# Going Public: The turmoil of publishing a project
I split the theme for my blog out of the repo & published it. I had some
feelings about this along the way, and figured I’d write through them. Meet inTUItive.
# Letter to the Editor: On “Pluralism”
After The New Yorker ran a particularly weak article focused on a seemingly incoherent political philosophy the author called “pluralism”, I dug into the actual academic grounding for it, and found no basis in reality. In writing a letter to the editor, I realized I had a lot more to say. Since the magazine didn’t publish my letter, I’m printing it here, as well as a longer essay to go with it.# Link Roundup, December (late)
Figured I’d try something new and put together an actual list of interesting articles I found this month.# Open letter to my state legislators, re: PSE & the storm
Waking up after the November 2024 windstorm to find the power being on didn’t seem like a luxury at first, but as the days wore on, I got angrier and angrier at PSE’s lagging estimates and missed times. My friends have had to pitch the entire contents of their fridges, a week before Thanksgiving, because of PSE’s poor maintenance.# Suddenly, Dinner!
A friend was in town for training for a few weeks, so I invited him over for brunch. Well, maybe, brunch, and then a trip to Pike Place Market. Maybe with a dispensary run on the way home. Well… dinner’s happening, too, and you’re invited.
He was feeling really down the night before, because the part of town he ended up in for training is super tedious to get into and out of. Though it looks like it should be pretty easy to get places, somehow all routes are hard. He had a solid case of the blues, and he was feeling pretty isolated. I invited him to brunch at one something in the morning… just in time for him to wake up and wonder if he should ask me where he could get some pancakes. Apparently my timing’s good. In any event I suggested the Five Point Café and, uh, here’s my review of it on Google Maps: