DOJ Charges Synergy, Shipping Operator Involved in Deadly Francis Scott Key Bridge Collapse - WSJ

A loose wire in a high-voltage switchboard likely caused the first power loss, federal prosecutors said. 

Another reminder of the importance of getting the little things right.

New York Man Convicted After Opening Chinese Police Station - WSJ

Prosecutors said Lu conspired with officials in China’s Ministry of Public Security to open a police station in a Manhattan Chinatown community center where he held a leadership role.

Wild.

It is so easy to get a cell phone number and plan now.

No more stores or appointments or hours. A $3 SIM card on Amazon, and 7 minutes at my computer and I’m all set for $10 a month.

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U.S. Air Force Special Operations Aircraft Accused Of Austrian Airspace Incursion - TWZ

the Austrian Air Force scrambled Eurofighter Typhoons in response to the alleged flights in the neutral country’s airspace.

Whoa! Austria has a military?

Just When I Thought The World Couldn’t Get Any Worse, My Wife Makes Me Go To A Play - The Onion

Sometimes I get so bored, I start watching the play. It’s enough to make me wish the next world war would just happen already. If this theater was bombed by China tonight, well, let’s just say I’d welcome them as liberators.

The all new PlaneDocs website is now live.

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Just had Chat design some new email signatures for me using HTML. Incredible!

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Meanwhile at ChetComm HQ.

Three Republicans Thrown Into Fiery Furnace For Not Bowing Down To Trump Statue - Babylon Bee

At publishing time, Republicans were shocked to see a fourth man standing in the fire with them: Mike Pence.

Big week for web design.

Family ride.

Markdown + Ulysses = 💯

Heavenly delights

Oil Tanker Slips Anonymously Through Strait Of Hormuz By Adding Fake Nose And Mustache - Babylon Bee

The tanker, known as the Delta Magnus, nonchalantly floated in disguise past both the Iranian and American blockades, leaving both sides none the wiser.

A gift from my daughter.

For my brave Dad who soars the unknown skies.

The Summer Portraits by Ludovico Einaudi

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Canopy birdsong at dawn.

I don’t know what to make of dealer maintenance shops. Just when I started to think they got the message and were trying to do a better job, they marked both cabin and engine air filters as “caution.”

What they didn’t know is that I just changed both with brand new filters two weeks ago.

So they didn’t actually look, or…?

Let’s ride.

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God Discontinues The Pebble - The Onion

“Starting in the year of our Me 2026, I will be ceasing creation of the pebble so that I can turn My focus toward stones, rocks, and boulders,” said the all-knowing and all-powerful deity, who stressed that there were already 300 billion pebbles in circulation, the vast majority of which were no longer being used by humanity.

I will never stop learning.

But sometimes I find an error so basic in my web design, I just can’t believe it got by me.

ChatGPT’s image generation skills have improved considerably. I needed a dummy logo to go on a landing page and I think it nailed it.

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