On this day
Posts on and around this day (Jul 8):- 2024-07-10 / The sun is up late, and so is the high temperature we’re making our way through. Sunset is a beautiful and somewhat cooler time to get out for a walk through the neighborhood.
- 2024-07-07 / I had a pretty good time getting to the gilded title again in this week’s Iron Banner, the first of this newest The Final Shape expansion.
- 2024-07-07 / Biking home from the market, enjoying the still-cool still-early feel of the morning.
- 2024-07-05 / I reconnected with my first college roommate at the neighborhood pub the other day. Feels great to be near old friends, again, and I’m grateful that it feels so good to be in touch after a lot of years.
- 2024-07-05 / Love to have garbage air quality and a still-terrified dog after a night of fireworks before a heat wave. So much for cooling down the house for a few hours while it’s nice out.
- 2023-07-08 / It’s kind of ridiculous that in 2023 I can’t put two user profiles in a brand new iPad so that my wife and I can share it without being all up in one another’s grills.
- 2023-07-07 / A wet and cool spring means that there is still some snow on the peaks, but summer is now coming in hot, so it won’t last much longer.
- 2022-07-10 / I used the RStudio tool profvis this weekend to find speed improvement opportunities in Armorer. I suspected that I could rewrite a big operation that calculates the maximum of many columns across several thousand rows. Holy smokes: Using matrixStats::rowMaxs cuts processing time by an amazing amount!
- 2022-07-08 / It’s Friday! I’m starting my last day of this vacation week with a big workout and an equally big breakfast burrito.
- 2022-07-06 / I finished a big update to Armorer this week, to enable inclusion of subclass fragments in stat calculations. I learned a ton with this release and laid good groundwork for additional mod management. I’m pretty pleased!
- 2022-07-06 / Somewhere in south-central Utah, listening to this episode of Waypoint Radio, my wife said, “Hmm, Motorsport Manager sounds pretty neat.” She, who rarely plays video games at all, turns out to be an absolute star at it. (No surprise, of course; she is an extraordinary manager of many things.) We had a great time learning and playing it yesterday. What will happen to our ex-driver turned manager, Han Portlandia, and her scrappy young team?
- 2022-07-05 / I’m happy to have improved some R code today using group_split, replacing my prior method of cycling through a data frame to build several new subsets. I’m not sure it’s more efficient given the size of the data set, but it sure reads more nicely.
- 2021-07-08 / Iced coffee and code. This could catch on.
- 2021-07-07 / It’s Wednesday, and I went for a hike and got a breakfast burrito, so it’s going fine so far. How about you all?
- 2020-07-09 / It was a perfect, perfect morning to go out paddling. Cool air, glassy water that turned to a few light riffles with a breath of breeze, and the rising sun made for a calming, restoring time on the water.
- 2020-07-07 / This morning’s sunrise paddle session was short: it was breezy and cold! I was really glad to have kept my favorite sweater in my dry bag, because I couldn’t have gone out on the water without it. Even so, it was chilly, and I was scared of falling into that cold water.
- 2020-07-06 / Checking in from this sunrise paddle session. It was a beautiful, absolutely calm morning on the lake today.
- 2020-07-05 / FYI gonna take a couple more days off, everybody.
- 2020-07-05 / I’ve been on the lake on a borrowed stand-up paddleboard several times this long vacation week, and loved it. This morning was perfect weather, compared with my first trip a few days ago when it was so windy. I’m a believer; ordered my own board today!
- 2020-07-04 / For lots of reasons we look forward to our first big monsoon storm of the year, and it arrived yesterday – a heavy hours-long rain that made this spray of daisies and other annual wildflowers even more brilliant.
- 2019-07-07 / Beer is a recovery beverage, yes? Surely one as refreshing as this one must be!
- 2018-07-09 / Sunrise, on my way very early this morning.
- 2018-07-08 / Monsoon season! With a beer on the porch. This feels pretty okay.
- 2015-07-11 / Apple Music, so Far
- 2015-07-11 / At Rock Paper Shotgun: The 50 Best PC RPGs
- 2015-07-07 / Adventures
- 2014-07-10 / You Are Carrying
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