The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) by Charles Stross
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Catfood Weather 2.20 fixes a problem with the forecast failing to update (the National Weather Service changed the URL of the web service that Catfood Weather uses and while they were kind enough to put a redirect in place it was a form of redirect that didn't play nicely with WebClient so a patch is needed).
In addition this release should fix the ignore alerts feature. It's one of those cases that after not having looked at the code for a couple of years I suddenly realized that the implementation was fatally flawed (bordering on idiotic) and could never have worked. Should be better now.

An update to my previous sunset sunset timelapse, this time with better colors and in 4K. It's sunset over the Sunset District in San Francisco.

Photo of one of the many hiking trails on Mount Davidson in San Francisco.

A 360 degree (skipping night) 24 hour time lapse from the roof of my house in West Portal, San Francisco.
Updated 2023-06-25 21:22:
A 2,160 version using an Insta360 X3. That's six rotations over 25 hours, on Summer Solstice 2023.

Photo of a fresh planter of succulents as we adapt to the lack of water in San Francisco (and the western United States in general).

It's a well known fact that whenever you go on holiday your home town experiences once-in-a-generation levels of good weather while you sit inside with increasingly insane children watching unseasonably torrential rain.
As this is a universal experience it has to be more than bad luck.
Every time anyone takes a vacation a parallel universe must be created where the traveler inflicts stormy weather on one branch and summer continues as normal on the other.
Tags: random, quantum, weather

Probably not.
I tore into Hulu last year for the miserable user experience, dreary ads and vanishing content.
Back then I estimated that Hulu could ditch the ads for another $6 a month. TechCrunch is reporting today (via the Wall Street Journal) that Hulu is considering an ad free tier for $12-$14 a month. $14 would be a $6 bump over current pricing. If they can fix the UX as well I'll be back in. And I still want my OTT TiVo.


Highway 101 is moved from a bypass to the new Doyle Drive tunnel overnight.