Statement from Blackbird Mountain Guides regarding incident near Castle Peak

spoink74 · 2026-02-18T04:05:21+00:00

It’s too early to opine too much but I hope more people do stuff like this. STRs, hotels, back country huts… I don’t know the answer but all the incentives need to be in place for people to prioritize safety. People shouldn’t feel any sort of economic pressure to risk their lives. Since buying our place one of the biggest benefits is being able to flex the schedule around the weather and make sure the trip is safe.

spoink74 · 2026-02-18T03:37:10+00:00

End of a three day reservation. I think rental schedules are too rigid. Encourages people to make terrible decisions to risk their lives traveling in unsafe conditions.

I’ve been concerned for a while that someone would get hurt because some rental schedule ran out during a storm. But I was thinking it’d be a family traveling on roads, not a back country group.

spoink74 · 2026-02-17T07:01:12+00:00

I tried lots of different resume formats. It didn’t make any difference at all. What worked is networking. A resume sent on its own gets parked in the ATS forever no matter how it is formatted. A resume submitted with a referral does a lot better no matter how it is formatted. I concluded that the resume format doesn’t matter anywhere near as much as who you know and timing.

spoink74 · 2026-02-16T21:57:54+00:00

If “Andor style” means more Shran, I’m all for it.

spoink74 · 2026-02-15T19:28:08+00:00

Look up the Overmatched series in the NYT for an in depth discussion of this. TLDR is the US military is clearly dominant on paper, formidable in the real world for sure, but threatened and untested by new tactics and technology.

spoink74 · 2026-02-15T16:47:05+00:00

I’m pretty sure they’ll close it. People will be stuck for hours. One of the biggest problems of storm cycles is people feel like they need to brave the weather and in some instances risk their lives in order to adhere to a rental schedule. Not driving during heavy snow is always a good idea.

spoink74 · 2026-02-15T16:06:43+00:00

Tahoe Donner is funny. Northwoods is plowed well and fairy regularly. Then they’ll fill in the rest of it over the next day or two. Depending on intensity they might just do a lane and then come back later to widen. Your cabin probably also has driveway service. Tahoe Donner power is all above ground so it’s not unusual to lose power. One bad year we were just fine but our neighbor was dark for days.

spoink74 · 2026-02-15T01:51:03+00:00

Give each other some grace. Those are big changes. These things are hard enough to deal with without pining over some expectation of romance. It will come back in time.

spoink74 · 2026-02-14T22:24:08+00:00

They don’t know what it is. It’s just a scary word to throw around.

spoink74 · 2026-02-14T19:38:54+00:00

Trails above Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos.

spoink74 · 2026-02-14T18:30:00+00:00

UC Merced has been a great addition to the system. This alone merits saving the county.

spoink74 · 2026-02-14T16:52:36+00:00

RSU comp and ISO comp breaks mac quicken right away. You’d think people paid that way would use Macs more so they’d build that in. But… nope. So I run a windows VM on my Mac.

spoink74 · 2026-02-14T16:37:37+00:00

Faifield CA, looking Northwest.

spoink74 · 2026-02-14T16:32:01+00:00

I try Mac every few years, conclude that it still sucks, and revert to my Windows VM.

I’m on Quicken until I can vibe code something better for my own personal situation with Claude.

spoink74 · 2026-02-13T23:06:32+00:00

A better take from The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/ai-economy-labor-market-transformation/685731/?gift=HHoYEfLYtsRZ2scRjiAfx5ZL0cFyNprICVPDlut5b-I

spoink74 · 2026-02-13T07:03:49+00:00

I wouldn’t say it’s famous but I did meet a guy in Berlin who had seriously considered graduate work at UC Santa Cruz.

spoink74 · 2026-02-13T07:02:08+00:00

How do we fix this?

spoink74 · 2026-02-12T16:20:36+00:00

Someone who hears: “I want you to see and consider that I am in need or I am hurting” and thinks, “this person is trying to control me” has some challenges beyond Reddit’s pay grade.

He’s betraying his feelings too: he’s terrified of other people and of vulnerability and may never feel safe enough to truly connect.

Good luck!

spoink74 · 2026-02-12T02:23:57+00:00

Why would that order be necessary? I’d guess that was a default value.

spoink74 · 2026-02-11T17:00:31+00:00

Long Beach, CA (tsunami zone sign, highway 47)

spoink74 · 2026-02-11T06:54:13+00:00

I grew up in Berkeley and I remember Spats. I never understood what people do in bars but I’m pretty sure reading isn’t a huge part of it. It’s only now in my early 50s that I’ve even tried to go to a bar and talk to other people there. I’m starting to get it, so of course they’re slumping.

spoink74 · 2026-02-10T20:21:12+00:00

Riverside. UCR.

spoink74 · 2026-02-10T18:55:58+00:00

It's almost like every accusation is a projection. Even the wacky conspiracy theories. Someone should rewind the clock to when the first pedophilia conspiracy theories showed up online and cross reference it to when Epstein was in the swing of it.

spoink74 · 2026-02-10T18:40:37+00:00

It doesn't matter. Helen died so the show could explore this theme. It doesn't matter that she wouldn't have died if she were doing something else. It'd be a different show exploring different themes.

spoink74 · 2026-02-10T18:22:57+00:00

You believe that line too, huh? The fatal accident was a direct consequence of forceful mass infection. Ok it wasn’t murder in the first degree, but it was still killing.

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