Christopher Schmidt
Software engineer (currently at Google). Founding member, Alphabet Workers Union. Advocate for sustainable cities through urban development. E-bike evangelist. Currently in Somerville, MA; formerly in Cambridge, MA.
- Yesterday, I spent 1hr45m clearing the plowed in entrance to the offstreet bike lane at the Cambridge/Somerville border.
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- a bit late, but thankfully i have not yet forgotten.
- I think that Apple TV's original productions are the best of the streaming services.
- Today, my face is fine (a blessing; I really don't know how I got so lucky on that) but my whole right shoulder and neck are severely ache-y. Was also funny to shower last night and notice my scraped knee from this bike crash next to the still-healing bike crash from wet leaves 3+ months ago.
- i rode my bike today. the bike lanes are getting better slowly, but it's still tough. While taking the car lane i ended up hitting a pile of slush at a bad angle, and completely wiped out. thankfully I think my face slammed a little bit into a snowberg instead of just road. it hurts a lot.
- The Star Market Parking Lot has a lot of snow in it. (This pile did not exist last night.) It is being put there by a front end loader.
- AltNPS is absolute trash, grifter bullshit, and has nothing to do with anything. This has been true since basically day one, but during Trump II they've amped it up 10-fold and anyone who interacts with them should stop.
- My guess is about a foot of accumulation so far in Somerville near Porter Square. Fluffy flakes, but a lot of it. Also, bikers say there’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad gear, but I’m here to say that I definitely don’t have the gear to go bike riding in six inches of powder.
- When a person drove into a crowd of protesters in 2017, it was called an act of domestic terrorism; the person who did it is currently serving a life sentence plus an additional 419 years of incarceration as a result. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlot...
- Snow is still coming down hard.
- it really bothers me that the driver in this crash was arrested at the scene, but the driver of a crash where someone *was killed* 3 blocks away was not only not arrested, but wasn't even charged with anything until after a 6 month pressure campaign.
- If only there were some kind of way to restrict the speed of vehicles on our roads couldn't smash through buildings and injure people. But it's impossible to think of such technology existing; no vehicle today has such a thing, right? www.nbcboston.com/news/local/p...
- If only there were some kind of way to restrict the speed of vehicles on our roads couldn't smash through buildings and injure people. But it's impossible to think of such technology existing; no vehicle today has such a thing, right? www.nbcboston.com/news/local/p...
- There is a lot of content in the world. There is more good content I would enjoy than I will ever be able to consume. But I still feel guilty when I rewatch something I enjoy because I feel like I should be seeking out new things instead of watching an old thing.
- Congratulations to newly selected Mayor @councillorsiddiqui.bsky.social and Vice Mayor @burhanazeem.bsky.social on the Cambridge City Council!
- Kidnapping leaders of foreign nations is a bad thing. I don't think that we should be doing that. And I'm really not sure who thinks this kind of thing is going to work out *well* for us in the end. It seems utterly insane to me to believe that the positives outweigh the negatives in 2026.
- Happy New Year. May this year be better than the last.
- Today’s puzzle project: “Herding Cats”.
- Saw John Oliver live at the MGM Music Hall tonight in Boston.
- My chess.com rating in rapid (10 minute) games is 803. www.chess.com/member/crsch...
