I'm so busy this week I only had time to write a half-newsletter. Honestly, I'm fine if you only half-read it. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-half-new...

I have quietly released a new feature for Gisnep. You can now save your game history in the cloud and it will sync across devices where you log in with the same account. So you can play at work and home, or desktop and mobile, and your history will follow you. gisnep.com

I made myself a decent screenwriting web app that met my particular set of needs (no install or account required). It’s not perfect but I’m debating making it public in case it meets other people’s needs. Does the world need yet another screenwriting tool? Or is that category overstuffed already?

I sometimes think about the other set of twin towers in the original Spider-Man trailer that were also destroyed. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-other-tw...

Calendar apps should have a setting like “Once I have 4 meetings scheduled in a day, mark the rest of the day as busy”

"Milla Jovovich's GitHub repo" is not a phrase I expected to see today. github.com/milla-jovovi...

Pac-Man but make it Snake gisnep.com/snakman/

The Louvre has the Mona Lisa. Here’s what other institutions consider their Mona Lisas. For instance: the National Portrait Gallery in London has a portrait of William Shakespeare and MoMA has the Gold Marilyn Monroe. [ironicsans.ghost.io]

Only the Louve has *the* Mona Lisa, but here’s what other institutions consider to be *their* Mona Lisas! ironicsans.ghost.io/its-t-mona-l...

The truest thing on the internet today

I just moved Gisnep’s upgraded mobile version from beta to the main site. So if you ever stopped playing Gisnep because you found the mobile experience frustrating, now’s a great time to revisit! gisnep.com

Turns out, the first website to ever be hacked was the website for the movie Hackers ironicsans.ghost.io/when-hackers...

Dammit, this is actually starting to be fun.

Felt cute might delete later

I think the topic of my next newsletter is so interesting that I'm tempted to send it early just because I want people to see it. But it's going out on schedule, next week on Tuesday. Sign up to make sure you don't miss it. That's all I'm saying. ironicsans.ghost.io

20 years!!

Actor-style headshots from the 80s of artists like Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, and Robert Longo. [ironicsans.ghost.io]

I love these 80s headshots of famous artists. Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, and more ironicsans.ghost.io/80s-headshot...

I love these 80s headshots of famous artists. Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, and more ironicsans.ghost.io/80s-headshot...

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

Do you play #Gisnep on mobile? I'm looking for people who can test a new-and-improved mobile experience before I roll it out. If you're interested, DM me and let me know what mobile device and browser you use.

Flashback to when you could get a cool job in the newspaper classifieds. From the Sunday NYTimes this week in 2000. And that’s how I became Polo Ralph Lauren’s staff photographer for the next 7 years.

Might I interest you in some gisnep.com?

Under a minute! My favorite morning brain-waker-upper! I solved today’s #Gisnep in 00:49. No. 518 | January 7, 2026 gisnep.com

I do Alphaguess, Hang Five, and Gisnep. Sometimes they're super easy and sometimes they take me ages to finish.

The mysterious cartoonist who goes by pseudonym Olivia James has left the comic strip Nancy which she revitalized with sometimes surreal, absurdist and self-aware humor in 2018. Starting today Nancy is by Eisner winner Caroline Cash. Exciting times for Nancy fans! www.gocomics.com/extras/nancy...

That is correct for $2000! (Your current score: $182000)

I can’t believe tomorrow’s Gisnep is #500!! That’s a lot of puzzles. If you aren’t already playing, a vast archive awaits you! gisnep.com

God this is heartbreaking. I read many of his books. I’d seen him speak. One of my prized possessions was hand-written correspondence I received from Oliver Sacks. I feel so let down.

Good read — Becoming a Centenarian www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

No newsletter this week, but it’s a good opportunity to catch up on the last edition in which I attempted to find every giant model whale in the world, in size order. (Spoiler: the blue whale at the American Museum of Natural History is not the biggest!) ironicsans.ghost.io/there-be-wha...

@kottke.org This struck me as potentially of interest to you: youtu.be/uBwM8oy7_Ok?...

The last episode of Pluribus comes out on December 26, just one day too late to call the episode A Christmas Carol.

Carol Sturka is an anagram for Our Car Talks. Also: Ocular Karts, A Solar Truck, and Orca Ark Slut. This reveals everything.

This Vectrex version of Donkey Kong is incredible! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO0t...

Gen X comedy nerds, assemble! youtu.be/Bw2bJZl990I?...

This is a good time to remind everyone that I disliked these people so much we rolled our own Whitney alternative to avoid giving them more money, and gave it away for free so that nobody else had to either nebulasans.com

Aside from everything else, Sora has the absolute worst feed algorithm of any feed that has ever algorithmed.

Johnny Carson's house is for sale for $110,000,000.00 www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

NEW PERSONAL RECORD!! I solved today’s #Gisnep in 00:56. 🎉 No. 433 | October 14, 2025 gisnep.com

The great thing about AI is that you can remake movies the way you remember them

A classic from @ironicsans.com I have always enjoyed. Can you tell Arial from Helvetica? I can, though I was tripped up by the same three that a lot of folks seem to miss. ironicsans.com/helvarialqui...

I wrote about people who write blurbs. Huh. Blurb. That’s a funny word. Blurb. Why do we call a little quote of praise a blurb anyway? Well, I wrote the answer to that, too. Blurb. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-king-of-...

I love to see a writer as the subject of an SNL documentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMgF...

🚨The movie “Cube” (1997) is now free to watch on YouTube. It’s one of my favorite examples of a movie that does a lot with a little, basically one set used so cleverly in different ways. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TrW...

Am I the only one who has no recollection of there being a PS2 or PS4? If you told me they only made odd numbered PlayStations, I’m not sure I could refute you.

They put a trampoline on the Great Pyramids. A trampoline. On the pyramids! ironicsans.ghost.io/the-trampoli...

In 1977, a plan was hatched to put a trampoline on top of a Great Pyramid. Best pyramid scheme ever. ironicsans.ghost.io/the-trampoli...

Just saw a product for making “AI Generated UGC” (that’s User Generated Content) and my head’s about to explode