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2024
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If you’re just a general fan of , or a fan of a baclmarker, mixed condition racing is amazing because of the total chaos. If you’re a fan of a leading team? It sucks. 😂
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LaCour stationary -3.6 km/h 30%
2023
2022
Watching
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
S09E11 "Utilities"

John Oliver discusses the incredible amount of power we give electric utility companies, how weakly regulated they are, and why they get such bad Yelp reviews. Plus, a look at Alabama's extreme anti-trans law and some ridiculous participants of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022.

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LaCour Stationary 92%
Watching
The Boys
S03E02 "The Only Man In The Sky"

Homelander. America’s greatest Superhero. Defending our shores from sea to shining sea. Today, America honors him on his birthday. And the Vought Shopping Network is celebrating by offering the exclusive Homelander Limited Birthday Edition Gold Coin for only $99.95 (plus tax and shipping) while supplies last. Vought Gold Commemorative Coins: An investment that lasts a lifetime.

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LaCour Stationary 92%
2020
Watching
Queer Eye
S05E05 "The Anxious Activist"

A passionate Gen Z activist is so focused on saving the planet that she forgets to schedule self-care. Can the Fab Five help her find her balance?

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LaCour Stationary 71%
2019
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I had an extremely productive Saturday, which is precisely the type of Saturday I generally like to avoid.
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LaCour stationary 47%
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Just visited IKEA on a Saturday afternoon and:

1. They had everything I needed in stock.
2. I was able to fit it all in the car.
3. It took less than 30 minutes.

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walking 68%
2018
Bendodson Custom Intents with SiriKit on iOS 12 I've been diving into the SiriKit additions in iOS 12 including Custom Intents, Shortcuts, and Shortcut Phrases. Is...

Great post by Ben Dodson about the SiriKit additions that Apple is bringing to iOS 12. In many ways, Siri has to make a quantum leap ahead to catch its competitors, and the new features in iOS 12 are a huge improvement:

When I dug into the code, I found this new Intents.intentdefinition file with which you can create custom intents complete with paramater binding... This sure looks like the much anticipated ability to write your own Siri code!

There is no question that Siri has made a huge leap forward with Siri in iOS 12, but unfortunately its not quite there yet:

It turns out that isn’t the case. The new custom intents are for “Siri the all-seeing widget assistant” not for “Siri the thing you control with your voice”. These custom intents are designed to be created for very specific use cases and then exposed as shortcuts so that you can access them quickly from your lock screen, add them to a workflow, or activate them with a custom voice command that the user creates. Despite the schema being present and the documentation alluding to voice control, you cannot create your own custom commands such as “Order tomato soup with cheese”.

So close, yet so far! I am very much looking forward to the significant Siri improvements that are present in iOS, but more importantly, its clear that Apple has laid the groundwork in a very novel way for a fully programmable Siri.

2017
Watching
Good Eats
Season 6 "Use Your Noodle II"

Stuffed pastas like Ravioli are much loved but seldom made. Host Alton Brown intends to put that to an end by demystifying noodle and filling alike.The answer: Your ironing board.

Recipes:
Ravioli
Tortellini

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