A Week of Being Kin Lane - May 19th, 2025
It was a busy week. I keynoted the API Days conference here in NYC, had family in town, and Audrey had ran in the Brooklyn Half Marathon. The temperature was right in the sweet spot, but the humidity threw things over the top making for some pretty warm days amidst some rainy days during the API blah blah blah I participated in midtown NYC.
I was part of the opening lineup for the API Days conference in NYC this week. I spent two days API blah blah blah’ing. The conference was dominated by a focus on MCP, an API framework for artificial intelligence, with the enterprises who produce APIs skeptical of AI overall and resistant to the need for MCP, but the vendors and talks were completely focused on MCP, with the conference organizers brokering the conversation. While I enjoyed seeing people in person, the apologetic focus on MCP and AI left me concerned for how the narrative gets directed by the powers that be today.
Day one of the event was interrupted for me when Audrey texted me that Poppy was acting weird and not feeling well. When I got home she was shaking and clearly not feeling well at all. Audrey and I took her to the doctor, who gave her some medicine and ran some tests. While we aren’t 100% sure, we think she managed to find a ground score marijuana gummy on the ground and didn’t much care for the high—she was back to her normal self the next day.
We had to get the spokes for the bicycle side car tightened this week, which took a couple of days, but it was probably for the better as I was busy and Poppy wasn’t feeling good. We missed three days this week, but we were excited that Audrey joined us for a ride on Sunday to the Brooklyn bridge. We always head south along the West Side Highway and make our way around to the bridge before turning around, making for a 13 mile round trip from doorstep to doorstep.
Audrey’s brother Fred, and his wife Emily came for a few days. Audrey and Emily were both racing in the Brooklyn Half Marathon. Fred and I were in support mode, taking the subway from the city through Brooklyn and out to Coney Island, while Audrey and Emily ran the distance. We did hot dogs at Nathans, soaked up the sights in Coney Island, and then made our way back into the city to rest up a bit before heading out back into the city to explore the festival on 9th Avenue.
Saturday evening after the race we made our way down 9th Avenue for the annual street fair, eating dumplings, burgers, and picking up pies and other goodies for eating later at home. Poppy had a blast because of all the ground scores she was able to grab along the way, including an octopus skewer, which we managed to document because I happened to put the GoPro around her neck to get some unique footage of the trip down 9th Avenue from the Rottweiler perspective.
Earlier that week Audrey and I had some amazing Palestinian food at ayat, expanding my horizons when it comes to Middle Eastern food. It was excellent, and I was sad I didn’t get to finish the leftovers. I look forward to going back.
I started reading Tripping on Utopia, Margaret Mead, The Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychelic Science, this week. I am enjoying being lost in the origins of compute and artificial intelligence right now. I am reading assorted short stories by Ray Bradbury as my fictional intake, and Tripping on Utopia as my non-fictional intake. Both overlap in telling stories about where our heads were at in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s when it came to the origin of the technology powering our world.
Reading, writing, and riding are my balance right now, and I look forward to getting back to it this week. I hope you have a wonderful week, and we’ll be thinking of you as we ride around NYC.
