- I’ve tried the following crutch sauces for the final hour or two, all under 250 or so to ensure any sugar content doesn’t scorch:
- Honey, agave nectar, maple syrup, brown sugar (dry), bbq sauce, mustard, hot sauce.
- Honey is champ, by my own (known) preference, as well as others (blind).
- Mix it with a little more of the dry rub. Delicious.
- All of the avengers dudes (robert downey jr, ryan reynolds, paul rudd,etc) have a fantasy league for charity: https://fantasy.espn.com/football/league?leagueId=48153503.
- Sigur Ros most of today. Good background.
- Ordered some more large candles, I ran out of big coffee table / non-bedroom ones. About $1/oz is a decent average.
- Services have much better product margins than products. I love my industry.
- Disney+ launches this month. I’m very curious about that landscape, and how Netflix/HBO will perform in reaction.
- GitHub renewed its ICE contract and employees are not happy: https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2019-10-31/github-ice-contract-defense. I’m not anti-microsoft, but this is good news for GitLab.
- Always like a good “useful command line tools” article, especially with screenshots: https://www.wezm.net/technical/2019/10/useful-command-line-tools.
- The supercontest app should withstand the end of daylight savings time without any issues. Everything is synced, the machines are configured to the correct timezones, and nothing is hardcoded – it’s all referenced and localized in realtime. Lockdown should occur as usual, all the timestamp rerenderings should convert properly, etc.
- Sidenote – part of the reason it occurs at 2am instead of 1am (in general) is so that you avoid any day shift. If at 1am it jumped backed to midnight, there might be confusion.
- Also removed the “check in paid league” for the saturday pick reminder. It does it based on subscription now.
- Played around a little bit with 23andMe.
- Matt Stonie’s halloween video yesterday was 122 pieces of candy in 30 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiN8ZPMUVXY.
- This is 895g, or 2 pounds, of straight sugar.
- New batch of protein bars. Homemade peanut butter (much higher ratio of this than usual), protein powder, oats, oat milk, dates, agave nectar.
- Started mindhunter.
- Niners and Patriots 8-0, Saints and Packers 7-1, Vikings and Seahawks 6-2.
- These are the cardinal divisions:
- The NFC mostly makes sense, with the exception of the cowboys in the east.
- The AFC would mostly make sense if the colts and dolphins switched switch south/east.
- UFC245 press conference. Can’t wait. 3 titles on the line. Holloway vs Volkanovski, Usman vs Covington, and Nunes vs Germaine de Randamie.
- The Rock had an announcement at the press conference. Given all the hype, I had thought it was gonna be “I’m gonna fight brock lesnar” or “I’m partnering with the UFC to have fighters on my ninja warrior show” or something meaty. It was just that his media company, Seven Bucks Productions, is gong to be making a movie about Mark Kerr (an older UFC fighter from the Mark Coleman era), and he’ll be playing him.
- Elon said he’s “Going offline” on Twitter.
- True:
- Worked a little bit on the tradebot.
