Link to "my podcast" goes to a YouTube channel instead of an RSS feed.

Ok yeah that is actually pretty loud. This is the power spectrum with the tip held about an inch away from the microphone. Going "aah" at the same microphone from the same distance at a normal or slightly elevated speaking level is giving me peaks around -40 and this thing is doing -20.

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Might be a controversial opinion, but I think using freeways for long term parking might not be the most effective use of the roads...

So this happened at TSA today, which means it's time to get new headphones. Are bone conduction headphones still the best option for headphones that you can wear all the time but you can hear it when people talk to you?

My ideal headset would be very discreet, such that people can barely tell you are wearing them (or if they are visible I would prefer if people felt comfortable talking to me while wearing them).

I do not use Apple products.

Photo: All future Python talk attendees after watching Pablo and Yury's PyCon US talk.

youtu.be/RrsVi1P6n0w?si=h2RoJ9

If anyone at finds this fitness tracker, please let me know. It fell out of the band today around noon, possibly near the registration desk.

How did they even find the time to play this much hockey?

I adjusted the prompt that generates example sentences for my Spanish vocabulary Anki deck so that it intermittently tries to include interesting facts in the cards, and it has worked out marvelously.

Apparently sperm whales (cachalotes) are the loudest animals in the world.

Traveling to Seattle without renting a car or bringing an umbrella...

Still not sure if I know what constitutes "queso rallado" and whether there is a word for "grated cheese", and now I'm starting to question whether for some people there is an overlap between "grated" and "shredded" cheese in English.

My teacher was like, "rallado is the one you do with parmesan" and then showed a picture like the first one, which, to be fair, also looks like some of the GIS results for "grated cheese", whereas when I think of grated cheese I think of something much finer, like the second one.

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I don't know how long I've seen these signs before realizing the fundamental mismatch between the medium and the intended audience here...

Do they have this specific brand and flavor of yogurt outside of Spain? I think it is basically Oikos Triple Zero, but this particular flavor is super good (it has little chunks of banana in it), and doesn't compare to the banana cream flavor we have in the States.

Apparently if you filter a Danish it turns into a donut, which is something smokers prefer?

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