Events

Previous season

A cool front passed through yesterday dropping temperatures in Chicago all the way to...19°C overnight. The dewpoint dropped to 17°C, however, which hints at a time a few weeks from now when the sweaty corn will have been harvested. Last year that happened right around the end of August, so one can hope.

I'm at a friend's house where I just set up her wireless network and wi-fi enabled printer in under 10 minutes. At my (and Wirecutter's) recommendation, she bought a TP-Link Archer BE3600. Setup was very easy. I especially like that it has a "IoT network" feature that you can enable to isolate smart switches from the rest of your network. I have a Netgear Nighthawk at home that gets me 1,300 Mbps throughput, but I didn't see anything like an IoT network when I set it up. I'll check tomorrow morning.

US broadcast order. Resumed with disc 2 (season 1, episode 6): "Thank God It's Friday, Again" (aired 1999-04-23 US, 2000-01-17 UK).

I've just uploaded the last bit of media consumption data to the Journal. Over the years I've made 55 mix CDs (or rather 52 CDs and 3 "CDs" which were just .mp3s edited together and put on a memory stick). I've now uploaded all the playlists, starting with #00 from May 1997 and ending with #53 from June 13th. The exercise also showed that some of my concert dates were recorded incorrectly. I blame my past self.

I mentioned earlier today that I broke links to pages with yesterday's release. Welp, they're fixed now. Apologies.

I mentioned yesterday that last night's Brahms X Radiohead concert sounded like a weird idea. It actually sounded weird, too. I went with my Brews & Choos Buddy and spouse, one of whom is an older Millennial who listened to Radiohead on repeat in college. Millennial person loved it; spouse and I were perplexed as we were much more familiar with the Brahms symphony than with Radiohead.

Brahms' Symphony #1, mashed up with Radiohead's OK Computer

I'm about to go to Ravinia to hear one of the weirdest things I've heard of. The weather seems to be holding, and I did spend $30 for a lawn seat, so I should go. My friends assure me this will be cool.

You are looking at the Inner Drive Technology Journal project release 1.0.9723, containing the biggest feature set I've ever released in one week.