Jonas turned his blue jersey into pink. Does that make today his litmus test? #Giro #chemistryjoke

Sad to hear Rudi Gulliani has been checked into Mt. Sinai Total Landscaping.

New blog post: blog.xcski.com/2026/04/25/f...

Pam Bondi is the most recently sub-bussified. Can Pete Kegstand be far behind?

New head cannon: The reason Picard had to tell the replicator that he wanted his tea hot every time is because to set a default, he’d have to edit his $HOME/.replicatorrc file, and nobody taught him how to use vi.

So the US went to war with Iran without consulting the country that’s been shooting down Iranian drones for years, or the country that’s redefined modern war. Do they have a real Not Invented Here problem? I hope Ukraine makes them pay dearly for hauling their asses out of the fire.

Would you believe I'm currently fixing a Y2K bug? I'm importing mailbox files from my old server into a new Mailman 3 server. But starting in January 2000, several people's mailers started putting a Date header with the year as "100". I suspect it was Eurdora.

How many divisions does the Supreme Court have?

Begging the question: Is this an insane sale for President's Day, or is it a sale for an Insane President?

New blog post: blog.xcski.com/2026/01/31/5...

If you're going to call ICE "law enforcement", can we at least get them to wear uniforms instead of this mosh-mash of TEMU military cos-play shit?

If I handed my gold medal to Donald Trump, would that mean he’s the fastest over 60 paddler at the United States Canoe Association’s national championships a few years ago?

My wife has my contact in her phone as “ICE” for “In Case of Emergency”. Which lead to a moment of panic when I used FindMy to find her in the grocery store, and she got a popup on her phone saying “ICE is searching for you”.

Greenland should rename itself to “Epstein Files” so that Trump won’t touch them.

When the Dems are back in power, they should pass a law that you can’t name a building after a living person, and give trump 48 hours to either remove his name or die.

Can a decent set of New Yorkers rid us of our pathetic, immoral Senators? I will vote for anyone with a pulse and just a bit of decency to see @schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social removed from office. These two are a stain on our politics.

Is that the neutral service car? Not the usual dull Shimano blue. First thing I noticed was it said “Trek” on the side but the bikes are S-Works. But then I noticed a couple of other logos and names. #vuelta

New blog post. blog.xcski.com/2025/08/12/k...

The neat thing about a Ring doorbell is that your dog will recognize the notification sound on your phone and bark at the Amazon delivery person from 10 hours drive away.

@paulapoundstone.bsky.social have you heard the ad that was on today’s Dear Crinkle? It was an ad for “The Financial Guys” or something like that and they were obviously right wing tools.

New blog post about installing the bathroom fan. blog.xcski.com/2025/07/26/r...

I think we should rename ChatGPT to “An infinite number of monkeys at typewriters”

Another canoe/kayak race drone video: youtu.be/KSNkTVE2oao

YouTube tells me because I used some music from the Pogues in my video, it won't be shown in Russia or Beloruss. I'm not terribly upset about that.

I made two drone videos at Saturday's New York State Paddle Championships. First, the short course: youtu.be/-ULqzjotj0Q Second, the long course: youtu.be/7GDZwP4_VR0

My FloSports app every now and then will suddenly switch to the previous stage, and now it’s sunny out I don’t always spot it right away. #giro

Can somebody explain to me why "The RedBull Kilometer" has the word "Kilometer" in the title? The money and seconds go to the first people over the finish line, not to whoever was fastest over the previous kilometer. They might as well call it "The RedBull However Many Kilometers The Race Has Gone"

Tom Pidcock’s time trial helmet makes him look like a Sontaran. #giro

And here's my second video from the 'Round The Mountain Canoe/Kayak Race youtu.be/2NvNsBPkm9I

Went to a paddlesport race this weekend, finally got part 1 video done: youtu.be/aYIQ8-wWNbg?...

Today on Quora I saw a question about why the UK government is intervening in British Steel. My first thought is that they’re only making plans for Nigel.

I hope somebody got a photo of her with that butterfly. #roubaix

Nice to see the crowds at Paris Roubaix Femmes standing back far enough to let the riders take the dirt line if they like.

I didn’t want to do this, but both my senators have proven that they’re unfit for office. I’ve been contributing since 2016 and you still haven’t grown a spine. #DSCC #SchumerSucks

Possibly stupid question: do the riders pair their head units to the power meters on the spare bikes? What if another rider takes the spare bike? #OHN25

I just got an email from the social security administration inviting me to report scams. I’d like to report a bunch of unqualified tech bros running rampant through our important data.

Dear Elon: My week: - slept - napped - nodded off - snoozed - fell asleep

Are we still doing safety pins to signal allydom? (Allyness? Ally-icity?)

Looking for recommendations for a domain registrar that can do email forwarding and that can forward [a-z].org{.*} to foo.bar.com/this/that/{.*} My personal experience is with godaddy, who suck balls, and gandi who I chose some years ago only because they weren’t based in the US, but they’re pricy.

Final flight of the Coulson Flying Tankers Hawaii Mars. youtu.be/Ol07yTMlM_c...

Shoot, the tailgate on my truck is frozen. I haven't owned a truck before, but I suspect that if I were to pour hot water on it to unfreeze it, it will freeze up even worse afterwards. Maybe if I wait until I'm going to drive somewhere, it would give it time to dry out and it wouldn't freeze up?

When a captcha says 'click all the bicycles' , do you click the section with just the bike, or do you include the full rider as well? What about when it's asking for traffic lights, do you click the entire pole or just the light bit at the top?

My most important question today is he named Carl or Kyle? Renee seems to use both interchangibly. #happilyeverhanks #rv #rvlife

So I’m boycotting Facebook today, so you lovely people get to read my whines instead. And today’s whine was that last night when I saw it was snowing, I thought for sure I’d be going skiing today, but when I woke up I discovered it’s 12F out there. So probably not.

youtu.be/iHSSb1MKGf4 Not a great day for me, but at least I got some video.

I love @writebikerepeat.bsky.social but Remi really needs to find some new synonyms for winning other than "raising his arms".

After 4 years of using an iPad instead of a laptop as a daily driver, I'm setting up my new MacBook Air, and I keep trying to tap things on the screen.

Remember when cars and trucks used to drag a grounding strap or chain behind them? Is that still a thing? I get very mildly motion sick driving my truck and I’m wondering if a ground strap would help.

The trip to the cross country ski place goes through some deeply dumber parts of Trump Country. Today I spotted a hand scrawled sign that said “Not eat cats”, and I’m not sure if that’s a Trumpian admonition not to eat cats, or an immigrant mounting a defense against the Trump’s accusations.

First cross country ski of the year. Bristol Mountain was partially open, but only groomed for skating. As a guy who quit racing in the 1980s because of skate skiing, I’m waiting anxiously to get the grooves back.