Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft@micro.kraft.blog

My life is an open-source book.

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  • The pumpkin scones are no longer available at Starbucks. Never been one of those people to track a seasonal product from a chain, but I’ll be excited to see them back in a year.

  • And to bed I go. Election Night 2020… processing votes has gone really, really well actually. But it is still 2020, so hopefully we’ll have an answer on the winner this week.

  • This is how we celebrated Halloween this year: grilling six pounds of skirt for fajitas.

  • Finally happened that I ordered coffee from the wrong Starbucks. Didn’t realize it until I told the obviously confused clerk that I was there for a mobile order. At least I was getting coffee at 9 pm so it was obvious something was up when I came in for a mobile order when the store…

  • O lost two baby teeth yesterday—her last ones—on Halloween. If you’re going to lose two teeth, the big American candy fest is the day to do it.

  • The Test Isn’t 100%!

    When the Dodgers return to their hotel later Tuesday night, everybody will be given a rapid PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test, sources told Passan. Friedman [said] that the upcoming PCR tests the team will take will be important.”Now it’s important we all test negative … to make sure we don’t go out and spread this…

  • Scientists just measured the smallest amount of time ever observed: 247 ‘zeptoseconds’

    A theory from Albert Einstein has been put into practice to observe extremely shortest time intervals between two events. Source: Scientists just measured the smallest amount of time ever observed: 247 ‘zeptoseconds’ Did everyone play with a stopwatch to try to clock the lowest amount of time on it? Something like getting it so say…

  • “Not a job for government”

    Health experts say recommendations, rather than restrictions, are insufficient in combating reckless behavior. Source: As coronavirus cases rise, red-state governors resist measures to slow the spread, preach ‘personal responsibility’ I don’t understand this “not a job for government” bullshit. Under that rationale, I assume there are no public health laws on the books in North…

  • Like It or Not, the Suburbs Are Changing

    You may think you know what suburban design looks like, but the authors of a new book are here to set you straight. Source: Like It or Not, the Suburbs Are Changing Won’t lie, it is still a bit weird to read the NY Times and just stumble into articles about my neighborhood in Austin.

  • Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away

    The soda company’s first diet cola was a pop-culture icon in the 1970s and early ’80s, then faded after the launch of Diet Coke. Coca-Cola kept the brand going for decades to appease a fiercely devoted base. Source: Tab, Coca-Cola’s Diet-Soda Pioneer and a ’70s Icon, Is Going Away We just watched Back to the…