The entire week @jsr.com and the kid were away I was worried that Naboo was being distant and withdrawn bc he never joined me in bed and didn’t want to hang out much, but since they got home last night he has been glued to JSR like a surgically attached koala. Guess we know who’s the favourite 😳

The feeling of getting home to your own bed after some time away is a very positive feeling. AAA+++ GOOD FEELING WOULD FEEL AGAIN

The South Canterbury town Geraldine (pop 3000) doesn’t have much nightlife. We did see a yellow (and later red) traffic bar for the main road on the maps app during the day. We drove through it and the affected road segment contained, to a first order approximation by my Auckland eyes, zero cars.

I feel like going to a 70s-style roller skating rink where they play 80s and 90s goth and industrial music while I skate around a circle for a few hours would fix me.

I feel like constructing additional pylons would fix me.

I just watched the pilot for Knights Of Guinivere from Glitch Productions. Immediate thoughts: (1) it is AMAZING. I am all in, just based on this pilot. (2) Dana Terrace did NOT I repeat DID NOT have a fun time dealing with Disney when making The Owl House.

The athletic running guys at my high school wore shorts which were called (if memory serves) "Sub Fours" and they were like Stubbies shorts, except they were also slit up the sides "for increased movement." In retrospect, they were the sluttiest little twink shorts you could possibly imagine.

Some of you have never wandered around while singing a sea shanty to youself on the subject of stealing an F16, and it shows.

I woke up and I felt weird and my heart rate is real high and it's not going down. That's probably fine, right?

Me: Alright Brain, it's 3.00am and I am awake and by myself. Time to make your usual choice for how the next few hours are going to go. Sadness, or Manic Energy, which is it? My Brain: [Looking at the horizon] What difference does it make? What difference does ANYTHING make? Me: Sadness it is!

What's this?! A new Nine Inch Nails album! Sadly, it seems to be conceptually associated with an upcoming Jared Leto movie, but I will try not to hold that against it.

Yes. Yes, good. Highly relevant to my interests. deadline.com/2025/09/forc...

The Algorithm has decided to give me near constant ads for extended sojourns on giant cruise liners, clearly assuming that this would be an experience I would enjoy and desire to participate in, and goddamn does The Algorithm not get me.

Today, September 15th, is the 30th anniversary of the release of the movie "Hackers." The _30th_ anniversary. Three decades. THREE. DECADES. Anyway, don't forget that prostate exam, maybe a pair of reading glasses would help, and I hope your back feels better today.

Listening to my Gen Alpha (slash Gen Z?) kid and his friends absolutely ROASTING the Millenial generation is a genuine delight. "Stop saying DOGGO!" I asked what kids his age thought of Gen X, and he just shrugged and said "No one really talks about them." Chef's kiss. Perfection.

Nice one, Ferrari! I also really liked Cyberpunk 2077.

Shall we get it commissioned ? 🐰

Seen a lot of ostensibly left wing commentators break kayfabe in the last 16 hours. Ones who had built careers off opposing Kirk, turning up to his rallies and demanding he debate them, who are now shedding real tears because it was just a game when others did the dying that Kirk was okay with.

Lot of people out there being real-l-l performatively sad that Charlie Kirk got popped. That's interesting. That's interesting to see.

Wait, wait, wait, wait... Jeff Bridges appears as Flynn in Tron: Ares? I am suddenly much much more interested in seeing it. (I am still not super interested in seeing it. Because of Reasons[1]) [1] Jared Leto

The last fascist-adjacent Facebook account I still use is Instagram, and the fact that the new iPad Instagram app opens directly into Reels (and you can’t change that) is what might finally get me to quit it.

I'm going out of town for a while, and my old Intel Macbook (circa 2014) no longer holds a charge, so I have replaced it with a very second-hand minimum spec M1 Air (circa 2020) for the price of a pair of Airpods Pro, and I suspect I'm going to be amazed by the difference in speed, quiet, heat, etc.

This guy is likely on linkedin right now, posting some shit like "Did I cause upset? Certainly. Disrupters who act boldly often do. But at the end of the day, I am the one who has the hat. Here's what this event taught me about B2B sales..." www.stuff.co.nz/sport/360808...

I have been putting off getting these reading glasses for ages (hi to all my executive dysfunction chums) and now that I have them… they’re really good, and I can once again read comics on my iPad.

As of today, I am "just bought my first pair of reading glasses" years old. I bought the half-rim ones, too, for the purposes of expressing antiquity. Gotta commit to the bit.

No, but for for real though, just seeing this duvet pattern triggered powerful sense memories for me. www.rnz.co.nz/life/lifesty...

It's the stuff I don't post that should worry you.

I found my old leather trench coat, and showed it to my kid. I explained that I wore it (along with fingerless gloves, mirrorshades, etc) for basically all of the 1990s until a movie called "The Matrix" was released and then that was IT, leather coats were retired for at least a generation.

I want to be interested in Tron: Ares but (a) "What if instead of real people going to Tron land, Tron people went to the REAL WORLD!?" is the most low hanging fruit first pass at a script idea ever, and (b) Jared Leto's acting is a machine that turns film producer money into the death of joy.

I am a middle-aged white dude, and as such, the algorithm often sends me advertisements for (a) boats, and (b) Harley Davidson motorcycles. I wish there was a way to tell it that I already own one hilariously boomer-coded project vehicle and that's quite enough for now.

I have an appointment later today. In about five hours. So I guess until then, I will ... [Proceeds to sit still, staring at the middle distance, icon above my head the spinning MacOS beachball]

The next house we move into is likely to be our (or at least, _my_) final house, so I am wondering if perhaps once there, I should finally get into model trains and build an elaborate diorama in the basement.

I turn on "Reduce Transparency" in MacOS settings, in order to increase legibility for the current MacOS. That's the current MacOS that doesn't yet have this liquid glass everything's translucent design. I am more than slightly nervous about the about the new design.

Quite sad about Ozzy. He went on his own terms, after a VERY comprehensive goodbye concert where he got to feel the love from his fans and the respect and admiration of his musical colleagues. That's more than most get to do. R.I.P.

They are skilled political operators. Many people on this site might not like their politics. But they’re at least competent, intelligent and capable of engaging with issues in detail.

He's a skilled political operator. Many people on this site might not like his politics. But he's at least competent, intelligent and capable of engaging with issues in detail.

He's a skilled political operator. Many people on this site might not like his politics. But he's at least competent, intelligent and capable of engaging with issues in detail.

People who have a home work environment of a single macbook on an otherwise empty desk are straight up wild to me. My home office desk area looks like Tank's workstation on The Nebuchadnezzar and I use all that shit routinely.

How trustworthy do I currently consider the United States of America? Well, I am currently writing a transition plan to migrate off the dot com domain I have owned since the mid 1990s, and testing a linux desktop despite being deep in the Apple ecosystem.

No, YOU are reconfiguring a server because you typo'd the config and created a zfs pool named "Datasore"

New fridge means ice cubes available which means cold drink followed by CRONCH.

A local video store owner informed me that kids in their 20s are buying up all his VHS horror movies because they think it's "scarier due to the graininess of the video" and that was the most heart-warming thing I've heard in a long time.

“Still punk as fuck” I whisper, as I migrate my self-hosted Mastodon server from a full Virtual Machine to a Linux Container.

Me: [To @annettle.bsky.social] "If you're making cheese rollups, can you make a double batch? Then there will be leftovers for later." Reader, there were no leftovers for later. [Burp]

Despite the risk of being assessed as a Wife Guy, I want you all to know that my wife is the best. She is an onion ring amidst french fries.

Me: [At 8.30am, while holding a hot dog and a glass of beer] “Breakfast of champions.”

in the past (before their many harmful actions fully came to light) if you found comfort in work of NG or JKR, I don't judge that. Now, if you watch their shows, buy their work, buy merch, put a single additional dollar in their pocket or add to their power or influence in any way, that I do judge.

The phrase "Space Minister Judith Collins" is inherently hilarious. You immediately visualise the perspex bubble helmet worn over a blazer top and a string of pearls. You can practically hear the theremins. www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...

I'm not sure what our neighbour does for a living, but if I had to guess I would say that he receives Creative New Zealand funding for a performance art piece in which he bangs metal pipes together and repeatedly yells his dog's name at his dog.

I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.