This game rules go try it you will not be disappointed

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

What's a TV episode that still makes you laugh out loud on repeat viewings? The Good Place: Dance Dance Resolution Avatar the Last Airbender: The Blind Bandit Futurama: Where No Fan Has Gone Before Firefly: Our Miss Reynolds

Fuck it, this is going to make me do the dishes and feel good about it.

Tired: Electric cars are great because it's convenient to charge at home and electricity is cheaper than gas. Wired: Electric cars are great because it's convenient to charge at work and electricity is free.

Fun Olympics fact: the international ski federation successfully got snowboarding to be considered a discipline of skiing rather than its own sport

Grad school

You just love more people than you hate, and I think that means you’re good. I think you’re good.

It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

Me: I'm wondering why my office is getting so dim, maybe my eyes are going. Today flipping the light switch on and off: "Oh, the lightbulbs were dying..."

Took this advice and it wasn't too bad at all shoveling out the driveway. Got it down to bare pavement and should hopefully be free of ice. Now to do the parents...

Website: "We have sent you a verification code to your email. It expires in 10 minutes." ... 30 minutes later. Email: "Here is your verification code. It expired 20 minutes ago."

Sleet is hitting our windows with the same sound as bacon sizzling on the stove.

🚨 Major winter storm begins near midnight🚨 🌨️Heavy snow predawn → sleet Sunday morning → freezing rain Sunday afternoon/evening🧊 📈Worse with time; be home by 11pm🕚 ⛔️Travel after 1 a.m. a very bad idea 🔌Power outages possible later Sunday

Preparedness tips National Weather Service is asking media partners to pass along for both the snow/ice and cold.

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❄️ 🥁Our first snowfall map is out!!! Here we go...subject to change: • Beltway: 5–10" • SE areas.: 4–8" • Far NW areas: 8–14" Change to sleet will cut down snow totals Beltway + SE but result in hard-to-shovel mess. Full briefing: www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...

imagine being the guy who accidentally said "weasel" at a weird time 2400 years ago

I love looking around the globe on Google Earth and zooming into tiny islands to see what they're called and find out more about them. Today I seen this one with a catchy name of "Inaccessible Island". Sounds like a skill issue. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

Kp index has dropped below 8 -- which won't get it done for northern lights in DC area except far from city lights in rural areas. Could still tick back up. We'll keep you posted.

Update: intensity of geomagnetic storm that would trigger northern lights here has ticked down a bit (closer to 8), which is less favorable. Also, orientation of magnetic field not ideal. Things could change quickly... Keep looking up and we'll keep you posted.

Funny enough the divergence in the Wizards and the Capitals fortunes is probably because Leonsis ran the Wizards like the Capitals and they're just different sports that reward different processes.

I'm amused that I somehow managed to not hit up Xi’an Famous Foods on all my trips to NYC and now it's just going to come near me. mocoshow.com/2026/01/15/n...

I was very sad when we sold my Honda Fit. A/C was out and leaking, and brakes were worn down and needed to be replaced. Our current EV sedan is good, but that Fit was small and could carry so much more. We'll get another hatchback when our 15 year old Prius kicks the bucket.

Added her stinky brother hehe

Actually drew something I'm rather proud of! 😊💕

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

When researching cat toys for a gift, I came across what looks like a laser turret for cats. Is this an actual thing? I'm amused it looks like a cat shaped turret from Portal.

Men's sports don't deliver the interpersonal drama like women's sports.

"Shitty" is a bit mean, but every hockey team's fanbase has a loveable grinder whose lack in skill is overcome by their tenacity and work ethic. At the start of my Caps fandom, that was Quintin Laing. 3 total goals, but he gave his spleen and jaw to the team.

Oh fond memories. An entire week off of school and then another week of two hour delays. We needed to make up instructional time at the end of the year, so they extended each school day by half an hour... where we did nothing.

Vacuum Kata

My goal this year is to finally make some progress on cleaning out the house. Today, I tossed out my old wire shelving, an old toilet, and a couple of really old buckets of paint to the transfer station.

Not having alcohol in my home. If I had it laying around, it was getting drunk. I drastically reduced the amount of alcohol I drank when I instituted this rule.

1/365. A band I thought was dead, but saw last year live. Meteora was in constant rotation when I roadtripped out West with my now-wife on one if our first long trips together. Emptiness Machine is a great start to the new era of Linkin Park. youtu.be/7F5MKaJMxDc?...

Favorite tidbit is they tried to trap it and got a bear, but found out it was the wrong bear.

My kids taught English in Taiwan for 2 weeks and my wife and I traveled all around Taiwan sightseeing during it. I'm immensely proud of my kids' independence and willingness to teach in a foreign country and we had a blast driving all over Taiwan without kids.

GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN! Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵) Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!

☕️📖 Nothing like spending a cozy morning curled up under a blanket with a cup of tea and a book on my lap to keep me company while I endlessly scroll my phone

Gift shopping for loved ones can be demoralizing because it's oh, you love them? Name literally anything they would like.

My piano teacher said she mistook my brother for me because he had gained some weight. She insulted us both in one shot 🤣

happy holidays

Tree is up. Lights still MIA.

til hamingju að hafa þraukað hingað til: í dag hefst nýtt tungl og á morgun eru vetrasólstöður, það er enginn snjór og tíminn frá sólarupprási til sólseturs slefar rétt yfir fjórar klukkustundir. þessi helgi gæti varla verið myrkari, en í framhaldinu hefjast hátíð og dagurinn byrjar að lengjast. ✨

Oh boy, my son has decided to watch Home Alone. That movie scared me so much about intruders that I boobytrapped my house; put jump ropes and balls across the stairs. My parents ended up getting a security system just to reassure me enough so they could go up the stairs.

Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred bottles of beer on the wall Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred bottles of beer Take one down and pass it here, How do you measure, measure a beer?

One specific thing I learned during the Kennedy Center tour is that the center itself is the Kennedy Memorial, filled with gifts from nations in honor of our late president. It'd be like re-naming the Lincoln or Washington Memorial.

Another reminder that libraries are awesome. I saw that WSJ article about Claude running their vending machine. Found out my library offers free 3-day subscriptions, so I could immediately read it. Also, found out I could borrow an infrared camera. Why? I don't know, but it'll be fun to try out.