Kent Quirk

A bike tire with a nail right in the center of the tread.

Today’s bike ride included somehow getting a 2” nail right through the center of the tire all the way to the head. This is it pulled half way out.

Ditto.

I put a pork shoulder in the smoker at 9AM expecting a 10-hour cook time. It’s going to come off after 13 hours. We had crackers and cheese for dinner. Pork will have to be reheated tomorrow. Sigh.

(But at least it’s not raw stupidity like the news.)

Everyone thinks that Musk is a genius until he does or says something within their area of expertise. Then they realize he’s a total idiot.

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Are you sure it’s not just mutuals? This place seems to do a lot of follow back.

This is a full scale emergency right now. Musk and his minions have used force to take over the government’s data and economic systems. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social I’m a constituent and need you to be shouting at high volume. No cooperation, no deals, no politics.

I’m now worried about making it through the week.

Apple’s AirPods have Live Listen with frequency compensation, which I have been told is as good or better than many more expensive devices. But I think you also need to set it up with an Apple device.

After the election in 2016, I was motivated. I spent a year putting in 30 to 40 hours a week volunteering as an act of resistance. I don’t have it in me this time. I need to tune out. I know that’s what they want, but I’m sad and don’t have the energy right now.

#Genuary Day 3 - exactly 42 lines of code. It’s best seen at the link to all my artistic projects: kentquirk.github.io/genuary24/

A set of basic shapes, brightly colored, moving around a red background and leaving motion trails

My #Genuary for day 2: kentquirk.github.io/genuary24/_i...

A picture of a flower that is drawn with only horizontal and vertical lines

Here’s another one that randomly uses horizontal or vertical stripes:

A sunset rendered using vertical lines of color only

Genuary 1 - only h or v lines.
It’s a voronoi regionalization over 1000 points, where each region is rendered using vertical lines drawn in the average color of the underlying pixels.

Any chance it’s because all the political calls ended? I had the same drop off with no change to LI.

I started Advent of Code again today. I wanted to use Deno and learn more about TypeScript but Deno is in the awkward transition stage to 2.0. I spent 1hr trying to read a text file into an array of strings and ran out of patience. I decided to switch to go for today. Maybe tomorrow.

Today was the first time in probably 20 years that I’ve had a rotten egg. PHEW! I had gotten out of the habit of breaking eggs into a separate bowl, so I had to throw out the sugar and butter from the recipe too.
Interestingly, this is the only organic batch of eggs I’ve bought in a long time.

A bright red Japanese Maple branch against a very blue clear sky

There is nothing like the colors of New England in the fall.

The moon through the branches of a leafless tree, with a large halo around it.

I really like the iPhone camera. This is handheld, no filters, of tonight’s moon.