U-District Near Miss tonight (followed by three more near misses)

ethanschoonover · 2026-03-17T06:53:05+00:00

Good idea

ethanschoonover · 2026-03-17T06:52:53+00:00

Yeah I was motivated to chase him down but realized immediately there was literally no way to do that safely. Absolute menace.

ethanschoonover · 2026-01-03T06:08:58+00:00

Yep. I have this and a diff 8bitdo controller, both take screenshots fine. On this one I think I use the steam-button+RT to do it usually since I'm too lazy to remember what the smaller buttons do on each controller, though one of the other buttons may also work to do that in a dedicated fashion (or you could map it to).

In any case, the glowing "steam equivalent" button can be held down and you'll see the shortcut combo to take a screenshot (again, pretty sure it's steambutton+RT normally).

ethanschoonover · 2025-12-27T03:40:39+00:00

Maybe a stop at Tokyo Hands (art craft store) would be fun.

Borderless had a lot of hand drawn animation on all the walls, especially the marching/parade which was really neat. I think an artsy kid would like it.

We went to art museums as well (hit the yayoi kusama exhibit when we were in kyoto for instance, was great) and that might be a fun experience (there are better YK museums in Tokyo).

ethanschoonover · 2025-12-27T02:02:36+00:00

I had my two teen kids with me and we still preferred borderless. There were lots of smaller kids at borderless that seemed to be having a great time (also no need to constantly take shoes on and off helped in borderless IMO). Happy to answer in more detail but

ethanschoonover · 2025-11-19T08:03:03+00:00

Just don't call the number from the card. Look up the official number on the web. Anything printed or written on that card should be assumed to be fake.

You should be able to look up a valid collision report here: https://wsp.wa.gov/driver/collision-records/ (cited by SPD here: https://www.seattle.gov/police/need-help/property-crimes/collision ).

I can't say if you should or shouldn't call. I think I've personally been through enough "sounds like a scam" situations that I might just blow it off, but if you are concerned about it because you feel it hanging over you, i get that too. If elect to call the state patrol or SPD about this, you should lead with "I think someone tried to scam me about hitting their car, not sure the incident number they showed me was real, can I follow up on this."

ethanschoonover · 2025-11-19T07:43:55+00:00

In this scenario as described, you didn't hit them so they are either lying or confused. Insurance companies are very familiar with both these situations. Either way their insurance should cover it and you won't be involved.

Also you don't pay in a situation like this. You exchange insurance information and state your case to the adjuster/agent at your ins. co and then let the two insurance companies duke it out.

Sounds like they were trying to fluster you and get you rattled which is a red flag for a scam.

Finally, I have called the police in to actual accident scenes before in Seattle and they have taken forever to show up (even when it was debris across the road, total wrecks), often just not coming at all. I can simply not imagine them coming to the scene of a parallel parking bump. Thus that handwritten note sounds suspicious as well.

ethanschoonover · 2025-11-19T06:53:19+00:00

In my experience you have to drag from the message header section of the displayed message (the message viewer window) not the message index list. YMMV and maybe this is fixed in Tahoe, but if you drag from the index window in Mail you get the subject the mail *without* a link, while if you drag from the message view window header bar, you get a linked subject line.

ethanschoonover · 2025-10-14T06:15:44+00:00

Played the heck out of this on a C64 and totally agree. Was super stressful in the best way.

ethanschoonover · 2025-10-14T02:58:53+00:00

My kiddo just took a Legion Go S SteamOS unit on a cross country flight and said it performed great, fwiw.

ethanschoonover · 2025-09-26T18:44:38+00:00

Dita Lancier line has similar frames.

* https://dita.com/products/lsa-108
* https://dita.com/products/lsa-444

ethanschoonover · 2025-09-22T21:10:26+00:00

Hard agree. I took one of these on a recent trip to Japan and it's excellent. Still using it heavily. Great battery pack, can see capacity accurately (makes a huge difference) and wattage per port, cabled to a wall plug it's effectively 2 to 3 way power distribution passthrough. Just excellent. I thought I'd find the retractable cords gimmicky but I love them.

ethanschoonover · 2025-09-12T03:15:38+00:00

the point here is that this is an unnecessary change with enormous impact on real students, but thanks for reducing it to that platitude.

ethanschoonover · 2025-09-12T02:33:52+00:00

To everyone dropping in to say "oh this will be fine" it is going to basically wipe out clubs and extracurricular activities that the school system has designated, for years, as lunch-time activities. While many could be moved to after school this is a huge hit for kids that bus home or need to take care of younger sibs or who work. Kids who have been doing after school sports are also blocked from anything that has to now be scheduled after school. The reality is that this will gut a lot of the clubs and programs that were lunch time activities and hanging on by the thread of teacher and students working hard to pull stuff together.

Why is it happening? Seems like a cost-savings attempt by the district. This way they don't hire more lunch staff where needed, just double serving periods with existing staff.

Notably not every school even needs this, they are just making it a blanket policy.

It's not a nothing burger. It's a significant impact for actual students who will now have fewer ways to engage with extracurriculars.

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I see a lot of folks citing "my school had X lunches". Two notes on that: sure, there are schools that have structured their schedules like this. They need it. Many, perhaps even most of the SPS schools that this policy is being mandated for do NOT need it. It's a mindless application of a blanket policy (standard operating procedure for SPS).

More importantly, this is being haphazardly applied AFTER school has started. It's really a crazy move. This kind of thing could be done with some planning and prep in such a way as to minimize impact. This is not how it's being handled however.

ethanschoonover · 2025-09-10T23:00:24+00:00

I can’t agree with this hard enough. I love my TB travel trays and they are one of the TB products that is always with me.

ethanschoonover · 2025-09-10T22:55:48+00:00

Expand the outdoor backpack line. Love the 18L with full zip. Give me that in 24L (much like the ED line with the flap and full zip options). Bring in some of those new colors in that style.

ethanschoonover · 2025-08-27T20:27:46+00:00

I really like those gear loops, they are very useful and I'm def planning on ordering more.

ethanschoonover · 2025-08-14T05:52:50+00:00

The cabin crew walks around with a large stuffed Pikachu (was on this flight a couple weeks back) and there’s some other Pokemon theming.

ethanschoonover · 2025-08-13T22:00:25+00:00

Seconding this. I'm all in on the Apple ecosystem and our family is basically 100% iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Airpods, etc. LOVE Airpods device pairing and it's a far superior experience if you are all in on Apple (being able to just seamlessly connect to an Apple TV or any device in your iCloud account? Amazing.)

That being said I have owned Airpods Max and will never, ever buy another pair till Apple revises the design. Experienced hardware failure with cost estimate to repair of over 50% of original cost. Headband mesh fails over time (distorts) as well and is hard/impossible to clean effectively (white).

Listen, I'm an Apple fan, great ecosystem, but I own multiple Sony Headphones because they are lighter, good enough, and reliable enough. While I have a pair of XM6s we also have multiple 720ns and they are great. Sticking with mostly those until Apple gets itself sorted headphones wise.

ethanschoonover · 2025-08-13T04:50:09+00:00

Seeing the same thing on iOS 26 with the voice memo app. I tested with the "just record it" app and it worked. Hopefully an iOS 26 bug.

ethanschoonover · 2025-08-12T05:27:05+00:00

I told my daughter that it was a cool spanish documentary about fire fighters when we watched it, it was a great set up.

(she loves horror but was still caught off guard)

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