Hands up who remembers the auto responder email wars of the 90s

The continuing crisis

I know beef is expensive now but costco, nooooooo

Typo of the now: “chicken coup”

The contamination and pollution from the fire in Boyle Heights is much, much worse than Los Angeles political leaders are admitting to. This is a huge scandal. So many people are getting genuinely sick.

Pardon me I have to time travel now.

Cop on tv: “She had a hastency to get there.”

David Hockney, wearing the old Ralphs plainwrap shirt and cap and holding a box plain wrap film. #IYKYK Spotted in a show about Gemini G.E.L. at the Getty Research Institute last year.

MacOS Castroville Giant Artichoke

Air to Ground Message: HOW DO I TELL THE OPTIMIZER I DONT WANT TO FLY THRU THE WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE Area: Austin, TX, USA Type: Boeing 737-800 A: #a8864fb8fbe F: #f94a6fd462a

Cop on tv: “It puts a hamper on pinpointing the time of the event.”

This dove outside has got hold of a Fender Twin and a flanger

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

It’s pretty cool that loanword is a calque and calque is a loanword.

A Newport Beach memory: decades ago I was at a bookstore in the fancy mall and a woman asked the clerk if they had George Orwell’s “Dining Out in Paris and London.”

Everything going great here in orange county

1994 VHS • Learn Gun Safety with Eddie Eagle 60 FPS : 243s

Cop on tv: “she went there of her own fruition”

afaict a “podcast” is now a tv show where you can see the mic and the headphones. Is this right?

standing in silence for several seconds before saying “good post” and toppling over like a samurai who just lost a Lets End This Is One Strike duel

…a rare and poorly understood neurological condition named after a 17th century Scottish nobleman who was hanged for it…

I saw an Audi TT coupe just now with plate RMRILKE, in case anyone wondered what he’s driving lately.

This cop on tv has said “horrowing,” “corrobulate,” and “affluential.”

Had dinner with old friends including some I hadn’t seen since 1983(!). We’ve all grown more rebellious and discontented, which was very good to see.

Seeing a guy on tv in an Affliction shirt gave me a Proustian wave of 2000s buffoonery

In 1986 I would have paid $8.99 for a Japanese import 12” of Negativland doing this.

Phrase just now from tv interview: “life-curdling scream.”

Cover for Mr. Sweet Potatoes and Other Stories, 1899.

Thinking about visiting Iceland.

I would prefer not to

Snow was general all over Stroud. It was falling upon the Tesco Express from its toilet seats and, further westwards, falling into its car park. It was falling too upon the chained trolleys. It lay drifted upon the dashboard of James Joyce's BMW . . .

The vertiginous sensation I get when someone I used to know turns out to be genuinely dangerous

Shame and eternal shame, nothing but shame!

When I was a kid there was a project at the local university involving Ancient Greek and computers. The prof in charge drove a huge Cadillac covered in antennas and wore a crash helmet, as did anyone who rode with him.

King’s Lead Hat by Eno. Heard it in a movie theater when it was new. Took me years to find it

Bryce 1.0 (1994)

This sign raises many questions, which probably should be answered by the sign but aren't

"The phrase has been borrowed, stripped of its roots, and sent out to do labour it was never meant to do." tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshi...

There’s a guy begging outside the train station here. He has a little stereo setup and only plays Dire Straits. #existentialheroes

The Wall Street Journal is running a puff piece about people manifesting wealth through completely mad superstition. I am going to liquidate my entire retirement and purchase a fifteen hundred kilogram tungsten orb.

From the Icelandic news: For over 400 years the people at Loftsstaðir Farm have been under the protection of the long dead warlock, Galdra-Ögmundur. They say that as long as their farm houses his femur, which they keep in a small box (pictured), they will continue to be.

The music in this place has a bell that sounds just like the iPhone new message sound and it’s fun to watch people look at their phones each time.

Edinburgh reminds me of San Francisco in that it’s constructed on an Escher principle in which everything is uphill from everything else.

My flight is leaving both at 1530 and at 1630 and is oscillating between gates 150 and 155.

www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/i... RIP to the man behind the funniest bit of all time: the invention of the null pointer

Is it a good sign when the doctor wants to talk to the other doctors here about how weird this is? 😬

HELLO. I TOO AM OLD ON THE INTERNET. WHAT? YES, I’LL HOLD.

Hurrah! this is the way a fellow feels when he’s going to Davy Jones—all a rush down an endless inclined plane!