Gonna show my age here but in a strange way this harkens back to computer magazines publishing the BASIC code for a program and you were expected to laboriously type every character into your terminal ... except now you just copy and paste the spec from OpenAI

Fantastic blog here. defector.com/don-delillo-...

I was in the photo pit that night and thought my heart might explode from the subwoofer barrage.

I got so hot under the collar today that I started typing. ofadam.com/2026/02/warn...

Witnessed a man painstakingly explain that he wanted his two to-go doughnuts cut into quadrants while two dozen coffee shop denizens wilted behind him.

We’ve forgotten how to properly commemorate Valentine’s Day.

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak

"prohibition in the united states" has this time lapse map that switches from folksy banjo music to ominous industrial sci-fi for the 15 seconds when alcohol was illegal nationwide

Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics

I’m in CoreLife munching on a salad, but am really in the dressing room of Express thanks to this downtempo dance music. I can feel the thinness of the sweaters as I chew.

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

Happy Kansas Day, my friends! I remember the buffalo, the sunflowers, the cottonwood trees. Ad astra per aspera rooted deep within me.

Tired of hearing that AOL dial up noise every time you want to check your electronic mail? The sequel to the internet gets rid of all the hassle. Logging on to internet 2 you just hear some clicking. A dog barking .wav file and then just seven more clicks.

What I appreciate most about "Star Trek: The Original Series" is that most episodes feature computers catching on fire.

TCM will become the “ongoing home” of the LOONEY TUNES library. A six-year licensing deal for more than 750 shorts starts in Feb. "We’re able to present these cartoons with the care they deserve alongside the classic films they helped influence." www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t... #FilmSky

This interview is very funny. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Swear I heard the words “sports are the ultimate reality” in reference to a college football game.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Love to be snitched on.

Saw a priest petting a family’s iguana in the church after finishing my Saturday organ gig. No joke!

I just watched "Downey Wrote That," a documentary about the legendary comedy writer Jim Downey from SNL and Letterman. It talks about his love of the comedy of laboriously explaining things that don't require any explanation, as in this beautiful example: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vooe...

There's an older man in our neighborhood with a severe limp and he's a dead-ringer for Old Man Marley in 'Home Alone.' This morning, I was lucky enough to pull into the driveway just as he briskly walked by, so I'm all charged up with goodwill after he stopped to wish me well. 2026!

Just drove past the 90° West Longitude sign on the Interstate in western Illinois, putting us a quarter of the way around the world. Encouraging.

Due to being over-scheduled in December, I'm looking at a January 31 close to the Christmas movie season. And I'll hear no arguments against this legally-binding decision.

On the night before Christmas, an Amazon delivery driver pouring a jug of water into his company van from the gas station parking lot just hours before midnight.

open a terminal and type `ssh tiny.christmas`

It’s going to be difficult for me to tell you how sad I am that Linux permissions prevented my automated shortwave radio recorder from capturing the annual live BBC broadcast of “Lessons and Carols.” But try anyway.

there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food

Even in 2025, I can discovered a like-minded question with no answer at all. www.reddit.com/r/Bass/comme...

if tumblr dies I need this video to make it's seasonal rotation here instead just in case, Happy holidays 🎄

i was watching a comp of old Xmas ads and I have a long memory for holiday stuff from this er but I have no memory whatsoever of something called Phroomf (?) or his (its?) commercial featuring longtime major leaguer Bob Boone (?!)

This thread goes to 11

Fun fact: 'Deck the Halls' was written in 1862, the exact year in which use of "it's the" overtook "'tis the" in books.

Not only forgot my music bag after digging out from a sub-zero wall of snow, but added extra fun by wearing giant moon boots. No organ shoes = stocking feet. All proper technique is for naught.

If MTV only knew what they were about to unleash...

REminds me of this www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvpN...

lol www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8UvLHp5/

Oh god, it me.

Tonight: Recreated Herman Blume's panicked driving sans brakes, but on ice downhill toward a busy road. youtu.be/twIkfDx5yo8?...

Excuse me?

One of those nights where you can't decide between the 1947 or 1994 versions of "Miracle on 34th Street."

Honestly… I’d try it.

Instead of however many dumb words the NYT dedicated to Olivia Nuzzi, I’m gonna need an entire NYT Magazine dedicated to Fred Hermes: www.dtoswi.org/fred-hermes....

Eating a cinnamon roll with sweet potato in it and this should be the new norm.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one