• Many of these Biden associates have been pushing alternatives to Harris, such as Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., former U.S. ambassador Susan Rice, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.

    https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/29/biden-allies-move-to-stop-kamala-harris-from-becoming-vice-president.html


  • pay $2230 monthly rent. A same apartment now in the 9th floor is being listed for $1870, that’s a $360 difference

    https://reddit.com/r/AskLosAngeles/comments/i04k8m/


  • while searching for photo shots with asians latinx and black students in Adobe Stock Images, I see plenty of white students or white+black students but barely any latinx or asians. And like 99% of Asians I saw were women. Lol what decade is this stock library from? I even tried searching “California classroom”


  • there are way more low-information & “low-care” voters out there, but approaches that are effective with these voters are super counterproductive with high information voters (many of whom you find on the internet). and not just voters; the public in general as well.

    and then in online spaces – i wonder how much does information and conversations that high information voters put up impact the low information voters who are usually merely browsing


  • A good representation of the rollercoaster that is California these past few weeks


  • When I saw this AMEX offer, I thought huh that sounds good but there’s no way I’m gonna call a restaurant to charge the credit card directly to them instead of using a middleman delivery service like Postmates.

    Now why is Adobe in this list as a “small local business”?


  • The sweet spot for most medium-scale voter mail would be the High Volume BRM category.

    Reference: Basic vs High vs QBRM vs High-QBRM | Pricing


  • Gutenberg lets you edit colors with the hex code, but the Theme customizer doesn’t allow you to edit the accent color with hex. So instead I exported the Theme configuration from Customizer, edited the Customizer and replaced the section where it read s:6:”accent”;s:7:”#EA7C22″, and imported it back. It worked.


  • First half of the year has been very close. I’ll need to tighten up a lot of the expenses for the second half. Food, donations… shopping should decrease as it was setting up the home office. Income is projected to increase as I work closer to full time in the Summer-Fall cycle, but that’s assuming that I can handle working full time. Still feeling pretty weak physically.

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  • i dreamt that i was training people on how to make a pitch to korean small businesses for an upcoming gala fundraiser. It may have had to do with the WordPress Gutenberg rollout..

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  • How many people with need companies like Themeforest, or custom site and plugins developed if they can largely do most of it themselves in the future? The argument already exists when trying to pitch a custom site for a few thousand bucks when the clients ask “Well I can get a really nice site set up faster for free, how are you different?”

    https://deliciousbrains.com/wordpress-gutenberg/#comment-3712921145


  • Taz’s “People Stealing My Blue Apron Box” story, from episode 39 (Jetset Problems) 3/31/2018 of the podcast Good Muslim, Bad Muslim:


  • this… this needs to be saved for posterity

    [Steam] Black Desert Online SA Free until March 2nd (Free)

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  • Repurposing a game

    (also posted on reddit)

    Northgard is this cleverly executed real time strategy-management-survival computer game rolled into one. It made a splash when initially released a few years ago, and as the game wasn’t terribly deep, the playerbase rush seems to have moved on. It’s not dead, though. A new faction DLC came out as recently as this month. There’s people on the subreddit. Last I checked, you regularly get matched on multiplayer ranked battles.

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  • Cross-platform key-mapping problems with some Bluetooth clickers

    I’ve been experimenting for about a year with using a tablet to read ebooks while on the elliptical at the gym. At first, I was using the 12″ Surface Pro. The Kindle Windows program didn’t make the font big enough, so instead I used the browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader because Chrome allowed for a much wider range of zooming in beyond Kindle’s built-in font zoom. The fact that the screen was so big was nice, but because it was so big, I couldn’t lug it around while doing weights. So my routine was going to the gym and throwing stuff into the keyless locker (as it’s closer to the ellipticals than the locker room padlock lockers), doing ellipticals, then weights, then pulling the tablet out and doing the final stretch of ellipticals or other cardio.

    Reaching to the tablet to touch the screen to turn the page breaks the workout flow. Also, at this level of zoom, you have to turn pages a lot. So I got a bluetooth clicker. I settled for the Logitech R500, which has a much thicker body than other models and makes it easier to hold on without dropping while while also holding on to the handlebars using some of the fingers. Also, both the “Next” and “Back” buttons are very big and there is none of the useless extra stuff that other models have. Other than not allowing me to fully grab the handlebars (holding on to the handlebars comes in handy especially when I start jumping), this was a pretty good setup. It also worked well with the Aladdin Ebook Reader for Korean language books.

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  • Neat.. the fitness center I started going in November last year has already made it to the top 13 of all places I’ve been to, since like 2010.

    Top 1 and 3 are current and past home.

    Seeing how my church does not make it into the rankings, and how some of the numbers are too low, I think it only counts automatic location tag as a visit when 1) there are no other competing business locations overlapping within the same GPS margin of error, or 2) I have confirmed the location manually on Google Maps. (Although I don’t think my church would be near anything else..?)


  • My Pixel 3 phone has this feature where it can filter through potential scam/robo/ad calls by going through an interactive script with the call using voice synthetizer, and the phone holder can monitor the conversation live (if they want) via text through voice transcription. Google calls this “AI Call Screening”

    I got one such call just now and put it through the screener. They hung up, then called again, so I picked up. Turns out it was a robo call for my doctor’s appointment. So these two voice scripts were talking to each other for a bit. Nice.

    Image: Wikimedia REEMS.jpg


  • The southern Indian Ocean is huge. When I learned that there was a small set of islands smack right in the middle of it called the Kerguelen Islands, with the apt alternate name of Desolation Islands, I was strangely hooked. I kept thinking of how cold and helpless the place was, and how lost it would feel to experience a shipwreck and wash ashore this island. It felt extremely scary and helpless, and for some reason I was fascinated. I combed through a bunch of Wikipedia entries and photos of the island.

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  • What, we mispelled our former Executive Director’s name?

    Oh lol. Carry on then. I looks like your automated spam script failed to account for diversity within the English speaking world. Systemic mistakes like these can ruin your spam product’s non-existing credibility.

     


  • WCKNC Elections Witness Statement

    I submitted a witness statement to the city regarding what I saw happen at the April 4 WCKNC election for multiple people filing election challenges.

    The following information contained herein is within my own personal knowledge and relates only to facts and circumstances surrounding the Election Challenge submitted by _____________ on ____________ regarding Wilshire Center-Koreatown Neighborhood Council.

    My name is Yongho Kim, and I live in the Wilshire Center-Koreatown Neighborhood Council (WCKNC) District 4. My mailing address, 900 Crenshaw Blvd #B, Los Angeles CA 90019, is my workplace where I can receive mail reliably. On April 4, 2019, at 5:40pm I voted at the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council elections at the at the polls at Seoul International Park.

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