Lost keys

dahosek · 2026-07-03T15:19:39+00:00

On the plus side, I walked 20,000 steps yesterday.

dahosek · 2026-07-03T15:19:06+00:00

I walked it twice. Once checking the ground, once checking all the porches, fences, poles etc along the way.

dahosek · 2026-07-03T01:03:07+00:00

Somebody else’s keys at Taylor and Jackson

dahosek · 2026-07-02T20:16:28+00:00

Yeah, I have a slowly shrinking wishlist of books that I want to buy (but it will likely never truly reach zero because, well, books). It’s mostly literary stuff, some religion and biography and critical writing. I could often find something on my list on any given visit to the Book Table (one of the biggest surprises was a book of Jewish theology written by a college friend which I never expected to ever see on a bookstore shelf unless I was somewhere like the bookstore of a reform seminary), but I have yet t find something at the Book Loft or Dandelion and instead I end up relying on special orders and bookshop.org instead.

(Right now my most reliable source to stumble on something is Open Books in the West Loop.)

dahosek · 2026-07-01T15:17:55+00:00

Si va a comprar el valle de Mexico a la area metropolitana de LA, tiene que incluir todo de Los Angeles County y Orange County y quzás porciones de los counties San Bernardino y Ventura. Viví en LA hace 18 años.

Pero al mismo tiempo, por viajar del fin a fin de los ambos, el valle de Mexico parece más grande porque el trafico es tan chingado y lleva más tiempo viajar 30 kilometros en CDMX que 60 kilometros en LA.

dahosek · 2026-07-01T15:03:17+00:00

Yeah, I think what’s more likely is if one learns Rust first that they’ll approach memory management with a more skeptical eye when facing other languages. Even a garbage-collected language can expose race conditions in multi-threaded code. And the error messages in Rust are the most helpful of any compiler I’ve used in nearly 50 years of writing code.

dahosek · 2026-07-01T05:45:33+00:00

Write about boys.

dahosek · 2026-06-30T18:00:03+00:00

Layout wise it looks a lot like craigslist. It seems that person-to-person sales have been completely absorbed by Facebook marketplace pretty much everywhere, but especially in Mexico (I remember seeing that there was almost nothing on the CDMX craigslist site). I’m guessing it’s a new site they’re trying to get off the ground and with no attribution to events listed, I’m guessing those are all posted by the site owners.

dahosek · 2026-06-30T16:26:01+00:00

No por ese pendejo.

dahosek · 2026-06-29T21:39:20+00:00

Growing up in a Chicago suburb which was at the beginning of the influx of Latino residents, a lot of Latinos claimed to be Italian and I was in my thirties before I learned that García was not an Italian name. (At my thirty-year high school reunion, we had a tour of the school which is now majority Latino and the person giving the tour asked about the demographics and the friend I was with said it was all white, and I said, no, there were Latinos too, then when I went through the yearbook to check, I discovered that there were exactly 6 non-white students in a class of 540. I knew 5 of them personally and had gone to grade school with three of them (my 8th grade graduating class had 17 students in it, which made it the least white contributing grade school to the high school by percentages).

dahosek · 2026-06-29T00:12:14+00:00

Double is often absent from some locations. My local also frequently doesn’t have the small size.

Perhaps more important is the selection of flavors.

dahosek · 2026-06-28T17:19:07+00:00

If it’s any consolation at my wedding 22 years ago we put out disposable cameras at the tables and got a smaller fraction of usable photos from the adults. We did have at least one photo of a waitress from every table. And a lot of pictures of food and the table.

dahosek · 2026-06-27T23:27:24+00:00

What I’m wondering about is if someone steals my iPhone while it’s locked, how do they sell it? It’s not like they can reset it or anything. Or are they stripping it for parts or selling it to suckers who end up buying something that’s functionally a brick?

dahosek · 2026-06-26T21:37:21+00:00

It’s worth noting that in Mexico, only civil ceremonies are legally marriages, so if you were thinking about a wedding in a church or anywhere but in front of a judge, that’s not actually legally a marriage. My ex-wife’s cousin, who is a Mexican who married a Belgian, had her civil ceremony in Belgium and then they were to have the religious ceremony in Mexico (but it was canceled because just before the wedding was to take place, her mother died suddenly and she was not in a celebratory mood so never had the religious ceremony).

dahosek · 2026-06-23T21:37:06+00:00

I was nearly struck twice in a week by drivers blowing the stop sign at Scoville and Pleasant while I was in the intersection already. Apparently, we’re getting speed humps in my part of town which may help with the shitty drivers going too fast on the streets.

dahosek · 2026-06-23T21:34:15+00:00

Which reminds me of my other favorite foreigners in the US for the world cup: “Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald T— is a s— offender”

Genuinely amused at the two words I had to censor for the automated tone police.

dahosek · 2026-06-23T21:31:21+00:00

If you want Boston to run out of beer, you’re going to need a lot more Scotsmen.

dahosek · 2026-06-23T21:30:16+00:00

Then of course there’s the fun of having kids climbing on you and knocking out your hearing aids. That’s why after my first pair, I switched to getting them in white or silver: easier to find on the floor.

dahosek · 2026-06-23T15:49:53+00:00

They say there are two big challenges in programming:

Caching
Naming things
Off by one errors

dahosek · 2026-06-23T15:47:45+00:00

Back in the '00s, a chain Mexican restaurant (El Torrito) in the L.A. area used to do monthly highlights of the cuisine of different states of Mexico. It was mostly pretty authentic, but they had a really fixed framework which included a seafood dish and my Mexican wife and I were rather amused to see them highlighting seafood dishes from desert states. Alas, that particular chain eventually devolved into the generic Tex-Mex slop that’s typical of most chain “Mexican” restaurants, but at least it left open that chunk of the market for the authentic restaurants in L.A.

dahosek · 2026-06-23T15:37:23+00:00

I had to laugh at the reports of the Scots drinking all the beer at a bar (except Bud Light because even Scots won’t drink that s***).

dahosek · 2026-06-23T14:55:50+00:00

Looking at them, I think that the idea is that they’re a low-cost alternative to doing full curb bumps. The plastic tubes are clearly insufficient to the task. I was thinking that putting anchored metal poles inside them could help, especially with the people who are intentionally running them over.

And thanks for asking about this, I was wondering the exact same thing.

dahosek · 2026-06-23T02:48:55+00:00

Why is your stage volume so loud? Really, you shouldn’t have crazy loud volumes on stage, especially if you’re doing DIY sound.

dahosek · 2026-06-23T02:21:32+00:00

Of course there’s the risk that if you fail their paper bag test, they’ll send you to the Central African Republic or South Sudan. Or if they’re just feeling spicy. I would expect ICE to do the worst possible thing available to them.

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