January 2026
: A software eng got sniffy with me for verifying how an app works. “I’d expect IT to know already.” …
: Nice Saturday: Breakfast downtown, an experiment with a new barber that paid off, and a hike up to …
: The World Is Drowning in Tourists. Who Should Pay the Price? The benefit of traveling with another …
: I’ve never done a solo RPG before. I’m not sure how I found this one, but it looks fun and it’ll be …
: a former dirtbag editor on em dashes I’ll be the first to admit that, as an editor, I was a relative dirtbag. I mean, I cared about what …
: Short Sands Beach (Oswalt West)
: Cannon Beach on the way to Manzanita
: Cannon Beach on the way to Manzanita
: 28 Days (With Gemini) Later I’m up to 28 active days on Gemini at work in the past 28 days, so ✅ for me on that. That is up from …
: The place we got for the coast this weekend looked familiar. Had to go back to 2008 to figure it …
: Holy cow. My RPG info cup runneth over. Giving Shadowdark a serious look. Looks light and simplified …
: At its core, Soylent feels like an extension of capitalism & a byproduct of one of Silicon Valley’s …
: Supernote, handwriting, the "default mode network" I’ve been messing around with the idea of how to keep things I am thinking somewhere that is both …
: I’m looking at Dragonbane for some RPG-curious people, but also because it seems to have flexibility …
: Two months of no laptop, just iPad Pro and mini I’ve been using my iPad Pro 13 as a full-time laptop replacement for about two months now, replacing …
: This combination of storytelling, articulate language, and occasional profanity suggests a …
: To be frank, we tested weather sealing before starting the GR IV development but that definitely …
: No, a wild-eyed denunciation of digital zettelkasten apostates is exactly what I need to be reading …
: The Oregonian decided to jack my price up $5/month using an algorithm, so my subscription will be …
: “I’m not trying to judge, Ashley, and this is a blameless family. It’s just that Dad and I have …
: Glad to see the (former) leader of an NGO coming around to the idea that privatizing social services …
: Well, let’s see what it does. #meshtastic
: High on Fire pre-game. Someone in the kitchen fired up the Sleep. 🤘
December 2025
: I have this newish Mac Mini and hadn’t had a reason to get Homebrew on it until this afternoon. I …
: I just set up the double-tap accessibility gesture on my Ultra (it’s a first-gen so it doesn’t get …
: I ended up losing my afternoon to some indifferent analysis from a hostile party at some other …
: Too wet for the X half today so trying out Lux on the phone.
: I like the Gemini summarizer in YouTube so much. “Creator”-driven video privileges everyone else’s …
: I got turned on to Schmidt refills and I’m using them with a Studio Neat Mark I and a Schmidt …
: I reupped Apple News+ because it was cheaper in my bundle with it than without. I wish it were …
: Deena Weinstein’s “Heavy Metal: A Cultural Sociology” talked about metal inverting rock’s …
: Pluribus update: Apple News is exposing me to Pluribus recappers, and it’s jarring: The show’s way …
: This article is a Rosetta stone. I wish Peacock were better communicators, and county politics …
: The thought of enabling ChatGPT’s “cynical” mode is nauseating. We’re surrounded by reflexive …
: The early Kindles had good page-turning buttons. I moved to a Kobo partially because it had buttons …
: A few quick notes on my “start from a blank page and contribute the first 30 percent” theory of …
: VoiceNotes so far I’ve been using VoiceNotes for a few days. It’s an AI note taker you can use for meetings or as a …
: Well, the weather will keep it indoors for a bit but I’ve fully kitted up the X half: Soft shutter …
: The “Apple locked my account over a sus gift card” guy was made whole, so that’s good. Also, some …
: Love Nuphy. I ordered an Air75v3 as soon as I knew they existed, and broke with tradition by going …
: One little Highlander joke and these tankie shitbirds downvote me into a crater. Dicks.
: I just read there’ll be a Pluribus season two and I feel uneasy. And my god, people, saying Carol …
: I’m going to experiment with VoiceNotes for a month. I wanted to see if I could cobble something …
: bricks, plaster, (me, a little)
: System change ahead. Oooo! Hope it’s socialism! 🚩
: As an IT person, FedEx’s “you’re viewing what our customer care team would share with you” message …
: I was 8 & we were driving from Chicago to the Twin Cities when the Volvo’s pump blew. We got to an …
: Say what you will about Bluesky, they’re very proactive about swatting down thirst-trap accounts. …
: Assorted snapshot aesthetes I’m not really a SooC fetishist, but leaving the X half’s timestamp turned on made me feel kind of …
: On the Fujifilm X half I got caught up on the (slightly dated) chatter about the Fujifilm X half and then decided to buy …
: Windfall (Son Vault) I think the correct progressive position on the Uncle Tupelo schism is pro-Wilco. Whatever, but it …
: Last day of Puppet in the Pearl, 2015
: The 19, 14, and 72 to my extended neighborhood Lents is a funny neighborhood. I think the problems posed by the Woodstock/Foster/i205 couplet will …
: “This is no time to be driven by ideological rigidity given the current economic and political …
: … meanwhile, I’ve learned that the fastest way to do intra-family cash transfers is to use my bank’s …
: I haven’t thought of OLPC in a long while. Back when it was a thing I went on a journey, from sorta …
: Well, let’s see how this Apple Music embed plugin works. #highonfire #metalmondayonsunday
: My periodic Oregonian complaint, but probably the last for a while As part of my account cleanup and general retrenchment, I finally canceled my feedly subscription …
: ... and Structured is okay, too. I took a look at Structured when it first showed up a while back. Since it prefers to work within …
: GoodTask seems to make Reminders viable for me I found GoodTask today. Or re-found it, anyhow, because the App Store had the little …
: Well, the Activation Lock thing resolved easily overnight and I’ve got this Mac mini M4 Pro in place …
: I changed my iCloud account address after I bought a Mac Studio. I was just now trying to deactivate …
: “The ‘Mad Men’ in 4K on HBO Max Debacle” I thought this was gonna be, like, when “typography nerds” …
: Alison just reminded me YOB is coming up! What is YOB? YOB is love. (And Buddhist doom metal) …
: I just turned Center Stage on with a new machine. A coworker said it was giving her motion sickness, …
: If I had the patience to do this I probably would, but I “sacrificed” a Magic Keyboard using …
: This is/was my favorite todo app, meaning it most closely mapped to my brain and had as much stuff …
: Snap. I got my way on a couple of things and suddenly have a backlog of stuff I deferred while I sat …
: I wonder at what point all the costs of commodified housing – administrative overhead, NGO …
November 2025
: Al & I took the Green line downtown for breakfast at Grits n' Gravy, then we walked up to Slabtown …
: I’m enjoying Pluribus. I didn’t see the tagline until yesterday: “the story of the most miserable …
: Setting Aside the Unix Aesthetic “The bad news: You’re falling through the air with no parachute. The good news: There’s no ground.” …