Stray Thoughts: Predator Badlands 😈 Watch Out Boy, She'll Chew You Up... Last week I had occasion to watch the new  Predator: Badlands  and I gotta say... it did not work fo...

New on the blog, my reaction to PREDATOR: BADLANDS
tl;dr: It's not bad, but I didn't like it

Sharing again, my hack for dealing with DST with kids

Sat: bedtime is 20 min early
Sun: bedtime is 20 min late

You're welcome

Today is a good day. You know why? Because it's New Strings Day. New Strings Day is always a good day!

Me: "I'm not anti-meeting. It's the number of them that gets to me. I get tired of sitting. If you spend five or six hours a day on video calls—even if they're really productive—it's just exhausting!"

My therapist: "Oh, I know"

Oh, ffs

🎵 It's a quarter after one, I'm a little drunk and that's all, send skeet 🎵

Hey folks, quick blog post about my current obsession: The Lord of the Rings Trick-Taking Game!

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Big mood right now

🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Been some big backlashes this week. New Cracker Barrel logo. Taylor Swift's engagement photos.

It's wild how much people think their opinions should matter about this type of thing.

I read TLDR for tech news and I laughed out loud at one of today's mailers.

Topics included:
- AI for orchestration
- AI for conference planning
- AI for observability
- Hey, what if Terraform had a GUI?

fantastic lede from sam, and the rest of it ain’t too shabby either

My youngest child—who is not a gracious loser—has decided to start playing CUPHEAD.

Pray for us.

Robert Reich has a new memoir called "Coming Up Short"

That's not even a joke

Never trust anyone whose favorite president is Andrew Jackson

Happy National Whistleblower Day!

Does anyone have any thoughts or feelings they'd like to share?

Fault Blind Satellite · Single · 2025 · 1 songs

Decades ago I started a band with some friends and we wrote a bunch of songs that we never got good recordings of. Today we're going back and revisiting them, now that we're older and wiser and actually know a thing or two about music production. Here's the first one we've finished.

Ha!

I keep seeing artistic renderings of Ozzy in Heaven and I feel like maybe you misunderstood his whole aesthetic.

omg

I was minding my business and suddenly JKR funded campaigns to end my existence.

Kids in the next room: "They're onions. And onions don't go to Hell."

o_0

First Impressions: Vantage 🗺️ I Can See For Miles and Miles... A message from an entity known as "The Traveler" has lured you to an uncharted planet. While orbiting, ...

There's a new game from Stonemeier called VANTAGE, and I've played it! Here are my initial thoughts

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Superman is fun. #supershit

OMG this. Unexpected face-turn in a story about how he becomes a crime lord. What the actual

IT REALLY IS!!!!

Y'all. Y'ALL!!!

KPOP Demon Hunters

Y'all!!!

I just. So good.... Aaaaaugh!

Unpopular opinion: I don't like dark mode. I can't tell any of my windows apart.

Oil, that is. Un-Black Gold. Texas Decaf Tea.

Arnold is having a ball, and I do like Uma Thurman's Katherine Hepburn impression