November links: Skiing, deep-fried coffee, Ukrainian victories

DALL-E: "A mountain made out of meat, digital art."

Hello from Salt Lake City, UT. It was another whirlwind month. Since the last "Tidbits" installment, Fiona and I drove 1700 miles over three days from New Orleans to my parents' house in Utah for the holidays, picked up our puppy, and put on a hell of a Thanksgiving spread. During that long drive, we also finished three of the Murderbot Diaries series on audiobook, which I would highly recommend to anyone looking for crushable sci-fi (thanks to my pals CharlieG and NicB for that recommendation!).

For Thanksgiving, I convinced my family to let me smoke a brisket in place of a turkey. Up to that point, I had no experience with smoking meats. So, I picked up a Traeger and went on something of a "meat-blitz" over one week to get some reps in before the main event. I made short videos out of each endeavor:

Good stuff from last month

"In a sport where being called 'crazy' is often a compliment, few of Cummings’s contemporaries knew how to regard someone who fit the term’s clinical meaning."

The Final Descent of Dean Cummings

From the outside, things seemed perfect for the former world extreme skiing champion: he had a family, a successful guiding business, and unending adventure out his front door in Valdez, Alaska. But something dark festered beneath the surface.

Outside Onlinejversteegh

A bitchin' ski edit made at Alta, UT, (where I grew up skiing) that got me excited for winter

I found this webzine about the western US pretty darn charming

Desert Rats

A love letter to people who love the desert

CowgirlCowgirl

A brief explanation of the FTX thing.

Categorizing the 10,000+ SOS calls from Garmin InReach, as an InReach owner I found this fascinating

10,000 People Have Hit ‘SOS’ on a Garmin InReach—Here Are the Data

Here’s who calls for rescue and why.