Was just at Mindy's this morning, and I can't say no to their cafe grande au lait. One of my favorite things about my neighborhood is all the amazing food within a convenient walking distance.

Stop trying to distract me with substance. I'm trying to make jokes here.

Don't be ageist, David. Adderall'd up people of all ages can—and regularly do—find vulnerabilities.

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This sort of scenario is the reason the stopped clock analogy exists.

Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio) YouTube video by Ace Records

This always plays in my head when Elon Musk mentions off-world colonization.

Shonda Rhimes. Can't say I knew her, but she lived a few blocks away and my friend's older brother had a thing for her back then.

Modern battery powered tools have electronically controlled motors, which run much cooler/quieter than AC motors and provide higher power because a battery has higher peak amps than a 15A outlet. An equivalent corded motor would require a big, expensive power brick and huge cables (really a DC UPS).

How can I communicate better with my mom? YouTube video by Anthropic

Just saw this commercial and now I'm wondering if there's a term for advertising that's intended to make a contrast with a competitor, but really just makes the entire product segment look bad.

Texas had its fairest maps in the 1980s and 1990s, during realignment. Before that it was gerrymandered for 100 years by Dixiecrats, after by the GOP. And the GOP was suing in the 1990s under the VRA―to break Dem racial gerrymanders. The history is complicated, and naive takes are just wrong.

Democrats controlled the Texas gov and state house during the 1990s redistricting. Without going into a lot of complicated history, the simple fact is the Texas GOP simply didn't have the political power to gerrymander the state until the 2000s. That's why they did a mid-cycle redistricting in 2003.

I guess it's what you make of it. I do the dishes and weeknight meals for our family of four, and tacos are one of my easy buttons. Very quick prep, toppings stay on the cutting board or in their containers, and cleanup is just some plates and utensils in the dishwasher. All in, under 30 minutes.

2003 Texas redistricting - Wikipedia

Over 20 years even

Haven't tried that, but I have a whole bunch of long PDF invoices where I needed to extract part numbers and total quantities. I manually verified the first few I threw at Gemini, and then decided I trusted it to do no worse than whatever errors I'd introduce doing it by hand.

What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work This is what it actually took. From the person who architected and drove Chrome’s Flash deprecation from proposal to through the final…

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What Really Killed Flash Player: A Six-Year Campaign of Deliberate Platform Work This is what it actually took. From the person who architected and drove Chrome’s Flash deprecation from proposal to through the final…

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Should be sleeping, but instead I'm reading up on people hitting this prompt and it's crazy. Some are legit device/software integrations. More seem to be test code accidentally pushed to prod. But some sure seem like CSRF or fingerprinting. Glad that this whole mess is finally getting reigned in.

Also, it looks like Chrome blocked a genuine abuse case here. About the only legit use of this permission is a device maker providing a management interface. I didn't see anything when I tested the site now, so I'd guess it's from an ad embed, and maybe private/local network fingerprinting.

New permission prompt for Local Network Access  |  Blog  |  Chrome for Developers Learn about the new permission prompt for sites that connect to local networks.

Didn't realize this finally shipped. It's only been 10 years since I lit that fire. The tl;dr is that remote websites have historically been able to silently probe hosts on your private network, exposing routers, printers, etc. to potential attacks. But now Chrome blocks that by default.

I really enjoyed Wonder Man, but it reminded me of how much I miss Dwayne McDuffie's original Damage Control run. I read it as it was released in 1989 (still have my floppies) and it was such a perfect everyman take on the Marvel Universe. The whole "evil SHIELD" version in the MCU just falls short.

Graph showing market data as of 20 Jan 2026 % Total daily change since 21 January 2025 Change US: 14.99% Change US Dollar: -8.05% Dollar Adjusted Change US: 6.94% Average Yearly Inflation: 2.23% Dollar & Inflation Adjusted Change US: 4.76% Change Non-US: 32.10% Net difference US vs non-US: -17.11% Net difference vs Biden (at week 53): -7.46% Net difference vs 1st term (at week 53): -5.58% Net difference vs Obama 2nd term (at week 53): -14.47% US Market Unadjusted Year over Year: 15.41%

At Trump's one year mark foreign markets are massively outperforming the US. After adjusting for inflation and the weak dollar, a US whole market index returned a measly 5% over the last year, while a non-US whole market index returned an adjusted 22%. Not a sign of confidence in the US.

No Signs Of Protesters Leaving As Portland ICE Building Reopens U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resumed activity at its southwest Portland building after protesters forced its closure for more than a week.

It was one week. It's all well documented. There's no point in lying about it.
www.opb.org/news/article...

One week. The facility had a one week disruption in 2018. Opinions can reasonably differ on approaches to protest, but I can't imagine claiming that one slow week in the middle of the summer was a serious impediment to the operation of that facility.

Yeah, far as I can tell it's a smaller version of the same core design, workpiece clamp, etc. I've just never owned a Wen tool before, and it's hard to find useful feedback online. So I figured I'd ask a real person with at least approximate firsthand experience.

I'm looking at the Wen 10" (MM1015) for $240. Any thoughts on that one? I'm space constrained and will need to move it between floors regularly, so the smaller size matters.

The Vevor J1G-ZP33-K255D also looks like the same saw at under $200 (but I fear ever getting warranty support from Vevor).

Seems more like food poisoning, but it's always hard to tell. Either way we're taking precautions (and we all had our COVID & flu shots in the fall).

Heard the 13yo sprint to the bathroom to vomit at 3am. She said there was "a little" on the floor in her room when I checked on her. I said not to worry and that I'd clean it up.

Turns out "a little" meant that @catnguyen.design and I needed to clean until 4am. Kiddo is still recuperating.

All that's a given, but SCOTUS also needs to be stripped of control of its docket if we really want to stop this whole star chamber game that they've been playing. They used to simply be the highest court of appeal, and they need to be returned to that role.

I think I'm turning into a single issue YIMBY voter, but I could be swayed by a federal candidate running on repeal of every Judiciary Act from 1891 onward.

Yeah, it's not like we're in any disagreement on the fundamental issues, and I think it's useful to look at it through different lenses.