wtffffff they discontinued my probiotic

did a pickup order from Kohl’s to get some gifts for a refugee family and they left the goddamned security tags on the shoes, bolt cutter to the rescue

there sure are a lot of commenters with nice things to say about Yandex on the orange website lately

🎄😊it’s Margaret, the Christmas Cat!🎄😊(she hates it)

apparently I need a second massage gun because I just blew the whole battery on my thighs and legs without even getting to my back or shoulders

looking at the Switchbot Lock Pro and it’s some sort of retrofit thing where you permanently stuff a key in the lock and then put this thing on top to turn it for you and what is keeping me from smashing this fucker and claiming the delicious key inside of it for my own?

one thing outsiders sometimes fail to understand about "Midwestern niceness" is that it operates on the principle of mutually assured destruction

not me forgetting the name of Sur La Table and typing "old orchard fancy kitchen store" into the search engine it got it in one tho

> Dick Van Dyke credits his longevity to a positive outlook and never getting angry well I'm fucked huh

how many of y’all got the TicketWeb email and wondered why an old website guy was gonna be playing Evanston and are just now learning that Leo Kottke and Jason Kottke are not the same dude

Bushmiller was a genius but he couldn’t draw cats worth a damn

you’re telling me a teen beta tested this carrot

muppet ghost of christmas past is so fuckin creepy

my brain has just made a connection between the way Orville Peck dances and the way Robocop moves while he's shooting and I'm unsure if this is a sign of high functioning or data corruption

Tidal, Tailscale. Tailscale, Tidal.

[implications] it’s a green one mister grinch

lofi girl is a leftie and writes on the back of her notebook pages

> Client-side GPU load balancing with Redis and Lua ah yes, the Lou Reedis stack just a perfect stack

wondering what percentage of modern vinyl releases are produced from digital masters and if it's anything significantly less than _all of them_

[in my head, on a tight loop] John Popper singing "_I wanna burn all of your cities to the ground!_ "

normal people hearing their kid sing _I Believe I Can Fly_ : aww how inspiring me hearing my injury-prone kid sing it: no! you cannot! do not try!

clearing out and shredding old paper and found and got logged into a forgotten retirement account from the 3-4 semesters I taught part-time at Kishwaukee it's got $1200 in it

oh look the yellow line updated to a more precise time

I wish literally anyone other than Drew Carey hosted The Price Is Right

look how considerate she is! we have no choice but to stan!

do other parts of the country still listen to the Smashing Pumpkins Christmas song or is that just a Chicago thing now?

[localposting] so it turns out the "autism therapy center" in the development that the village board just shot down is a chain out of Texas that does ABA, and now I'm gonna make it my personal mission that they _never find a location_ anywhere near here

just watched RoboCop while doing some work stuff such a perfect movie

I miss when fancy film production logos were made using conventional animation and/or effects and you can see the camera wobble

in case you don't already have it, LEGO DC Super-Villains is on sale and is basically one of the best games ever made

gotta say, my future career prospects as "person who still remembers how to deploy shit without a cloud" are looking better than ever

✋ Elf Bar 👉 Gnomish Cylinder

did you know your knee has a spot that's the moral equivalent to your funnybone, but about twice as painful? I just discovered this empirically 💀

Kira: I can't. She freaks me out. Kira: She's so pretty like Gadget from 'Rescue Rangers'. Kira: And she talks so smart like um... Gadget from 'Rescue Rangers'.

maybe I should just sell all my RAM and retire

I present to you, in its full resolution, the image that FedEx sent me as "proof of delivery" for a package like, it was there, but fuck if you can tell that from this

tooth: 🤬 me: listerine? tooth: 🤬 me: listen, let's sleep on it and it's still a problem in the morning I'll call the dentist tooth: 🤬 me: fine I'll call dentist: see you tomorrow at 8 tooth: I'm fine now

I guess you shouldn't put a metal credit card in the shredder

feel like an application that uses a SQL database and feels the need to express an opinion on your database configuration options other than "does reading and writing to my tables fucking work" is way out of line

gonna apply for an AMEX and use it to buy a shredder big enough to chew up their pre-approved offer packets in one go and then close my account

having to unload a bookshelf to move it fucking sucks but at least I get to spend a little time with this guy

[nonsense] um jammer laminator

while I am in my photo library, please enjoy this HETRO COMBAT mask that I found the other day, which is definitely not gay in any way

there seem to be a LOT of restaurants offering heated outdoor spaces or "igloo dining" this year, seems like that all went away after 2020 but this year it's in way more places than it ever was back then. almost like people are starting to face reality.

car insurance finally made me take my Hyundai to the dealership to get the steering column protected against the Kia Boys

Doing a variant of Advent of Code where I open a little door and eat a chocolate and don’t type anything or look at a computer

think my main criticism of my Ender 3 is that it came with no less than 5 Allen wrenches of different sizes, pick a fuckin lane

it's a drag but I think Brandon Johnson's legacy is gonna end up being "he fucked Christkindlmarket so we got rid of him"