On Friday I rode Critical Mass. It was the first time I’ve done so in over a decade, or maybe fifteen years? We started at Woodruff Park, rode down around Lakewood, past Ideal Sports Bar (one of my favorite dives), up toward Grant Park, and onto the newly (maybe) reopened section of the Southside (I won’t call it Southeast) Beltline before my group peeled off and returned to Stan’s house, which is two blocks from the ITP Estate.
Saturday saw me walk with Betsy, attend a talk at Trees Atlanta, and then attend the Trees Atlanta Volunteer Party which was held at Atlanta Toolbank. I bought the author’s book at the talk, and in letting a woman check out ahead of me cost myself the raffle as her ticket (which should have been mine) was called; thankfully it was a gift basket of items which didn’t appeal to me. The food served at the Volunteer Party was catered by Maepole (they have a restaurant in Summerhill). They specialize in southern food, and it was all delicious. There was also an ice cream truck, so it was no surprised that I weighed in heavy yesterday morning.
After justifying the use of the oven on a chilly morning I baked a package of bacon yesterday. In the afternoon I attended my first Schoolhouse Brewing Mug Club Party! There was free food, not free beer, and I picked up my member’s backpack cooler, so yeah, it was worth driving up to Marietta.
Wordle: three, my starter was FRAUD
At Schoolhouse I witnessed a younger lad attempt the Principal’s Challenge, drinking Spindrift instead of beer. Poor guy didn’t even get the 15kg tankard off of the bar before spilling some of the Spindrift that was inside of it. Needless to say, he did not succeed.
Too funny. What’s it cost to try?
No idea since I know I can’t do it.
Stayed home on Friday and had a quiet night. Saturday morning we took Finn to his Buddy Baseball game up in Buckhead, then came back down to civilization and had lunch at the Albert. In the afternoon I watched the Red Sox lose and made a cheesecake pie with a biscoff cookie crust that needed to sit in the freezer for 24 hours before eating. Sunday I again watched the Red Sox lose and made a delicious meatloaf with a brown gravy sauce, and we had the cheesecake pie for dessert.
I keep meaning to try all of the new Summerhill restaurants but it’s just a little too far.
Okay, Summerhill being a little too far made me laugh.
You don’t have to cross what I call the three rivers: DeKalb, Memorial, and 20. There are only a couple places to cross each of them so it’s a constant chokepoint. Especially with the increased car traffic south of Memorial.
I intend to go to IKEA today. I’m glad I checked their hours before I did because apparently they don’t open until 11am!?!?! WTF?
I’m in IKEA and “averaged out” the money I spent by getting a veggie dog and coffee (soda machine at snack bar is broken) for lunch. That makes financial sense, right? Don’tanswerthat…
Wordle in 4. Your 3 was impressive with that starter.
Racing in Auburn was good, but long. After the RR Saturday, there was a time trial. Long ride home, just to get back up and do it again Sunday. Yesterday’s racing was at the National Center for Asphalt Testing (who knew?), a 1.7 mile “banked” track near Auburn. Kinda cool, but also pretty boring racing. Home by 6, asleep by 10!
We did manage to finish off “Justified” last night. Only a little more blood to wash down the run.
-FP
All the seasons of Justified? We should rewatch that someday.
Pulled it right out the ole arsehole! 😀
Weekend in Vero Beach is almost over.
Didn’t do much, just chilled out. Beach was nice the Friday afternoon & Saturday, but didn’t spend much time, breezy & pasty white skin makes it tough.
Yesterday was blustery, it was hard even sitting on the patio.
Good to just relax.
Do you fly back today or tomorrow? The lines at Fort Myers airport last Sunday were non-existent, hope yours are the same!
Yes- today- flight is at 6:30 tonight.
There
isare only 9 gates at Melbourne, so we should be fine on wait timeNon-existent wait in Tampa on Saturday, and the Touchless ID lane was operating (unlike Atlanta, where it’s idiotic to not be running it).
OK, it’s time to be worried.
Very worried.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg
TL:DR
Newer versions of AI (Anthropic Claude 4.7 Opus, etc.) can find vulnerabilities in virtually any software at a rate faster than you can patch them.
Faster than you can patch them.
Heretofore, good guys found bugs.
And told the software folks.
They patched the applications before the bad guys could exploit the bugs.
Now, good and bad guys can find the bugs (extremely subtle bugs, AKA vulnerabilities) at a rate too fast to patch before they are exploited.
So just restrict Anthropic Claude, etc, right?
Well, China and others have (or will have) similar AI technology.
Have a nice day…..
73 de JG/HamWithCam
We did this to ourselves!
Humans are self-absorbed, over-confident, idiots.
According to Angi (nee List)
Or, substantially more if you are short of time and told you need OSB to comply with “code”…