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Like #OCTRANSPO itself, the travel planner is not working. I have been living at my current location for over five years so I KNOW there is a bus just across the street. Just wanted to confirm the start times for tomorrow and then how badly it figured out the transfer point.
Failed in Vivaldi, failed in Chrome so it isn't browser related. Firefox it just barfed.

With the eight week improv course ending last week, I timed it well to start a new group with a new set of eight sessions this week.
The Free Association seem more serious than Hoopla. They have 50% longer classes for a start. Three hours rather than two.
More instruction and notes rather than just positive encouragement. Clearer aim even from the early levels. More like a classroom than a playground.
First couple of sets of eight at Hoopla are just aimed at getting you to lose your decorum and allow yourself to be free and spontaneous. All really short form games, lightning rounds. Parlor games rather than theater.
But the Free Association's aim from the start is to get you building scenes and then stories. Their first set of lessons is titled "intro to long form". This one "Scene work".
Not so much the one minute parlor games, more focus on acting and characters and drama.
In vague terms at early stages that is. I mean, they have more in common than different. Plenty of short games in warm-up at FA and I just finished a whole set on drama and story with Hoopla.
Three hours is pretty long though. Starts half an hour earlier, ends half an hour later. Good thing it's also much much closer for me. Ten minute walk instead of 40 minutes on the bus.
We did lots and lots of first-scene head-to-head, mostly concentrating on trying to get specific. Check that after two minutes the audience knows where you are and who you are and how you know each other and what you're doing and none of the players are unsure either. Make it all specific as soon as possible, ambiguity is the enemy.
And everyone got that and exercised it pretty much flawlessly right away. So good group.
#theFreeAssociation #improv #london

A cloudy morning turned into a beautiful spring like afternoon. After a routine dental check up, I went out for a photo walk. Had a very pleasant walk from Hammersmith to Barnes along the river. Then a bus into Richmond and a beer or two in a riverside pub. Life is good.

Two days of cutting and cleaving firewood. The DOMS is less agonising than I thought it would be. Maybe that's the paracetamol talking, but it's nice to be able to move and do things and only feel like I've been hit by one bus.
I have rarely loved my desk as much as I do today, though. #author

APT36: A Nightmare of Vibeware.
The TL;DR: A threat actor generates high-volume, mediocre mass of implants using niche languages like Nim, Zig, and Crystal, generated by AIs.
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/businessinsights/apt36-nightmare-vibewa…

APT36: A Nightmare of Vibeware
I'd like to thank my coauthors Adrian Schipor, Victor Vrabie, Marius Baciu, and Martin Zugec for their invaluable contributions to this research.

Two days of cutting and cleaving firewood. The DOMS is less agonising than I thought it would be. Maybe that's the paracetamol talking, but it's nice to be able to move and do things and only feel like I've been hit by one bus.
I have rarely loved my desk as much as I do today, though. #author

Another whining rant of a cranky senior citizen who takes the bus to get to work as they don't have enough parking for us...
If you are wearing a backpack when boarding a bus or train TAKE IT OFF! I suspect I am not the only person who doesn't like being swatted.
When you board, please don't congregate by the doors. Especially when there is seating available. If you do, then don't get pissed off when I push you out of my way. If I miss my stop then it is 15 minu…

Someday I'll have the time and energy to try shit like this myself.
"This is how I turned an old Kindle (Kindle Touch 4th Generation/K5/KT) into a live bus feed that refreshes every minute with the option to exit out of dashboard mode by pressing the menu button. It’s basically TRMNL without the $140 price tag."
#TRMNL #Kindle #Hacking

My new (optional) office is on 16th St by the Chase Center and Uber HQ. With all the AI crap mandating RTO and doing it in this neighborhood, we've got to eliminate the 10 different charter bus companies and just run an all day express to Mission regardless of events at the arena. I don't want to see what basketball season is like this year.

After the latest snowfall it will be interesting to see how bad the walking to/from the bus stops is tomorrow and how messed up the schedules will be.
They like to plow the roads, but forget to clear the bus stops plus the sidewalks and while I am able-bodied it is a challenge to clamber over knee to hip high snow to get on/off the bus. I don't know how those who are handicapped get around.

Just looking at their brochure for their lineup of new buses.
#Transportation #ClimateAction #Electrification #PublicTransport #PublicTransit #Winnipeg