Grant Henninger

That’s where I’m at now. It’s honestly much better than 37.

So you’re saying it still gets worse before it gets better? I’m in that 42-46 bracket, so I’m so very close to that inversion. It seems curious that the downslope seems to map nicely to when people often have kids at home.

That’s great to hear, Jarrett. Congratulations on the upcoming nuptials and happy belated birthday!

The ads in Andor really break up the flow of the show.
I watched the first episode with ads and disliked the experience so much that I “upgraded” my account to the no-ad version but cancelled my Hulu subscription to offset the cost.

A dozen years ago, I worked for a now-defunct bike share company that tried to do bike share for Los Angeles. Unfortunately, company leadership was completely incompetent and I think they poisoned the well for bike share in LA. Otherwise, it should be number 2 on this list.

I don’t know what being “a man” means to these folks. If their view of manliness is all about imposing their will on others & abdicating any responsibility to society, then I can see why they hear that manliness is bad. They don’t understand it’s the behaviors that’re problematic, not manhood.

The real solution is to have a kid, so you can use their free education account when you need to make one-offs. It almost pays for itself.

I wanted to print a front license plate bracket for my Rivian. I need it to stand up to a quite a bit of force at temps up to 120F without deforming.

I have a FLSUN V400. They make an enclosure for it, I just don’t have it.

I had been thinking about getting some PPA-CF for these high strength, high temp applications. However, my printer is not enclosed and I’m worried about it cooling too quickly, causing shrinking and warping.

The average American has three friends.

Where is this graph from? I'm writing a report right now and could use a good cite to make this argument.

It would be great if there was some type of preview when tagging accounts. Maybe you could encourage Caltrans to create an official account, it would be great to have more state agencies here.

Glad you’re here, hope you’re doing well.

I don’t think that’s an official Caltrans account that you tagged.

That’s disappointing but not surprising.

How did Choi vote? As one of his constituents, I called his office about SB 79, so I’m wondering where he ended up.

I’d love to read an early copy.

If your concept of “American food” is chain restaurants, then I generally agree that Europe has better food. Unfortunately, chains are all you can find in touristy places in the US. All the best restaurants the world over are run by one chef, and those places are much harder to discover in the US.

Tadej has also won races that didn’t even exist back in Merckx’s time, like Strade Bianchi. Maybe if I included those it would look more balanced, but he’s got to win the Vuelta and each monument at least once to have a legitimate shot at being the GOAT.

Tadej absolutely won’t beat Merckx’s record in every category. He’ll never get the green jersey in the Tour under the current point system, for instance. I also doubt he’ll ever get the hour record. Cycling has just become much more specialized since Merckx’s time, so it’s not a perfect comparison.

Table listing bike races with Eddy Merckx and Tadej Pogačar win records.

For the past couple of years, I've been tracking Tadej Pogačar's campaign to become cycling's GOAT. He's making advances on Eddy Merckx's record, but isn't there yet. If he can keep his current dominance for another few years, he will be the GOAT, but he's not there yet.

The only way to get a $5k car is used, so long as new cars keep being sold. The housing market is no different, the only way to get a $1k/mo apartment is to ensure more new $3k/mo apartments keep being built.

When they ask for a $1k/mo apartment to be built instead of a $3k/mo apartment, they're asking for a new $5k car instead of a $20k car. They know that a new $5k car doesn't exist, but they don't understand why a new $1k/mo apartment can't exist.

Folks don't understand that an apartment is economy housing, almost regardless of its price (with a few exceptions). For new homes, apartments are like Civics, and multi-acre mansions are Ferraris. Unfortunately, mostly all we build is the Mercedes of the housing world, the single family home.

People's don't have a good baseline of what's "economy" & "luxury" in the housing market. In the car market, we all generally know that a Honda Civic is an economy car, a Ferrari is a luxury car, and there are a lot of options in between.

Right? We bought a car and an ebike in the past couple of months, driven by tariff concerns. We were trying to get a house addition built in time, but it looks like approval delays might have cost us (I’ll find out more on Thursday.)

The downside is that as we’ve expanded further into the wildland, we’ve lengthened the perimeter of the WUI and made it more difficult to protect. We’ve had to put more homes into harms way to protect the few existing homes. Those new homes are more fire hardened, but still at risk to wildfire.

When I was a kid, we lived in a house right on the edge of the WUI. In 1982, we were evacuated in the Gypsum Canyon Fire. My dad stayed behind to water down our wood-shingled roof so embers didn’t catch it on fire. Today, that house is surrounded by newer homes and isn’t nearly at risk to fire.

A non-HAA project near me here in Anaheim that got denied based on evacuation concerns. Builder submitted HAA application prior to denial. It’ll be interesting to see if they move forward with HAA given the reason for denial. It was a clear pre-textual denial for a project the community opposed.

Aerial panoramic photo of Altadena, California after a fire in early 2025 that destroyed much of the city.

We haven’t seen new-code subdivisions destroyed. We’ve seen some individual homes destroyed, but not whole neighborhoods the way we’ve seen entire neighborhoods of older buildings.

I drove through Altadena after the fire there, and I could absolutely see how a wall of new homes would have helped.