Gary Ray

Line drawing of the elevation profile of each stage of the 2025 Tour fe France

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Few things are better than volunteering at Huntsman SportsFest. When things seem overwhelming, don't just "look for the helpers", BE A HELPER. End Cancer! Donation link can be found at hope.huntsmancancer.org/sportsfest25/ and watch for next year's event.

This captures the nail in the coffin for many relationships with people i used to admire.

To see people gleefully saying "those people" including citizens dont deserve due process made me see them, not as misguided, but wilfully fascist

You're not failing. You're gathering data.

Too often we tie our self-worth to outcomes, especially in tech.

But the real growth comes from how we respond when things don’t work out.
- That awkward moment in the meeting?
- The bug that made it to production?

The idiocy to believe:
1. Data gathering, analysis, rule-making, and enforcement have low to no value;
2. That manufacturing, mining, and refining are low-training fields into which these specialists can easily transfer.

Followed by the audacity to expose that ignorance by saying it out loud.

Deleting all the social apps from my mobile devices. I have a stack of physical books to read, and I'm putting devotional links in the "socials" folder on my devices. Attempting to break the endless & mindless scroll habit. I'll have to get on an actual computer to intentionally engage here.

If you see this, post a pic from your device without explanation.

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I've never been as cold as frequently as the winter of 89-90 when I lived in Bourbonnais/Kankakee after having served an LDS mission in Brazil.

Do it now! Do it before this administration fully transports us back, in its clear, transparent, and abhorrent effort to Make America Hate Again.

If the names of those internment or relocation camps don't ring a bell and you don't find their history to be a shameful blot on the history of this country that proclaims "liberty and justice for all", it's even more important to visit, to study, and to learn.

Go! Get out of the house and visit Manzanar. Drive to Minidoka. Spend the day at Topaz, or Amache, or Granada.

It directly led to the death of hundreds if not thousands. All without any hearing, without due process, and with no legal justification other than their nationality (or race) ignoring even their citizenship status or legal immigration status.

Under the supposed guise of preventing espionage and ensuring national security, it has been used to deprive hundreds of thousands of citizens and immigrants with legal status of their property, their wealth, their freedom, and their basic human rights.

This travesty that should never have been passed & should have been repealed decades ago, or declared not only unconstitutional, but an unconscionable violation of basic human rights by the courts to have ruled on it, has only ever been invoked in times of actual war (1812, WWI, WWII). Until now.

Please, I beg you, please - Pick up a history book and study the use and abuse of "The Alien Enemies Act of 1798".

I am not at all interested in debating the finer points of the flood of executive actions signed today by the incoming president. Nor am I interested in debating the merit or folly of the last minute actions of the outgoing president. I have only one plea, and it is this...

LevelUp and Cinemagic are Xtra stations for video game and movie soundtracks respectively that I like for background music while working.

We currently have it it two cars. I personally rarely listen while driving, preferring audiobooks/podcasts. But, I do like their "Xtra" stations that are only available in the app. 80s to Now Alt Rock, 1st Wave Deep Cuts. Look for the Xtra collection in the app for all the channels.

Who is most likely to leave the LDS Church — and why? How sexual orientation, education and more impact whether a person leaves the LDS Church.

Here's a regular gift link: www.sltrib.com/religion/202...

My wife has been through this twice, with two different insurance companies. Both not only required the L/R ablations to be separate appointments, but required she retry previously failed cortisone shots. Burn the whole system to the ground!

Quite possibly a live version of "Sultans of Swing", but this is an incredibly hard question.

Saddened by the passing of another great coach. Coach Carnesecca lead St. John's to the 1985 final four, one of the first I can remember from my teens.

You'll be glad you made the effort. One of the best films I've ever seen in my entire life.

New and old packages of Lever 2000 soap. Old package contains a 4 oz bar, new a 3.75 oz bar. New bar is in box that appears larger than the old.

Shrinkflation strikes again...bigger packaging, but smaller contents.

We had to drive 20 min and past at least two other "megaplex" theaters to find one showing Conclave last weekend, and today may be the last day to catch it anywhere in my area. Others showing Wicked/Gladiator/Venom on multiple screens.

Governor signs $167 million tax cut bill, dropping Utah’s income tax rate to 4.55% • Utah News Dispatch Utah's governor has signed a $167 million bill to cut the Utah income tax rate from 4.65% to 4.55%. How much will Utahns save?

Hmm!? I wonder if this had something to do with the shortfall. Maybe 4 straight years of tax cuts may have been overkill...
utahnewsdispatch.com/2024/03/15/u...

Announcing the New Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp - .NET Blog The Foundational C# Certification with freeCodeCamp is now available! The certification is free, globally available, and includes a full training course.

Check out this free collaboration between Microsoft and Free Code Camp that leads to a "foundations" certification: devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou...

Another option to use with, or in place of, the pen flush mentioned by others is to buy an inexpensive ultrasonic jewelry cleaner. I tend to forget which penss I have inked. Letting the nibs soak for a while and then running them through a cleaner cycle works wonders.