I was visiting my family in Marin for Father’s Day, so couldn’t see the race till today. Thrilling to watch Alonso and Hamilton clash initially, but Alonso had pace in hand when it came down to it. Consistent with the season, Max had by far the most pace to spare.

Went for a bike ride after watching the race. Looped Calero Park from the South parking lot. I practiced carrying momentum and flow through the turns – keeping off the brakes while hitting the apex made a big difference. Strikingly unintuitive.

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SUPERMAX! More surprising than Max taking the top of the podium was Lewis and Russel giving Merc the second and third places. They had shipped some upgrades in Monaco, but Barcelona is a classic circuit that seemed to showcase their potential. Second place drama as Aston Martin is now twenty points off Merc in the constructors and Lewis is chasing third. Also, dropping the chicane into the final straight was fantastic – T1 was a helluva dueling ground.

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Summer kicked off with a whole lotta music.

All sorts of faves from LiB:

• Sofi Tukker: Did you all watch White Lotus? Cause we did.
• Meute: Odesza-like brass band. I’d first heard their cover of You & Me back in 2018 when it went viral, and couldn’t believe that an 11 piece brass band was able to nail the bass synths. Most of their live music was more rhythmic, less melodic. I think they wrote it?
• Daily Bread: CEO’s find, Pretty Lights-esque twang.
• William Close & the Earth Harp Collective: hundreds of yards of taut wires made harp, and the music made us cry.
• Beats Antique: their show has come so ridiculously far, it was a true spectacle.
• ZHU
• 070 Shake: tripped out on The Pines, which riffed on Where Did You Sleep Last Night, a folk song Nirvana covered on unplugged.
• Purple Disco Machine: Woogie had a bumping funktion-one setup. Groovy.
• Ben Boehmer: I’ll admit I wish Boehmer would’ve performed his Cappadocia Cercle set, but I still dug his DJ set.

CEO and I also went to see Jamie XX and LCD Soundsystem at Stanford’s Frost Amphitheater. LCD Soundsystem was a full band and majestic and post-modern.

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Spent a chunk of today packing for LiB – trailer is ready and I’m taking off on Wednesday.

Beyond that, the weekend felt aimless. I went through the motions of both being on top of my commitments (lifting weights, packing, work prep, seeing family) and putting in time to the things I enjoyed (sim racing, reading, CEO) but feel dissatisfied and perhaps a bit frustrated. That being said, just writing it out, giving it a label of ennui puts it in a box outside of me.

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I let the Tetris movie unwind in the background. Banging soundtrack.

Tomorrow I have to smog the F-150. Fingers crossed, otherwise I’ll need a replacement sooner than expected. Morgan Hill smog first, and will fall back from there.

Getting a Copilot

I set up Microsoft’s Copilot using an unofficial Emacs extension. Out-of-the-box the completion is super impressive if not always what I intended. I’d put odds on this being ChatGPT-3.5 turbo or one of the other GPT-3 forks given how it can go down the wrong path.

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