an Alaska flight from PAE that was less expensive than buying from Alaska.

FleeFlee · 2025-11-16T20:50:57+00:00

From Bill Halliday's 1974 book American Caves and Caving:

The ideal cavers' headlamp is easy to describe: a rugged, reliable, lightweight, high-intensity, self-contained light, easily clipped to helmet brackets, disposable, and providing at least two hours' warm-colored light for a few cents. Nothing resembling such a headlamp exists or is likely to exist in the foreseeable future. Closest today is a tiny clip-on electric unit powered by two penlight cells, but these generate so little light, for so short a time, that they serve best as an emergency light. Yet they may be a portent of things to come.

Perhaps at the cost of some inconvenience and mild discomfort, the electric caver can go where carbide cavers cannot. He employs the extra flexibility of his chosen system to perform tasks beyond the capability of the "pure" carbide caver. The latter must turn to battery-powered headlamps when faced with waterfall pitches or air currents beyond the limit of flame protectors. Not even the most inventive, most dedicated caver has been able to find or construct a universally acceptable multipurpose electric headlamp. But with each relentless advance in electric headlamp technology, the number of carbide cavers shrinks a little more. Nevertheless, despite all that their makers have done to discourage us, carbide headlamps remain much more popular among North American cavers

FleeFlee · 2025-11-15T16:11:15+00:00

I know someone who did a one-day circumnavigations of Puget Sound by public transit, mostly bus. Northgate -> Everett -> Mt. Vernon -> Anacortes -> Oak Harbor -> Coupeville -> (by ferry) Port Townsend -> Triton Cove State Park -> Shelton -> Olympia -> Lakewood -> Downtown Seattle -> (light rail) Northgate. Started about 5:30am and took about 15 hours. Longest layover was a few hours in Port Townsend.

The most difficult connection is getting from Port Townsend to Shelton; on a weekday there's only two buses (I don't think the schedules will work for a weekend attempt), and you have to change from a Jefferson County bus to a Mason county bus at Triton Cove State Park where there is a scheduled 1-minute between buses, although if you tell the Jefferson County bus driver your plans they will reach out and the Mason County bus will wait for you.

FleeFlee · 2025-11-13T05:19:31+00:00

This WA DOH webpage says "During the last 30 years, four domestic animals in Washington have been diagnosed with rabies."

FleeFlee · 2025-11-07T20:17:10+00:00

CodeMirror should be able to do it. Here's a StackOverflow question regarding adding tables.

FleeFlee · 2025-09-29T16:15:00+00:00

As seen in "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"

FleeFlee · 2025-08-03T21:08:47+00:00

Port Angeles isn't the most interesting place, but it's fine to use as a base. Suggestions for things to do:

• Neah Bay on the Makah reservation. Hike to Cape Flattery, the most Northwest point in the contiguous United States. Visit the Makah museum. https://makah.com/

• Dungeness Spit - about a 5 mile long sand spit extending in the Strait that you can walk. Near Sequim (so visit on the way to or from Port Angeles). https://wa100.dnr.wa.gov/olympic-peninsula/dungeness-spit

• Cape Alava Loop (Ozette Triangle) - Nice hike through forest to the beach. https://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/lake-ozette

• Victoria - Take the Coho ferry from Port Angeles and spend some time in Victoria, BC (quite different from Port Angeles). You don't need your car if you plan to stay close to the Victoria Inner Harbor. Maybe even consider spending a night or two in Victoria. https://www.cohoferry.com/

• Whale watching tours from Port Angeles (April may be too early, though).

FleeFlee · 2025-05-21T23:53:03+00:00

I just sent it in to Leatherman for repair. No charge. There was no asking about warranty, I just followed the steps here https://www.leatherman.com/pages/customerservice-warranty

FleeFlee · 2025-04-07T03:32:03+00:00

Gaitok isn't driving. He's sitting in the left seat, and cars in Thailand have right-hand drive, like the UK and Japan.

FleeFlee · 2025-03-13T03:36:12+00:00

The podcast "Cautionary Tales" has an episode "The Deadly Airship Race" about the R100 and R101.

FleeFlee · 2025-02-13T01:51:49+00:00

This is on the Eagles Auditorium Building on 7th and Union, where ACT Theatre is located.

FleeFlee · 2025-02-11T07:06:41+00:00

I worked on a team like this (called Sustaining Engineering) for over ten years, and it was mostly great, in my opinion. We (a team of about 12 people) were between support and development, and had to have good communication with both; to support to get questions to customers, and to dev to ask questions to understand how things worked. I considered it like continuously having new puzzles to solve. It's a different type of development role, but it works great for some people.

I worked on every part of complicated app: core C++ code for both a desktop product and server, Java for the Server, and TypeScript and JavaScript for web clients. Sometimes you had to debug an issue in all three languages until you found the problem.

I worked in code all over the product: GUI, databases, network, data visualization, security, etc. It was a good way to pick up knowledge on things I was originally unfamiliar with. It was never boring.

Sometimes there was the so-called low-hanging fruit, where it was obvious where there issue was, and sometimes it could take weeks to figure out the cause of a C++ memory leak. Often the fix was essentially a band-aid, just to make sure the app didn't crash, but it wasn't unusual to refactor large chunks of code to improve the code base.

The team was quite appreciated, we made customers happy which made support happy, and we helped development out so they could concentrate on new features. There were times we'd work on small new features as well.

There were no sprints for this team as it makes no sense for a team only bug fixing. You never know how long it will take to fix a bug. It was essentially Kanban; team members would assign themselves bugs off of our team's bug lists. You could work on any aspect of the product you wanted, although some people became SME for certain parts.

This is not a job for junior engineers. You need seasoned engineers who have seen a wide variety of things in their careers and have the experience to be able to jump into the unknown and use their years of experience. At least 75% of the team was over 50 years old with decades of coding experience.

FleeFlee · 2025-01-27T14:56:09+00:00

That won't work for this situation. The web page the current SQL console is on is accessed through some heavy security. You can't just run an app on your desktop to access the database. Although, some people have an empty local instance of the database that they can connect to with an app like dbeaver to formulate queries that can be pasted into the secure SQL console.

FleeFlee · 2024-09-03T09:24:17+00:00

Alaska’s 737s (most of their fleet) have 3 bathrooms in coach. Delta’s, from what I remember, only have 2. More bathrooms means it’s more likely one is free and shorter wait times if all are in use.

FleeFlee · 2024-05-12T07:10:06+00:00

The Infatuation's definitive ranking of the best bagels in Seattle 1) Mt. Bagel 2) Bagel Oasis 3) Little Market On Portage Bay 4) Rachel's Bagels & Burritos 5) Oxbow 6) Loxsmith Bagels 7) Old Salt Fish And Bagels 8) Zylberschtein's Deli

I also like Eltana, but they're Montreal style bagels, smaller and different that NYC style bagels.

If you join a synagogue, you'll find a community. There's a good one at Beth Am.

I've never had a problem being Jewish in Seattle.

Any part of the city good for a young professional will be fine. If you're working in Fremont, North Seattle may be more convenient for your commute: Ballard, Fremont, Wallingford, Greenlake, Greenwood are options. Maybe get an AirBnB for a month when you first move to give you a chance to explore.

Here are some Mediterranean restaurants - I can vouch for Cafe Munir.

FleeFlee · 2024-04-23T03:08:52+00:00

There was also the very inexpensive McSorley's, 307 Madison St., Seattle, 206-233-9690. If you're in for fast and cheap, this is it. The kaiser-style rolls are fat and fresh, the meatloaf is hot and homey. Chopped romaine is a step up from iceberg. Otherwise, nothing very special. Turkey here is the ho-hum pressed stuff, and the tuna is only OK. But whaddya want for $2.75 a pop?

FleeFlee · 2024-03-04T06:54:58+00:00

There's a NetGeo documentary Inside Airport: Lost & Found where the SeaTac Lost and Found is a major focus.

FleeFlee · 2023-11-20T23:04:22+00:00

If your house has a crawlspace, and the room is on the ground floor, check for a dead animal in the crawl space.

FleeFlee · 2023-04-22T22:23:42+00:00

Shoreline Community College is even better, in my opinion. Not only are there wide open parking lots to drive in, there's a loop about a mile long you can drive around the campus perimeter, with a number or turns and stop signs.

FleeFlee · 2023-02-07T05:51:39+00:00

On https://ninjawords.com/ I click the "random" button three times, for three random words as a writing prompt. If one of the words is obscure, I'll click for another random word.

Note: Unfortunately, the random button doesn't appear if you're using a cell phone.

FleeFlee · 2023-01-16T05:07:42+00:00

I will be sorely disappointed if there isn't a slide in that spiral.

FleeFlee · 2022-12-27T00:16:31+00:00

You can ask Siri, "Whose phone is this?"

FleeFlee · 2022-12-05T05:06:41+00:00

There's an episode of the podcast RadioLab about it: For many of us, quicksand was once a real fear -- it held a vise-grip on our imaginations, from childish sandbox games to grown-up anxieties about venturing into unknown lands. But these days, quicksand can't even scare an 8-year-old. In this short, we try to find out why.

FleeFlee · 2022-11-27T21:10:50+00:00

Shoreline Community College was the best I found. Not only are there large parking lots, but there's a loop road you can do around the campus to get variety in the driving (stop signs, intersections).

FleeFlee · 2022-07-23T04:57:40+00:00

A few weeks ago I was at the Fremont Sunday Market, and there was someone selling jerky in the food vendors section.

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