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Getting back in shape: Did my 100 push-ups today in under an hour. Booya!

Hey, my lunch date is sick. Anyone in Petaluma wanna grab a nosh in the next hour or three?

I have a hankering for Red Wombat Tea, and it's fictional. In case you were wondering whether advertising on podcasts works...

Yep:auto trips are largely induced demand https://www.fastcoexist.com/30...alf-its-traffic-just-disappeared

Why we should abandon the V2V component and implement the safety bits of PTC immediately: http://www.reuters.com/article...-jersey-traincrash-idUSKCN11Z1RA

Why your router must be open source, #194781 in a series:

Hacker News: Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router. SeguridadInformática: Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router.

Elf Sternberg: Greybeard Geeks Are Your Company's Firewall Against Technical Debt:

Every startup that says greybeard geeks aren’t a “cultural fit” is buying into the idea that it can outrun technical debt.

Periodic Motion Table is cooler than it has any right to be

Must read! U.S. Special Operations Command whitepaper: "The Grey Zone". On being continually at "war" since 1980 https://info.publicintelligence.net/USSOCOM-GrayZones.pdf

Via MeFi, which linked to War is Boring: Face It — America Doesn’t ‘Win’ a Lot of Wars.

Holy crap, that's 4 messages from Microsoft, 3 after I completed their customer satisfaction survey, asking how they did. #bigdata

Whoah: FBI is actually going to start tracking police use of deadly force! A little late, but good start: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/n...se-coming-on-use-of-deadly-force

Awesome: Outdoor Research gender flips a sexist GQ climbing article/photoshoot http://blog.thedyrt.com/camp/w...search-stepped-perfect-response/

GQ: We Took Fall's Crunchiest Designer Clothes Rock Climbing in Joshua Tree National Park

Outdoor Research: We Took Fall’s Crunchiest Designer Clothes To Watch Ladies Rock Climbing In Vantage, WA

Bloomberg: Your First Home Might Be Your Last: There were 1.8 million repeat homebuyers in 2001. Last year, that was slashed in half. What’s going on?

Some charts and numbers about how the housing crash has impacted mobility, seems like there are a lot of people feeling tied to their geographic location, and this has to have a negative impact on economic freedom.

Deep breath. Just booked for my first "one night stand" square dances, with live band, April & August next year.

Ordered electric car charging station. Didn't get the grid operator manageable one b/c IoT is scary enough without involving transportation

Reminder: Joe Minicozzi speaking in Petaluma this evening. You should RSVP & come. Currently at 85 out of 100 spaces http://www.urbancommunitypartnership.org/petaluma

"The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough" Yeah, they say "13 year old girl", but they're always 45 year old pudgy guys...

May you never have to use Family Leave in California: Never have I seen worse designed forms, or more deliberate misinterpretation of them.

Committed enough to an EV that we're ordering a 40A charging station. The question is: Clipper Creek or JuiceBox?

This machine may bruise you and you may faint while using it.

In light of this latest FBI attempt to swing the Presidential election: remember that I was hating on Director Comey before it was cool.

Here's the real step forward in transportation technology: The self-driving bicycle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZPNwZex9s

Man says state ignoring wife's wishes in advance directive:

“From her point of view when it became mechanically not possible to engineer eating by herself then she would want basically to let nature take its course,” explained Harris.

But she stopped eating by herself and now she's being spoonfed at a nursing home. The judge ruled she must continue to be spoonfed because her advance directive wasn't specific enough.

That "3 fictional characters that I think best represent me" meme, except that I don't skate much these days.

Local sheriff's department is pushing CodeRedWeb.com for emergency alerts. They share data with advertising networks. Sigh.

What's going on with Ed Snowden and the Washington Post? quotes Barton Gellman:

... In this case I have on good authority that neither the publisher, Fred Ryan, nor the owner, Jeff Bezos, had any idea that this editorial was coming. I would be very surprised to learn that either of them agrees with the proposition that our principal stories on the NSA should not have been published. For sure I can tell you that this is not the position of the newsroom’s leadership or any reporter I know. Marty Baron, the executive editor, has said again and again how proud he is of the paper’s coverage of Ed Snowden and the NSA.

High school. Sportsball (in this case basketball). "Attached you will find a report of the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office joint investigation with the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office into allegations of ongoing assaults, hazing and bullying among members of Ooltewah High School’s varsity boys basketball team."

"Hazing" and "bullying" doesn't begin to describe the evil.

This came to my attention because, for a brief time (like, a week) back in the '80s I went to a Hamilton County Tennessee high school...

Lunchtime meeting at Aqus. I actually saw a driver come to a full stop at 2nd and F Streets. Could o' knocked me over with a feather.

Great interview with James Duane following up on his "why you should never talk to the police" video http://www.vice.com/read/law-p...gation-law-constitution-survival

The Mushroom Song (YouTube video). A little ditty on the mushroom theory of management.

Holy crap, these IRS scammer calls are out of control. Land line and cell phone, even with Sonic's nomorobo on the land line.

RT Shit Academics Say ‏@AcademicsSay:

1. "What did one academic say to the other"
2. "I don't know"
3. "Unlikely"

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: What has happened down here is the winds have changed. A great short history of the reproducibility crisis in modern social science.

Speaking of which, the Lancet/PACE trial claiming exercise and psychotherapy worked for chronic fatigue syndrome appears to have been outright fraud. No ‘Recovery’ in PACE Trial, New Analysis Finds.

I support people's right to self-identify, but I doubt that the mother of that Microsoft support tech who just wished me a "good evening" named him Carlos. Just sayin'. (He did give me the right answers, though.)