Tim Pepper

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...

There is no shutdown. We are just learning to see the new operating model.

Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility.

Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it.

#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Still short a week of promised backpay undelivered from the time period between getting fired and then getting unfired, and also months of paid for but not received health insurance benefits. But who’s counting?

Add to the list of the fascinating points around getting fired from federal government service in February, them then deciding they didn’t fire me, also not allowing me to work, and continuing to pay me: The latest (pay period 20) check direct deposited into my bank account last night.

chartering a prop plane to fly in circles around dc with a banner that reads “what about the anti deficiency act”

"Destruction of federal property is a federal crime-18 U.S. Code § 1361 defines it as willfully injuring or committing any depredation of U.S. gov't property-Damage exceeding $1k is a felony w/ a fine-up to 10 yrs in prison or both"

Meanwhile-took me forever to get permits to repaint my mailbox.

Scan on an old article from The Morning Oregonian, Saturday, October 21st, 1893: The third game between the Astoria and Portland football association teams will be played on Multnomah field this afternoon, commencing at 3 o’clock. There is a marked difference between association and university or Rugby football. The latter is the more commonly played in the country, though in the former science is brought into play more than actual strength, the foot being used to carry the ball, instead of the hand. The only exception to this rule is the goal-keeper, who is permitted to handle the ball....

Today in 1893 there was a soccer match played at what is now Providence park.

Thanks to @davidinastoria.bsky.social for finding it.

portland.daveknows.org/2010/08/16/f...

#RCTID #BAONPDX

a rainbow colored shooting star with the words the mo you know above it ALT: a rainbow colored shooting star with the words the mo you know above it

As us-east1 adds to it's history of outages. Just a gentle reminder that we solved multi-region A/B clustering many moons ago.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Who will coach for Portland?

it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc

and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way

Man, Chicago is such a war zone they had to have a marathon today.

It's gonna fuck him up if he finds out we have a store called Mr. Plywood.

So many thoughts. So many con men. Much swamp.

What's the statute of limitations on poisoning a minor? Can we sue our parents for giving us Tylenol?

Scan of a newspaper photo from the day the stadium in Goose Hollow opened "...Catches glimpse of greatest crowd that ever assembled for a game inside one inclosure in Portland" with a black and white phot of a crowd in the stands.

Happy 99th birthday to Multnomah Stadium / Civic Stadium / PGE Park / Jeld-Wen Field / Providence Park!

I REALLY hope that the Timbers are able to have a home game on the 100th anniversary. That's a Friday which would be unusual, but I think it should still happen

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border ino.to/agDxSX2

They themselves claim “Once you pop, you can't stop”

They WILL learn to love kale! Or at least not not like it. Depends on the length of deployment. It is the liberal agenda.

Same re: hand write. A tablet has combined a few "devices" for me, with the biggest physical savings on my back being less (not none) books and paper notebooks (and sometimes no laptop). I use the Notability app and write with a stylus. I write TONNES of notes. The ability to search is fantastic.

Dearest Martha,

Confined to bed of a morning where rain shrouds this war ravaged Portland. Well before dawn our premises was invaded by weekly milk delivery service. After making a latte and beginning to sip it under a blanket, an animal of feline disposition detained me. Movement now ill advised.

Portland is the same or worse they’re saying. And yet I have lived and worked in Portland for over two decades and somehow I have been assaulted less often than Rand Paul in his own neighborhood by his own neighbors.

Dearest Martha,

It is with trepidation that I look upon the coming day in this war ravaged Portland. I fear today’s planned actions will inevitably require more than one trip to The Home Depot. The chicken coop door shall bend to the power of regular maintenance. Fear must not prevail.

Dearest Martha,

Today I laboriously traversed war ravaged Portland in an valiant effort to attend a backyard homebrewfest. Having tendered a keg of mine own fresh hopped hard apple cider, twas decided we would make for the public stadium to observe enemy movements. Our defenses allowed two goals.

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The country is so poorly run we can’t receive packages from overseas anymore, and I’m not sure it makes the top 10 of the administration’s dumbest, unforced errors

Bond investors fucking idiots

If anybody I know in Europe gets into the Radiohead ticket sale...buy an extra and I'll come visit 😱