Chris Salzman

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  • Bike Racks in Ann Arbor

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    I’m looking for feedback on this. It’s one thing to toss off a tweet about getting some cool racks and another to write over 1500 words about it. Please email me or tweet at me or find me in person to talk about this! Thanks to Workantile for helping me think through some initial ideas…

  • Blades In the Dark: Charhollow Manor

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    Saturday around 5pm Andy and I decided to play a game of something at 8pm. I couldn’t have prepped if I’d wanted to, which turned out to be ideal! We convened on a google hangout and decided to kick the tires on Blades in the Dark. I’d run one game in it a few months…

  • Better WiFi: Multiple Access Points with DD-WRT

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    October 2018 Update: I ended up taking our secondary AP off of the network. The coverage overlap such that if we were in the living room (where we spend a lot of our time) our devices were getting nearly equal signal strength from both APs. Our devices like our iPhones were bouncing between them and…

  • Car Repair as an Act of Respect: A Eulogy for Tim Haak

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    Texts On June 24th around 11pm the texts started coming in that my father-in-law, Tim Haak, was being rushed to the hospital. Something about his heart. Paramedics. CPR. Trying to get information. Vibrations from our phones bringing more half-answered questions as we struggled to fully wake up. Was this like the “episode” he’d had a…

  • Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette Issue 1 Recap And Announcement

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    TL;DR: It went well and there’s a big announcement about Issue 2 (spoiler: get ready, the rest of Michigan, it’s your time to shine)! Go read the Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette Issue 1! Want to make sure you hear about any news about the zine? Sign up here to get updates: Subscribe to Receive the Ypsi-Arbor…

  • Newsletter May 28th 2018

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    Newsletters Ed’s newsletter is four hours late this week, but still good!. I liked his comments about respecting public comment time at the City Council meetings. It’s the least our council can do. Hate Linking I’ve been thinking about this in terms of what social networks reward lately. On twitter it’s very easy to see…

  • Hate Linking

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    Republished from the May 28th 2018 Newsletter. I’ve been thinking about this in terms of what social networks reward lately. On twitter it’s very easy to see something come into view that you’ve never even considered before. That can be a good thing, or be horrifying. Regardless, our (my) tendnacy to slam on the RT…

  • GDPR and Trust and Ads

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    Republished from the May 28th 2018 Newsletter. Marcel Freinbichler on Twitter: “Because of #GDPR, USA Today decided to run a separate version of their website for EU users, which has all the tracking scripts and ads removed. The site seemed very fast, so I did a performance audit. How fast the internet could be without…

  • Newsletter May 21st 2018

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    Other Newsletters Ed’s Vacuum – vacuum/2018-W20.md – of particular interest is the settlement between Ann Arbor and Dahlmann over the Y Lot. More on that below. Newsletter for May 20, 2018 – Hanging Out with Teacher Patti – Patti has lots of information on the local beer scene. I need to get to Blom Meadworks…

  • Newsletter May 14th 2018

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    Shorter and “late” (you may have your money back) this week. Lots going on personally and professionally and my normal slot I reserved for writing got subsumed by other tasks. Better late than never though. Writing newsletters serves as a great way to think longer-than-social-media thoughts each week; an invaluable exercise in these trying times.…