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February 9, 2024February 9, 2024Brief thoughts

Bluetooth connections

It would be really helpful if Apple et al provided a way to temporarily disable a Bluetooth connection. I’m at my mechanic […]

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February 9, 2024Brief thoughts

Practicing medicine…

This video was on my mind quite a bit over the past month, as I changed over to a new health “insurance” […]

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February 7, 2024February 7, 2024In the news, Jotting things down

More driver-coddling

In today’s TU: https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/man-charged-hit-and-run-crash-killed-queensbury-18651245.php Why isn’t the perpetrator named? He’s being formally charged, and he’s not a minor, so it’s a matter […]

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February 6, 2024Brief thoughts, In the news

Hidden pricing, driver-coddling

Highway with blue New York Thruway signs off to the right. Green grass and blue sky in the background.

This is in the TU this morning: State Senate targets junk fees, consumer protection in legislative package On the whole, these changes […]

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February 2, 2024February 2, 2024In the news

“Bipartisan” Opposition to Congestion Pricing?

A view of Manhattan from high up, the buildings spreading out into the distance under a cloudy orange sky.

The TU today has an article about some state legislators downstate joining a federal lawsuit against New York’s congestion pricing plan for […]

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February 2, 2024February 2, 2024What I'm reading

After another empty spectacle, can anyone find a path forward?

https://www.platformer.news/thursday-newsletter/

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February 1, 2024February 1, 2024In the news

Route 17 study finds widening road would worsen issues over time

From the TU today: https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/rpa-report-route-17-project-18637369.php A similarly surprising study finds the Pope is Catholic.

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February 1, 2024February 2, 2024What I'm reading

Is it time to give up on old news?

I myself am fed up with old news’ wishful doomsaying, its credulous coverage of politics as sport, its bothsidesing and normalization of […]

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January 31, 2024April 4, 2025Public Correspondence

Comment on the Troy-Menands Bridge project

A man in a bicycle helmet, blue reflective sunglasses and a red windbreaker, in front of a railing overlooking a wide river, blueish gray in color with green banks.

NYSDOT has been working on a project to repair or replace the Troy-Menands Bridge, which carries NY-378 over the Hudson River between […]

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January 30, 2024January 30, 2024In the news, Jotting things down

Plenty of blame to go around

It’s good to see action finally being taken on the Central Warehouse, a structure that’s been a blight on the urban landscape […]

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