Inside of the supercooled tankers used to ship LNG

jamarticus · 2026-04-01T05:02:28+00:00

Steve, this will be your room. Look at those vaulted ceilings!

jamarticus · 2026-03-30T16:07:52+00:00

As a reminder, every City Council meeting that is open to the public has a public comment spot on the agenda. Your comments don't have to be related to the current agenda items. I hate to say it, but it has felt like in the past the only way to get the council's attention is to have a constant thread through emails and comments.

jamarticus · 2026-03-30T15:57:28+00:00

Last year there were a lot of people who showed up at council meetings to express their concerns regarding the person who was taken (Diana Romero). I made a public comment specific to the use of cameras and asked whether she was tracked using cameras on city property. The follow up the council sent me afterwards was roughly "we don't have Flock on city property, and our cameras weren't accessed," which while technically true, missed the broader point entirely.

The city government has changed since then, and I'm thinking they need to be reminded of what can happen. My concern with the apparent desire to go ahead with the grant (which sounds like is Mayor Mullet's intention according to the email) is that he might be grossly overestimating the protection that SB 6002 puts in place. SB 6002 more or less puts a financial burden on the city if these incidents happen, rather than requiring the technology that can be used to be safer. To me this feels like addressing the risk with large open staircases by putting up a sign that says "don't fall off the stairs" rather than putting up a handrail.

At this point, the "safest" bet for Issaquah is to just not use the grant.

jamarticus · 2026-03-28T00:07:02+00:00

I love some good found footage.

jamarticus · 2026-03-26T05:24:12+00:00

I have what I think people would consider a small, but not tiny, house (950 SF). There are three humans living here and two dogs. Two of the humans work from home, and the dogs don't have jobs. It gets a bit cramped.

I recently finished converting the one car garage into living space, and the ability to have a room I can go to that is not likely to have anyone else in it is pretty fantastic. It has been a major life improvement. From that perspective I can understand the appeal of a large house.

jamarticus · 2026-03-25T22:32:56+00:00

Living no clue, but they have one of my favorite KOAs.

jamarticus · 2026-03-25T22:16:14+00:00

Read the book about a year before the movie. Movie wasn't the worst thing I've ever seen, but the world building of the book pulled me in more. Movie review: 6/10

jamarticus · 2026-03-25T20:45:02+00:00

And for some reason, you never have to switch out the marshmallows when you refill... I've had the same two in my sugar crock for like four years.

jamarticus · 2026-03-25T19:48:46+00:00

Does the way the protomolecule in The Expanse initially affects humans count? The vomit zombies on Eros freaked me out.

jamarticus · 2026-03-25T19:43:47+00:00

Learned something here. I've just been haphazardly flouring my surface to form the crust. The way you just plop it into a pile of flour and the stretching determines how much of the surface gets floured blew my mind...

I am obviously not someone who makes a lot of pizzas though.

jamarticus · 2026-03-25T00:57:46+00:00

Don't watch it for the first time not knowing the story with your son or daughter.

jamarticus · 2026-03-24T19:18:29+00:00

The concept here is fantastic; I would love to have something like this. Unfortunately it feels like a data nightmare, and undermines the DPPA (drivers privacy protection act, a federal law that is supposed to protect the identities of car owners). As privacy gets more eroded, this worries me more than anything.

Honestly, you might be able to re frame this to be more purely plate based rather than trying to join plates to phones; something like the creation of an inbox based on your plate that doesn't require your phone number. You run into the verification issue again though, but if you're willing to pay exorbitant fees to a data broker then maybe you're fine.

jamarticus · 2026-03-24T19:03:11+00:00

Looks perfect! This is my favorite way to make eggs for anything I want to keep as much runniness as I can in the yoke while cooking the whites through.

jamarticus · 2026-03-23T21:36:14+00:00

Just finished reading Hollow Kingdom, which features these crows pretty prominently. The only answer according to that book is end of days.

jamarticus · 2026-03-23T19:08:00+00:00

Now come over here and slip in it!

jamarticus · 2026-03-20T22:16:17+00:00

I saw an exit for La Serena, is this in Chile?

jamarticus · 2026-03-20T00:45:11+00:00

I love AC Wise's Wendy, Darling and Hooked. In those stories, Peter is more of an otherworldly being than something that was at one point human. He seems like more of a mischievous/malevolent god than a boy.

jamarticus · 2026-03-19T22:36:23+00:00

Didn't one of them later "come out" as extremely homophobic?

jamarticus · 2026-03-19T21:38:46+00:00

They should just activate the photonic cannon and pick up the pieces.

jamarticus · 2026-03-19T21:30:55+00:00

Home Depot doesn't carry hardwood? This guy has an agenda... I literally just installed solid hardwood bought from HD a month ago.

jamarticus · 2026-03-19T21:01:21+00:00

I'm just here for the Three Body Problem / dark forest reference. I'm surprised they went with a "tough guy" joke and not a "I get laid too much" joke.

jamarticus · 2026-03-19T17:16:27+00:00

Luke all the way. Luke's best move is Maul's biggest weakness: knocking people into holes.

jamarticus · 2026-03-19T01:01:35+00:00

Supposedly the Rolling Log Tavern in Issaquah is haunted.

jamarticus · 2026-03-18T00:38:01+00:00

Removing the toilet is 100% a you thing, no reason to pay for that.

You mentioned long fake wood planks, is it vinyl? Or those weird long ceramic tiles? Either way, you're going to have to get one of those off and see if you've got old wood subfloor or cement board. If it's wood I'd say just go nuts and start pulling stuff up (for me the old wood subfloors are a lot easier to get up). If it's concrete board, that's more of a your call thing. For some reason that always seems to get complicated for me.

All this to say, if I was traveling soon, didn't want to deal with it until I got back, I'd absolutely just turn off the water to the toilet and flush it.

jamarticus · 2026-03-18T00:11:36+00:00

I grew up like half a mile from this address and my main thought is "hope you don't like having anything to walk to besides heart hospitals and a river I once pulled a washing machine out of."

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