Here's What You Discover When You Walk Every Block in New York City
Greg Miller, a 37-year-old software engineer in Astoria, Queens, is walking every street in every borough of New York City—8,000 miles. He started in the pandemic and has already done 2,400 miles. He is part of a subreddit of like-minded perambulators: /r/EveryBlockNYC
I walk 3.2 miles daily, almost always with the dog, and on weekends I often use the Footpath app to plot a fresh course through nearby streets, favoring streets we haven’t been on before. Miller is orders of magnitude more methodical than I am.
📷🤪I see this realtor ad several times a week when I walk the dog down Lake Murray Blvd. Yesterday, I saw somebody put googly eyes on the woman’s photo, which is childish and not at all funny.
Seriously, it wasn’t me who did it, but I laughed when I saw it, and I hope Giovanna Kellems did the same.
I have started reading “Use of Weapons,” the first book in the Culture series by Ian Banks. Everyone loves those books, and I tried the first, “Consider Phlebas,” and couldn’t get through it. A friend recommended “Use of Weapons,” so I’ll give that a try.
Kevin Costner isn’t coming back to “Yellowstone.” The show returns in November. — I’m disappointed Costner isn’t returning, but looking forward to the show’s return.
First really warm day here in San Diego and now it’s time for the annual tradition where I try to find the remote for the ceiling fan. This tradition involves a lot of swearing.
I’ve started a new blog, cheekymonkey.micro.blog, for the purpose of using Micro.blog’s excellent crossposting and ActivityPub tools to automatically post memes, vintage ads and photos, and other things I saw on the Internet to Mastodon, Bluesky and (soon) Threads. Probably the only folks interested in following that blog will be folks who for some reason don’t want to follow me on those other platforms
Wikipedia now labels the ADL as an unreliable source on the Gaza war. — The ADL says anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. But those are not the same, and claiming that they are is dangerous to Jews around the world.
A Wikipedia dive on ships named “Enterprise”
I knew about the starship and aircraft carrier, of course, but I got to wondering about other ships named USS Enterprise.
The earliest example cited by Wikipedia is a 1775 Continenal Navy sloop captured from the British and burned top prevent recapture in 1777. There were actually two aircraft carriers of the name, one in service 1938-47, the most decorated U.S. Ship of World War II, and the other in service 1961-2017, the first nuclear-powered carrier. A third carrier of the name is under construction and due to enter service by 2028.
The IXS Enterprise is a NASA conceptual design for an interstellar ship that would use the Alcubierre drive, a warp drive proposed by theoretical physicist Miguel Alcubierre in 194.
Wikipedia’s page for the word “enterprise” comprises about 147 entries, including this page on versions of the starship on “Star Trek.”