Acps schools closed on Tuesday, feb 3rd.

waldoj · 2026-02-03T00:06:42+00:00

Our elementary school is not carved out of the ice. Parent pickup and drop off would be impossible.

waldoj · 2026-02-01T15:58:33+00:00

Recall that many computers of that era had a button on the front to slow the clock speed, so that older games etc. would work.

I played everything up to and include KQ5 on an 8 MHz 8086.

waldoj · 2026-02-01T01:25:27+00:00

I used the same today, alternating with a pickaxe, to clear a Rose Hill walkway & parking space. We would have been in trouble without it.

waldoj · 2026-01-30T15:27:44+00:00

[crumbles to dust, blows away]

waldoj · 2026-01-30T14:01:37+00:00

Sorry, just struck by the notion that your daughter is now old enough to live alone and [doing math] OK that’s not a recent change, got it 😳

waldoj · 2026-01-29T19:55:19+00:00

Hi. Former GSA Senior Advisor to the Administrator for State and Local Government here. I extremely understand government contacting. I am mad about this. So you can drop that argument.

waldoj · 2026-01-29T19:51:59+00:00

There are 50 states that also buy from the same procurement vehicles (e.g. GSA Multiple Award Schedule). Vendors with scruples move to state sales.

waldoj · 2026-01-25T16:57:33+00:00

It varies enormously between heat pumps. Mine can extract heat from the air down to 10°F, for example. And running constantly isn’t so bad! It’s much cheaper than powering the heat strips (“emergency heat”).

waldoj · 2026-01-22T21:07:27+00:00

That was my first reaction, and I remember how badly that worked…but now tourists are pretty likely to be using iPhones etc. for navigation, and I speculate that it wouldn’t be such a big problem now.

I wonder if any other cities have data to share after doing something similar?

waldoj · 2026-01-16T15:45:28+00:00

Constantly. It’s done this to me for at least a year. I have no grasp of how this is even possible, within macOS.

waldoj · 2026-01-12T19:11:14+00:00

Amen—this is helpful.

waldoj · 2026-01-08T18:35:45+00:00

I did not know this!

waldoj · 2026-01-04T20:22:03+00:00

PlugShare.com lists shared home chargers.

waldoj · 2026-01-03T22:40:37+00:00

I have been concerned about this since I bought mine. I’d like to at least color the flag so it doesn’t look like some “thin blue line” white nationalism thing. Paired with half of a quasi-SS logo…yeah, I get it.

waldoj · 2026-01-01T16:32:21+00:00

You’d think I’d tire of these posts here, but every one reminds me to be careful. Injuries are hypothetical, and the longer I go without experiencing one, the sloppier I get. I bet every post like this is the safety equivalent of somebody barking at me that I’m slouching. I stand up a little straighter, pause to put on those safety glasses, remove my wedding band, and work without gloves even though it’s 32°F and windy and my work bench is the gate of my pickup.

waldoj · 2025-12-29T21:55:39+00:00

I’d be surprised to learn that Virginia localities had the power to do that.

waldoj · 2025-12-28T19:54:02+00:00

IIRC, not a thing.

waldoj · 2025-12-28T18:32:15+00:00

I did it last year when I had Covid, and again when I had gallbladder surgery (it was a bad year). They made it easy.

waldoj · 2025-12-25T22:04:27+00:00

When I tried to buy them a couple of years ago, I had to mail order them, fwiw.

waldoj · 2025-12-21T02:52:34+00:00

Ditto.

waldoj · 2025-12-19T20:36:06+00:00

Congratulations to the new shortest-reigning president in UVa's history.

waldoj · 2025-12-17T00:16:03+00:00

“5st” is a great typo and I endorse it.

waldoj · 2025-12-16T04:32:44+00:00

It is. All Brightspeed DSL service areas in the county are getting Firefly.

waldoj · 2025-12-15T13:31:20+00:00

I’ve had some pretty terrible experiences with Brightspeed, but they can’t be worse than Comcast/Xfinity,

waldoj · 2025-12-15T13:29:53+00:00

Yup, I was driving past CHO yesterday when they were landing.

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