With everything going on, I'm starting to doubt my own commitment to Sparkle Motion.

My daughter, Bryanna, is competing is the district batista competition and I'm so proud of her!

You should read this thread. Marina is a big damn hero, and should be regaled as such.

I started off wearing my Dad t-shirt for Mother's Day. My son suggested we both switch to wear the same Hawaiian shirt. We were only trying to coordinate shirt and this happened.

Back home from the Paradise Chocolate Fest. We had a good time.

I'll be in Paradise, CA for Chocolate Fest. If you're anywhere near there, come check it out and say hi!

The Daylist in Spotify thinks I'm a preppy pink pilates princess today. Nobody knows me the way Spotify does.

Today's the day we celebrate Star Trek, right? "May you live long and prosper, from this day forth."

In line to see Josh Johnson. Really excited!

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Jesus Homeopathic Christ

When we see a corpse, we have a natural response of disgust, which is healthy. It looks human, but it's wrong. We get similar feelings of wrongness when looking at not-quite-human things. This is the Uncanny Valley. I wonder if AI slop will in time trigger that same sense of wrongness.

If you're in Sacramento, come to the Scottish Rite Center near H St between 10AM and 5PM. It is the Sacramento Bookfestival, and it will be great!

This is how your letter finds me.

My current music obsession is John Michael Howell. Look up "Missing Piece," "Carnival," and "Medusa" if you haven't heard those yet.

Said during today's scrum: It's better to be in the office. You can't drink the tears of your enemy if you're not in-person to collect them.

The US blocking The Strait of Hormuz is really, really bad. The kind of thing that can actually lead to another world war.

Name Four Non-Person Things that Make Your Life Livable: 1) Fiction (mostly writing it, but reading it, too) 2) Video Games (right now, mostly Kerbal Space Program but there are many, many others) 3) Ice Cream 4) The cats currently living in my home

Gaming isn’t just a hobby for some people. It’s an escape when life is difficult. A temporary distraction. A way to connect with friends across the world. Video games help more than some people think. Wish more people could see that.

Really finding it hard to focus.

YouTube suggesting videos about autism and ADHD feels less like an algorithm and more like a diagnosis.

Dear Scammers, Your attempts to get me to give you money are boring and a bit insulting. Here are some tips to make it more interesting for all of us. 1) Don't try to explain the book to the person that wrote it. We already know.

I keep seeing skeets suggesting Trump only fires women, which feels true and is perfectly in character. I, too, mostly forget about Greg Bovino, which tells me that my mental health is getting better. I look forward to the day when I can forget all of these assholes.

“All authors are using A1 now.” I'm going to be honest. I used to really love A1, but I've found that just a bit of salt and pepper is all you need when the cut is good and it is prepared correctly.

I love one does not need to explain what "it" is. Please, please let it happen tomorrow.

Here's an original essay in which I defend remakes. Some beloved movies, considered classics today, are actually remakes. I also get into the differences between reimaginings, retellings, and remakes, with examples.

AI like ChatGPT is the new Astrology.

I think this proves a general rule of thumb: If ICE can do the job, the job doesn't need to be done in the first place.

This is how I showed up in all the Team's meetings today. Some days, I wake up and choose violence. Today, I chose Irish.

Historically speaking, today is the PERFECT day for members of the Senate, lead by Vance and Johnson, to stab Trump 23 times with double-edged daggers.

Here's a quick March update, focusing on the events around my birthday, which include roleplaying games and a kidney stone.

I've been having one of the most stressful days at work I've ever had with this company. Just checked my BP. 192 over 126. That might be a record for me. Mostly feel fine. A little tightness in my chest, which I associate with social stress.

March the 4th be with you. This is the month for that, right?

I should have a brother named Donnie, but he died about 6 or 7 years before I was born. His birthday is today, so he'd be 67 or 68. I really want to get the details right, but the Internet is failing me when I search for him.

How I arrived on BlueSky:

I'm not a doctor, but I will prescribe Prisencolinensinainciusol for whatever ails you.

Wrote a few more words about the death of Dan Simmons.

Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion are favorites of mine. I also enjoyed The Fifth Heart. I disagreed with Dan Simmons politically. Probably disagreed with him on a lot of things. But I loved his writing, and I'm sad he's gone.

I had some thoughts about playing Magic: The Gathering again, and the temptation to proxy cards.

I kind of want to watch Tombstone again, soon. Now that I've mentioned it, there's a good chance you want to watch it again, too.

During the second scrum of my day, I got to ask, "Has anyone here familiar with the game Paranoia?" It's great I could ask. No one knew anything about it, so I got to describe fall damage.

This sounds too good to be true.

I had a writing moment that really helped me today.

Whenever I see "Donald Trump" trending, I know it's going to be bad news, but I click on it hoping that it will be the BEST news.

The Baseball Bat Bros on YouTube are genuinely interesting and fun to watch. Unfortunately, now YouTube thinks I really like baseball.

If I were paranoid, I might think there's a connection between Colbert posting the Talarico interview recently to YouTube, and YouTube being down now.

If the notion is to abandon this place and go to Threads, another Meta platform, I will miss you guys. I will not participate in another Zuckerberg monstrosity, and it makes me sad how many people think financially supporting Zuckerberg is okay.

Okay, this is one of the coolest things I've seen done around here. Stunning and beautiful.

couldn't sleep so i made him sit down

I wrote a long essay about how social media and fandoms create a toxic cycle in which we cannot escape retreads of existing franchises. I use examples from Star Wars and Star Trek to support my argument.