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jpwgarrisonon Seattle's University Bridge still operates on Compaq 8080 and 5.25" Floppy disks

I was waiting for the U-Bridge once at about 1am, and I had another ~14 miles to ride on my bike before I got home.

For about 15 minutes, the bridge would open, almost close but then stop with one side about 2 feet up.

I was NOT looking forward to riding around to another bridge.

Another cyclist rode up, watched one of these cycles, and then he looked over at me and shrugged, rode up and did the ~2ft drop w/o incident.

I gave it about 30 seconds, looked around for cops and then went over myself. It was one of the scariest things I have done, and I was just hyper-aware for the rest of the ride home and woke up my housemates to tell them this story.

jpwgarrisonon 30 Days of Inbox Zero: How I Did it

Super happy to be in the middle ground here. Post startup, pre-IPO. We track our time, but putting an hour or three as "phone/email" into toggl.com is normal.

jpwgarrisonon iOS 7.1

Just got a facetime call from my wife immediately after the update, the UI - button placement, etc. seemed much easier to use.

jpwgarrisonon I wrote the Anarchist Cookbook in 1969. Now I see its premise as flawed

I have found that once you grasp that they are not all biblical literalists you can get along fine with Christians. The literalists are noisier but I think a minority. I married into a Christian family and they value science and logic as much as anyone.

jpwgarrisonon Poll: How many people here use Reddit?

Nice site, I fished out my login for HN to thank you!