San Diego Union-Tribune: ‘It’s cold, wet, exhausting.’ Homeless people have few options when it rains.
San Diego homeless shelters are overwhelmed, leaving many people risking cold rain, flooding, and temperatures falling to the 40s. Staying dry is difficult—and essential to staying alive.
By Gary Warth.
Why the [expletive] can’t we travel back in time? [Ars Technica/Paul Sutter]
No known law of physics forbids time travel to the past.
Either time travel to the past is possible, or there’s some fundamental, basic physics we still don’t understand.
Either possibility is exciting.
“It’s obvious that the Universe is telling us something important… we just don’t know what it’s saying.”
I saw this dog at Lake Murray. He would like to say hello, and for you to admire his eyebrow.
Coolio talked about ancient aliens, and making big investments in the metaverse and crypto, in an impromptu podcast interview before his death. [Billboard/Gil Kaufman]
The Coolio interview was bonkers—and poignant. The rapper said he expected he’d be long dead before climate change became a concern. Then he died a month later.
I expect climate change to be a concern long before I’m dead, and I’m only a year older than Coolio. It’s already a concern.
I’ve googled for more about the hidden continent occult belief that Coolio discusses. I haven’t found anything.
The podcast series, Crypto Island, was excellent. Sadly for the host/creator, PJ Vogt, most of the work on the series seems to have been done before the FTX debacle, so series is now obsolete.
The holiday break is over. It’s time to get back to work.
Apparently you can re-use 2017 calendars this year, which is funny to me because I have a 2017 calendar hanging up on the wall next to my bed. I stopped turning pages April of that year, and it’s been April, 2017 in the vicinity of my bed ever since.
The book Shift Happens tells the 150-year history of keyboards, from primitive typewriters to smartphones. Glenn Fleishmann @GlennF raved about this book on John Gruber’s @gruber@mastodon.social’s The Talk Show podcast—sounds interesting.
I saw this SUV while walking the dog. I feel better knowing we’re protected.
My car keys got hidden in a fold in the pocket of my rain jacket after I was done walking the dog this afternoon. I spent 15 minutes looking for them—on the ground, peering into the car window to see if I’d locked them in, patting my pockets over and over.
It was past dusk, so I was losing the light fast. I didn’t have a proper flashlight, just my phone. And it was raining. And I still had the dog with me, of course.
Also, as a middle aged man, I can’t go more than two hours without peeing, and I was past my limit.
And that’s Jan. 1. The year is going to get better, right?
I saw this house flying a Starfleet flag. I was tempted to ring the doorbell to express my approval.
