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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

All set for my next long run! …and the next few after that

Three boxes of gel packets: huma strawberry, gu caffeinated vanilla, and gu strawberry banana (which tastes like bubble gum, but, whatever.)

stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I learned if you stand on a highway overpass before sunrise, cars and trucks will honk at you. Maybe it’s a California thing?

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

“You snooze, you lose,” I tell myself tiredly.

Calendar reminder: 17 mile long run today! Options: Snooze (Automatic) Snooze for 5 minutes. 15 minutes. 30 minutes. Snooze for 1 hour.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The heatwave has finally broken in the Bay Area

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It’s Bay Area’s turn in the barrel.. autumn sucks here. October is the hottest month of the year. Just going to hide indoors for the next few days

Weather forecast showing 90+ degrees farenheight (34 celsius) for the rest of the week because fuck you it’s October this sucks

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@octothorpe quote toots are a waste of time for everyone involved, just post a screenshot

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

We are, in fact, back on our bullshit. We must’ve been here a hundred Fridays at least. Tommy’s Skyline to the Sea was back on tap, it’s done really well! Different from the usual Barebottle Brew Co beers.

Skyline to the Haze is a hazy IPA with 7% ABV, named after the iconic Skyline to the Sea trail. Surf Detective is also delicious.

A flight of beers outside under a still and hazy sky at Barebottle Brew Co. in Santa Clara, California.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

There, I fixed it. (The buttons are virtual. They can always face the correct direction.)

The Duoman is a clever iPhone Duo app for the that looks like a Sony Walkman.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Booked a trip back to the east coast to get away from this nonsense

Weather forecast for Sunnyvale shows 90 degrees in October

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Sunrise was 7 a.m. over Black Mountain west of Cupertino this morning

High clouds are pink and orange, reflecting the sunset just over the horizon behind us. A pale purple band just over the horizon is the “Belt of Venus,” which is the shadow of the earth cast against the sky by the rising sun. The golden and olive hills are furred with a marine layer extending out over the Pacific Ocean.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Today I got to drink a beer brewed by a trail runner friend who works at Barebottle Brew Co. Worlds colliding!

A flight card showing Skyline to the Haze as the first glass. “Did you try it?” My dude how could I not hello

Skyline to the Haze is a (very!) hazy IPA 7% ABV. “Named after the iconic skyline-to-the-sea trail, this beer channels the reward at the end of the hike (run!) with bright, citrusy New Zealand hops.”

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

“Only 12 hours? Sure, I can finish that audiobook in a week.”

Libby offering a "Quick, skip the line!” seven day loan of the audiobook for Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel, which is 12 hours long.

I’d placed a reservation on September 17.

“You are 77th in line (started: 101st). 43 copies in use. 123 people waiting in total. 3 people waiting per copy. Your library has acquired 1 more copy… “

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Someone lost a fight and TouTube has detailed summaries on demand now

Google in their quest to jam Gemini into everything now prompts users to ask for a summary of any video. The previous “summaries” were so deliberately vague as to be useless. But, mixed feelings: the goose is being stepped on.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It is unclear to me why a physically out-of-print book should command such a premium price in ebook form.

It costs $70 to license a DRM copy of Japanese Women Writers. I guess the publisher wants them to remain obscure?

I bought a used hardcover for less.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

15 years ago I worked on-site on a contract for Apple, but not at Infinite Loop, but an anonymous building in Monta Vista off Bubb. Came back to see if I could re-create a photo I’d taken outside after calling home one evening.

Photo taken with an iPhone 3GS around 6:15 pm looking at the sun setting behind an angular building. A large stone pine is silhouetted against the pale sky.

Same photo taken with iPhone 17 Pro. The composition isn’t 100% but the dynamic range sure is better.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Took me a minute to find my copy of Neuromancer. How many of these have you read?

The cracked, beaten spine of William Gibson’s first novel Nueromancer in the Ace Special paperback (2nd printing) peers from a row of other paperback fantasy and science fiction novels and short story collections, mostly Del Rey “The Best of” along with some Fritz Leiber, Stanislaw Lem, all kinds of stuff a kid would find in a Doubleday bookstore at the mall in 1986 or so.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Nice sunset over Twin Creeks Sports Complex by Sunnyvale Baylands last night

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

This is Private Press Brewing in Santa Cruz, California. “We serve very strong beer in small glasses at 55 degrees Fahrenheit. We spin the whole album, both sides.”

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

For people complaining about missing the most important part, here’s the stereo

Looks like a McIntosh MX 112, Pioneer SA-706, and …Butcher Blocks Acoustics? Do they make record players? The record is now Patto's Hold Your Fire (Vertigo, 1971).

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Ghost in the Shell fans, I have good news and bad news for you

Ghost in the Shell Blu-Ray Box with English is 35,000 yen which translates to $228 which is… a lot. Yikes lol

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This is outside Natural Bridges State Beach.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

It was a beautiful afternoon at Santa Cruz today, sunny, warm, cool ocean breezes, the works

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Late to the party, but I really enjoyed Jane Harper’s 2016 mystery novel The Dry. What a debut! The story takes place in rural Victoria, Australia and she really conveys a different place and the people. Lovely writing, terrific descriptions […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The audiobook artwork for The Dry shows a ghostly figure peering out over dry yellow grass against a dark, starry sky. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE (one of the highest grossing Australian film opening weekends ever!) If you’re still reading this alt text you should give the audiobook a listen mate

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

After two years, I’m halfway through Wanikani. Two more years to go, I guess.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Finally defusing this unwanted hair-trigger “Swipe between pages” gesture after losing my place one too many times just absently brushing my trackpad.

There is a Trackpad Settings under “More Gestures” that disables “Swipe between pages” which can reset forms in Safari or jump around in Books etc.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

We ran the southern extent of the Santa Cruz mountains, here looking over the Calero Reservoir and the marine layer far below.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

“Well, where *I* live, we get money for nothing and our chicks for free,”

A private developer is proposing a high-speed airport rail system that will cost Chicago riders a lot of money. A kind stranger responds to this proposal with, "The equivalent train journey from the airport in Seattle is $6. I believe it's only $1 if you're over 65.” Which may be true, but isn’t very helpful to people in Chicago.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

The last 15 pages of the Ghost in the Shell translation is footnotes. I skipped them. They are ravings of a lunatic.

Sample footnote: Pg 36 "Most types of artificial blood being considered are white in color; androids in recent science fiction have white blood. In my story, how-ever, in view of the antenna-effect and magnetism influence, I've given my android red blood with an iron component. The liquid that the neurochips are soaking in, by the way, is neither red blood nor white blood but a nearly transparent, artificial spinal fluid. Blood products apparently never flow directly into the human brain due to the "blood-brain barrier," and l've heard this is a special mechanism to ensure that foreign substances in the blood never directly attack the brain."

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Gary Marcus gave up on Mastodon because he had five thousand followers and almost no engagement.

Last post from AI critic Gary Marcus was November 27, 2024. He’s done here.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Great. We’re living in the future from Ubik where you argue with doors.

“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

This was a dumb idea. Reader Mode in Safari works fine. Which is good, because the site does not render correctly in Safari on the Mac.

The default rendering of the website is just a huge image with the text scrolling behind it for some reason (the reason being it was never tested on Safari)

I guessed resizing the window would fix it, but still very annoying

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

“I can only violate copyright for my own benefit, not to help you read a website.”

User asks Claude, "Can we extract the full text of https://ordinaryabundance.com good content, annoying format”

Fetched: Ordinary Abundance

Claude responds, “I can't reproduce the full text verbatim (copyright), but I can give you the content in plain, readable form.”

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Last one for today, this flock of blackbirds was mesmerizing and made a terrific sound when they swooped overhead, a very surreal and unusual sound

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Yes, I’m having a goat of a time working on my “turn crappy handheld videos into stabilized ‘seamless’ loops” workflow. I like how the videos preserve HDR (not that there is any on this marine layer overcast early morning) and the loops capture a moment with movement more than a single image does.

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stephen ryner jr. 🦉 @nuthatch.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Of course I took video of the goats (and sheep)

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