Spam From 2026

When I was in high shcool I remember spending a lot of time on a website called Stumbleupon. You mainly used it as a browser toolbar that had a button that would navigate you to a random page in their index. I remember finding a lot of cool websites with it, but just kind of stopped using it at somepoint in college when I, in general, started to drift offline (with the exception of maybe reddit and instagram). Apparently the domain still exists, but it redirects to something called Mix that I would best describe as, judging by their homepage demo, a kind of generalized Tik Tok.

Anyway, today I learned that my search engine, Kagi, has a nice replacement for that old functionality called smallweb. There was also a post on lobste.rs today that links to a similar thing called Wander. These are both very cute and nostalgiac for me and I look forward to playing with them!

Saw more fun parking chairs today.

Lots of fun parking chairs out since the big snow storm! I saw more than twenty while out for a walk today.

Pittsburgh is about to get swallowed up by a big winter storm that’s supposed to dump a bunch of snow. It was only seven degress (fahrenheit) out, but I wanted to get a ride in since it might be a while before it’s safe to get around on my bike.

So, I went for a firgid ten mile loop around Frick and Schenley Parks, starting in Shadyside and ending in East Liberty via Oakland to see how the bike lanes and trails are looking given the recent cold, rainy weather. My hands were ACHING by the time I completed the loop. If I want to ride for longer in these conditions I need to try using my barmits instead of the lobster gloves, which made my hands just sweaty enough to cause problems.

The first third of the Point Breeze entrance of the Hawthorne Trail is a river of ice, but surprisingly passable otherwise. I tried popping up to the North Clayton Trail from Regent Square, but I couldn’t even get up the hill from Forbes on foot. It was just ice all the way up.

Bridle Trail has lots of ice patches, but they’re easy to avoid. I was pleasantly surprised by how passable the entrance to Schenley from Phillips was.

The bike lanes on Forbes by Frick; near Phipps; and in Oakland are all impressively clear!