Watching “Wonder Pets” with the two year old and laughing hard because why does my toddler’s TV sound like Das Rheingold and Siegfried?

We’re five years post pandemic and I have to say the “work from home is gonna fundamentally upend real estate markets and destroy cities” was epically wrong and I’m happy to dunk on those people.

Very much worth your time!

In French, if French fries are pommes frites, but potatoes are technically dirt apples (pommes de terre) then what do they call a situation if you have fried apples?

Youngkin only had won VA by about 2pts in 2021. Spanberger winning by 15.

Home teams have won postseason extra innings games 57% of the time.

Not a good postseason unless infielders start being out on the mound

I feel old when there are at least two kids of players I remember watching: Vlad Guerrero and Dante Bichette

An insanely frustrating thing about nice old architectural structures with steps and grand entrances (museums, government buildings) so when the beautifully designed entry is never used as such and people have to scurry through some side door. It’s so insulting to the architectural vision.

But if the East Wing were taken apart slowly, piece by piece, and you one day replace it, is it still the East Wing? What if the original parts were preserved elsewhere and reassembled, which would be the true East Wing?

The internet demands you comment on this French guy's outfit, @dieworkwear.bsky.social

The thing is where the hell do you fence antique famous museum jewels like that? wouldn’t it be, you know, obvious?

Speaking of Golden, When was the last time there was a number one jam in 12/8 ?

Golden is such a well-written pop song because my 2.5 year old girl instinctually reacts with glee to it. She fully feels the pre-chorus tension and the chorus release and starts clapping and bopping.

If you watch K-Pop Demon Hunters for no other reason, the lead singer belts out an epic A5 cleanly, multiple times, and I didn't know that was possible by most mortals.

I just fully debugged a carpet washer vac using the companies AI help assistant and was able to fix the jammed roller without initially knowing what was wrong. So… yeah. A lot logic flow customer service help jobs are gonna go away.

Ten bucks it is “price controls”

Letters to the editor made a great point about the Post's reporting on V.A. disability fraud: it is sensational, and it erodes trust of the system and millions of veterans, like me, who honestly claim benefits. wapo.st/48yO0zD

Ever find a feature layer on ESRI you cannot download? Well, there is a geojson export end around using the url endpoint where you can have it report it to you as a raw data, then effectively use that data to bring the layers into R. So cool! (esp for a lot of fed gov data that is being greyed out)

This year, the Blue Jays are America’s team.

When you think of a lot of the services that the rich pay for, especially for dumb things like "sorority consultants", you find there are two things they pay through the nose for: to buy time (buy themselves out of burden), and to buy certainty so as to live with less uncertainty that others do.

As a gift article, an interesting perspective from Bouie www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

New paper uses national zoning & housing metrics to test associations between zoning, housing supply & demographics, finds: —Increasing max. allowed density is not associated with more housing. —But increases in housing are associated with a higher Black resident share & lower white resident share.

The full 28-minute Jimmy Kimmel monologue. Please share.

CVS in northern Virginia did not inquire *why* I was eligible for my Covid booster shot today. The app makes you simply say that you are, yes or no. After that I faced no questions.

I just want a music AI that can tell me the chord progression of a song to do that faster than I can by ear.

The Marlins will have another losing season. Since 1993 they’ve only had 8 winning seasons out of 32. It is the third worst track record of losing season during that period. Only Pittsburgh (4 winning seasons) and Kansas City (7 winning seasons) have fared worse.

I prefer colder weather seasons because I can layer and wear outerwear, and men’s fashion is far superior with those aspects involved.

Wut?

The thing with stuff like this is these data centers provide a very minimal number of jobs post construction. There’s like a dude in a dark room making sure it doesn’t break here and there.

The thing is had the FCC chair not been so brazenly loud they’d have gotten away with it far easier.

If you need to make up a preexisting condition to get your CVS Covid shot, do not say smoker. Ever. Never say this ever to anyone (dentist, psychologist, chiropractor) unless it’s true. If you do you can be flagged as a “smoker” and insurances can still discriminate against smokers.

Has an actually cool person ever had a Dodge Challenger ?

The toddler because she got a green jellybean instead of a red jellybean

Do ellipses in a text chat offered as evidence in a criminal charging document imply the passage of time, or imply "omitted stuff in between we chose not to show"? Asking for a friend.

The thing about the John Wick universe is the whole world seems like an Amway multilevel marketing economy. You have all these assassins just killing and selling to other assassins? How much $ comes from retail sales to outside customers vs purchases by internal distributors? Seems flaky.

The fastest way to start using & exploring the new 2024 1-year ACS data? R with tidycensus + mapgl. With just a few lines of code, you can pull down any of the thousands of variables available in the new data and explore on an interactive MapLibre map.

Hear me out: maybe a time traveler.

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

The teenage mutant ninja turtles, having been teens in 1987, would be like in their 50s now.

the thing about modern fighter jets and UFO encounters. Why tf don't these billion dollar jets have a camera with the resolution and color of at least a $200 gopro off ebay? What's with the crappy grainy 1975 video quality?

Did you maybe read the Robert Showah article in the Post about how the housing crisis will self heal if we just wait for boomers to die? Well, here is my op-ed rebuttal on our SGA blog. @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social #econsky #urbanism #econ #planning www.smartgrowthamerica.org/knowledge-hu...

Kittydale has pretty good urbanism.

Walkability improves health outcomes. This is but another example of the social determinants of health.

audio strobe in pop music makes me literally want to vomit. Its like it messes with my ear balance. (That's the super annoying effect where a song sounds like someone is hitting the volume from 100 to 0 and back over and over really fast. Like someone annoyingly flickering the lights)

It’s really weird that a store called Chicos is a women’s clothing rather than men’s clothing store.

Y’all, watching my 82 year old watch Spanish language YouTube… it’s wild the stupid crap that basically feeds Hispanics an obsession with Maduro as if it’s all the US and Latin America orients its politics around. That and Cuba. Nothing else matters on the planet. It’s deranged.

My daughter looks so much like me that the Google Nest doorbell cam facial recognition thought she was me.