Big Michael Scott “I have no shortage of company names” energy.

Nothing like frantically looking for your phone using the flashlight on your phone to bring you back down a notch.

Reached a bit of a milestone today. I’m down 10lb since I started paying more attention to my nutrition and running more. I’m not chasing a number on the scale, rather trying to just feel better overall, but it’s nice to have a little boost today regardless!

Is there a better feeling than closing 108 tabs (literally) after finishing a project? Maybe. But this is pretty damn good.

Tyler, if you’re out there, I’m sorry you accidentally put my phone number in your DoorDash account, but if you could stop spamming the “Send Code” button at THREE IN THE GODDAMN MORNING and realize you messed up, that would be nice.

No joke, there’s a small niche within the amateur radio hobby that is kind of reviving these old bulletin board systems using digital signals over ham radio. It’s ridiculous, and I love it!

I just have to say, with all the things I’ve been wrong about, I’m glad that my long-held opinion of, “Bill Maher isn’t good; he’s just an asshole,” has been proven so very correct!

In my (admittedly tiny and anecdotal) experience, the time is right to be selling your C-Suite on the idea that your company refusing to use AI can be a powerful marketing tool. Leaning into authenticity in a world surrounded by AI slop sells!!

I just signed up for a bunch of 5Ks throughout the year and a 10K to motivate my ass to keep up the good work and not get complacent. I’m legit excited about the progress I’ve been making and want to keep it up!

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I have long been an Americano hater… this @jameshoffmann.bsky.social video is making me want to annoy my barista and try some things… youtu.be/0HdzJz_evNw?...

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I’ve been trying to get back in shape, and I have to say it makes me viscerally angry that I feel better when I eat right and exercise. Like, I just want to Bruce Bogtrotter an entire chocolate cake and feel not like shit. Is that too much to ask???

Reason #534 that they wouldn’t let me in that briefing room: I’d just be sitting in the back making wanking motions every time he said some ridiculous bullshit like this.

I had a Blue’s Clues related nightmare. Blue was dognapped and I was following a series of clues she left behind to find her. Ultimately it ended me being chased by a member of the gang who took her while I frantically tried to drop a pin for Steve on a laptop with unreliable WiFi.

A word that I write CONSTANTLY, but have to check pretty much every time is “Sheriff.” I can never remember if I should put one R two Fs, two Rs one F, two Rs two Fs, or just leave them all out and type “Shei” and hope everyone knows what I mean.

For not the first time I’m acutely aware of how much AI slop there is on social media. I start reading something, hear the cadence in my head, and start to cringe.

Been watching Spidey and His Amazing Friends with the kiddo, and while Doc Ock is an idiot, her hair is objectively bangin!

“Marathon Talks.” The Camp David Accords took 13 days. This lasted 20 hours. Fucking clown show.

This is all of us.

People on the right love to talk about how social services are impossible to get rid of once they’re in place (as if that’s a bad thing), but NEVER talk about how corporate prices ratchet up for various excuses and never come down again, even after the problem has passed.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Markey: "They were planning an actual genocide -- a destruction of a civilization. That's why Trump should be impeached, that's why Democrats should file impeachment articles against Trump, that's why the 25th Amendment to remove me should be invoked."

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Woke up with a song from Jesus Christ Superstar in my head. Specifically the one where all the people want him to heal them and he gets overwhelmed and freaks out and runs away. Must have been dreaming it. I’m sure that doesn’t mean anything…

I didn't know anything about the Artemis II astronauts a week ago and now I would fight my way into Hell for any of them.

Seriously. I’ve spent too much of my life listening to people (let’s be honest— men) say, “Why don’t they just [do X]?! It’s so simple!” And the answer is almost always, “Because it’s a TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE idea!” And now a lot of those terrible ideas are official policy. And look where we are.

So when is the Bay of Cheetos supposed to happen?

Everyone always says “no pun intended” when they clearly intended the pun. Cowards, the lot of you!

Jesus to Mary Magdalene

One thing I like about this job is how I constantly learn things… like how there used to be coin operated vending machines in the airport where you could buy life insurance policies for your flight!

The fuck do they think the word “Universal” means? The whole point is that EVERYONE gets it. Because when you start limiting it, you end up spending more money to means test and people who need it will still get left out.

[Becomes arguably the most important person in the world] “Why are people so obsessed with me??”

That feeling where the week is both flying by and taking forever….

if 1967 had live blogs

As a part of my plan to get healthier, I am cutting carbs. And proteins. And fats. I plan to subsist solely on micronutrients.

“‘And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.’” Matthew 6:5

Hey Auburn fam! Crazy shot in the dark… Does anyone have the recipe for the sauce from the now-defunct Price’s BBQ House? Been craving it, but I have nowhere to get it!! #auburn #alabama #wareagle #bbq

My favorite (and I actually mean most irritating) version of this is when Neil deGrasse Tyson would be on some talk show or podcast and would say that some historian should really write a history on topic A and there is literally an entire historiography on the topic.

I’ll take it!

Well, after pushing through the stall, the second part of the cook went much faster than expected. Probably because the temp in the smoker went higher than intended. 😬 But here we are! Butt resting in the cooler! Since I’m up, gonna go for a run before the kids get up and want breakfast!

Cooking a pork shoulder on the smoker overnight. Temperature probe threw an alarm that the smoker temp had dropped. Luckily we were reaching the stall anyway, so it ended up being pretty good timing! Shoulder wrapped, temp stabilized, back to bed!

Just found out I’m going to be receiving a FOIA via CD in the mail… guess I have to rustle up a CD drive somewhere! Just glad it’s not 5.25” floppies!

I’m convinced that the solution to the “male loneliness epidemic” is just convincing dudes that doing something because it brings you joy is worth it, even if it’s stupid and weird and has no monetary value. Because once they realize that, they’re going to want to share it!

I passed my amateur radio licensing exam a couple of days ago! Got my callsign today, and I’m unreasonably happy about it! Lol

Update: I bought it.

Working a charity book sale for the library and think I found my favorite cover so far.

How about go fuck yourself?

Thoughts as my brain slowly shuts down for the night: “Why is the plural of ‘box’ not ‘boxen?’”

God, once again I just wish Billy Corgan could be a little less Billy Corgan all the fucking time.