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pre-tariff shopping spree
Wednesday, April 9 2025
I'd tried making a clone of the work-issed key fob using a cloning tool I happen to have. But the clone didn't work when I tried it this morning, perhaps because it needs to use a different frequency of passive transponder. So I then bought a fancier transponder tool on AliExpress, where I've been on a bit of a shopping spree to get in as many purchases as I can before Donald Trump's insane tariffs kick in. (Today, bowing to pressure, he paused the tariffs for 90 days, though he left in place all the tariffs on Chinese goods, which is mostly all that I buy.)
The guys were talking about golf when I showed up for lunch today, but fortunately the topic eventually turned to one that I have more interest in: remote-controlled vehicles, especially the kind that fly. (The project manager is a big model plane hobbiest, it turns out.) When the topic of how to retrieve such a vehicle from a tree, I even volunteered an unusual method I've used successfully: shooting an arrow pulling a string over a branch and using that to pull a saw chain on a rope up over the branch then sawing it down from below.
This afternoon I tried a new workplace task: implementing unit tests for an Angular frontend. But I quickly got bogged down in a problem with a missing dependency that hadn't been injected due to the use of a mock service. I thought ChatGPT would be my solution, but I soon was stuck in an endless loop of advice that produced no real progress. [REDACTED]
Back in Hurley, I walked the dogs through the abandoned go-cart track and then made a pot of chili using hominy but no tofu or tempeh. It ended up being perhaps my best chili ever, maybe because of all the nutritional yeast and chili powder I had added.
On the drive to work this morning, this flock of turkeys had been trying to cross Tongore Road when I rolled up but then retreated to the corn field they'd come from. Click to enlarge.
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