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Finished reading Stories of your Life

By Ted Chiang 
 

Started Monday 13 November 2017 CST, completed Tuesday 30 January 2018 CST

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Watched Stranger Things season 2

 

Sunday 12 November 2017 18:00 CST

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Crickets

 
  David Braverman 
BlogsPersonal
There's a lot going on at Inner Drive Technology World Headquarters, so I haven't had a lot of time or energy to post this weekend. Regular posting should resume tomorrow.

Attended Die Walküre

 
 

Friday 10 November 2017 17:30 CST

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Home

 
  David Braverman 
TravelWork
...and chilly. It's below freezing for the first time in a while. But I don't care, I'm going to be asleep in half an hour. I hope.

Finished reading Practical OO Design in Ruby (POODR)

By Sandy Metz 
 

Started Thursday 9 November 2017 CST, reference Thursday 9 November 2017 CST

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Started on El from O'Hare
I'm chilling in my hotel room on the second day of my trip, not sure how much longer I'll remain awake. (Waking up at 5am sucks, even more so when it's 4am back home.) This is a problem in that I need to write some code before tomorrow. So I've spent a few minutes perusing the blog feeds and news reports that came in today, and I have a favorite. The favorite is not: Philip Bump explaining how President Trump made a bad night for his party even worse by being himself; Cook County (which contains...

Dreaming of sleep

 
  David Braverman 
TravelWork
I mentioned yesterday needing to meet my team at 5:30 this morning. That is why I'm up right now having cereal and coffee while I try to remember how to type. (My Fitbit says I got 4:20 sleep. My brain says I didn't.) Today is going to be very, very long.

A bit of good news for our side

 
  David Braverman 
Democratic PartyPoliticsRepublican PartyTravelUS PoliticsWork
Ah, business travel. What could possibly improve upon eating a turkey sandwich in a faux-chic room at an Aloft outside BWI airport while reading all the articles I queued up earlier? Certainly not the need to get up at 5:00 tomorrow morning—Eastern time, an hour ahead of Chicago—to get someplace by 5:30. But when I got off the plane, I saw this bit of good news: Democrat Ralph Northam was projected to win Virginia’s race for governor Tuesday over Republican Ed Gillespie, as Democrats appeared headed for...
I'm heading back to the East Coast tonight to continue research for my current project, so my time today is very constrained. I hope I remember to keep these browser windows open for the plane: 538 examines why, a full year later, the 2016 election just won't go away. James Bridle says something is wrong on the Internet. Josh Marshall continues to bang the drum on President Trump's creeping authoritarianism. (Or, you know, not so much creeping as shambling, with all the zombie implications in the term....

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