July 7th, 2017

* We spent almost the whole day visiting an old friend's place (they were
  visiting the area, so we decided to say hi and spend the day together).
  While there we visited a nearby beach. I spent a while working on making a
  sand wall against the ocean waters; after a while of working on it, a young
  kid working on digging out a pit came over and asked what I was doing.
  Eventaully that lead to them helping me with the project; it was fun!

  I also noticed an awful ton of jellyfish floating around the water. (One
  group must have contained well over fifty of them!) This was slightly
  curious, because a week or so earlier I'd gone to a separate beach in the
  province, and it was also much more crowded with jellyfish than usual.
  I wonder what could be causing so many of them to congregate around beaches
  lately? (The jellyfish that were at this beach were clearly of the same
  species as the ones at the other.)

* I read about a newly-proposed federal requirement where all cars would
  be required to constantly broadcast information about its location (and
  velocity, physical dimensions, etc) in a nearby (300 meter) range. This
  sounds.. really, really bad. Hopefully it doesn't go anywhere (no pun
  intended).
  https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/06/21/killing-car-privacy-by-federal-mandate/

  Somebody commented about it being related to self-driving cars realistically
  working. I guess that should have been obvious! Another person commented that
  just about all of the problems this would cause are already problems caused
  by other sources, which is a bit of a fair point (though the post combats
  it).