jaegerfesting Comments

Coffee

Jäger — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 10:24:10 -0700

Good to know, thanks. I have almost no memory of anything on the little commercial strip across from campus. I think I would have remembered a hip coffee shop next to campus but I was not quite as interested in coffee (and hip coffee shops) then as I am now.

The Mill

Yanthor — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 15:07:33 -0700

The Mill did not exist near Union when we attended there. It was built sometime after.

Yep that worked!

Jäger — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 22:54:44 -0800

In case you're curious, the parent blog post has the id 2042.

Children

Kiesa — Thu, 27 May 2021 10:24:33 -0700

Yeah, I'm more worried about Julian's risk, at least indoors, now than I was a couple of months ago. This pandemic has destroyed my faith that people are willing to do simple things to protect others. I fully expect non-vaccinated people to claim they're vaccinated so they don't have to wear a mask. (And to be clear, it's unreasonable to require store employees to ask for proof of vaccination.)

Next -- a wobble board!

Brent Logan — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:44:37 -0800

I've used standing desks and was surprised to find that standing stationary for too long makes my back ache. Keeping moving helps. I've wanted to try a wobble board to see if it helps. If not, at least they look fun.

Fetching tree

Brent Logan — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:46:32 -0800

Looks like a great time was had by all. I hadn't experienced cutting down my own Christmas tree until moving to the NW. Now it's a family tradition. I'm a little embarrassed to say we didn't cut our own this year, but the farm we went to had already cut down all the nice trees on their lot, leaving only smaller ones waiting for a later year. After we selected the tree, they baled it for us and I put it on top of the car. Baling is *wonderful*! Made it easy to get on the car, into the house, and on the stand. That tree topper is too cool!

Pumpkin blaster!!

Brent Logan — Mon, 23 Nov 2020 12:01:59 -0800

Too cool!! I haven't yet been to a pumpkin chunkin' event, but I understand there's a good one around here, at least in non-unprecedented years. Instead, I have the smaller cousin of a pumpkin blaster, a spud gun. If you have not yet made one (and it's legal in your location) I highly recommend it. Stupid fun!!

Bug fixes

Jäger — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 10:06:39 -0800

I've found and fixed the bug that caused your "500 internal server error" when posting. It was a regression in my blog platform, and had nothing to do with your > and < in your comment, because I'm pretty sure I aggressively protect against at least that specific html encoding problem.

Phone vs Physical Book

Kiesa — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 08:40:10 -0800

If the downtime is away from home I use a phone. For concentrated reading, I still tend to read physical books. Some day that may change but not yet.

I really wish publishers would offer reasonably priced physical book/ebook/audiobook bundles. Given that about 50% of my audio comes from Amazon's "Add Audible book to your purchase" option, I assume publishers could offer a discounted bundle and still make more money off me than they do with my buying via Amazon. Publishers, stop warring with libraries and give us better personal buying options.

Approved

Zan Lynx — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 06:20:48 -0700

Subaru cars are great. I approve! :)