My wife: The only beard I find acceptable is a Riker beard Me: that WOULD be nice… If I could grow one

Walked through the process of dealing with a pimple till it pops and then what to do afterwards with Eldest. This must have been what being a medicine man felt like

Do you think Raiden needs to brush his teeth? Like… he has teeth but it’s weird to think he could get gum disease.

May you have the confidence of an early 2000s FMV actor

Figured out what bugged me. In the finale you see these people living on a planet with barrels on fire, people ready to kill each other at every second, starving… and a crime is committed and here’s the federation saying “well, what did you think was gonna happen when you robbed that guy”

Been thinking about the end of starfleet academy and… part of the reason the rest of the season felt snappy was because it realized the faschy part of starfleet and faced it. The end seemed to need to whitewash that to make it a very overt good vs evil bit and… I don’t think they needed to do that.

Showed my daughter most of Empire Strikes Back today. She dug it. Started out kind of distracted but by the time the AT-ATs were on screen she was glued

Luke: so when are you gonna teach me how to do that super fast lightsaber fighting? Yoda: uhh… later

“I’m getting these books for them” I say to myself as I contemplate getting a collection of material my children have not, nor ever will, express an interest in.

Growing up whenever I watched a cartoon with a dog sniffing something along the ground it was always because they were tracking some sort of clue. So when Lucky does it on a walk I always ask him “do ya smell a murder, boy?” This amuses me. I don’t think it has the same effect on my neighbors.

Dorothy: (to Scarecrow) I think I’ll miss you most of all! Tin Man: oh, THAT’S how it is, is it?!

The last time I remember reading about this startup they were still having issues where the data would from time to time get corrupted. But the hash id wouldn’t. The hash id was…your eye. And if the data was corrupted that meant the only way you could “re-register” was if you had a new hash id…eyes.

You could not pay me to be interested in basketball. But my son is. So we just played a bunch in the backyard. We figured out what thing to say helped the most to sink baskets “Buckets” worked well “Seven pounds of shrimp” worked better

I [ ] will be attending [ ] will not be attending [ ] have too much love for the United States of America

Friends at Meta: morale seems super low and stuff doesn’t seem set to work Friends at Microsoft: morale seems super low and stuff doesn’t seem set to work Friends at Google: morale seems super low and stuff doesn’t seem set to work Me: wonder what the names of the next set of tech companies will be

A delightful snack is some hummus chips and with… wait for it… hummus I call it Hum Hum

Oh my goodness you’re a lifesaver, I say to the cherry flavored one

So there’s a funny thing that happens when you go multiple nights with only two to three hours sleep. Your entire body starts feeling like it’s about to die. So I’m gonna go maybe get more sleep

I was talking about something to my wife and mentioned being good friends with the receptionist at work. To which she said “she better be ugly and not like Godzilla” I replied “no, I have everything I could ever want right here at home”. After a pause I continued, “got a PlayStation, an Xbox…”

Oh man, I went into absolute Wonder Woman not knowing much but that moment when she realizes she’s “not the princess” is good writing. Distills so very clearly a wonderful aspect to the lady or the tiger that I never considered; it not being a story about the characters, but rather about the reader

The person who buys pasta to cook it for dinner is the spaghetter. The person that eats said pasta is the spaghetti.

Kids asked for a story last night for the superhero team coincidentally with their names, the night owls, that I’ve made up for them for years. They asked for the origin of their big bad, the Octopus. Kid said I should write for movies because it was so “cinematic”. Best criticism I’ve ever gotten

“Screw your courage to the sticking place” is a really weird spot for Shakespeare to have placed some Cartoon Network Rule 34

Journal entry 4723: I have continued my experiment to see if it’s worth it to stay up working until 3 hours before I need to wake up to make kids’ lunches. The experiment’s results continue to reproduce reliably in the negative. Future researchers will be shocked to learn this is a dumb f’ing idea

Without being too specific, I was involved at some point in my past in one of the earliest releases in the more recent iterations at “tech like this”. So much promise. So many folks with Ideas (tm). So much “well we could do this, or this or this with it!” So little typey typey make the thing.

Dammit of course I find out that Starfleet Academy is actually really good right before I have to cancel the subscription to make a point

My daughter had me make a friendship necklace, the kind with the split heart with names on it, for her best friend in school. She wrote “thanks / for existing” on the back halves. I know we’re going through some rough times. But the kids are alright. It’s cheesy as hell but hate’s not gonna win.

If I’m with you and you see one of those ramp trucks in the road it is imperative for us to remain friends for you to ask if you should jump it

There should be an abbreviated version of the anime called Gist of the North Star

Used book stores are amazing. Found a first edition “The Son of Tarzan” from 1917 for $10. Its actual value doesn’t really matter, it’s an amazing looking, good condition book that I can’t wait to read. Admittedly often pulpy shlock but you can feel the rich veins that inspired future writers

Played some “Burninate” to get in the mood for fitness of the North Star Kenshiro was pleased to see I came back which was nice of it to say

Today is the day the executives will start telling us about all the changes they’ve come up with that make us happy and excited to come to work! Said the increasingly desiccated skeleton

Eldest is getting into looking good and wants to style my hair today. I told him he’d do well in a 90s Robin Williams vehicle where the screen writer is working through his divorce

Growing up my high school had a club called Medieval Club that essentially was a sanctioned place kids could wrap foam padding around pvc pipes and whack each other as hard as possible with them. It was there that I met Jesus. And by Jesus I mean a 6 ft Latino kid with a homemade battle mace

So… it’s weirdly not terrible. Kenshiro tells you to make sure to hydrate and towel off which… is amazing. And if you have any familiarity whatsoever with rhythm games they start you out super slow but…if you do your daily workout as a stamp you get to stick your thumbs in a guys head to blow it up

No Mr Bond I expect you to imagine if you will…

Hail Mary question but does anyone know how to get the plunger to work with precision on an AtGames Legends HD machine connected to PinballFX? Mine “works” with default steam controls but it basically just pulls back all the way. Plays fine on the atgames games but not #pinballfx

I can 100% vouch that if you like surreal, well written horror this is a phenomenal book to read. Stayed with me long after finishing and had an ending that I couldn’t put down.

It’s time. I’m going to get in shape… With the fist of the North Star boxing game

Sushi restaurants have it easy. You could put literally whatever you happen to have in the kitchen and call it a ThunderCats roll and I’d be like “oh my goodness I need to try that!”

No, I didn’t invite the whole class to my birthday! Just you guys, my best two friends… and the new kid

Perhaps XBOX can get the guy who used to do the sega scream for their commercials

How can we go… BACK to being friends When we just shared a Twix

I’m a red blooded American male, I think my acceptance that people have tastes other than me is established… But if I started going out with Mary Jane and found out that EVERYTHING she owns, underwear to earrings to car air fresheners was Spider-man branded… I think that would be a small red flag

🎵Thank you for being a parasocial relationship Travel down the road then make a flip Your heart is curated You ignore my po-oosts and likes🎶

You may not like it but this is what a peak performance looks like

Played “Can’t fight the moonlight” for the kids on the way to school. Then told them it was from a movie. They asked what movie. I said it was a movie where five women have to fight the moon.

“He was as blithe about the consequences of his actions on the remainder of his career as a lawyer at the DOJ”

This is the right way to respond to this stuff. I’ve… sometimes insinuated about a degree of experience knowing high level folks in company’s as being not as smart as people think. It took two seconds to google that really unique name. The fact that he didn’t is… embarrassing.We should point n laugh

<putting the lotion back into the basket> it put the lotion on its skin or else it got chapped hands again