watching Wrestlepalooza instagram videos frame by frame in the car to see if it's the same sink that Heavy Metal Lore put one of the Midwest Assassins through

looking for a house in the spring of 2020 was crazy with all the home flippers bailing out of projects when the banks started calling their credit. walked into one house that had no floors, another with no stairs, a third with rainwater pouring into the basement from a leaky window

criminal mastermind 'Bud'

it's like LA Noire except the criminals are middle school boys who were genetically engineered to do robot crimes?

station wagon in a big canyon

sitting at my keyboard doing my little computer job rn, thinking about where I was at this time a week ago

What It’s Like to Be a Data Labeler Training AI YouTube video by 404 Media

there was an interview on the 404media podcast this week with a guy in Kenya who is trying to organize data labelers. if you still need a grounding in the actual human stakes:
youtu.be/QH654YPxvEE?...

you're right, I should go reset my livejournal account

on an old hard drive I have a password protected file "/zip_disk_recovered/temp/lj.xls" with the names, AIM handles and locker locations of all my high school crushes. that's opsec baby

livejournal teens have been ready for this moment for 25 years

what's the commentary on Malkovich's accent?

• I never knew a lot of folks from the northern hills, sadly. Rival schools
• I worked in Keystone
• Belle Fourche is growing a lot from oil field & COW immigrants so I dunno what it's like now, but such a pretty area
• Had an office job once, all my coworkers partied in Deadwood on weekends

I'll be in Seattle the week of April 13, come join me. Don't drive all along the border just for counties though, you'll miss all the pretty parts

a chart of gummy bears in increasing size from 1/8 oz to 26 pounds

good news: this arms race has been running for years with no brakes

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "The One Who Got Us Out" @ Fine Line 09.13.24 YouTube video by UnderCurrentMPLS

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYU7...

way ahead of you

or angry old women, when the body issue failed to arrive 😔

I've talked into a Jabra Evolve 75 headset every day at work for the past four years. Pricy, but worth it for the incredible microphone noise cancellation. As capitalism demands, there's now an "Evolve2" model that sucks. Insist on the original:
www.amazon.com/Jabra-Noise-...

🌈 wishing the panopticon guard a lovely day ✨

How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting YouTube video by Tom Scott

maybe, but I like to think that my silly bits brighten the day of the folks in that suburban office building in Utah who operate the computers
youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c

First movie I watched after buying a 4k tv for the first time! Needs to be seen as big as possible

Ian and his buddy Rob, in a stadium with a rushed field in the background

YOUR 10-2, IOWA STATE CYCLONES

sent my buddy a postcard from California once and I included some strong language. When it arrived the cuss words were crossed out

public television listing: The Lawrence Welk Show: Salute to the Ladies Poetry in America: Mushrooms, Weakness and Doubt. Poems by Sylvia Plath and Kay Ryan consider the scientific known and unknowns, and cultural significance, of mushrooms.

the two genders (mother's day edition):

I'm sure you can take a musket with you on one of these

time to read through my annual insurance policy coverage update and see what kind of wild stuff y'all have been up to

most disappointing about the Vice Media collapse is that no other media institution survives that can give us "Inside the Jock Jams"

Just have to accept that 8/9 items are useless, but if you keep scrolling, the 9th will be something like "California woman puts 65 Stanley cups in a shopping cart at Costco and walks out of the store"
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

College students bid adieu to foreign language classes Students are abandoning the study of German as they flock to classes in Korean.

saw this in the feed today and bugged out a little bit. Grim!
www.axios.com/2023/11/15/c...

it's can't be a midlife crisis that is making me travel all the time if it is taking me to Ohio, right

'Just don't lick the taxidermy': Fighting over arsenic found at South Dakota's largest zoo Arsenic was found to be widespread in the taxidermy collection, creating a raging debate about whether the more than 150 animals should be destroyed.

My dad sold me a car once, a Buick that rattled. Dad used to drive around shooting prairie dogs through a rolled-down window, and the rattle turned out to be a spent shotgun shell stuck down an air vent.
Here's another story about a South Dakotan shooting stuff from a moving vehicle: