---
title: "Notes on 2025W03"
slug: weeknotes-2025w03
date: 2025-01-19
categories: weeknotes
tags:
  - Weeknotes
  - Me
  - Birthdays
  - Public Transit
  - japanese
  - Space
  - Politics
  - Mass Transit
---

My birthday was this week. I'm 37, which is a
[pretty neat number]({{< ref "/blog/2025/thirty-seven" >}}), as it turns out.

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Blue Origin [launched][newglenn] their New Glenn rocket [on Wednesday
night][newglenn-yt]. A very cool launch of a very large rocket.

Conversely, SpaceX launched Starship 7 and it .. [blew up
catastrophically][starship] and spread debris all over the Gulf of Mexico. I
hate seeing the environmental and human impacts of such accidents, but it does
give me small joy when Elon takes the L. :upside_down_face:

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Some articles I read this week:

* [The Abuser Economy](https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/abuser_economy)
* [A Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Trump: Better Public
Transit](https://newrepublic.com/article/189842/public-transit-democrats-trump-climate)

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An acquaintence referred to [Bunpro](https://bunpro.jp) in a conversation we had
on social media about Japanese grammar. This site has lots of detailed
information about the language and how it works.

[newglenn]: https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/16/blue-origin-successfully-launches-new-glenn-rocket-into-space/
[newglenn-yt]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmOwYOO1G4
[starship]: https://apnews.com/article/spacex-elon-musk-starship-e165e81ed2350ce684c7ed8d9357d7ba