the Sacred Springs Pow-Wow in San Marcos, TX

the only Final Four i care about: the Bethesda Star Trek chat's captain's bracket is down to the last matchups. will The Emissary beat the Delta Quadrant trailblazer? will the rise and fall of Picard beat the fall and rise of Burnham to return from the loser's bracket?

me, having grown up in California: lovely! me, after living in Maryland & Texas: i don't see any AC vents.

EA was on the forefront of exploitative monetization, squeezing every penny they could from devs and customers to throw into the black hole of shareholder greed. this is what it got them. a single-B rating.

i learned that "rm" is not inherently permanent! R-Linux can recover deleted files from ext4! or... technically it can. what still makes Linux file recovery a futile effort is that it's a restless OS, ceaselessly writing logs and journals, and it just can't wait to use those newly-freed blocks.

The Camera Exchange, Austin

when i moderated a Fallout community, members would sometimes post polls to push some dumb change they wanted (e.g. allowing 40K Space Marine posts because "it's power armor") lol. i would remind them that it was *not* a democracy, but a benevolent dictatorship.

going on the middle-class American vision quest (colonoscopy prep)

how many potential Azure customers get to meet with the CEO? that seems like something that would only happen from personal interest - or the knowledge that it's a PR risk.

"DEATHLOOP" (Arkane Studios, 2021)

The Camera Exchange, Austin

the fantastic thing about Lower Decks is that every season finale has been an absolute banger of a cinematic experience crammed into 22 minutes. dramatic plots, white-knuckle action, superb scores, riveting art & cinematography. i would love a LD movie, but it also feels like we already have 5!

i really do love DEATHLOOP! why haven't you played it yet?! you get to be slick and cool and kick jerks off cliffs!

ABC's JKL! suspension is pretty remarkable to see right as i finished rewatching Andor S2, with its themes around the media's role in authoritarian regimes. anyway, D+ sub canceled. at least they understand numbers.

someone mentioned buying a "JDM" rice cooker TIL it's not just for car parts

like, seriously, as a professional: how does Nintendo keep doing this for decades? they'll make 1 thing that everyone loves and wants, and then 9 things that no one but 1000 people on the planet will actually care about

everything is going great, WSJ, keep at it. just make that line go up by sheer force of will.

lol there's a HIPAA exemption specifically to allow violation of your privacy if they think it'll protect the president

"time to make a little post about the shots i got today. certainly nothing could happen to put that in a weird context!"

everything is going great, WSJ, keep at it. just make that line go up by sheer force of will.

hooray for Labor Day, one of the US's not-bullshit holidays because we actually have something to show for it don't let this become another generic day off! America's elite have been on a 50-year mission to crush the working class - and everyone else under them. they want us to forget.

delicious i have an extra bit of nostalgia for this after visiting Pacific Data Images in the mid-90's. they were a production house that made reams of iconic CGI, from major network broadcast bumpers to Homer^3 to Shrek. a decent chunk of the visuals referenced in DVNO's video come from PDI!

the autofocus upgrade is huge. i can feel that the lenses are now the constraint, not the body. the downside is that AF settings are about twice as complex, and some are a little finicky. i do miss true manual focus rings.

some days you just gotta listen to a bunch of versions of "Canto de Ossanha" youtu.be/-dZQgvRMFIA

i gotta remember to post my Ws: my birthday was a month ago, so i bought myself a long-overdue new camera! this is my first new one in... ever? most were dad's hand-me-downs; last was a Sony a77, was about 13 years old! i'm still learning it, but this a7 IV is generations ahead. #photography

i'm still thinking about Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S3E6 "The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail" and its (a bit hasty) conclusion. specifically, the Astrovore, its crew, and their origins. i think the Tesla-like logo is very, very much on purpose (partly because it's more recognizable than SpaceX's)...

i wandered through a pretty mundane Austin estate sale until i was gobsmacked by the room with >20 years of complete Shonen Jump weeklies this is two of the three walls

i'm glad Bluesky has a "hide post" feature, so i can try to close Fallout season 2 stuff before looking too closely. it's not like i need to be convinced to watch it!

"Red Alert" by Basement Jaxx has one of my favorite music videos ever, especially this sequence

it's right there in the picture: San José International Airport limits the height of buildings. this isn't rocket science, it's FCC regulations. it was also an agricultural area with many spread-out towns that grew together, just like... pretty much every other metropolitan area, ever.

it is shocking how sloppy and careless Google's UX has become. they never made great software, but at least it was usually usable. now, things like Android make babytown UI mistakes like drawing a button under a system element - something that shouldn't even be possible. embarrassing.

i always lament that my first Steam account was actually a couple years older, but i had to reset it "Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you" "Open the Steam client, click your name in the top right -> account details -> View purchase history and scroll down"

Gavin Newsom has always been a liberal quisling whose practical political skill is subverting progressive movements for the needs of capitalists

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Clancy Brown is one of at least four actors who have been in a Fallout game, a Star Trek series, *and* The Shawshank Redemption. you have waited your whole life for this knowledge.

"hey emilio, are you playing Battlefield 6 this wee-" lemme cut you off right there

Saint Vincent moving through shadows (Manhattan, 2018) #photography

my toxic trait since moving to Texas: telling people that "chili" is definitively WITH beans, because without them it's simply carne adovada (i am also from California)

there's one thing i really hated about DIS's time jump, and Academy's subsequent setting: it gave a bunch of writers and showrunners (with a *very* mixed track record) license to dictate the fate of anything set before

love to see @artofcoop.bsky.social in the wild

cliché or not, the full album cut of "Feels So Good" is over nine minutes of feel-good foot-tapping. maybe you can use that right now. farewell, Chuck. youtu.be/qC1NXV1cF8o

a QR code for a menu? amateurs.

good morning from Mundi

a rad wrestling + punk show poster for Santa Cruz, CA. definitely one of the more unique shows at The Catalyst. (@porksweats.bsky.social)

bro your battalion is so steel it really can't be overstated how hard they went with this controller ( @jesawyer.bsky.social @jasonxbergman.bsky.social )

i'll be spinning 45s tomorrow for Coffee & Donuts, organized by the esteemed @45day.bsky.social and Fatwax 45! tune in at 8:00 Central US (14:00 GMT) for an hour of breezy summertime fun. twitch.tv/digthecrates/

i have none. my palate is flawless and my aesthetics are unimpeachable.

a Top Notch downpour

top 20 artists & bands with the most records in my collection (mostly vinyl LPs, maybe a few 7's & 12's) my only-half-ironic Herb Alpert collection keeps winning

i thought i wasn't getting survivor's guilt this round of layoffs, but it's just hitting a couple days later