RE: https://mastodon.art/@PhineasX/115883780875310511 Yes Hahahahahaha YES

The Onion takes on the closure of the #pittsburgh Post-Gazette https://theonion.com/one-of-nations-oldest-newspapers-shutters-after-almost-240-years/

Italic is not the slant, it is the letter shape. True cursed font knowledge begins with CMU Serif Upright Italic.

You guys know that when you join a public wifi network and the captive portal doesn't show up, you can go to http://neverssl.com to force it, right? Because I feel like I have to do that like every other day

We got a new airport and we’re very proud of it

Wizard of Earthsea is very good, I now need to read every Le Guin book

Hanging out with kid before my Business Flight to give wife some prep time, and a year and a half of outdoor school has prepared us for an ultimate experience: Snow Zoo

Gabapentin’s Dollhouse

Told kid what the climax of a story is and now she is doing Narrative Analysis of every Disney movie

airpods vision pro max

If we’re headed for another recession, where is the next Decemberists. Why is no one writing songs with names like “The Cantor of the Arbalest”

Attending a bluegrass concert

You know what’s crazy, is broadcast daytime tv Brought to you by doctors office lobby

OTOH what if this is a standard 3/4 double bass being played by a perfectly proportioned lil' guy https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/115859769845119473

Been pretty quiet on the web site front, but that’s because I’m working a doozy. Stay tuned

discovered my 4 year old playing her ukulele on the stairs this morning. you simply love to see it

Sad to announce that in the current environment, I can no longer support the perverse values in this text, formerly my favorite Elephant & Piggie title

Costco is short for “Cost Company”

I vibecoded my baby’s genes and it came out speaking exclusively in markdown formatting with occasional bulleted lists

Friend: my niece was watching this k-pop movie on Netflix, have you heard of it? Me (guy whose second most played song in 2025 was Golden and whose most played song was a version of Golden where all of the vocals are cat meows): yeah

Back from my trip, but maybe I shouldn’t be

In a snowy cabin for 4 days, see yinz on the other side

Prime 4 really nails a key part of the Metroid experience: running over crystals with a motorcycle

You know what shouldn’t be a 20 step process is buying your nephew a Fortnite skin

you can just chain “eve day” to denote how many days before a holiday you’re at. happy new year’s eve day eve day eve day

Been nice knowing you all

Can you hear the difference?

Playing Breath of the Wild with a 5 year old backseat driving is an unmitigated joy

you're telling me the generation raised on Teletubbies is into "brain rot"

If you’re going to order the three-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich, order extra arsenic sauce on the side. They really skimp on it

My annual viewing of Max Fleischer's brilliant cartoon “Christmas Comes But Once A Year" comes but once a year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dfeokaw2xc

A Santa is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.

From our family to yours

Heroes Season 1 was also bad, it just wasn’t as bad as the following seasons

Peter Capaldi is the best Doctor

kid woke up way too early and wouldn't go back to sleep in her bed or ours. feels like a dress rehearsal for tomorrow

Two men enter, one man leaves.

“Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” is misleading. If you catch them with overstock at the end of the day, sometimes they’ll just give you a stupid prize for free

The Looney Tunes are dead. The Tune Squad struggles to be born. Now is the time of MonStars.

BTW for anyone who has read something on my site and gotten pissed at the pulsating title temporarily wrapping and shifting the layout of the content up and down, that issue is now resolved. We regret the error.

Not the best season they've ever done, but I'll survive 'er. https://phils-web-site.net/reviews/survivor-season-49/

i finally understand michael burry’s gpu depreciation hypothesis and i agree

Metroid Time

Yeah, I’m trolling Trolling the ancient Yuletide carol, that is

A coworker recently helped me crystallize a part of my coding philosophy: if DRY conflicts with KISS, KISS wins

[uspol, social media] Shouting at the radio on the drive home because they were on about the kids' social media ban and how it might drive some children to DARK CORNERS of the INTERNET and like dude I was tryna sell a car on facebook and a guy messaged me to ask about it and his pfp was an […]

I’m waiting for the new Vania game, personally

Please enjoy my latest pod cast with the delightful @danielthedaring, and please follow him to get more sweet bugs in your Mastodon feed. https://phils-web-site.net/pod-cast/6/

Chaotic bookstore section

Giddy up, jingle horse (?)