I’m 31 and not only know what a floppy disk is, I’ve used one.

It's Music Monday, apparently. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Damien Jurado—We Will Provide the Lightning (2025) damienjurado.bandcamp.com/album/we-wil...

Like I really cannot emphasize how much I have never played this game and yet #GuessTheGame #654 🎮 🟩 ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ #ExtraordinaryGuesser guessthe.game/p/654

playing a lot of guessthe.game today and it's weird how many I get in one and then I look at the rest of the images they use and it's like "oh never would've gotten it from any of these, glad I recognized that shot you see for half a second in a cutscene at the end of the game."

Put out an APB for Mr. Rogers in a blood-stained sweater.

Ok I’m on the warrior level now and I am missing the generosity of the previous level

Ok so it’s 3:30am and I have a problem with Chants of Sennaar. For the first set of symbols ‘open’ and ‘close’ are pretty obvious, and for the third symbol I originally guessed ‘door’ but then I was like “it might refer to other things though” so I put ‘portal’ instead.

Yelling Lou Grant episode synopses at my boss while he walks away

Choice #1: That Legend of Zelda collection that came with the GameCube, it had I & II, Ocarina, Majora, maybe one of the handhelds? And a demo of Windwaker. For free! What?! End of survey.

I booted up Midnight Suns for the first time in like a year, started a dialogue, and immediately remembered one of the things I hate about this game. Why is calling Tony out for being an insensitive prick "dark"???? Is "light" just "unconditional people pleaser???"

My boss made a (correctly) snide comment about CEOs using ChatGPT and then 5 minutes later I had to clean up his mess from him insisting on using inventory data entry tech that is technically faster than are usual method but prone to error and I don’t like The Office but theyrethesamepicture.jpg.

It's time for Music Monday. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...I Feel Fine—The Cold In Every Shelter (2021) ifeelfine.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...

*in noir detective voice* Some days you need those little blue pills just to feel normal. *takes 3 ibuprofen*

Apropos of nothing here are some photos I took a while ago that I’m really pleased with.

This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.

BuzzFeed is such a weird phenomenon, like they began and ended as slop but in the middle they whimsically dabbled in award-winning journalism.

This is gonna be another one where I have to not think about it after this or I'll just come up with another 10 I should've picked. Also this could've been all Citizen Sleeper characters so you should admire my restraint.

Thinking about the guy with the custom “MAIL IT” license plate that is also somehow one of like 5 people in this city with up-to-date registration.

Why is…why is Nausicaa flying the robot from Laputa like a plane in a Lupin III episode.

youtu.be/zv1SFurxwbE?... I'll just be over here feeling some things

It's time for Music Monday. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...Sylvan Esso—No Rules Sandy (2022) sylvanesso.bandcamp.com/album/no-rul...

Ok, not trying to be smug or pretentious here, but a few points: 1. The headline is clickbait. The perspective preference shift is not happening "with books" as an entire medium, it's happening with romance books specifically.

Playing the new Monster Train 2 clans (perfect timing to ease my pain at not being allowed to play STS2 yet) and holy shit Reap is op. Like actually op. Like makes flying boss fights basically trivial. Just beat corruption form Seraph before he even got to the boss rush, wtf.

I was writing my review of Louis Bury's The Way Things Go (tl;dr it's great you should read it) and naturally I started writing about Solar Ash, and I went to the wikipedia page just to confirm a couple plot details and that page has not a single mention of climate change or global warming.

The real truth machine.

I wanna do the top 9 games thing but I don’t know if I could survive the process. Picking favorites out of such a large category is like making the associated neuron clusters in my brain fight to the death.

Have you been watching from very very far away or

I keep unseeing it and then seeing it again I think I’m laughing partly out of fear

The thing about being a professional coder is it’s not just “write code that make thing happen.” Give me enough time and documentation and I can write code that make thing happen. Under at least one condition. With suboptimal performance. And unknown side effects. And terrible error handling.

Greg Davies: Slew the Minotaur, sailed home, bosh! Theseus: Oh god I have a horrible feeling Alex Horne: Yes, I wonder, did anyone notice the color of the sails on Theseus’s ship?

Wild to be pushing out a substantive update while announcing you’re shutting down in 9 days.

Look I really do understand this is almost certainly old man yells at clouds toxic nostalgia, but looking at those new starters I felt so viscerally “these are just cartoon animals with stupid names”

It's time for Music Monday. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...katie dey—never falter hero girl (2023) katiedey.bandcamp.com/album/never-...

Oh shit they got Cal Lightman’s daughter?

Tom Waits’ “What’s He Building in There?” but it’s the guy in the stall next to you.

Delighted to inform you that the editor of the RiverRock Times is just as friendly as you’d hope. Unfortunately still no idea what’s happening.

I am hearing in my head a British actor (I think British?) saying, melodramatically, something like “plagued by doubts, wracked by fears.” I cannot for the life of me figure out what it’s from. Any ideas?

Ok we gotta start from the beginning because this is weird. Yesterday I got an order from a vendor based in Tennessee. One of the boxes from that order had one sheet (4 pages) of newspaper being used as packing material. This was from the Dec 18th, 2025 edition of the RiverRock Times.

Love that I can hear this with McGoohan’s exact delivery. God the man made choices. So many choices. Love this episode so much. His cute little fake Italian accent when he’s dictating the speech. Delightful.

Had an order that used some newspaper as packing, and it had a crossword, so obviously I started doing the crossword, and then I found an error in the crossword. So I’m gonna need to find contact info for the editor of the Riverrock Times to inform them their puzzle from 3 months ago is wrong.

This is the list I submitted and little bit of why, didn't get too hung up on the order: 1. Type Help (william-rous.itch.io/type-help) I was in a real gaming slump and this guy made me excited about games again. Full review here: www.grouvee.com/user/18939-n...

Was listening to music on shuffle on the way to work and got “Hello Earth” by Kate Bush immediately followed by “Goodbye Planet Earth” by Matthew Ebel.

It's time for Music Monday. I'm too tired for a bit. Today's randomly selected album from my backlog is...NNAMDÏ—Please Have a Seat (2022) nnamdi.bandcamp.com/album/please...

Was in Bled, Slovenia on openguessr and saw a place advertising itself as “pizza-mex” and also they had pad thai.

The latest Ball report is trying to build a narrative out of joining numbers together with duct tape. Crypto trading isn't "beating games in the attention economy". I think the main reason for this type of narrative to exist is to act as self-serving rationalization for floundering execs.