Thinking of Don Henley singing from his 40-acre luxury residence, looking out onto Point Dume. Then the chilly winds blew down Across the desert through the canyons of the coast, to the Malibu Where the pretty people play, hungry for power to light their neon way and give them things to do

Dryer stopped working, the roof is leaking, kitchen lights stopped turning on, my new tremolo pedal doesn't work and ants are creeping in from all corners... LFG.

Just checking the status of "completely random" URLs that would not in any way be targeted or flagged for removal...

Important read if only to begin to understand how needlessly complicated we have made our world.

seven months since the palisades and eaton fires (Jan. 7) two years to the day since the maui wildfires(Aug. 7) just sayin...

The friendship our family has formed with the baby roadrunner that frequents our yard in the morning has reached the stage where my wife and kids will pick up dead cockroaches and crickets with a dustpan and feed the little bird... It's about as cute as you can imagine.

This one was way up there on my wishlist… Strong memories. Summer of 1998. Back of an accord on Highway 10, leaving Trackside Bar on a weekday afternoon. The wind was rippling through your hair. Does that moment and all that came after ever cross your mind?

No one goes into journalism because they want to extract text from PDFs... Yet here we are.

Was never into Sabbath and Bark at the Moon scared the shit out of me as a kid, but there’s no disputing the mark Ozzy made on rock-and-roll and the sound he and Tony Iommi ushered into our collective consciousness - and dare I say - it occupied our brain.

Wow! It’s my lucky number too!!! If there’s something that is deep in my DNA it’s sad 90s songs. Now, choices must be made.

Yeah dude… This line in here hits hard, no matter your opinion on Stephen Jenkins… “The plans I make still have you in them, Then you come swimming into view”

3 credit 300-level course? Don't mind if I do.

Pretty sure I just suggested enough songs for about four unrequited love mixtapes I would have made in high school for the longlist...

@ryanpitts.bsky.social … I hope you are awesome. Thought of you today as I watched a man parked two spots from the door of the grocery store look around for the cart corral and proceed to walk three times as far to shove it haphazardly against other carts instead of just walking it back to the store

Wow... Just... youtu.be/6BuxaVdv7po

It’s the Mike Campbell lick of the day.

Kerr County commissioners considered several years ago a proposal for a flood warning system similar to sirens used for tornadoes in other parts of the country ... After missing out on a FEMA grant, the idea was shelved because of the cost. apnews.com/article/texa...

Just figured out the LA Woman lick (buh buh buh da buh bump duh bah de dah) is basically the pentatonic box on an A chord barred across the fifth fret.

The latest report can be accessed via the Wayback Machine: web.archive.org/web/20250119...

Achievement unlocked…

Oh... equations written up just down the street from me... part of the earth penetration mechanics work done in the 1960s at Sandia National Laboratories. C.W. Young - Clarence W. Young - is mentioned in this 2021 profile I wrote of a former Sandia researcher who studied the topic.

A lot going on here but a very intriguing approach. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Something I wonder that @caitlinmaycooper.bsky.social might now, how many times did Hali even attempt pull ups (not step backs or spins, straight pull ups) driving right all season?

not really the point (or maybe it partly is) but it is so difficult for me to read chatbot voice. the flattering tone is one thing but it's also just so fluffy. doesn't produce writing as much as 'copy.' Anyhow, I'm glad we're replacing people with this. Very good.

I asked ChatGPT about `oaicite` which is by no means definitive... but... ..." These tags are meant to be post-processed into human-friendly footnotes or inline citations (e.g. ""), but if something goes awry you might see the raw oaicite metadata instead."

Could someone please stop the Pacers? Please?

Making the best blasted Deep Dish in the Southwest.

Thought I really wanted a Road Rules Challenge type of event with the folks from the worlds of The Last of Us, Station Eleven, The Leftovers, The Stand (the 90s miniseries, not that 2019 version) and The Handmaids Tale. Turns out the aftermath of 2020 is challenging enough.

Next time anyone asks, my role is to employ my "technical data acquisition capabilities to collect and process high volumes of publicly available information."

You can never be too prepared.

Something brand new from Humera Lodhi, Maya Sweedler, Sara Burnett, Linda Gorman, and Annie Ng and The Associated Press... Here's a look at what President Trump did over his first 100 days in office — and how the world responded — as told through AP news alerts. apnews.com/projects/tru...

It appears that some SEVIS data has been shoved down the memory hole.

The federal government is reversing the termination of legal status for international students, a government lawyer said Friday. The move comes after the AP verified this was happening at more than 18 colleges, universities & university systems across the country. apnews.com/article/inte...

Albuquerque right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ9v...

Since this story was published three hours ago, I have been able to confirm nearly 200 more students at a couple dozen more colleges, universities and university systems across the country.

Was part of this effort that confirmed at least 600 students at more than 90 colleges and universities across the U.S. have had visas revoked or legal status terminated in recent weeks, according to a review of university statements & correspondence with school officials. apnews.com/article/inte...

New from @apnews.com ... President Donald Trump prioritized loyalty as he built out a team for his second term. These are the billionaires, trusted allies & media personalities that President Trump tapped for top roles in his administration. apnews.com/projects/tru...

I know your day lacked an oral history about the production of What About Bob?... You are most welcome. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

NMSU Director of Communications Amanda Bradford, in an email just now, says the university is now aware of six individuals who had their visas revoked between yesterday and today.

And it’s @reuters.com with the best TikTok live of all time…

A lot of NOAA data is stored in text files on FTP or directories like this which makes downloading wide swaths of data easier and accessible with wget or curl. Gimme this everyday over your Power BI or Tableau dashboards.

While this is a larger tech news org it underscores that local economic development accountability reporting is an underrated and utterly crucial beat among so many utterly crucial beats.

Interesting.

According to data obtained by The Associated Press nearly half of @nws.noaa.gov forecast offices have vacancy rates of at least 20%. Eight are missing more than 35% of their staff — including in Arkansas & Kentucky where tornadoes hit this week. Story by Seth Borenstein. apnews.com/article/doge...

Channeling Glimour to create some Elite Eight vibes.

ABQ skies straight out of Interstellar today…

Today is 5 years since my dad died in a house fire sparked by a faulty microwave. I woke up to find our youngest had set up a shop to sell some of his artwork — an apt representation of the kind of energy I tried to capture in this 2023 @marchxness.bsky.social essay. marchxness.com/1stround-car...

There Will Be Blood sure is a timeless piece of filmmaking.

GSA records obtained by AP contain a crucial detail that DOGE has not shared with the public: the dates when hundreds of federal offices and buildings will lose their leases this year apnews.com/article/doge...