Over the weekend my wife and I were lead for some reason (Spotify’s algorithm) to listen to the music from Chess the musical, and ever since then, we’ve been adapting it in our heads to a musical about Pokemon. It all started with “one night in Kalos and the world’s your Cloyster…”

My twelve-year-old daughter's Christmas haul included a cassette Walkman and a Discman, and music to play on both. Yes, part of it is STRANGER THINGS. But part of it is the seemingly inevitable swing towards throwback tech, coupled with the current longing to be LEFT ALONE TO LISTEN TO SHIT

If it ain’t broke, just wait.

Hence my point about being mindful of what you feed your brain and paying attention to what you pay attention to. Looking at what you consume and paying attention to how consuming it makes you feel, what it inspires in you and what those feelings motivate you to do... or NOT do.

And that's the problem. It's not that there's one thing that provokes a massive cortisol spike, it's the constant, low-level hum of despair that builds over time, like heavy metals accumulating in our bloodstream and our brain, that diminishes our capacity for hope or optimism.

whats Mandarin for "oh lawd he comin"

Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains.

Our planet is buried in convenient shit. Bad but easy food. Bad but easy art. Bad but easy narratives, followed by bad but easy conclusions. Prioritizing convenience disincentivizes the slow work of contemplation. Perhaps, even, of questioning. michaelianblack.substack.com/p/cheap-fast...

Quite a big metropolitan area! Episode 3 of Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver is out now! www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0Um...

Have the lambs stopped screaming, Charlie Brown?

Change one letter, ruin a candy. S&Ms

One reason I miss the ubiquity of landlines these days is I never get to answer the phone anymore with: “my residence, me speaking”

Now, whenever anything happens that makes me feel old, I say “Well, THAT just made the portrait in my attic age ten years.”

Hey Minecraft and/or D&D fans, I’ll be touring a few builds and planning what to build next on my stream! www.twitch.tv/daniel_vanhiel

Touring around my DND builds in Minecraft twitch.tv/daniel_vanhiel

The Thing (that you just had a second ago but can’t remember where you left it) #MildHorror

Testing out the new setup! No longer streaming directly from the Xbone as I got all of Amanda’s hand-me-downs. Playing some Minecraft!! www.twitch.tv/daniel_vanhiel

Airline Interviewer: Have you ever been in an F14? Me: What?! Of course not! I: what about an F16? M: look, the youngest I’ve gone for is F18, but what’s this got to do with flying?!

If I am ever elected to any legislative body, my first bill will be that all bills need to be titled by randomly picking a quote from the Simpsons. No more “Patriot” acts. Goodbye “Right to Work”. And my new bill will be called… [rolls dice]… The “My cat’s breath smells like cat food” bill

Since my birthday this week and couldn’t really think of anything I wanted, I’ll just ask anyone reading this to just send me lots of cash 😁

Anyone ever notice that when you come across a video of a claimed perpetual motion device, the video starts with the machine NOT running? Why’d you turn it off?

The one on the left looks like the one on the right is trying to be in disguise with a fake mustache

It is, sadly, that time of year again. 🎄👠👠 youtu.be/iq10bz3PxyY?...

Watching my wife play Persona 3 reload DLC and wondering what the dog’s evoker would be if he needed one. A choke chain? Piece of chocolate? The last five minutes of old yeller?

Oh, what fun that was filming!!

Well, it *did* get used eventually… as the centerpiece of a major alt timeline adventure where we had to wipe it from ever existing, so there’s that.

Thankful to you for this community and for the reception to this new series. Episode 27 of Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story is out now! youtu.be/BEZ7fmtzYK4

At the start of my day, I suggest to the wife we get self-adhesive tiles for the backsplash. At the end of my day I’m Googling methods of removing self-adhesive tiles.

I should’ve known. Dealing with having to send a form thru the mail and they ask for a copy of either a drivers license, state ID card… or PASSPORT. I really should’ve known. Why did they need it? To verify my identity. And my address. Guess which form of id doesn’t have your address?

After my run in with that bird on my porch a couple weekends back, this is oddly specific to my life now

Hey @georgehrab.bsky.social, I’d love it if you could do a 7 songs of Matthew Sweet!! He suffered a stroke in October and has a gofundme that’s about 65% of their way to $750K www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

Have had the “tropical plumber” jingle from Rocky’s Modern Life running thru my head all day and without prompting, my wife started humming it too 10 minutes after I got home

1970s visions of the future. Art by Syd Mead, Roy Scarfo, Rick Guidice, Don Davis #scifisky

Frustrated with trying to make old tech useable for something/anything. Got a couple of very old MacBooks that I thought would be great for the kitchen to track what’s in the pantry/fridge or play music. Even forced an OS upgrade, but any apps I try say it’s still too old. Tv won’t connect either

Since Elves live so much longer than humans, would they have domesticated plants and animals that have breeding cycles that were too long for humans to selectively breed? Like, acorns or elephants?

Connections Puzzle #511 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 He’s done it again, folks!

So today it was my wife’s turn to have wildlife attack her: here’s the ungrateful guy biting the hand that rescued him from the jaws of our cat

Got to debut my Halloween costume at the contest at work this morning

Hey ornithology blueskiers, just had this cute little bird come check me out as I was working on my deck perch right on my hand in the most Disney magic moment, and then fly right at my friggin eye! Any idea what species it is so I can tell everyone at work tomorrow?

Wife and I were just at the Hanson concert he was supposed to open for when Taylor told the audience that Matthew Sweet had suffered a stroke. I don’t know how to make anything go viral, but please, help out one of the most inspiring musicians in existence?

Can’t top that

Connections Puzzle #494 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪 And in order, too!

So I was super pumped to see Matthew Sweet open for Hanson on their Underneath tour next week, but alas, he had to cancel. Since my t-shirt idea for the concert won’t make sense now, I thought I’d show you all it here. Enjoy.

I didn’t read the quote tweet that reveals that these lyrics are supposed to be sung to YMCA and instead assumed they should be sung to Suffragette City and I gotta say, it almost worked just as well

Very sorry to hear that Matthew Sweet has taken ill and won’t be able to perform his October show dates. He was going to open for Hanson at the Buckhead theater and was headlining a show in Roswell later that week. I was so pumped to finally get to see him after so long, but health comes 1st!!

Minecraft: Woodland Mansion or Trial Dungeon?https://www.twitch.tv/daniel_vanhiel

Yeah, so that nether fortress had zero netherwart. Made it back to my base with plenty of blaze rods, though. Thinking I should either try heading to a woodland mansion or running a trial dungeon in ominous mode next. Will try to stream it this time.

So now that I’ve finally [cheated and peeked at my world seed in the app and] found a nether fortress in Minecraft, what should I do next? a. Explore the fortress until I find netherwart b. Do the ominous trial dungeon run c. Go to the woodland mansion on my map d. Find a stronghold

So here’s a game we can play: what random thing popped into my mind that led me to look up whether Coventry City had won the English Football Cup since 1969?