Eating at Ramen Nagi in Palo Alto - sitting next to a guy wearing a tshirt with confederate flag SS bolts and a Nazi skull pin on his hat.

As someone who works in IT support - developers are the absolute worst. lol Like what do you mean you have 8 versions of Java SDK installed and you don't know if you can delete the one from 2016 that has a list of vulnerabilities longer than a CVS receipt.

I can be one crafty bitch when I have a fresh pint of mod podge and skip my meds. Before, WIP, and after.

Streaming and vinyl can coexist. Vinyl: listening to the incredible Kinks record “Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround” in its entirety. Streaming: saying fuck it and listening to the song “Strangers” from said Kinks album on a loop for an hour straight. @thekinksofficial.bsky.social

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

What would be your left/right pocket hanky code meanings for this bandanna? #hankyCode #theshining #horror #queerHistory “Hanky Code” explanation in first comment for the curious and confused.

Gotta finish it off with Long Cold Winter. Singers from this era tried REAL HARD to get that raspy blues-soaked vocal style but Tom Keifer from Cinderella really nailed the Stephen Tyler meets Tom Waits aesthetic. I imagine his vocal cords looked like a jellyfish eating string cheese though.

Its like surge pricing, but for the entire country.

Some Sunday apartment cleaning music - from back when when America was Great and “men dressed like men.”

Freddys bar taking reservations like it’s Studio 54. Ugh. So annoyed. First time trying to get a drink after a month of sitting at home and I’m in a mood already.

Why do I even try to go to Freddys in Arlington anymore? Every time it’s the same - missing bartenders, people holding stools for people who aren’t there, empty 2 and 4-top tables that stay “reserved” all night. It’s turned insufferable.

Working on a new app called 5by5. #lastfm #5x5 #5by5 #5by5app Lotsa Cake this week. @thebandcake.bsky.social

Ugh. My scar better end up looking better than this at some point. I’ll spare you the photos but it looks like I have a second ass crack an inch above my actual ass crack.

Finally got my staples taken out today, 3 weeks after my back surgery for my sciatica. I’m so excited to take a proper shower tonight. Still get really sore if I sit, stand, or lay down for too long - but I haven’t have any leg pain or numbness since I woke up from the anesthesia!

340k people? I’m not saying it’s Wrong, but what is the source for that? I’m seeing numbers like 30-70k (still an obscene number).

So much of TikTok is now just people stitching each other and saying “Epstein files mentioned wine corks and bleu cheese 12 times so bleu cheese must be a code word for eating baby feet” - and then three days of people confidently saying Corky Romano eats baby feet.

Problematic-masks on the cover aside, this album kinda slaps and is weirdly relevant. (First time listening to it in a long time and how did I never notice those masks before? I always thought they were the “theatre” masks.)

Welp - everything looks great but I didn’t get my staples taken out. He said “I want to keep them in for another week - there’s some pulling and stretching at that location.” Which is a clinical way of saying “look fatty, we’re gonna leave them in so you dont pop open like a tube of biscuits.” 🤣

Sciatica surgery post-op appointment today - getting my staples taken out!

Me, thoughtfully considering buying a $20 solid walnut coffee bean dosing cup with static electricity reducing spray for the grounds.

Just got a subscription to the NightFlight streaming app. Tons of B movies, lots of horror and music documentaries. Seems right up my alley.

Just got out of sciatica surgery. So far I’ve walked around a bit at the hospital and no nerve pain! Of course I’m on like 12 pain meds. All this and a corset too? This waist is SNATCHED.

I’m still alive.

Waking up before the buttcrack of dawn tomorrow for my sciatica related back surgery. Time to drown my anxiety in a tasty cheeseburger.

Me, finally eating the turkey chili from the cafe at work.

Someone finally made this song listenable. 😂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XR...

It's an MTV simulator with almost 30,000 videos, organized by decade, with special sections for Headbanger's Ball and Yo! MTV Raps. This is so good.

Save the Date

Yotta flop deez nuts

Speaking of #strangerThings - if I’m ever trapped in another dimension and being placated within the mind of an all-powerful being - I would rather crawl up Vecna’s viney undead asshole than hear “Running Up That Hill” one more time.

I finished Stranger Things the other night. I thought it was very OK. It spun off the rails a bit but I don’t get all the hate. I REALLY don’t get all the vitriol towards the coming out scene. People wanted some of his friends to reject him in the name of “realism?” Fuckoutahere. #strangerThings

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Rediscovering Kyuss - kinda forgot they existed until I picked up their debut on vinyl last week. Haven’t listened in like 20 years.

My face when I realize I have to start going into the office tomorrow, after working from home for two weeks.

Apple’s developer review messages are like “something is wrong with your app, figure it out. It might be this one thing is missing, except that thing is easily found. “

Went to the Air and Space museum; saw this helicopter with a rescue basket and this was the first thing that came to mind.

Share a great female villain:

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Do you ever wonder about the burning existential questions … What was “ANSI art”? What was a “bulletin board”? Were there ANSI comics? Heck, how do you even define "comics"? … Well, I've got some answers: breakintochat.com/blog/2025/12... #retrocomputing #textmode #history #comics #webcomics

Remember back in the day when local Twitter meetups were a thing? Are there Bluesky meetups happening?

The Upstarters tearing up the stage at 9:30 club. theupstarters.bandcamp.com

Waiting for the @pietasters.bsky.social 2025 holiday ska show to begin at @930club.bsky.social Also psyched to see #thePlayersBand, #theUpStarters and #theLovingPaupers

Doing my best to be jolly this year.

#lastfm #5x5 #5by5app

Someone please send help - I read this review of Working Girl and my eyes rolled completely backwards in my head and now I can’t see. boxd.it/3XMCgx

Working on an app that’s almost ready to go live and struggling to decide how much it (and by proxy, myself) is worth.

Ugh. It is asking too much that children should not be allowed in McDonald’s while I’m on my lunch break? I don’t have the time or emotional fortitude for their unrestrained joy and frivolity - not to mention the shrieking.

@theonlyhumans.bsky.social loving the new song!

I saw that renown humanitarian Nicki Minaj spoke at the UN saying, “Awww I shitted on ‘em.” Minaj then asked for a moment of silence before asking those in attendance to wave their number 2s in the air if they had in fact, “did it on ‘em.”