I totally missed that Jon Stewart was making fun of people masking? Are there not enough other things Jon Stewart could fill a dumb podcast with in this rusting wreck of a world?

Finally saw Wake Up Dead Man. I liked it, good film for the Trump years

Monday on the In Between Week, the liminal space between years, is the most zombie time

I mark every year through the books I read. About 20 or so, each year. Here are the ones I got to this time around. 2026 awaits. intertwixt.beehiiv.com/p/intertwixt...

As bad as the Jets are… Hey they don’t have Aaron Rodgers

Intertwixt?

When I’m watching Fox Sports I feel like I can smell the Vegas casino smoke

CES plus this flu season is going to be interesting

Quick answer: shit www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...

On the reading list for 2026: The Talisman, which I’ve still never read.

Reading The Design of Everyday Things and this chapter is suddenly overlapping with Season 2 of The Rehearsal

2026 is one of those years I think about and instead of thinking about the future, I think…what now

For 2026 I wish to disappear into a lost realm inside a book

Reading about the process of making errors

My Retro Bowl QB has 6700 yards and 88 TDs for the season

Context you rarely hear: global stocks are up about 30% over the past year. U.S. stocks? Around 18%. That means American investors underperformed the world by about 12 percentage points, even while headlines called it a “fantastic year.”

Dropped some amarena cherries into the oatmeal happy snowday

Saw Fire and Ash, but not in 3D - saved money and watched at local theater for matinee. Solid, the end battle was impressive. Waiting on 3D screening in Vision Pro

Had CES dreams that were sort of like Baby Steps. I kept losing track of time and ending up in far off food courts

At that point in Baby Steps where I’m wondering what

I know Marty Supreme is supposed to be good but I just can’t take the trailer seriously

Did he actually go to sleep last night, or did he stay up till morning posting and mumbling waiting for bad santa

Top games this year I played that I can think of right now, in no order: Donkey Kong Bananza Sektori Blippo+ Kirby Air Riders Ball x Pit UFO 50 (Switch) Metroid Prime 4 Mario Kart World

I miss the years we’d look back and say “that was a nice year”

Got the kitchen sink fixed, and now family members at home are slowly getting sick. Tucking in for TV shows and books for the flu week.

Now that I’m stuck at home and not traveling for the next week (kid flu), buying myself stuff to cope. Gonna finally try Baby Steps

Reading about the design of faucets

Bari Weiss isn’t ready for this job www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...

Feel like I’m turning into the General Grievous of smart glasses

Going shopping at Cost Plus World Tariffs

Gonna watch Brazil again soon and am ready for it to seem absolutely calm and straightforward

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

The battleship images look like cybertrucks for the sea

That CECOT video’s gonna circulate forever

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

I would gladly live in a world where CES Trailer is back

Went to get a haircut and midway through a group of plumbers, unannounced, entered and started smashing the ceiling to fix an air conditioner. The most Brazil moment of a Brazil year

Reading book on design now and reflecting that when you buy something you need to use you generally want it to keep functioning as you know it. Shifts in design midway are a weird thing. New tech has flexibility because it’s not something you have a big mental map of yet

I’m in that early intimate phase of having a newsletter where I know pretty much everyone who’s signed up

The road to the AFC East champ will be determined by…the Jets

So glad the Patriots are finally experiencing what it’s like to have a good quarterback

Talked to my mom and she said she’s not updating her iPhone because all her friends say the new layout’s terrible. Which reminds me, changing designs on UI in mainstream products with a large footprint is a dicey proposition

Intertwixt 16: the two stories I never wrote, lost for different reasons. William Gibson and Gordon Bell. Be your own librarian. intertwixt.beehiiv.com/p/intertwixt...

Now about 20 minutes and falling

New Intertwixt coming tonight, full of remorse

Jags-Texans AFC championship game

May I humbly suggest, to those who consider AI to be a replacement to writing: Prompting basically involves lots of descriptive writing. Look within yourself.

Saints tossing TDs at the end of the game for no reason. Ok

They’re attacking theater kids because they’re actually aware of the techniques of theater. They’d prefer people who are just wowed by dumb cheap showman tricks

I already have travel plans through March, I think. That’s more than I normally have set up at this point of the year