a.wholelottanothing.org in 2005 https://web.archive.org/web/20050812013916if_/http://a.wholelottanothing.org:80

I ate at loads of high end restaurants all over Italy for two full weeks but the absolute best risotto I had ever on earth was in Rome’s main train station cafeteria.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Thank you to the large crypto donor ( 10BTC! ) to the @archive.org Thank you crypto folks! www.blockchain.com/explorer/tra... to: archive.org/donate/crypt...

Additionally, hippos - despite being massive - have almost no fat on them. All of that impressive bulk is muscle. 2% body fat. Compare that to Elephants, which are around 8-10%, or rhinos, which are 10-20%. The average human is around 20-40%, for reference. They're *all* muscle.

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social this is the greatest notification after I signed up to garbage day

a wacky idea i unironically believe is that dead suburban shopping malls should all be turned into small public commuter colleges. most non-anchor stores are a decent size to be a classroom, parking/road access is already there, you even have a food court

How to record ICE: 1) Record from a safe distance. DO NOT INTERVENE. 2) Put the DATE, TIME, & LOCATION on the video. 3) Ask for NAMES & BIRTHDAYS 4) CONTEXT, how many people were taken? What happened? How? 5) If possible, document vehicles used and agents, even if masked. @eltragon.bsky.social

"They canceled cancer research, closed hospitals and took food away from millions of hungry kids both at home and abroad to build concentration camps for immigrants and give billionaires another jet."

Ask MetaFilter was mentioned on Jeopardy last night!? metatalk.metafilter.com/26681/What-i...

@pjvogt.bsky.social I am this big of a fan of your podcast

I am absolutely shocked and gutted. We just talked a couple months ago and I was hoping to see him soon. He was the best person you could ever spend time with in New Orleans, always a wonderful host and someone who showed me how great second lines are. RIP Pableaux. I’ll miss your mixtapes too.

It’s new book launch day! If you love soccer and especially the #NWSL, here’s my post all about it. a.wholelottanothing.org/its-book-lau...

1. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth 2. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenowethout

The couch to 5k running program slowly builds endurance with about 16 hours of running spread over 9 weeks. Every year, my town has a turkey trot at 9am on Thanksgiving. So, at 5pm yesterday I began running nonstop so that by 9am today I should be fully trained in the most efficient way possible

I just flew across the country and hearing people cleaning planes only get $12-19/hr is WILD when every traveler pays several hundred or thousands of dollars to be past security. Double their pay, at least. https://apnews.com/article/charlotte-airport-workers-strike-3a00ed15aedfdd8b5e2383feab53cb5a

you gotta hand it to crypto bros, they really know how to celebrate xmas with their annual secret grift exchange

My wife & I flew to Kansas City for the #NWSL women's soccer championship but our hotel canceled our reservation and we ended up staying at another place on the Missouri side. To kill time before tonight's 7pm game we might go see Wicked since we're not in Kansas anymore.

also waymos run their windscreen wipers in the rain and i do not know why

The only cost to making sure The Line always goes up is your dignity

Whenever I catch a glance of any random early 20s dudes checking Instagram as they scroll I usually see a truck, someone failing to jump off something, Charlie Kirk, dense forest, cool sunset, Joe Rogan, a clean truck, etc

I could spend all day staring into The Void, wondering if we'll still live in a democracy next week, but instead I wrote up reviews of the best things in my house that I consider total game changers. Enjoy. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/recommended-things-in-my-home-that-are-total-game-changers/

I voted Friday night, dropping my ballot in a box at the county courthouse. They usually count by the next day, but 4d later, still no confirmation of my vote. Maybe there's a backlog, but ballot boxes were torched around Portland so I'm off to the county elections office tomorrow for a new ballot 🤬

The official dunkin account, everyone

RIP Fernando Valenzuela. Only 63! I saw him on TV weeks ago and he looked happy announcing the games for the Spanish broadcast. Last summer I watched an excellent documentary about Fernando from the LA Times and I can't recommend it enough, it's free on YouTube here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dcv...

A big lesson I've learned in middle age is whenever a friend mentions their dog's age is 12+ and/or their parents are older than 85, never EVER ask them about their dog or folks in the future. Always let them bring the subject up first.

In hindsight, we probably shouldn't have had GenXers building social software 20yrs ago that resulted in today's "doomscrolling" environment. They grew up on nuclear annihilation drills, getting under desks each month to prepare for incoming Soviet missiles.

I heard new balance was making skate shoes and they feel great, like Vans but with arch support. Every NB shoe gets a number and these are the 440. Yep, the 440. Wait, the 440? 420 as your skateboarding shoe was RIGHT THERE, new balance

Sports gambling in the US felt like a minor aspect of sports until it became legal everywhere—then—holy shit, every ad on tv, special bets mentioned by announcers before games, even the new Apple Sports app tells me the betting odds on a women's pro soccer match.

Fuck yeah, New York Liberty!!!

@mikeindustries.com should have started a podcast about the eternal search for slip-on shoes. Ever since he told me about his own quest 10-12 years ago it’s been a low key obsession to find the best possible laceless shoes and it finally feels like we all have tons of options today

Bought some Cap'n Crunch for the first time in years and the crunchy nuggets are about 1/4 the size they used to be! How am I gonna get the roof of my mouth torn up with these tiny harmless things?! Post-meal mouth meat hanging like stalactites or gtfo

I've always said architecture moves slower than the economy or even societal shifts but I love how the DFW airport has pre-2001 terminals where baggage claim used to be just outside your gate, now walled off.

There's nothing I love more than a frustrated TSA agent yelling at everyone to follow a surprise rule that exists only in that airport and isn't properly signed to a group of people that only fly once a year.

The perfect restaurant name doesn't exi…

I've always lived on the west coast so when east coast friends told me years ago that Market Street in most cities is named for slave markets I'd be like "what?! but every town has one!" and they'd say "yep" Anyway, this sign is 100' from Louisville's Market St

it’s late in the season for the Portland Rose Garden but there were still some amazing flowers #bloomscrolling

didn’t see the aurora borealis last night but woke up to a nice sunrise

I use my car's horn maybe once a year to prevent an accident but I wish it made two sounds: a) a gentle toot to egg people in front of me to put down their phones and go at green lights b) a Union Pacific Locomotive blast that loosens tooth fillings to alert someone who's about to t-bone me

A truism: anyone with a We the People constitution bumper sticker on their car is most likely to think laws don't apply to them

This is what true love looks like. Today's our 24th wedding anniversary and when you wake someone up and say what do you want to do for our anniversary? and she says let's go to that place with great hash browns you know you've picked the right person to spend time with.

I wrote a piece about how I helped my favorite aunt save money by sharing access to my streaming apps. https://a.wholelottanothing.org/how-to-share-your-access-to-media-with-family-and-simultaneously-sweep-the-annual-nerdy-nephew-of-the-year-awards/

this should be a crime in the geneva conventions

who called it This Is Spın̈al Tap instead of All Amps Go To Eleven

in a perfect world, Ruth’s Chris only uses Fifth Third Bank

new from me: I asked experts and NYT staff to help me understand why the paper continues to pump out so many weird and awful takes on trans people www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/arti...

noticed a few of my streaming subscriptions were increasing their prices (Disney+ went from $79/yr to $109/yr) so I cancelled but it sure seems like they know they’re gonna lose the strike and are jacking up prices to keep executive profits high in the aftermath

The best mug shot on my roll