My new dual watch winder. A Christmas gift from Michele.

I needed a USB wall charger and went to my charger drawer to get one. This is the collection I have gathered over the years. How about you?

America loves to celebrate sports with ritualized suicide.

Often I see a post I want to reply to, someone complaining about something hard, like building high-speed rail or banning cars from cities. I check their profile and every post is a complaint. Relieved, I don’t reply. Engaging cynics is a trap. They aren’t seeking solutions, just pessimism.

Great graphics in an article about satellite positioning duels in orbit [Gift Link] Kudos to @asteckelberg.bsky.social @wrneff.bsky.social @christiandavenport.bsky.social on the good work! wapo.st/48U5Yfx

Michele is a longtime NFL fan. She’s irate at the Netflix presentation where it’s “just a fucking NFL circle jerk” of football insider talk and cutaways instead just showing the game. Why the production execs thought they needed to run a podcast instead of a game broadcast is beyond me.

Michele made tiny ornaments from felt balls for our tiny Christmas tree.

Weird. The security cameras my 7yo made me set up faded into static for 30 seconds and when it came back the stockings were full and there were more presents by the tree!

Merry Christmas to you all.

What the fuck are they showing on TV on the East Coast about the rain in LA? Keep getting texts from friends on the East Coast genuinely fearing we’re in danger.

Adventures in beekeeping Yesterday's newspaper combine of two bee colonies www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZUq...

If you don't follow us on TikTok, here's what you've missed out on this year--and we're right here to hit that button 😉 www.tiktok.com/@scientifica... (These also get posted to our Instagram and YouTube if you prefer to follow there!)

Gray sky over palms Fat drops hit the dusty streets First rain in LA

All we need is the USS Missouri. If our battleships can’t drift, I don’t want them. youtu.be/-iGp8D9832Y?...

This Is Just To Say I have eaten the holiday snacks that were in the pantry and which you were probably saving for the guests Forgive me they were festive so sweet and so gone

Empty nesters everywhere are excited and over-preparing for the imminent return of their adult children. If you are a returning adult child, plz understand that this is one of the big highlights of the year for your parents. They will be trying squeeze a year's worth of love into a few days.

Playing video games is good for your brain [Gift Link] wapo.st/4jbRcEs

The Year in Photos - NY Times - [Gift Link] Read on a bigger screen if you can, a phone doesn't do the images justice. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nothings warms my heart more than seeing the traditional Hanukkah Dog!

For Dune Awakening players, here is a sumamry of the Developer Livestream about Chapter 3. dunkdinkle.com/wp-content/u...

Cleaning another graffiti tag

@404media.co With no post about the Subscriber Comment Show, there is no place to comment about how incredibly rare it is for CPUs to die and how much more likely there is a cooling problem that causes kernel crashes. Occam's Razor FFS. I think you're just rage baiting the audience.

Cory Doctorow's speech/essay on AI. Worth reading. He tries to change the conversation from "Will the robots wake up?" to "How is this being used to devalue my labor and shield corporations from accountability?" pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Maybe I'm a dinosaur, but I still send physical holiday cards

Murder fog morning

I have decided that the Apricot Strawberry flavor of Red Bull is my favorite and much better than the original flavor. YMMV.

No legitimate use [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Cleaning a graffiti tag

Getting RGB lighting working in a PC is a never ending task of incompatible connectors, cable management, strange proprietary hubs, and baffling software. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

It’s murder fog out this morning.

Adventures in beekeeping: The ladies are trying to make a queen, it's the cell that looks like a peanut. But at this time of year, the odds for success are low.

Windows updated. Microsoft pushing Copilot. Copilot literally can't do anything.

With holiday buying season upon us, I wrote up my recommendation on how to choose a new television set, based on my experience as a broadcast engineer. cruftbox.com/2025/12/10/o...

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are cosplaying as the Tennessee Vols.

Wrapped some actual presents.

This Is Just To Say I have invested the billions in data centers for chatbots and which you were probably counting on for retirement Forgive me the hype was irresistible so shiny and so disruptive

Everyday heroes

Adventures in Beekeeping: Yesterday's hive inspection www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AeI...

Adventures in beekeeping: The queen from the Green Hive

Fifth attempt at sourdough bread. Didn’t rise. I don’t think bread making is for me.

With 100+ people dying PER DAY in the US from traffic collisions, moving to self-driving cars will save lives. They aren't perfect, but they are far better than distracted humans that kill and maim other drivers. [NY Times Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...

When you get the physical newspaper and it's the holidays. The @latimes.com provides a set of pages printed as wrapping paper. The @nytimes.com does a four page spread on holiday cookies.

Leafageddon is upon us.

Women are chronically underserved by the US medical system. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/s...

Adam Bomb on KXLU was a formative part of my youth in the 80s. Punk wasn't on mainstream radio. [Gift Link] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/s...

We’re the only generation that understands BGP. Don’t make us turn off the internet. We know how to live without it.

My kids are explaining the Animal Crossing economy. Tom Nook is a robber baron running a Company Town. The Company script is in bells. Bells are made via arbitrage of an unpredictable market of turnips, whose price is set by, you guessed it, Tom Fucking Nook. Where are all these turnips going?

Of all the things Silicon Valley has disrupted, auto dealerships remain a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Somehow, the future arrived everywhere except the showroom floor.

The season of Spotify Wrapped is upon us.