a slider bar on Strava to sort run routes by length that is very annoying to use

this is a UI/UX crime; entering the minimum/maximum distances would be so much easier than a slider. Also why is the default maximum distance on the slider bar something that like, zero people would ever need to sort by? Are people being indecisive about which ultramarathon route they're going on?

"screen medusa'd"

Cowards need to spin the se7en credits version of closer

had an idea for a novel; it's Sally Rooney's Intermezzo, but Ivan is really into Warhammer 40K instead of chess.

people really are just out here sharing things apropos of nothing that would have to be waterboarded out of me

A *grand* payoff for a piano scam, you say?

a mockup of a white mug that says "don't talk to me until i've fully eaten my autographed copy of the power broker, the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Robert Moses written by Robert Caro"

an idea I've been playing around with

I am assuming they implemented some stupid AI garbage on the backend and it borked the filtering system

Remember whiskey rocks? The rocks they sold in the 2010s that you put in your freezer and then put in whiskey instead of ice cubes as a scam for people who didn't actually like whiskey? They should bring that back but for a different drink. Think it'd solve a lot of problems

ruin 2 bands by combining them:

KMFDMF DOOM

Fever Ray Charles

Elton John Mayer

Beastie Boyz II Men

The Magnetic Fields of the Nephilim

Front 242 Chainz

not me realizing that I will very abruptly stop having a fun daily podcast listen with the conclusion of @emmanewman.bsky.social and @aptshadow.bsky.social 's tv series advent calendar bonanza (it's been so much fun, so glad you did it)

... Which I guess doesn't necessarily run contrary to what you're saying. I agree that this season is more ratcheted up stakes-wise than previous ones. Though maybe more because it's looping back onto established plot threads?

While I would absolutely love more episodes I think that the pacing and vibes of SNW lines up more with TNG/DS9/VOY era than other new installments of the franchise with short seasons. Turns out characters can grow and breathe when the fate of the galaxy/Federation doesn't hinge on every episode!

a little over halfway through God Emperor of Dune, a book which dissects the age old question "what if God was a really horny worm?"

Google AI generated search results from an image search, with a variety of claims.

A description of the artwork that was being searched for.

A great example of why AI is so insidiously bad; I saw a sculpture on my morning run and wanted to know more. I did an image search that served up AI generated information about the sculpture. All of it aside from the location (SE Portland) was wrong (even the exact location was inaccurate).

glad to see @neilcic.com's windows95tips long overdue new post

working on draft 0 of my sci fi novel, wherein my brain has decided an interesting story is "what if DS9 but Odo is Brendan Gleason in the Guard, and Gul Dukat is Ianthe from the Locked Tomb?"

it is absolutely a story that I would be interested in reading, that's for sure.

two magic the gathering cards (Hardened Tactician and Iridescent Tiger)

first pack of Tarkir Dragonstorm and I pulled the two potential Pauper Commanders I was most interested in brewing. How would you make these PDH decks?

I DREW VEGUMBO

this album fucks, thank you for reminding me to check it out!

Gouache painting of a cool looking possum with cool glasses, making the peace symbol, and drinking a 40. Above his head, it reads “Mescaline!” I dunno. Things are really bad these days. This guy (the possum) gets it.

Mescaline!

a copy of Grimes' Oblivion with a "I bought this before Elon went crazy" sticker on it

Fun music trivia: in the Caroline Polachek song "New Normal," the lyric "The orange cat finished what he started" refers to Garfield the Cat, and his beloved lasagne. #true #music #reality

New Rebecca Black EP already out as well! It's a great time.

I regret to inform you that it's been retconned

we got some "future deatheater" ass onesie in an otherwise much appreciated pile of hand-me-downs for our twins and I'm just like.... Fine, but they have to wear something on top of it.

Love that you do this! I had to see your cast of the Final Architecture series, which I'm reading through now; I totally see Ken Watanabe as Havaer, but in my mind's eye he's a young(er) Jonathan Banks doing a lot of Mike Ehrmentraut eye-rolls, knowing grunts and clever spy stuff.

the other thing about S31 in DS9, aside from being depicted as very obviously bad, it's not clear that it's even a real thing, but potentially just a conspiracy by a nutjob who happened to have leverage over people in high places in Starfleet. It's not necessarily a legit super-duper secret CIA

my favorite thing about goodreads is that Im still connected to people there who I'm no longer connected to anywhere else. Like damn, my high school art history teacher (or someone using his Kindle) is reading some very trashy fantasy novels. Good for him.

dax inviting worf to risa for lots of rough sex only for worf to wander off and join a reactionary terrorist cell feels like a dealbreaker