u/ohmichael

Took the kids to a free music festival in Golden Gate Park today. Beautiful day, music was good, vibes were wholesome.

Then the kids and their friends wanted popsicles.

$7.50 per popsicle! And for handing over 5 popsicles for $37.50, they defaulted to a 22.5% tip. I declined.

This was not some special ethically sourced, organic, AI enabled popsicle. This was something that would come in a pack of 10 for $3 at Safeway, or 100 for $10 at Costco.

I tried reporting it to the SFPD but apparently in San Francisco this is just called “festival pricing.”

Anyway, free festival was great. Popsicle vendor now owns part of my kids college fund.

There was nobody visible in the lounges but “too full” for priority pass. It’s a really poor experience.

Bought an overpriced bottle of soda at a self service kiosk store at Austin airport. They defaulted to 18% tip!

Does that mean I get an 18% discount?

And everyone gets $30 off, people who prepaid get $40 off. This experience feels very half assed

Why do they make the process the process so hard? It’s not like it’s a device repair. It’s a $59 device that is clearly defective. But they make you drive to the Apple Store, then it takes an hour to figure it out. When I tried to do it online it wouldn’t let me because I needed a serial number, for a frickin’ woven wallet!

/rant over

Built a kid-friendly Sonos jukebox for our Portal and it’s been a massive hit. It pulls from a parent-approved playlist, so the kids can pick music themselves without wandering into the broader catalog. We also cap the volume so it can’t get too wild. Big buttons, simple UI, and the Portal has turned out to be a surprisingly great screen for this.

The server and sonos integration was all built with OpenClaw and Codex.

Driving westbound on I580 and a truck bed cover came off a car carrier, and hit me. The tire warning came on quickly and now am waiting a tow truck from Tesla.

Not the way I expected my day to go, but thankfully we are all safe.

Going to be towed to Tesla service center in Dublin, and will likely have to get a new tire. Hopefully there is no more damage.

Then we try to figure out if we can identify the truck and get them to pay for the damage.