Sparky and I have the outline of a good game.
This is the Deadbolt. An FPV camera is mounted on the front and a tray is placed on the roof rack. A piece of chicken is placed in the bait tray.
My advantage is that Sparky gets skittish when Deadbolt is coming at him and the Deadbolt can drive under a couch to be safe.
Why do so many New Years resolutions fail?
Until recently, psychologists believed that self-control—the ability to stick to and ultimately achieve long-term goals—worked like a muscle. Success was about whether you had enough willpower to achieve your goals. But new research suggests that keeping our resolutions depends more on the situations we choose to put ourselves in.
Psychology and other soft sciences shouldn’t get too fond of analogies or their theories. They liked this so much that for decades, tons of papers were written about this explained human nature.
This Financial Times article on 10 trends in 2024 is worth reading because FT is pretty balanced and insightful. To summarize:
If 2024 is set to be tumultuous and unpredictable, just wait until 2025 if Donald Trump wins the presidency again this year.
His adversaries don’t have a history of accepting his victories with equanimity.
My IKEA computer desk was looking pretty haggard. The finish was wearing off around the keyboard. The computer mouse wasn’t tracking well, and there were other spots that were worn. It needed to be replaced or refinished.
Architectural Digest: Interior Race Theory
When we talk about diversity in design and architecture, there’s often a call for decolonizing the space. Everyone is fully aware that the landscape of the field needs to change, but what about rebuilding the foundation?
I might enjoy living in a yurt or a wattle-and-daub mud hut, but this article is dumb. When I was in college, the engineering students thought that the architecture students were working harder than we were. It looks like Diversity, Inclusion and Equity has infected their programs. It doesn’t take many diversity students to ruin a field since the student can never be criticized.
For the first time in decades, I find myself with no plans for New Year’s Eve. The party hosts are Covid-positive, but not ill. It would not have been hard to come up with an alternate plan, but hanging out with Sparky felt like the right move.
Guardian: Coroner calls for action, will Google and Amazon have the wisdom to ignore her?
Google and Amazon must act after a British woman made a suicide pact with two people she met online and bought the poison that killed her on the internet, a coroner has said.
Maine is the second state to bar Trump from the presidential ballot.
We are clearly in bat-shit crazy territory. On January 7th, the day after the protest at the Capital, journalists were calling it an insurrection. It was clear at that time that something like this would be happening.
WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn
WSJ: UW Chancellor Fired for Porn
The university system’s board of regents voted unanimously to terminate University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Chancellor Joe Gow during a closed session Wednesday evening. UW-La Crosse Provost Betsy Morgan will serve as interim chancellor following Gow’s dismissal, university system leaders said.
What could Gow have done that was so bad?
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