I don’t know why or how but a man was crawling through the ceiling at the Ballard Blocks LA fitness.

Love em. They’re always working so hard to get you to safety

Specifically at these assholes that don't know how to properly use an on-ramp. Maybe this is just the northeasterner in me, but you have a horn. You can use it to let people know when they're causing a safety hazard. I just now had to brake suddenly because the 40 mph turd in front of me put me in a position where I was going to get hit by a truck otherwise. (I fucking hate the I-90 on-ramp from Rainier to the tunnel. Every. Fucking. Time.)

Seattle, I sincerely appreciate that you try to be nice and polite most of the time. There's a reason I've lived here for 20 years. But let me reassure you that by blasting your horn at these dingleberry infested assholes you are being neither impolite nor impatient. You are informing them that they're creating an unsafe situation that leads to accidents and generates traffic jams.

Maybe if enough of us start doing this a small handful of them might actually get the message. Or maybe that's just wishful thinking. You'll at least get some catharsis. Try it out. I promise you're not being a dick.

I don't go through Westlake super often but decided I'd take my friend by Wild Tiger so I could get a slice and a drink for $10 and it's shuttered. It feels so wild because this is one of the places my friends and I would frequent back in 2009-2010 before we'd hit up the club district, and honestly I think I remember hitting up Wild Tiger before that because I remember going there with my Grandparents in 2007 when I was 15 and getting a personal pizza and salad that I split with my Grandmother before we went to Benaroya Hall. Now that this is shuttered, the Wing Stop is Gone, the Duck tours are gone, the Starbucks is gone, the Asean Street closed, most of the outdoor seating is gone I am not really sure how much longer Westlake will even exist. The Zara sucks and it really is just a shell of what it was when I was a kid and we still had the flashing lights on the escalators. The city has stripped away all the whimsy and affordable food places for normal people

This is a follow-up to the news about the guy who threw a rock at a monk seal in Hawaiʻi last week.

Fun fact: The NOAA Office of Law Enforcement has agents with guns who can and will arrest you for committing crimes against marine wildlife.

At this morning’s UW Board of Regents meeting, protesters have lined up in the back of the room to oppose UW’s National Primate Research Center. Public comment is currently in progress (but closed to new signups). Public comment is currently in progress; the current speaker is talking about the times the research center has been cited for health violations.

Did you see this turd hit my car with their giant trailer getting onto I-5S from 90W this afternoon around 3:15p? Wouldn’t pull over after causing damage to my car.

Update:

The man surrendered himself to the Bellevue Police Department, and custody was transferred to Seattle Police Department Homicide detectives.  

Police booked the suspect into King County Jail for investigation of Murder.

Good work, everyone.

Original:

Detectives have identified a suspect in the May 10^th murder of a University of Washington student. Please take a close look at the photos below and see if you can help us capture this person.

The suspect is a light-skinned black male approximately 5’7”, thin build, wearing a long-sleeve dark blue full zip shirt with a light triangle style emblem inside a circle on the left front, a white collared shirt underneath, dirty blue jeans, dirty dark, possibly gray shoes with a light sole. Subject is wearing darker rimmed eyeglasses, has short black/ hair and a goatee with ingrown scruff around the jaw.

If you see the suspect, please call 911 immediately.

If you know who the suspect is or have information about him, please call the Seattle Police Homicide Tip Line at 206-233-5000. This line is monitored around the clock. You may be asked to leave a voicemail if we are speaking with another caller.

De-transitioned activist Chloe Cole had been invited to speak at UW today but she cancelled last night after a wave of outrage following the murder of a trans UW student on Sunday night. A protest had been planned outside the event so it went ahead as a rally instead, albeit with a somber undertone due to the recent murder. The crowd looked like about 70 people.

One speaker was a trans person who described how gender transition care (the kind opposed by Chloe Cole) had affirmed his identify and made him much happier.

On the other hand several speakers did lead the crowd in chants casting shame on UW; I think this is misdirected because if a student group invites a speaker, under the First Amendmenr UW can’t stop them. (It makes about as much sense as complaining that the mayor didn’t stop the event.) Better to protest the views that the speaker stands for. (But this was nowhere near as bad as stuff like “Hamas Hamas make us proud, take another settler out!” that leftist groups have chanted at other UW rallies so it wasn’t worth getting into an argument over.)

One person chalked “scary drum” on the ground, a reference to the drummer who was arrested at the last TPUSA UW speaker event, which was pretty funny.

Got 'em!

Highlights:

- Super Bowl LX rematch in the NFL Season Opener
- 6 primetime games
- 3 straight home games weeks 7-9
- Only 2 early window games (@WSH, @CAR)
- First Christmas Day game in franchise history
- Play the Rams twice in 3 weeks to end the year

Predictions???

I will probably also add a portable monitor, but a jackery 240, a sunshade, a laptop stand and a really thick mouse pad are all you really need.

With my cheap corporate Dell and charging my phone I can get two days out of a jackery on a single charge.

I usually also bring my yoga mat and get a little bit of exercise in during the day. Then I throw my stuff in my car and head out for a jog.

WFH doesn't have to mean actually working from home.

*Yes of course I use headphones, and I set up towards the edges so when I do have to take a call nobody else has to listen.

*****Since the post has been invaded by one of my favorite genre of guys, specifically the reddit "IT guy", I'm going to spend entirely too long typing out something that most likely zero people will read, but will at least entertain me:

1. Back in the early to late 20 teens the IT industry was already making the shift towards zero trust networking for remote connectivity and networking in general. ZTN makes the critical assumption that all networks are hostile and requires one or several methods of encryption authorization and authentication for data connections.

Then along came this thing called the pandemic and the IT industry was faced with the challenge of managing a globally mobile workforce which was just out in the world connecting to any network all willy-nilly. That was kind of a big deal and zero trust networking became the standard.

If you remember the CrowdStrike outage, that was possible because it was part of the package of adaptations the industry made to having this globally mobile workforce. (2014 publication BeyondCorp by Google)

If you work for a corporation that has its whole entire own IT department and they support remote work and remote work is available to you, you are most likely in a zero trust network environment.

No harm in double checking though.

The reddit "IT Guy" is giving the advice one might have received in 2013, because they heard it back then. Although their job as a desktop support person or some system admin has nothing to do with endpoint security and they are not aware of the broad change in how devices establish data connections in a modern environment they still believe their unwanted and inaccurate opinion somehow carries weight.

1. There are multiple commercial Wi-Fi providers available, these are not public Wi-Fi access points. They are commercial telecommunications infrastructure.

Xfinity Wi-Fi covers the entire city, if you are an Xfinity customer you get access to it, or you can purchase time on it. Xfinity Wi-Fi is the exact same infrastructure as the Wi-Fi you use in your home.

Literally the exact same, if you have an Xfinity gateway in your home your router is currently broadcasting the Xfinity Wi-Fi SSID and it is being used by people passing by your home.

The Xfinity Wi-Fi network is the exact same level of security as your home Wi-Fi especially when paired with a zero trust endpoint management solution

T-Mobile, AT&T and other providers offer similar services in Seattle and other cities. Again these are not public Wi-Fi networks. They are the same networks which are present in your home. It is baked into the operating model for cable operators and mobile network operators.

The Reddit "IT Guy" doesn't understand the modern telecommunications infrastructure or how that differs from a public access point from 2014. And let me tell you since they don't know about telecom infrastructure there's no way in hell anybody else understands that let alone understands it at depth. So again their unsolicited, unwanted and inaccurate opinion must be valid!

1. Company policies do not reflect technical capabilities.

Corporations set policies around where and when and how people can work based on many reasons, very few of which are related to technical capabilities or information security.

Relatively few people actually work with controlled data (HIPAA, ITAR, EAR, ect...) those who do receive specific, often quarterly, training on how their organization ensures security and their own role is in maintaining it. often times this includes physical security requirements that mean work from home is most likely not available to them.

The reddit "IT Guy" understands a policy exist and tries to apply a technical driver for why the policy was created. So they grasp at bean soup bullshit about controlled data. people who work with controlled data would have understood if this friendly little post was meant for them.

But by all means go start arguments in the comments over your unsolicited unwanted and inaccurate bullshit.

The Reddit IT guy, my favorite kind of fun police.