The foot bone's connected to the leg bone
The leg bone's connected to the knee bone
The knee bone's connected to the thigh bone
...and so on

"Into the Spider-verse" is miles better than every other Spider-man movie.

What the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now? It seems like every time you login to a website nowadays, it asks you to create a passkey. If you’re like me, you initially assumed this was some sort of scam.

If you're coming to Minnebar20, check out my talk, "what the fuck are passkeys and why are they everywhere now?"

(Yes, that's the real session title; I'm excited for this one!)

sessions.minnestar.org/sessions/1932

If you use spreadsheets and don't know what pivot tables are you are missing out my friend.

The video game "Little Kitty, Big City" is on a television. My real-life cat is attacking the screen where the video game cat is sitting & meowing.

I recently got the game "Little Kitty, Big City".

My cat is not a fan.

My bank is always imploring me never to share their one-time codes, but what if it's a really cool one, like 123456? Other people need to know.

"Zoom workplace update" dialog, showing that I'm required to update from my current version to version 6.6.6

The update of the beast!

A cat sitting inside of a box.

Stupid bastard falls for it every time

Receipt showing that I purchased a Newton's cradle pendulum (the swinging sphere toy that you often find in offices) from Amazon.

An email I received from Amazon. Subject: "Safety tips about your recent purchase." Then an image of a sleeping baby. Text: "Thank you for your recent baby sleep product purchase. In partnership with Safe Kids Worldwide, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, we're committed to providing important safety resources for our customers. Based on your purchase history, we recommend reviewing the following baby sleep safety tips: [...]" There's then some tips, but they don't really matter for the joke.

I bought a Newton's cradle on Amazon.

Amazon automatically sent me some tips on keeping my sleeping baby safe.

Not that kind of "cradle", Amazon!

I specifically got a Hyundai Kona for this reason. Touch screen for Android auto, otherwise all controls are actual buttons.

I keep fighting the same boss over and over again until I get good enough to beat them, but why don't they get better at beating me at the same time?

It'd be a shitty game experience but it'd be unique if a boss adapted to your style at the same time as you adapted to theirs.

To me, this was the core of the avocado toast scene to me. Because everyone else was playing to his specifications, Koumba had forgotten what it was experience unexpected novelty. He got a jolt from seeing differences for the first time in months.

Instead of project post-mortems, my team runs celebration of life ceremonies.

A neon sign that says "FREE DELIVERY" but the "R" has been covered up by a small bag, so instead it says "FEE DELIVERY." (The sign also has a a ramen bowl & the word "OPEN" on it, but that's irrelevant to the joke.)

When you no longer offer free delivery but don't want to pay for a new neon sign.

I asked a Jeopardy expert help.

Her advice?

"Question everything."

I'm joining the culture war, on the side of culture.

I have thrown my hands up about testing terminology because everyone uses these terms slightly differently. One person's unit test is another's integration test, etc etc etc.

I care far more about what I'm getting out of them vs. their taxonomical classification.

Give 110%? No thanks. That’ll reduce my battery life quickly.

Living that slow charging, 80% limit lifestyle instead.

Store sign that has the Domino's logo on top and "GUNS" on right below it.

A mini strip-mall of three stores (all attached): a gun store (named Strapt), a Domino's pizza store, and Strapt's gun training center.

I'm at the Domino's.

I'm at the gun store.

I'm at the combination Domino's and gun store.

For the crime of donating to a political campaign, your punishment: one thousand years of spam emails & text messages.

A safety pin with a bent paperclip looped inside of it.

Who needs a fidget toy when you could have safety pin + bent paperclip

Headline of article is "Appeals court sides with ICE over its tactics against protesters." Next to it is a picture of a protester, already pinned to the ground by multiple people, being excessively pepper sprayed in the face at point blank range.

Masterful juxtaposition between this Star Tribune's headline & accompanying photo.

Journalists, I beg of you: please stop confusing unsold eBay listings for actual sales.

Why are sensors on bathroom sinks so crappy, but the sensors on the paper towel dispensers flawless?

How did the paper towel industry develop such technological lead over faucet manufacturers?

The fact that it's called "mmds_spell.txt" makes me suspect that it's for a spellchecker.

The added words at the bottom that aren't all caps are probably words the user wanted not to have red squiggles underneath it.

🎵The LoveSac is a little old place where

we can sit together 🎵

A donation form where the preset buttons for donation amounts are $25, $70, $129, and $240.

Is there some sort of weird psych trick around these preset donation amounts...?

Picture of a person wearing a knit sweater that is colored green, white & black in a pattern reminiscent of GitHub's commit activity graph.

GitHub commit activity sweater

Saying "never meet your heroes" is like saying "never date; you could get your heart broken." True, but also, you could have a great time!

I've met some of my heroes. They ranged from lovely to horrible, but I wouldn't give up the good experiences just to avoid the bad.

A settings screen for an Asus router that has a "famous game list." The entries are: "Age of Empires", "BitTorrent", "Counter Strike", "Playstation2", "Warcraft III", "WoW", and "Xbox Live".

My Asus router's convenient list of "famous games", from the year of our lord 2025.