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Dave Adams

@dave.dnki.net
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Software guy, cyclist, puzzler

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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 11h
Yikes. The URL hasn't changed yet, but the banner has.
ai.gov homepage now calls itself SI "GOV"
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 05/10/2026
I was 4 years old, in the back of my family's Ford Country Squire wagon with the wood tone paneling, at the drive-in. The poison apple in Snow White was too scary for me.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 03/10/2026
Please sir, may I have s'more?
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 30/09/2026
It's hard not to mess up the Kätt assembly.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 30/09/2026
Sorry to be that Bluesky guy, but the highway is the Kancamagus - only one N in there (and only one G we well.)
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 29/09/2026
I always think of GIF replies as folks trying to play das Glasperlenspiel.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 23/09/2026
The only flock cameras I might be okay with. youtu.be/P2lclIm_gtA?...
youtu.be
The full story: #wewantgooglestreetview
YouTube video by Visit Faroe Islands
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 22/09/2026
She's the one who has a tough reelection campaign happening. I hope this helps boot her out of office. It's time she retires anyway.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 20/09/2026
Are you north of Boston? We were just hearing these fireworks: Town Day | Town of Arlington www.arlingtonma.gov/town-governa... That said, I'd rather it had happened.
arlingtonma.gov
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 19/09/2026
There's a bike shop a few doors down. I test rode a few bikes there recently. It's easy to go around back to Danehy Park, and just a crosswalk away from the mostly-lovely Watertown-Cambridge Greenway. But the shopping plaza itself is not at all friendly to peds or bikes.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 18/09/2026
Egad, indeed.
static.klipy.com
Smirk Smile
Alt: Diesel the revolutionary train with his smirk smile
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 16/09/2026
Fluffernutters are one of my favorite things about a couple organized late-September bike rides I do every year. It's just a shame I never make it to Somerville's What The Fluff festival because I'm always doing one of those rides the same weekend.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 07/09/2026
I'm so disappointed that the 2nd post at 2:41pm isn't referring to a "weird Al" Yankovic image. That could have gotten fun.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I wrote about the most recent HHS study, and I wanted to draw attention to something I did a little differently than some of the other people writing about these things: I tried to lay out as clearly as possible how the study was done and what it claimed to be trying to accomplish.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 28/08/2026
We have been using "acoustic bike" for years, mostly thanks Luka Bloom. youtu.be/Y1yFHAugbnM?...
youtu.be
The Acoustic Motorbike
YouTube video by Luka Bloom - Topic
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 28/07/2026
I was once part of a captive audience on a flight from LAX to Hong Kong. A wedding was held while we crossed the International Date Line. At least I got a nice slice of cake out it, but I still shudder recalling the horrid "Wind Beneath My Wings" solo over the PA system.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 27/07/2026
It's so much easier to predict than it used to be before the pitcher was on a timer. Maybe, like me, they are old enough to get a bit surprised that the pitches are coming so often?
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 24/07/2026
I always see this "Move Free" supplement while shopping at Costco, and I'm transported back to my mom's kitchen in 1970 before my uncle in the Air Force brought us a real rice cooker from Okinawa.
Boxes of Move Free joint health and Minute Rice. Both boxes are red with the product name in blue over a white oval tilting upward left-to-right.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 21/07/2026
The story was that Oliver's frat made the group of pledges measure the entire bridge using him as a ruler. It's remarkable that he eventually became the chairman of ANSI and the president of ISO. In a sense, he has a lifetime of being the ruler of all rulers.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 21/07/2026
Nah, this is a Smoot point.
Marker for the 250 "Smoots" measurement on the Mass Ave bridge near MIT.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 15/07/2026
I just wish there would have been a flood of stories about newly proven health benefits of myrrh. Somehow, my brain already knew that myrrh and diarrhea have the same weird combination of R and H. Alas, I suppose that wouldn't have helped me with the "ends in IA or EA?" question.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 13/07/2026
It keeps on ticking, literally. I still ride my bicycles about 100 miles per week. Being on Coumadin is annoying, but life continues to be great and I have no complaints.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 13/07/2026
Same. I got my first echocardiogram as a teen in the '70s. In '94, an echo showed my ejection fraction (the % of the blood pushed out of my left ventricle each beat) was tanking, so I needed a composite valve replacement ASAP. I watched the last World Cup Final held in the USA from a cardiac ICU.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 12/07/2026
We laughed for days after passing this friendly dude in Machias Maine (a short drive from Campobello New Brunswick) last summer. Google updated the street view and got some good shots within a couple weeks of our trip. maps.app.goo.gl/7RpnBbAE5JwB...
Inflatable bouncy man advertising marijuana in Maine.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 06/07/2026
Tadej apparently lost a day in yellow last year based on the same count-back rule. Why is Mathieu van der Poel in the yellow jersey at the Tour de France when he’s tied on time with Tadej Pogačar? | Cycling Weekly www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/why-i...
cyclingweekly.com
Why is Mathieu van der Poel in the yellow jersey at the Tour de France when he’s tied on time with Tadej Pogačar?
Van der Poel keeps race lead rather than Pogačar because of count-back
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 02/07/2026
Ceci n'est pas l'Elfe des Guerres d'Info.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 29/06/2026
Excellent. I just found David Tennant from 2016 American TV reading that tweet. youtu.be/7zvNu3qgjno?...
youtu.be
Praise the (Time) Lord | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS
YouTube video by Samantha Bee
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 18/06/2026
He couldn't get away (with that.)
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 17/06/2026
"Girl" by Beck. youtu.be/VkCg-3nxT8E?...
youtu.be
Beck - Girl
YouTube video by BeckVEVO
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 17/06/2026
And now he's even older!
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 15/06/2026
We have been joking around my family for years that "Vegas Golden Knights" sounds like a brand of condoms. I can't figure out whether the joke needs to change now that they have been decisively shut out by Bussi.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 09/06/2026
I expected her to say "KEVIN?!?!?" while standing in front of a dispensary.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 09/06/2026
He's got his bike pump and Poäng, two of the comforts that make my life happy.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 09/06/2026
"thunderously" works well, and was the choice of the white house pool reporter.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 06/06/2026
When I saw the email from Rancho Gordo with the subject "Put a Little Zipper Cream in your Step" I have to admit I almost expected there to be a NSFW label on the message.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 06/06/2026
After visiting, you won't go back to Rockville.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 01/06/2026
Today's hike was Section 3 of the City on the Hills trail. www.bostontrails.org/cityonthehil...
bostontrails.org
The City On The Hills Trail — Walking City Trail
Find maps, directions, and transit connections for your adventure on Boston's City On The Hills Trail.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 01/06/2026
After a 7 mile city hike this morning, I found a great spot to re-read a few sections of "Attensity" this morning.
Reading room in the Boston Public Library. My book on a table at the bottom of the photo is "Attensity! A mainfesto of the attention liberation movement."
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 30/05/2026
Here in Medford I was upstairs in the top half floor and I thought one of our solar panels had somehow smashed. All the neighbors came outside to look around.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 26/05/2026
The papal regime taking on the PayPal Mafia. After a long career at Greater Boston tech startups, it feels weird rooting for the Catholic Church over the tech industry.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 25/05/2026
Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you already have on your phone.
Long haired, bearded young man wearing a peacoat and black gloves while drinking from a cup and walking in winter woods. A young woman wearing a long puffy coat stands in the background.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 22/05/2026
Oh, bother.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 22/05/2026
My list. I have seen all of these multiple times: Devo Midnight Oil They Might Be Giants kd lang Jonathan Coulton Buddy Guy Gogol Bordello Peter Gabriel Cake Radiohead
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 15/05/2026
We have had woodchucks possess our yard for many years. We named the first marmot that owned our place "Wilfred." I think I saw a new generation groundhog out there for the first time yesterday.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 14/05/2026
Thank you! I happened to find the Cambridge Day article on Tuesday just after getting home from completing Day 1 of the City on the Hills hike. I did the full Walking City trail last autumn, doing City on the Hills this spring.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 11/05/2026
I absolutely believe it, given that even I visit Don's page a couple times weekly. I don't have an account. I use incognito browser tabs. I close the pop-ups without even starting to read the ads. But I do generate page views.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 07/05/2026
Get some cream. We use Chamois Butt'r or Dz Nuts cream.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 03/05/2026
I joined the @ranchogordo.bsky.social Rancho Gordo Bean Club a couple years ago. It has been a revelation joining The Leguminati.
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 28/04/2026
Topsfield? I think I accidentally found that trail in 2022.
Dirt trail next to some sort of waterwayBike ride route when I took the dirt trail picture
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Dave Adams @dave.dnki.net · 24/04/2026
Fake? bsky.app/profile/pbum...
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