2023

2023 category

I converted my self hosted blog to Micro.blog hosting. The URL structure here is different than my old blog, but the service was supposed to automatically create redirects.

For whatever reason, it didn’t.

I can manually add them, but only one at a time. 1,208 to go. At 1 min per, that’s ~20 hours 😩

An accurate accounting of Elon Musk. Looking forward to his final self defeat overbuy so we can talk about the next rent seeking creep.

How many decades should you keep socks? Asking for a friend. Who will tell me. Because I’m the one who keeps their socks through six presidencies. 🧦 ♾️

Every once in a while, the phrase “too much light makes the baby go blind” pops into my head. It was the subtitle to an old New York Neofuturists show, but I blame big light.

Black and white photo of trees in the foreground and a 3/4 moon hanging against a cloudless sky

Corey Doctorow on web scraping and corporate power.

Facial recognition companies say, “You can’t use copyright to ban scraping without creating a lot of collateral damage.” They’re right too – but what they don’t say is, “On the other hand, a privacy law would put us out of business and leave all the good scraping intact.”

Bad actors don’t tell you their weakness. Thankfully, weakness exist. Exploiting them helps everyone else.

Just realized the only correct response to being messaged “ping” is “pong”.

Model train dioramas are cool. 🚂

A diorama of Seattle. Builds in the background, river with a boat in the foreground, train in the middle. You can see it’s a small scale model in a large room.

Reminder that while USB-C is a welcome universal plug, the rest of the situation is, and will remain, a mess.

Unity exec tells Ars he’s on a mission to earn back developer trust | Ars Technica

“There was a lot more [feedback than we expected] for sure… I think that feedback has made us better, even though it has sometimes been difficult.”

Execs always trot out the “we didn’t realize” line. Frankly, that says they are either disingenuous or impossibly stupid. Either way, not trustworthy.

In the LaGuardia airport they make you walk through a gift shop to get to the gates. For sale: a Turtles in Time arcade cabinet.

Who is making this kind of floor space decision in an airport?

A taste of las Vegas in LaGuardia.

A swirling fountain with jets of water coming from the ceiling in fancy configurations and lighting in multiple colors.

✈️ Flying out to Chicago today. It will be my first time there. I’m planning on seeing some improv and eating a sausage. Any other recommendations?

With great powder comes great rash-squash-ability.

– Uncle Ben “Gold Bond” Parker

My friend Jon gifted me the classics. 🍿

New York style trend update: cop mustache’s for men and expensive mullets for women.

Started reading: The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy by Kliph Nesteroff 📚

Did not finish: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho📚 Not for me. I’ve gotten my fill of “embrace your destiny” allegories.

Smoke stacks near industry city.

Two abandoned smoke stacks against a darkening sky, light still holding on in the corner. A sliver of a moon rests low between the smokestacks , right above industrial buildings. In the foreground is a truck.

What is my “authentic” self? There isn’t one. There are untold multitudes within me, all of which are as real as any other.

Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse taught me new terms.

Started reading: The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 📚

A cat's head poking out from a shelf

Finished reading: Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse📚

What a fantastic novella. Beautifully rendered, dripping with character, and not a wasted page.

🎙️ Fun episode of The Pursuit of Perfectness on perfectionism and reading.

I’m biased because I edit the podcast and sneak in as on-air talent.

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