Happy New Q1 OKRs and KPIs day to all those who celebrate

- I bet $100 the Venezuela thing was supposed to happen by Dec 19th, the Epstein files release date, but bungled all the planning - They're playing the GOP classics: once you start a recession you must start a war to prop up defense companies and the stock market

If you give a fascist immunity, he's going to invade other countries

My favorite night of the many I’ve spent at Bottom of the Hill was going to see my friend Chris play drums in Dealership as the opener, Rainer Maria after, then I stayed for a headliner I’d never even heard of, Rilo Kiley, who played one of the greatest sets I’ve seen […]

The other day I ordered something from Amazon (I know, I know) and a person in regular clothes dropped it off at my front door at 4am in their own car and instead of seeming convenient, it felt like the most inhumane, dystopian shit that makes me never want to order from Amazon again.

All the Jack Smith news coming out now is so utterly disappointing. They had an airtight case against Trump that proved what we knew, that he tried to overturn an election but diddly squat came out of it.

holy crap did someone rebrand a Pilates studio as a tactical stretching shop for dudes?

I grew up going to the Rose Parade and love watching it on TV now but the rainy versions suck all around.

I used to wonder why chefs on tv shows wear latex gloves when cooking but when I started making extravagant meals about once a week I noticed no matter how hard I scrubbed, my fingernails smelled like garlic for a week after

I’m not following news closely but I noticed there are a lot of stories coming out of Minnesota and sure most of it is xenophobic anti-Somali junk but when someone here posted it’s a push to discredit Tim Walz for the next two years ahead of any future presidential elections, it all makes sense.

A pet peeve of mine is when people buy into the language of company owners when talking about normal stuff. Like I don't care how much a movie cost to make, I care if I liked watching it. I don't care that a company's stock price tumbled, I care whether I enjoy using their product or not.

I was picking up 4’x8’ sheets of plywood at the lumberyard in the smallest Ford truck you can buy today and laughed when a monster Ford truck parked next to me.

I wanted to get started woodworking so in the past week I built a beefy set of workbenches to make up a miter saw station. My miter saw is 15 years old and I use it constantly when building so I knew this project would be a great start on a woodshop. I finally […] [Original post on xoxo.zone]

I always get the same order at Chipotle about once a month and five years ago it’d be $9.45 but a year ago it was $11.67 and this year it’s $13.98 and $15.46 and now nearly $17 for a chicken bowl and a drink. I know gym bros who voted for trump eat there, how are they not seeing this? It’s wild.

What happened to all the annual one-off Christmas episodes from the British shows I watch? Did none of them happen this year?

xmas eve 1st courses: shucked some oysters, made 3lbs of mussels in white wine/garlic with freshly made baguettes

This is the first video game I fell asleep while playing and I earnestly mean it as the highest compliment possible. It’s THAT relaxing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7aPS8pGYfQ

[Rob Reiner murder stuff] Jeez, I started rewatching the new Spinal Tap sequel and there's Marty DeBergi making jokes about murder podcasts and I realized I was not ready to hear Rob Reiner making jokes about murder in his final film appearance

Made fudgy Ghirardelli chocolate blossom cookies rolled in raw sugar topped with Hershey’s peppermint kisses

I never knew how mentally hard it was to be an actor until I spent the last couple years occasionally applying for interesting jobs I'm qualified from LinkedIn. It's an endless parade of rejection, time and time again. I honestly am impressed that anyone goes to auditions where 99+% of everyone […]

Bowen Yang is leaving SNL after this week’ episode so he can spend more time at a chiropractor after carrying the entire show for so many years

PNW weather has been no joke. An inch of rain everyday for the past few days plus winds in the 20-40mph range last night. We lost power 12hrs ago (a generator is filling in the gap), a 40’ tree came down on our chicken coop and did some damage. Our neighbor uphill had a 100’ tree come down […]

I just posted a quick write-up of my 2200 mile cross country EV trip: https://a.wholelottanothing.org/a-2-200-mile-ev-test-drive-from-texas-to-oregon/

The most interesting thing I recently learned about Rob Reiner was that he paused his career for most of the 1990s to lead a team that built a bunch of early childhood services for the state of California: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVB6pnzYRoE

Stopped to charge the car and…

Idaho

Utah is ridiculously beautiful

Visiting Albuquerque for the first time did feel like I was on the set of Pluribus

I just bought the cheapest blue/white ID Buzz in America in Dallas, Texas and now I’m gonna drive back to Oregon. Welcome to jackass.

free biz idea: let Sony or Apple outfit airport bathrooms with high tech noise canceling speakers and they get to advertise in stalls with signs saying “notice what you DON’T hear? Buy our headphones”

Whoa, Kristen Anderson Lopez and Robert Lopez wrote a song for Kermit that didn’t get used in a Muppet movie and it’s kind of great? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGPCxXmnOm4&t=5171s

It’s funny, there’s always self checkout at stores where I don’t want it (supermarkets) but never at places I actually do want to buy one thing quickly (Staples, OfficeMax)

I laugh every time Instagram pushes their new teen accounts with parental controls on me when Facebook knows for a fact my daughter is 20 years old now

I forgot over half of US state flags look like they were designed by committee in WordArt, with state seals, tiny text, and blue backgrounds that ensure they’re unreadable from any distance. https://usflags.design/

Everyone wants to see that upcoming Neil Diamond movie just for the moment when you can nudge your seatmate and say THAT’S the Caroline right there!

I must admit it’s weird for me to turn on HBO to watch a documentary and there’s my first cousin I grew up with next to Paul Anka.

My favorite running gag on the show Loot is how Molly the billionaire complains whenever something goes longer than expected into the night because "now I might only get 11 or 12 hours of sleep". As lovable of a character she is, I love that they double-down on her unrelatability with that joke […]

This is a long, painful first-person story from someone arrested by ICE and the brutal journey that follows. It’s cruelty from beginning to end. https://www.instagram.com/p/DR3aqaCEYS7/

I shipped my brother a gift, from Oregon to Southern California and it was supposed to get there in three days. After two days it was within 30mi of his house and then, it was in New York. Then Texas. Now Arizona. Supposed to show up tomorrow. Oh Fedex the places you'll go!

For most of 2025 I've freelanced for a small company helping people rebuild their homes after a disaster. I wrote up a summary of everything I learned over the past year after a lifetime of being a busy homeowner who never had to research this stuff before […]

Last year I drove a Kia EV6 but couldn't believe how bad the stereo sounded in a modern high-tech car. TURNS OUT Kia probably wired thousands of these with the subwoofer in opposite phase, a fix you can make in a few minutes that makes them sound a zillion times better […]

today I learned Ben Folds married someone named Katie in 1996 but also somehow got divorced before the end of 1996 so my assumption is she's the subject of the 1997 Ben Folds Five song Kate, which is ironically about how wonderful she is?

Aw crap, I watched ONE video on how to do a card trick and now this is what YouTube looks like to me

Macy’s parade as relevant as ever, showing off the number one thing kids love these days: Pac-Man

Super interesting summary of recent Rapa Nui/Easter Island research: 1. Statues were carved and excavated all around the source volcano without hierarchy 2. The “walking” hypothesis of transporting statues using ropes/rocking was how they moved to final spots 3. Deforestation wasn’t done by […]

The new knives out is an amazing film but I must admit I enjoyed the first two more.

Every web nerd I know seems to be looking for a new domain registrar because whatever everyone's used for 10-20 years was likely bought up by private equity firms so they tripled their prices while slashing features. Are there any ethical companies still doing cheap reliable domain hosting?

This week I had to sit through a Michael Jackson movie trailer about his life and I know there's a popular broadway show about MJ and again I'm asking who in the heck wants to see these things? Are these cash grabs by his family to get something more out of a problematic dead guy's career that […]

jfc the new Knives Out 3 movie is only playing at 2 theaters this week across the entire state of Oregon. I’ll be driving an hour each way to catch a screening. I guess all the major theater chains dotting every other town don’t want our ticket money.

I don’t mess with AI for images because they’re tedious and produce mostly ugly results but if I did, I’d ask one to make a photo of ICE agents arresting a bunch of kid animatronics from the It’s A Small World ride because it seems like a thing that might actually happen someday