(First) 10 authors (I could think of that) I've read 10 or more books from Gene Wolfe Ursula Le Guin Terry Pratchett William Gibson William Shakespeare John Milton Kurt Vonnegut Roger Zelazny Stephen King CS Lewis Quite a few 9s. I guess I don't read a ton of serial fiction.

we used to build things in this country

I wrote about the heavyweights... open.substack.com/pub/punchspo...

I'm in a bistro in Rome with my love and Im using software in my phone to spoof hardware that puts my device virtually in the UK to avoid roaming charges, and then more software to trick my software into thinking I'm back in Canada. For Valentines we're having pizza in a William Gibson novel.

brb brute forcing literacy in attic greek

try this again @patrickjohanneson.com

First round of basic milk paint tests.

the chair is finished. Made from brown ash, finished with blo and beeswax. Design by Chris Schwarz of lost art press etc.

Every time I reread "The Garden Party" I loathe those characters even more. What a great story.

after a couple days of thinking about paint i just put blo on it. It'll b sittable in about 3 days

Gene Munny vs Psycho Mike is my moty so far

learning to make stick chairs because i have lots of access to the materials. this is my first one ever, on a Chris Schwarz pattern, but with some material substitutions that made things harder for myself. not quite finished. one more glue session then finish sanding.

work in progress. hand cut dovetails in oak and one of my first attempts at strapwork/scroll work style chip carving, inspired by the work of peter follansbee

Found this on wikipedia. imagining some scientists making dispassionate notes while observing a dude take drugs, read comic books, and shit himself

i once gave a nod of acknowledgement to Spenny when he was smoking outside a bar i was walking past

my friend asked to borrow some carving tools. When I checked to see if she has a mallet, she only has a rubber one. Well, a bit of time on the lathe, and she will have a mallet. (ash with blo and beeswax)

That Roddy-Claudio match was so good and the finish was awesome.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social wrt yesterday's article - are you familiar with the concept of "pressure" in a boxing/combat sports sense? I see a significant overlap with the model you're discussing and the way "pressure fighting" works.

@allelitewrestling.com just FYI I'm really cranky that I can't get a winnipeg presale ticket, even though I have a code, because I don't have an AMEX.

the really funny thing about the disney/sora thing is that disney is paying to be humiliated. am I kinkshaming?

a big reason that adjunct faculty and contingent university staff don't organize is that we're so isolated from each other. The indignities we suffer in the role are suffered alone and they leave me wanting to just walk away from the profession rather than fight for its future.

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

We are back with another episode of Punchsport Pagoda, this time Neal, Carl, and Jessica sit down and take a walk down #MMA memory lane to talk about guys and guys we may have forgotten about. www.fightis.land/p/episode-7-...

thinking about ea-nasir

psa all season tires are not winter tires

yesterday i was eating a crepe on the street in paris and a pigeon pooped on me and an old guy sitting on the curb saw it and realized what happened before i did and he slapped his knee and laughed at me frenchily

eatin' through my stockpile of olives

@cecilnyx.bsky.social falls count anywhen

I'm not telling meltzer what I know about jericho's contract

new project. my partner bought this old cabinet which had some damage. it was one of those purchases that brings regret with time. Here are two shots of it without the drawers in it.

When looking for another simpsons meme I made I found this one which I don't think got enough love way back when.

did some wood turning. Shaker pulls with 3/4 inch tenons for my shop drawers, out of brown ash with a nit of epoxy. Finished with blo.

does turkey veloute count as gravy

If the auto industry had done over the last 100 years what computing is doing, we'd all be driving 36-cylinder engines with 1950s fuel efficiency in vehicles that use 75% of their power to haul around boxes of magazines that you're not allowed to remove because someone paid to put ads in the car.

After judo last night, I spent about an hour out in the dark with @weekend-warrior.bsky.social. patrickjohanneson.com/2025/10/02/a... Click through for more photos and a timelapse video.

@techconnectify.bsky.social I was thinkin' about car horns the other day. They're weird. How do they fire and cut off instantly without spinning up or down like impeller horns? Seems like a TC-suitable topic. I'll probably look it up myself eventually, but you might find them interesting too.

it has been a while since i made spaghetti allo scamarro, one of my favorite Neapolitan pasta dishes. My sautee pan has bread crumbs, olive oil, raisins, pumpkin seeds, capers, and kalamata olives. And chiles.

Oh thank goodness. It looks like it actually is possible to disable Gmail/Google Docs' AI nonsense with a non-Workspace account. I'm sick of AI getting crammed into every product in the stupidest ways possible, and Google's one of the worst offenders. Info here: www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

ppepostin post your ppe

Sopmeone just shared this cool video with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6t...

april 2023. Castle and Milton's first meeting

more inappropriate a&w mug use. this one is just 3 apples tall (small apples) and is holding on to the extra tomato sauce from the batch i just froze. Going to put it in grilled zucchini later.

watching wrestling and enjoying vichyssoise in my wrestling mug

Need someone to make a database of finishers so I can keep track of which finishers are under what degree of protection. Eg has anyone kicked out of the cut-throat driver in AEW? When was the last time?

Making vichyssoise again. Mmmm. Homogeneous.

Sorting old books can be wild. I'm now holding a double-bound volume of two works by the Lutheran theologian Sebastian Schmidt that I can't find evidence of elsewhere.

The UFC is a company that really likes to talk up their ideas, and then quietly toss them into a pit never to be spoken of again. Jess ( @legkicktko.bsky.social ) goes over some of the more recent additions to the UFC Graveyard www.fightis.land/p/ufc-gravey...