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Ben West
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Scattered minutiae about tech, plants, St. Louis, occasionally all together
Ah, this explains a lot of logo hoodies seen at Soulard market
December 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Cillian muttering "now I am become death" on the hemispherical splendor of omnimax is something Netflix users truly miss out on
December 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Having used OPNsense in a private cloud environment in prior life, I think this may be authors tending more towards letting users do whatever they want, rather than refusing a particular input and signalling error
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
But he quite confidently said he was holding his own!
December 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Considering Cromwell also banned Christmas, proscribing Christmas movies would follow logically
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 AM
City of St. Louis Water Division
www.stlwater.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
My guess is Ameren's parking lot. TIL Purina has their logo as a patio in front of their office tower.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Found this aerial photo of Laclede Town next to Harris Stowe to give better indication of the scale of what was lost thanks to wildly myopic urban planning
November 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
VLC is well aware of their wizard status
November 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Curious how often passenger rebellion comes up on ACARS
November 25, 2025 at 3:52 AM
1936 street map found on a prior trip. I'm also being sure to buy these and repatriate them. Eventually no written record of STL past will be left outside to city limits.
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What's super aggravating is Google has tied inbox categories (promotions, updates, social) to this smart features checkbox, despite the categories feature predating all the Gemini crap by over a decade. All your not-quite-spam gets dumped in your primary inbox.
November 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
She's already walking away with $25 million from the legalized insider trading only congress critters can do.
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
He was also at times quite the neurotic oddball with peculiar opinions he'd hold rather strongly. On average to the benefit of the country. The series with Paul Giamatti is excellent.
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Reposted by Ben West
There is an extended version of it
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM