Papering the record for appeal.
¶What a great way to end a day — all four of us together, having s’mores over the fire in the backyard. We don’t get to do this very often these days with Jonathan off at school (and Jake heading out in the Fall), so I really appreciate moments like this lately. We talked and talked and talked, long after the first time Renee said “we should probably head in.”
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¶Moving Day, #2.
¶Renee and I enjoyed a pretty casual morning in Cambridge, with breakfast at Tatte and a walk along the Charles River (complete with crew practice in the background!). Now we’re heading out to help Jonathan and Kassia with what should be the end of the move from apartment A to apartment B.
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¶I’ve been waiting for these stairs my entire life. These numbered stairs lead to the second floor of Tatte in Cambridge, a favorite breakfast spot for Renee and me. I’ve never noticed the numbers on the stairs before, but we’ve also never eaten upstairs before today.
¶Anyways, on the numbering. I’m not sure when it started, or why it never stopped, but I usually count stairs in my head when going up or down a flight. It’s automatic. I don’t think I do it every time, but it’s frequent enough that I’m fully aware of it.
¶After taking these up and down, though, I have to say I preferred unnumbered stairs. Seeing the numbers seemed to jumble up the counting in my head, which was unexpected.
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¶Good morning!
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¶Speaking of dinner — we went to a favorite of ours, El Jefe’s Taqueria in Cambridge. I got a Jarritos with my tacos, thinking of Jake who stayed at home this trip.
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¶Spotted at dinner — remplaced with pineapple.
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¶There’s probably ten tables with chess boards in this sidewalk seating area in Harvard Square. All were being used tonight, which is typical. Only this one had spectators.
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¶Good morning! Up and at it!
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¶Pool water sample and coffee for the morning commute.
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¶Next step in opening the pool — off to the store to return empty jugs of shock and (likely) return with full jugs, salt, and whatever else the test says I need.
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¶Time to open the pool! I was pleasantly surprised to find relatively clear water when I peeled back the pool cover today. Looks like we’re in relatively decent shape. A few gallons of shock, a few bags of salt, and a decent sweeping should have the water ready for swimming.
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¶The four of us went to dinner at Inside the Five in Perrysburg tonight, after Jake’s shift there. It’s rare we get to eat out together like that, so it was really nice to just sit around the table and talk. I had a Tijuana Bagpipes, which Inside describes as a “Cinnamon and Coffee Scottish Ale.” I had no trouble putting it down, but probably won’t order it again.
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¶Lunch at TastyBurger in Harvard Square.
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¶Another year in the books. Jonathan finished his junior year at Harvard this week. Time to move out.
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¶Rolling into Cambridge this morning to get Jonathan. It’s an absolutely beautiful day!
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¶The Guardians beat the Twins today, 2 to 0. Another amazing pitching performance by the Guardians staff – a combined one hitter. If they can get their offense in gear, I think this team will be formidable.
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¶Took Teddy on a walk this afternoon. The park in downtown Perrysburg is a nice stop at about the halfway point. Great view of the river!
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¶In the days and weeks immediately afterward, an overwhelming majority of Americans understood that the former president had incited it, for the purpose of staying in the White House. Two years of Trump lies and lukewarm media pushback later, that percentage is far lower, and an increasing number of Republicans now believe Trump was not responsible for his own coup attempt.
¶How much deeper into the looking glass are we going to fall if journalists fail to provide the most basic of context to our audience?
¶In an age when most journalism is produced and consumed online, with no physical “column inch” limit like with print, there is simply zero excuse not to include just a sentence or two of context about Trump’s Jan. 6 conduct in every news account about him. The relative clause “who attempted a coup to remain in power” adds precisely eight words to a story.
¶Journalism is broken in many ways, the “horse race” nature of political journalism being just one of them.
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(cnn.com)
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¶Each CubeSat will orbit at about 340 miles (550 kilometers) above Earth’s surface and capture hourly observations of the precipitation, temperature and humidity of tropical storms. Current satellites take similar data, but only about every six hours, which makes it more difficult to measure the intensity of storms.
¶More frequent data can help scientists understand the rapid changes that can occur within a storm, impacting its structure and stability, and help meteorologists improve their prediction and forecasting models.
¶Looks like hurricane data will grow six-fold this season. Hopefully that finds its way into weather apps for phones and tablets, which, I think, is where most people track storms (true for me).
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¶No one expects further progress to come easily; but that has never deterred Milman and Neeman. “From my experience,” Milman said, “all of the major things that I was fortunate enough to be able to do required just not giving up.”
¶The problem here is fascinating, and I can grasp that. I can’t grasp the math of the solution, but I know somebody who can and I look forward to talking to him about it.
¶I love the closing paragraph quoted above. True in math, true in everything. Don’t give up. Ever.
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¶Reid later asked Self about criticism that “prayers aren’t cutting it” when it comes to addressing gun violence before the Texas Republican took aim at the analysis.
¶“Well, those are people that don’t believe in an almighty God who has… who is absolutely in control of our lives,” said Self, who later emphasized a need for more ways to address mental health and remarked that he’d “like to stay away from the politics today” to focus on the shooting victims.
¶If some god is “absolutely in control of our lives,” aren’t we powerless to change anything? How would addressing his bogey man of a lack of mental health resources help end gun violence?
¶You’re an idiot, sir. You represent people who believe in a god, and those who don’t. You’ve got a problem on you hands, as we all do, and you’re tasked with fixing it. By all means continue praying if that’s your thing. But you also need to get to work on developing real world solutions that address the problem. That’s literally your job.
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¶We’ve had a front row seat for the annual inspection of the Martin Luther King Bridge in Toledo over the last couple of days. Getting a drawbridge ready for shipping season apparently takes a lot of work. I haven’t noticed anything go awry, so, presumably, the old bridge is ready for another busy season of comings and goings on the Maumee River.
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