Events

Cassie had her semi-annual vet check-up today. She's in perfect health, with a full range of motion in her joints (no arthritis yet), and a limitless appetite for treats.

Leading off today's (brief) round-up of news is the Census Bureau's decennial list of the most frequent names in the US. The top 5 are all boy's names: Michael (3.4 million), John, James, David, and Robert (2.8 million). The most popular women's name, Mary, comes in at #7 overall with 1.8 million. The Census reports,

Welcome to stop #138 on the Brews and Choos project.

I asked my boss a question over Teams just after 2:30 this afternoon and he jumped on a quick call with me to answer. For context, he's outside Birmingham, so it was 8:30 pm for him. The topic? Getting Claude Code to work with Obsidian to build a personal wiki that your LLM can answer questions about. I know how I'll be spending some of my work hours this week: learning as much as I can about this stuff.

Welcome to stop #137 on the Brews and Choos project.

As long as the trains are running reasonably on-time today, the Brews & Choos Project will be spending some time up here: Unfortunately, Shotz Brewing does not have a taproom.

James Fallows has a can't-miss post (part 1 of 2) outlining the post-WWII history of US/Iran relations:

Happy Friday! Or not...