Pennsylvania is the state where the most objects are dropped for New Year's Eve, including a crayon, Pac-Man, a 100-pound stick of bologna, a pair of yellow pants,a rhombicuboctahedron, and a 400-pound Peep. If you can still say "rhombicuboctahedron" at 12:05, you can have another drink.

Psh, like I'm gonna let a box tell me what I can and can't do.

OK, KitchenAid. It's one thing to not have phone or chat support during the days/hours listed on your website. It's another to make me go through the whole phone tree of describing what I need only to end with "sorry, you've called outside of business hours" and hang up.

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[rambling complaint about trying to fit new kitchen appliances in the hole of the previous appliance]

Now that space is rarely an issue, I find it hard to actually delete apps I don't use. Like travel apps that are a little reminder of some city I'm probably not going back to anytime soon. Or apps that I'm "totally going to use one day." They're the "but it's a really good box" of my app list.

I LOVE these Rockette coats!

It continually astounds me that with practically all the world's knowledge at our fingertips all the time, and increasingly every day, that people don't just Look. Things. Up.

Interesting math for someone who is not me to do: If I'm counting right, we have 698 Wordle words left. Assuming you could remember the 1,611 words that have been used, are the "best" starting words still the same given the remaining ones?

I talked to ODBMS this week about @apache.org and sustainability of the open source ecosystem: www.odbms.org/blog/2025/11...

Having waffles shall now be known as a "waffle-frolic." eccentricculinary.substack.com/p/a-history-...

This is quite a tale! www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...

Life is rarely simple. But mindset and resilience make a huge difference. Highly recommend this listen on the ability to choose happiness: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...

This is not how I expected the story of Kryptos to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Breaking News: Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first team that conquered Mount Everest, has died at 92.

Is it my spots, or are restaurant apps turning to crap? Bojangles adds a fee for ordering in the app. Now @mcalistersdeli.bsky.social does too, automatically adds a tip for you, AND you can no longer order to table, only for pickup.

Who will I be seeing at ATO?

TIL Bayer lost the trademark for Heroin under the Treaty of Versailles as part of Germany's war reparations. Also that Bayer had to supply a quarter of all the aspirin it produced to the allies. www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/mar/...

@rallybingo.bsky.social That carpet is a hotel reference!

@rallybingo.bsky.social Two of us in the room managed to draw the same card. IT'S ON. 🤣

@rallybingo.bsky.social Music too loud? Kinda hard to tell with the hotel TV audio.

His name is Armus, and I recommend leaving him alone. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07...

Interesting news this morning...

It's #UNOpenSourceWeek! ASF President @suehle.bsky.social‬'s opening remarks celebrated the alignment of #OpenSource goals and those of the UN Charter. ASF members also served as hackathon judges for projects focused on the effects of climate change on the lives of children around the world.

I was doing 100 other things dudring this event (just out of frame to the left!), but I did manage to make edits to one page as a part of the edit-a-thon!

This was such a good movie that it seems like so few people have seen. theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

11 am Eastern is the best and worst time. It's about the best you can do for globally spread teams. Which is nice. But it also means there's ALWAYS A MEETING AT 11. Or three of them all at once.

I miss the experience of wandering the aisles of the video rental store trying to decide what to watch. Scrolling lists of what's streaming just isn't the same.

This implies that their other products are made with unnatural cuts of pork...

"is a valid guess, but it’s unlikely to be a solution based on what I’ve learned from playing Wordle." is the most annoying Wordlebot comment. WHY?

Potential references in "Miss Susie/Lucy had a baby." There, now you've learned a thing today, courtesy of me reading that Susan B. Anthony was the lady with the alligator purse (which is on display in her museum). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Lu...

The first keynote at this year's @eclipsefdn.bsky.social #AutomotiveOpenSourceSummit is @suehle.bsky.social , who took the audience on a powerful journey on the impact of open source software, and the value of community in the open source ecosystem.

Fun fact for the day: cowboystatedaily.com/2023/12/04/w...

Saturdays In Saxapahaw, a free concert series at Haw River Ballroom, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Co-founder Heather LaGarde talked with us about growing up in Chapel Hill in the 80s, the building of Haw River Ballroom and her life in Saxapahaw. www.wunc.org/wunc-music/2...

I'm intrigued by how categories in Connections are given difficulty colors. Purple is supposed to be trickiest, so it should generally show as the least commonly found first, but that is rarely the case. The new "purple first" statistic is also probably going to start to throw that off even more.

The CFP for Community Over Code North America closes today. If you're an Apache Software Foundation contributor or user, we'd love to hear about it in Minneapolis! communityovercode.org/call-for-pre...

Sitting on the sofa with your spouse silently sending each other reels is our parents sitting there reading out loud to each other whatever they've come across in the newspaper/magazine. We've become them.

The ironies of getting older: Technically you're getting shorter, but somehow the floor is further away.

I beg you, if your conference talk is made of slides with 250 words each that you're going to read to me, just put a link to the blog post in your abstract, and I'll read it.

If you're unfamiliar, King Ludwig II's story is a wild ride. And his death is full of Bismarck Era conspiracy theory. But when I start typing "King Ludwig" and Google autocompletes "sightings"... Friends, I am no expert, but I'm pretty sure he is, in the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda, super dead.

Obviously.

I got a bottle of Crystal Pepsi in an Instacart ad, but it doesn't appear to be available or coming around again any time soon. So weird.

This month's ASF newsletter, Plus One, is up! news.apache.org/foundation/e...

Among a population that probably does most of its learning by reading, Gnome and GNU pronunciation are a kind of open source community shibboleth. Alternately... are we getting to the point where saying guh-nome and guh-new just indicate your age? (And then there's MATE and LaTeX...)

Let me share with you my favorite poem. It's so easy to memorize, you may already know it and recite it each day. Coffee. Coffee coffee. Mmmmm coffee. Coffee.

TIL 1, Spencer's owns Spirit Halloween, and 2, there are more Spencer's now than when you were in high school. (Probably. Making some assumptions about the average age of my follower friends here.) thehustle.co/originals/ho....

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