Them: “Oh, you play in an Orchestra! That’s so cool”
Me: “Yeah, well, I play kazoo”
Them: “That’s still pretty cool”
Me: “THIRD CHAIR”

Just got my COVID booster and flu shot 💉 💪

Sunset Park goes hard for Halloween 🎃

Started reading: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu 📚

New product idea: Glass Paper. It’s sand paper…from the future.

New website idea: Mustard seed Wikipedia, a Christian condiment reference, by the community.

New horror novel: Krampus Clamps a Close-pin, wherein the titular Christmas terror smells something bad. 800 pages, minimum.

Children’s book idea: Pimento Clementi Learns to Loofah, wherein the titular Pimento, a young, well-heeled boogie-boy, discovers exfoliation.

Bladder report: if I pee right before I leave, I’ll have to pee again before I arrive.

Finished reading: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚

TIL if the data that a GraphQL query is looking for has multiple types, the entire object will be removed. This is communicated via a non-halting warning, letting the “Can’t find the object” error blow up. Spent too much time debugging the error before noticing the warning 🙄

From Luke Planet’s No One Actually Wants Simplicity

I think a good test of whether you truly love simplicity is whether you are able to remove things you have added, especially code you’ve written, even when it is still providing value, because you realise it is not providing enough value.

Just played Cage Match at Caveat with Loose Corn. Thanks to Max, the two out of towners, and the Kaplan Brothers. For anyone outside the NYC improv scene this has been an impenetrable word salad.

On the way to Utica to perform in the Uptown improv festival. There have been the expected number of bits in the car.

Apple Maps is having a day.

Had a wonderful time visiting my friend Zach and his family in Chicago. I’m the one who looks like he smells a fart.

Did a little dress up with my friend’s five year old son’s hat and tie. It’s the first time my head has ever looked big, and the last time I’ll have my dignity.

I’m thinking about thinking about thought, but I haven’t thought it through. 🧠🧠

Started reading: Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 📚

What do you call an anthropomorphic locomotive that loves Ska?
Thomas The Skank Engine 🥁

The improv team I play in, The Cat’s Cradle Ensemble, will be performing the Utica Uptown Improv festival October 6th. The whole festival will be a blast, so come out if you’re in the area! www.utcany.org/tickets

Colored pencil doodle looking off the page.

Went on the Chicago architecture tour yesterday and had a blast. I now know that a key aspect of post modern architecture is that the building recognizes its context. For example, a lot of the buildings along the Chicago River have wavy details that evoke the water.

Finished reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚I ate this up. Compelling on a subcutaneous level.

You know what? Chicken butt.