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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 14/09/2026

Would really like to thank the organizers of the Mountain View Art and Wine festival for being something VTA needs to route their bus service around. Near as I can tell my neighborhood west of downtown had entirely nonexistent route 21 service from late morning to sundown.

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Paula Wirth @paulawirth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Saw a large “Share the Road” sign today, blocking the bike lane.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 17/07/2026

It all makes sense if you think of the LLM as a new programmer who doesn't know to quote environment variables that could contain spaces and has cargo-culted a shell script that was written to use HOME for whatever purpose was desired.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 04/07/2026

Those little wheels might tip their vehicle's contents out if the bumps are that bad

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 19/06/2026

I vaguely remember paying about $5 for new vinyl records in the mid 1970s. People sometimes express frustration to me about newly manufactured vinyl records being $25 or whatever today.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 18/06/2026

"According to MTMA, services are suspended due to the expiration of the shuttle operator’s California Public Utilities Commission license. The City of Mountain View has been informed that the shuttle operator, WeDriveU, operates statewide for private and public agencies."

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 25/05/2026

rlogin(1) is a lot like your computer being able to convince the remote computer you are who your computer says you are, have fun with that

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 03/04/2026

Post something random or you will have an awful April

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 03/04/2026

If you see this, I implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using with no explanation.

High-Edge Tech USB commutator USB-RS232 USB-IEEE1284

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 26/03/2026

Familiarity breeds contempt, and nowhere is this so pronounced as by the behavior of non-commercial motor vehicle operators driving in their own neighborhoods.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 21/03/2026

Just deleted the @archive.org "Donate Books" app from my phone. It's nice when it works, but needs a restart some random number of lookups in because it stops recognizing that it has something to scan. Then I get tired of working with it, and then one of the other volunteers discards my candidates.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 13/03/2026

Is it just my phone, or is the Transit app for iOS really messed up for notifications since iOS 26.3?

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🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 Valkyrie Eleison @anitmata.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

One good use of augmented reality would be to walk into a Shopper's Drug Mart and have a HUD showing me all the brands owned by shitbags

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president, Spreadsheet Persons Local 153 @werrrp.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

the Free Press type reactionary centrist hacks who worked to normalize this criminal administration will attempt to pretend nothing happened when it's all over, and none of them should ever feel safe in public again for the rest of their lives, let alone find work

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 28/12/2025

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

The Orb's "Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld", two-disc release

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Jordan Shiveley (Dread Singles) @jordanshiveley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

and in those days a star called wormwood will fall to earth

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 05/12/2025

Just updated MacBook to 26.1 and this is kinda small with everything else going on right now but widgets have been moved from the Notification Center to the Desktop (where they hide under open windows but not the Desktop) and hey macOS developers we had a way to do this which was called Dashboard

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 17/11/2025

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16? There's the one I heard on the radio at the time, and the one I didn't find out about 'til later.

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Friends of the Palo Alto Library @fopal.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The perfect #summerreading, music and more can be found this weekend, Aug. 9-10 at the Friends of the #PaloAlto Library Book Sale. Details at FOPAL.org #libsky

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 12/07/2025

Ten authors by whom I've read more than five books: Greg Benford James Blish John Brunner Tim Powers Alastair Reynolds Melissa Scott Bruce Sterling Charles Stross John Varley Karl Edward Wagner I could probably go on a bit more too.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 01/07/2025

The article is about El Monte Ave in Mountain View CA but the city considers the nearby Escuela Ave interchange to be of a piece with it, and that latter is a good place to get hit by a car while pedestrian www.mv-voice.com/traffic/2025...

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Mountain View weighs El Monte 'road diet' after pedestrian fatalities

Long-awaited improvements are beginning to take shape on El Monte Avenue, a corridor in Mountain View with a record of pedestrian fatalities.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 03/05/2025

I usedta think that "Does the pope shit in his pants?" would have to involve a whole lot of lossy compression but now I have despair that we will manage to overcome the technical obstacles

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 04/04/2025

Helping someone fill out a form in Preview, macOS 15.3.2; finding that if you've left it with the cursor in a PDF form field it leaves that field blank on the printout even if the field has data on-screen and the file has been saved with command-S

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 04/04/2025

fancy me having seen enough and not being inclined to click "more"

Pages "Make text edits using Writing Tools directly in your document (requires Apple Intelligence and macOS 15.4) more

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 26/03/2025

Can't help but think there's some reason why the workers voted against VTA's proposal on Monday and it's probably a story worth telling

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 01/03/2025

not that it’s not already apparent that his claim to never see Nazis and not know how to find them is a blatant lie, but I have personally drawn Hamish’s attention to several Nazis on Substack and watched him squirm. he knows they’re there.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 22/01/2025

sitting here listening to the radio going "where have I heard that before?" and then "Liquid Sky!"

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Paula Wirth @paulawirth.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Today is always a good day to punch Nazis.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 16/01/2025

So where we are with the COVID-19 pandemic is that today I have (DKIM-signed!) spam for something claimed to "erase brain fog", or more likely separate sufferers from their money.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 07/01/2025

The mark of QVALITY! (I do Perl, C, assembler, machine code, connector conspiracies, cut-and-jumper, wire-wrap, blobs of solder)

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 01/01/2025

On my walk to Palo Alto round 1730 on 31 Dec 2024, someone took the exit off San Antonio Road to the frontage road that leads to Alma. Their white Tesla turned its brights on at me. Thinking the pilot in commmand might be having trouble seeing I presented Figure 1 to help them focus.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 29/12/2024

Last night's transit adventure was wrapped round this. LR from Mountain View to Civic Center (transfer Orange to Green Line at Old Ironsides), get off and wait for vintage trolley car 2001 to go south. Take 2001 to San Jose Diridon, wander round to find the 22 bus, take 22 north/west to go home.

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FRANK.MCCONNEL @hairyvisionary.com · 28/12/2024

Have today been providing technical help to an 84-year-old to get her signed up for Medicare Advantage because her old Medicare Advantage plan went away and UHC is involved before and after and Mr. Mangione is alleged to have made a promising start

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Important tip to anyone living in New Jersey: an N95, KN95, or KF94 filter mask will protect you from the Drone Spores. Wear one anytime you're in a crowded space and you'll be a lot less likely to develop the Mysterious Cough.

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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

pretty grim when health insurance company executives have to try to hide their identities online like they're public school history teachers, government employees or doctors who care for transgender people

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Uber driver dropping me off at the airport: Have a safe trip! Me: You too! Uber: ..... Me: You know, because the odds of death or serious injury driving in a car is much higher than flying on a plane. Uber: [Passenger Rating ⭐▫️▫️▫️▫️]

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