TIL… Russian dressing got its name because one of the original ingredients was caviar. The newfangled kind with pickles just ain’t quite the same now.

My minor success this morning: proto-latte art. I’m at a loss for possible alt text to describe my squiggle.

While working on making my perfect breakfast sandwich, I am surprised to find that so far my favorite protein option is turkey bacon. Also the sandwich is dramatically improved by arugula dressed with mayo and a dab of Dijon mustard. Even if the salad component would have me thrown out of New York.

A nice looking Trump placard flanked by deeply neglected American flags is… a little too à propos for the state of things.

I’m just waiting for the next Star Wars movie to go full Palpatine apologist.

There’s something a little wrong with me when a lazy morning throw-it-together breakfast is oatmeal inspired by Korean army stew.

It’s kind of funny how through LLM programs, we have given rocks a Dunning-Kruger complex.

Been on a quest to make The Perfect Breakfast Sandwich. Kaiser roll recipe is coming along nicely, along with figuring out the old-school fold technique. The last fold is surprisingly counterintuitive. Le secret: Practice on flour tortillas. But even misshapen rolls taste good and look charming.

You have to admire Charlie Kirk for having the convictions to die like he lived. With his neck spouting something impressionable young minds shouldn’t be exposed to.

Golden Diner’s pancake recipe as seen in NYT Cooking is pretty dang amazing. The fun parts are the yeasted batter, and cooking a generous amount of batter in a small skillet. The honey-maple syrup was quite lovely too.

As I checked the Book of Faces in the wake of today’s news… I’m impressed the ad server found a title that inappropriate before the body was room temperature.

Thoughts AND prayers? In THIS economy‽

It’s a good feeling to stumble on the purple and blue right out of the gate, then go full Reverse Rainbow. Connections Puzzle #822 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 Skill 99/99 Uniqueness 1 in 126

It’s wild to me how many folks still think trickle-down economics is feasible, when it hinges giving rich people Enough Money, which is clearly impossible.

I’m glad to see friends excited about celestial phenomena such as the upcoming total lunar eclipse, but for all of us Americans, it’s going to happen while it’s broad daylight.

Whoever is naming granola bars at Nature Valley needs to simmer down.

I’m halfway through Part 1 of the season finale of Parlor Room where they play Blood on the Clocktower and I would be totally OK with them ending every season with a two-part Blood on the Clocktower.

May James Dobson in his passing be afforded the same respect he showed the LGBTQ+ community.

I liked “Nice to Meet You” by Myles Smith more when it was “I Love You Always Forever” by Donna Lewis.

Methinks I should shake my caffè shakerato a bit less next time.

I’m grateful to whomever told me making a morning latte is meditation where a treat is part of the process. Anyway, this morning’s was especially good, the kind that hushes your mind and you want to savor slowly, but also don’t dare let it get cold. No pic; you know what lattes look like.

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I gotta get more friends into crosswords so people can understand what I’m bragging about.

NYT Cooking, I love you so.

Note to self: Protein powder is way better in overnight oats than it is in a bowl of hot oatmeal.

Well that’s rather depressing to see the owners of the local chain Angie’s think a Cybertruck is a worthwhile investment.

I found for the game Ca$h ‘n Guns a more efficient way to send wound markers across the table. Turns out you can fit eight Nerf mini blasters into the box.

Dammit IKEA, it’s still JUNE.

Leave it to a nerd like me to play the Connections puzzle and thanks to my knowledge of obscure trivia get hamstrung into finding an accidental red herring category the hard way.

I got a political spam text. It was for Deb Haaland, running for governor of New Mexico. It started “Can I send you my recipe for green chile chicken posole?” I don’t live in NM, so I have no clue how I got on her list, but with a pitch like that, you bet your ass I donated a few bucks.

Dear Live Nation concert venue: Your post-visit survey question that asked who my favorite advertiser was while I was there is like asking my favorite STI that I’ve had. Your ad screens were invasive and negatively impacted my experience.

Juneteenth is a day to celebrate, but also it is very much a day to remember: The Constitution allows slavery as punishment for a crime, the United States has the largest incarcerated population in the world, and Black Americans are imprisoned at five times the rate White people are.

Dear driver with the license plate “MR B8TE”: How the hell did you sneak that past the radar?

I found out my home’s elevation is high enough that water’s boiling point here is a few degrees shy of 212 Fahrenheit. Which means my electric kettle has been lying to me when it says the water is 212. Anyone got a clue what it’s actually doing?

I feel like the photo thumbnail could have been selected a little better.

Desert Financial Credit Union can *absolutely* go fuck itself charging an inactivity fee on a savings account. The whole damn POINT of a savings account is to do nothing with my money. I’ve been with them since I was a kid. They helped me get a house and a car, and have ruined any goodwill.

So apparently Chili’s discontinued their chili after fifty years in business. This is possibly a greater travesty than the Chicken Crispers recipe change. It’s the namesake dish, ferchrissakes. And it was GOOD.

Can we call it Trump’s Big Boondoggle Bill?

Dear folks at the next table wondering if the restaurant has chips and salsa: It’s an Italian restaurant.

I tried something different in my coffee routine and used the grinder catch beaker to weigh out the beans. It went about as well as one would expect.

The new @walkaboutminigolf.bsky.social course Raptor Cliff’s might be their best work yet, but I did notice one thing amiss in the hard course: The moon is wrong. A crescent moon at sunset should be to the west, not the east. Where it is currently I believe would be a waxing gibbous moon.

Friday, Trump wanted to cut funding to NPR and PBS. Last night, PBS aired the classic movie Escape from Alcatraz. Today, Trump has the idea to reopen Alcatraz. 😑

Is anyone else amused when they see overly precise geographic coordinates? Five decimal places is a roughly 4’8” square, plenty precise for most any real world situation you could think of. Six decimal places is a little bigger than your hand is wide. Seven decimal places is less than half an inch.

Of course the folks at Supernatural celebrate May the Fourth.

The Apple News+ Quartiles puzzle is fun, but they need some mechanism for finding obscure words not in their dictionary. “Malic” is a word, and darn it I would like something for outdoing the puzzle creators.

Sweet JESUS is Tetris Effect Connected on the Quest 3 ever a jump from playing on the old first gen PSVR.

Thing I saw today: A Cybertruck with roof racks across the box bed. You know, with that slope. I would pay good money to watch the driver haul a mattress. Hell, I’d pay good money to watch them try and get it up there and stay there.

Your periodic reminder: Jesus was a brown-skinned immigrant who gave people free food and health care.

I’m “they moved an aisle in the grocery store and now everything is ruined forever” years old.

Methinks the makers of this candy could have picked a better font.