Ian - Cambridge Wild turkey fanboy

Photo of a slack thread of the snowboy once again announcing snow for ian and Matt. Matt says nooooooo thank you. Ian says snowboy=ian and Matt suffer bot

Agh it's missing the best picture

Ditch the Data Pipeline: A Snow Alert Bot in an Afternoon - Earthmover Ian Hunt-Isaak Xarray Community Developer Matt Iannucci Software Engineer As a distributed team (of weather and climate geeks), we love finding ways to connect. So when a nationwide winter storm rolle...

Snow storm has reminded me why we made this fun slackbot that lets us know who @earthmover.io it is snow for when. Super fun afternoon project! Matt and I also wrote up a quick blog about how it works wherein I learned a decent bit about working with weather data

earthmover.io/blog/ditch-t...

I got right hooked by a driver there years ago. A welcome change!

I’m 250 paid subscribers away from a major goal. Think we can get there tonight? www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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I got too hungry and had to leave before they finished the rest with the extra early/mailin..but other people are there!

Graham and parks 2/4 machines. Waiting on the rest

Can you elaborate a bit more? There is some integration today, but as we note in the post there are some deeper levels that could make things a lot smoother.

I would love to know more what is vs is not working for you! Happy to chat anytime

Do you use napari and love @xarray.bsky.social? Or use Xarray but cry when napari ignores the axis names? Read how we will improve this in the future! 🤝

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Actually by far the biggest lie here is the zusy number. If you exclude the $7110 she contributed herself, and also the $1000 from a real estate lawyer who listed a Cambridge PO box then they are giving a her break by undercalculting her percentage by 4x....

Ok I was slightly off. It is approx accurate in terms of total value. But their clearly off by at least a few percentage points

And if you exclude unions and donations without addresses then it's 56%

Quick scroll through ocpf for McGovern and this has to be a crazy lie to find 66%

Maybe if you count some of the union donations which come form Dorchester. But that's obviously disingenuous, which I guess is the point...

I've interested you should email Christian about it. I've always found him very responsive, and he might be interested

My first ever 311 was a request to fix a curb cut damaged by a snow plow. Seeing it fixed was very empowering and I can truly say was the thing that set me up to be much more involved in local politics

Accelerating Xarray with Zarr-Python 3 | Earthmover We have recently dramatically improved the performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. This post explores how we’ve improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.

1/ Check out our latest blog post earthmover.io/blog/xarray-... to learn about the dramatic improvement and performance of Xarray’s Zarr backend. We achieved improved the “time to first byte” metric, building on Zarr-Python’s new asyncio internals.

So many good things to read at non billionaire owned sites

Breaking: The Handbasket is first to report catastrophic OMB funding memo Posted on Bluesky earlier this evening, other major outlets have since confirmed.

“There’s still this idea that news is only ‘real’ once it’s confirmed by big corporate outlets. After all, could one woman with absolutely zero institutional backing in leggings and a sweatshirt in her NYC apartment really be the one to break such an important story? Now we know the answer is yes.”

I've shoveled that exact crosswalk myself a few years ago in similar circumstances 😔

Is there anywhere easy to see subway ridership on equivalent route? Like is this fewer people in Manhattan, or mode shift happening?

Also there's a fancy chili's lol . (This is at city center mall in salt lake)

An image of a pizza hut add of a pizza with several momos embedded in the crust

American fast food chains truly up their game when abroad. E.g. this pizza hut in Kolkata coming up with PIZZA CRUST STUFFED WITH MOMOS. The fusion I didn't know I wanted

My former landlord had his flaws , but it's forever to his credit that when I contacted after seeing his ad he stressed how I should not pay a broker, turned out to be pretty convincing to move into his place which was home for 5 years

A turkey exploring a tree

A group of turkeys. They are beautiful

Rain to alleviate drought AND seeing a flock of these beautiful turkeys! Can the day get any better?

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urbandirt - Boston Mixed terrain bike riding in Boston - forest | rocks | roots

Also I've lived every urban dirt ride I've tried www.urbandirt.org/hubs/boston but their idea of easy is perhaps a little more intense than I expected

Encircle Camberville 84% on multiuse paths separate from traffic. Only 12% on roads that are likely to have cars, remainder is chill roads or walking bike for a section... - 22.1 mi, +348 ft. Bike ride in Cambridge, MA

I've had a good time encircling camberville ridewithgps.com/routes/39131... (route is as close as I could reasonably follow the borders)

I've gotten the same direction on a bike! Serious missed connection, though I guess the desire paths are a sort of (super difficult in a bike/inaccessible) connection

Very cool and normal that the id service I use to log in to the IRS now sends me black Friday deals.

Just the absolute worst