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“Okay, so let’s say he can get three percent interest on that. That would be six billion dollars per year, which would be about… [taps on phone] oh, around 17 million dollars a day. So if he runs around throwing money in the air, eight hours a day, he’ll have to throw a little over two million dollars an hour.”

crookedtimber.org/2024/05/06/run-bezos-run/

Ok, I'm bucking up and doing two pomodoros worth of wrestling AWS permissions for this project. I need encouraging music and would like to request suggestions. I'm starting with Supertramp. That's kind of the vibe at the moment.

From bike ride with the boys this morning. Rained just a little bit last night

Anyone else just open Google maps, flip to 3D satellite mode, zoom way out, zoom back in somewhere random (the southwest is particularly good for this), then pan and zoom repeatedly while contemplating topology and human existence?

Marianne Vos is literally the GOAT and it is not even close

procyclingstats.com/rankings/we/all-time

253 career wins
Only 24 shy of Merckx's 277
2nd best man is Sean Kelly at 159
I don't have time to calculate winning % but safe to assume it's way better than the men.

So yeah, she won today's Vuelta stage
youtube.com/watch?v=EKA2E-6si6k
A little under 20 years since her first big win at the junior world champs

#caturday

@Edmonds_Scanner

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it." -- Yogi Berra

"Sometimes we flip a coin, and if we don't like it we flip it again." -- Anonymous

"For a human community to make its world shapely is one thing; to preserve the shape is quite another, especially if, as is always the case, the shape is to some degree arbitrary and if the shaping requires exclusion and the excluded are hungry. So along with shapeliness comes a set of rules meant to preserve the design."

"Trickster Makes This World" by Lewis Hyde

"You touch the cats more than me. It's not fair"

"Well, they vibrate."