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l33tminion) wrote2026-06-09 07:23 pm
l33tminion) wrote2026-06-09 07:23 pm
Fourth Leaf
Clover Food Lab is somehow reopening after getting a last-minute bailout from a mystery investor. Real curious what the details of that are and if they'll manage to hold on, but at least I'll get some more chances to eat there.
This weekend, there was a party at former ITA Software CEO Jeremy's house, celebrating 30 years of ITA Software. Was quite a get-together. Really enjoyed catching up with many people. I sure had a great time on that project, and it was great for my career.
I finished reading Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar. Highly recommend if you're interested in urbanism / urban design. Worth reading even if you've already read Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking, or if you'd rather get fascinating knowledge about the subject from a 300-page popular-nonfiction book as opposed to a 600-page academic text.
I started reading (rereading? I would have sworn but if so my memory of that is very faded) the third book in Sean McMullin's Greatwinter Trilogy, Eyes of the Calculor (I keep misreading that title and the in-book eponymous massive human-powered computing machine as "the calculator", but it is in fact rendered differently in the story's speculative future-Australian dialect). Great post-apolcalyptic fiction of the very-far-post (though in some cases ongoing) thousand-apocalypse-pileup variety.
This weekend, there was a party at former ITA Software CEO Jeremy's house, celebrating 30 years of ITA Software. Was quite a get-together. Really enjoyed catching up with many people. I sure had a great time on that project, and it was great for my career.
I finished reading Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar. Highly recommend if you're interested in urbanism / urban design. Worth reading even if you've already read Shoup's The High Cost of Free Parking, or if you'd rather get fascinating knowledge about the subject from a 300-page popular-nonfiction book as opposed to a 600-page academic text.
I started reading (rereading? I would have sworn but if so my memory of that is very faded) the third book in Sean McMullin's Greatwinter Trilogy, Eyes of the Calculor (I keep misreading that title and the in-book eponymous massive human-powered computing machine as "the calculator", but it is in fact rendered differently in the story's speculative future-Australian dialect). Great post-apolcalyptic fiction of the very-far-post (though in some cases ongoing) thousand-apocalypse-pileup variety.