emv @ed_packet@a2mi.social

Is there a way to follow someone, but not to get copies of everything they retweet?

http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

From a John Perry essay, 1995, about how to get a lot done by being good at not doing the one thing at the top of your to-do list that sounds important but that can really wait.

Years and years of old paper in boxes, turning into shreds. Very satisfying.

I even found a $20 bill hiding in old receipts!

Take some data and graph it!

Proof of work, details to come later once I have more data. This is "count of players today" which should reset at midnight. I'm also capturing total points.

Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, and a teeny tiny shell script that scrapes some numbers off the AADL website.

Unexpected learning: the AADL website caches data, so I had to bypass the cache to get a current reading.

Good luck in the contest
Operating 1E Michigan

#arrlfd

Cc @w8emv

storm has passed through Washtenaw County and the net is clear. 73!

wx update from Washtenaw EOC / NWS

Severe ts warning until midnight

At 1106 PM EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles southwest of Fowlerville to near Stockbridge to near Cement City, moving east at 55 mph.

(EOC81) Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued for northern Washtenaw County until 11:00 PM. 60 MPH winds and quarter size hail are possible.

1022p Dexter E 35 MPH
1035p Saline / Ann Arbor
1045 Dixboro
1050 Ypsilanti
1055 Salem

Skywarn standby net, no checkin required, taking reports.

Tune to 145.15- (N8DUY repeater) or via Broadcastify, https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/19998

(EOC81) Severe thunderstorms with 65 MPH winds, 1 inch hail, and an isolated tornado are possible late this afternoon through the evening.

#miwx #skywarn

scheduled my first book pickup for Saturday afternoon downtown, hope it's not crowded

WCBN-FM was all-reruns there for a while when the pandemic hit, and they are returning to live remote shows. Here's a snapshot of the live schedule as of 21 June 2020.

https://vielmetti.typepad.com/w8emv/2020/06/wcbn-fm-slowly-returning-to-live-broadcasts-.html

Featuring @teacherpatti in a Thursday 3:00 p.m. slot for a freeform show, and my long-time favorite Crush Collision techno show is back on Thursday nights at 10:00 p.m.

88.3 FM all the way to the left on your dial.

I'm going through very old boxes of records in the attic, many of which include records that need to be shredded.

In the process, unearthing old photos, postcards from far-away places, other pleasantries. But mostly by weight this is an accumulated backlog of shreddable stuff.

I will feel better when it's been properly and thoroughly destroyed.

Anyone have good recommendations for a home shredder?

How wide are the bike lanes supposed to be, and how wide are they as striped? They seem very narrowly newly striped on East Stadium at Packard.

I have an email in to the city to try to figure out if the contractor did the work as specified, or if they messed up and need to restripe, or if the city messed up and mis-specified the width of the bicycle lane.

obligatory: #bancars

Yikes!

From Rep Dingell's daily newsletter

"Disturbing to hear Line 5 through the Straits of Mackinac suffered significant damage to an anchor support and yesterday Governor Whitmer ordered the line shut down."

From Bridge Magazine

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/enbridge-line-5-shut-down-after-anchor-support-incurs-significant-damage

In an email to Bridge Friday, spokesman Ryan Duffy said company officials discovered Thursday during seasonal maintenance work that the support had "shifted from its original position."

Noisy and smelly and you really don't want to drive on it until it is all done.

I hope they restripe with a bicycle lane!

Due to construction the Rawsonville Road eastbound exit is closed. We doubled back from Belleville, but you might take Textile across.

Bring water.

Get there early for best picking and to avoid some of the sun.

We picked sugar snap peas. There are English shelling peas but they were not ready yet. Peas are easy and fast to pick and a very good deal.

Wear sunscreen, obvi.

Rowe's communicates with their customers mostly via Facebook.

Strawberries and peas at Rowe's.

Deep Purple, "Concerto for Group and Orchestra (1969)" with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1eOR5rkzg

There is a lot of dynamic range on this recording, I don't know if Youtube does it justice (it really wants to be played on vinyl into a tube amplifier)

for @rey

Ry Cooder, "How Can You Keep Moving (Unless You Migrate Too)" from "Into the Purple Valley", Reprise 1972. Lyrics credit to Agnes Cunningham.

https://www.discogs.com/Ry-Cooder-Into-The-Purple-Valley/master/81118