I track my walks in the Fitbit app on the Pixel Watch, and I’ve begun to experience what I think may be a bug that causes the distance from a prior walk be the starting amount for a new walk. The problem then is that if I don’t see this happen the distance for the new walk is not properly recorded. I have written the steps that I think trigger the situation so that I can determine the exact steps to reproduce, and I have posted a message in the Fitbit community forum with a link to the documentation that I have written.
Norway is on track to no more vehicles with internal combustionable engines in two years. It appears to be a story of a nation making a commitment and living up to it, and sadly that seems impossible in the United States.
I think that this article, titled “What even is an institution,” is over-thinking the topic. An institution is a corporate (as in more than one person) entity that has explicitly or implictly its continued existence as it’s goal or purpose.
There are not many days where I live that there is fog late in the morning. As I was walking today I noticed how serene it felt, and the shape of everything was softer.
The circus going on in Washington D.C. today is exactly what many “Republican” voters want. The party is not about governing, it’s only about politics and thus is ill prepared to handle real issues and real crisis. Americans get the government they vote for.
“It is virtually impossible to nurture the power of compassion if we are at the same time romanticizing suffering or imagining that God wills it “for our own good."”
— The Wounding and Healing of Desire: Weaving Heaven and Earth by Wendy Farley
Finished reading: The Age of Acrimony by Jon Grinspan 📚 This book was an eye opener for me, to learn that the politics I’ve known in my life up until now are abnormal in comparison to how is has been over the time of United States history.
Below refers to the writing of Lincoln Steffens in 1904, and very apt questions at the end of 2022. Emphasis added
“After Steffens laid out the corruption of seven cities, his conclusion pointed straight at readers in their easy chairs. The simple truth, Steffens wrote, was that politicians were expert readers of public demands, and the public had not demanded good government. Instead, for decades they had been driven by outrage, alternately between political parties, throwing out one set of bums, then the other. Steffens asked: “Do we Americans really want good government? Do we know it when we see it? Are we capable of that sustained good citizenship which alone can make democracy a success?””
— The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Jon Grinspan
We had to go to overtime but the Huskies beat Sparty to get a split this weekend and a third place finish in the GLi.
In Grand Rapids for the 56th Great Lakes Invitational at a new venue. Unfortunately it was not a good night for the Huskies.
This is the warmest outdoor temperature that I’ve seen in four days. I did get outside yesterday.
We got a white Christmas 🎄
“Henceforth humanity has the right to know that it is good to be human, good to live on this earth, good to have a body, because God in Jesus chose and said “yes” to our humanity. Or as we Franciscans love to say, “Incarnation is already Redemption.” The problem is solved. Now go and utterly enjoy all remaining days.”
— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr
T’was the day before the blizzard and all throughout the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.
All the the weather apps and TV stations are reporting winter storm watches, ahead of the “big” winter storm coming our way, and that this is happning on the Winter Solstice seems apt.
Will The 2023 Chicago Cubs Be Trade Deadline Buyers?
BleedCubbieBlue.com puts the Dansby Swanson contract in context:
“This is the largest deal that Jed Hoyer’s front office has inked during his time in charge, and it’s just really not that big of a contract relative to the rest of the league or the Cubs monetary might. It doesn’t crack the top ten in MLB in years or AAV. It is the second largest deal in the history of the Cubs franchise, and it is nowhere near the top 20 contracts as of 2021, let alone ever.”
What I see in Hoyer is a baseball executive afraid to make a mistake. Under the rubric of sustaining success one may never have the chance to win championships. What we appear to have here is a plan of waiting to see how the season goes, and if half way through they have a real chance, then make trades to sign players you need, which is what happened in 2016.
The question then is whether the Cubs have enough talent going in to the season to have a good first half and be buyers at the trade deadline. With the players they have signed and the young talent they have, the 2023 Chicago Cubs on paper are better than the 2022 Chicago Cubs, the problem though is that the Cardinals have also gotten better, and they added Wilson Contreras to a team with the reigning MVP.
“The longer I have tried to follow Jesus, the more I can really say that I no longer believe in Jesus. I know Jesus. I know him because I have often taken his advice, taken his risks, and it always proves itself to be true!”
— Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent by Richard Rohr
Reading this article about making digital (online) information accessible to your survivors and wondering, doesn’t passkeys make this problem worse? Passkeys work with the biometric scan on my Macbook or my phone and relies on my fingerprint that will not be accessible to my wife when I die. So, if I switch to passkeys, how do enable my survivor to access accounts protected by them?
I don’t want to be skeptical, I want to be curious.