Curling is the baseball of winter olympic sports

My wife got a Bird Buddy for Christmas, and I have to admit: this thing is pretty cool Here's a tufted titmouse trying to eat a sunflower seed that is bigger than its beak

Coming up for air after fleeing London last night to get home before snowmaggedon shut down Logan Airport I visited MOCO in while I was in London Nico and Andy Warhol dressed as Batman and Robin: right in my veins www.mocomuseum.com/london/

My original flight from London to Boston was scheduled to land at 2:00PM today. That got cancelled due to snowmaggedon, but I managed to snag a late flight out of Heathrow last night. It's good to be home. Up to two feet of snow is forecasted Now that I'm home: bring it on!

Some helpful info on Pack Night: www.friendsofdoubleday.org/post/what-is...

gmail apparently decided that today was a good day to disable spam blocking. Holy shit, this is bad. It's also happening on my paid Google Mail business account My guess is this that is an AI "improvement" that made everything worse for everyone

Post old memes to confuse the younger people.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate I'm spending the Holidays with my family in Alberta, Canada I can't think of a better place to be right now

Someone has just restored "Daicon 3" from a rare 8mm copy. It's the best version to date. >> archive.org/details/zgfp...

I know some folks will aim to do some learning in the new year. The SC-900 book I co-wrote is in this humble bundle www.humblebundle.com/books/micros.... Lots of good cert prep stuff in here.

Gifted article about The Compleat Beatles (1982): www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/m... The Beatles were not directly involved, so it has an unusually honest viewpoint (compared with Beatles-approved documentaries) @archive.org has it, and it's great: archive.org/details/the-...

Here's our favorite Thomas Dambo troll of the Rhode Island trip Mrs. Skipper, near the East Bay Bike Path at Kettle Point, Providence www.eastbayri.com/stories/east...

Our Thomas Dambo Troll hunt continues, Rhode Island edition We're attending Friendsgiving with friends from Mass, so we headed to Providence yesterday We found four in RI today, and plan to visit our fifth (in Providence) tomorrow Meet Iver Mudslider www.northkingstownri.gov/1149/Troll-I...

On a related note, here's tonight's dessert selection. KARAZUMUCHO Hot Chili potato chips and "Double Berry & Nut Flavor" Kit Kat bars (per the OCRed and translated text) I am a sucker for Japanese Kit Kats. These did not disappoint OCR text in the alt text

Happy Amazing News Day opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

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If you see this, post a bird

Northern lights over Peaks Island, Maine Amazing

Achievement unlocked

Visited Malin’s Fountain today, another of Thomas Dambo's Trolls peasepark.org/pease-park-t...

You know it's Halloween in Austin when Moe's Tavern opens for business Plus two other random photos I took while wandering Austin today austin.eater.com/2023/10/16/2...

I booked tickets for Wilco's Solid Sound at MOCA in North Adams, MA. Billy Bragg and Wilco (and hopefully Natalie Merchant, fingers crossed) singing songs from Mermaid Avenue I've spent a ton of time in western MA, but I haven't been to North Adams in ages. I can't wait solidsoundfestival.com

Back in Austin for the week and my Donkey Kong high score still stands at the Texas Toy Museum (I know you were all worried about that) I didn't have time to beat it today, but I will later this week austintoymuseum.org

20 years ago today, the White Sox completed their World Series sweep of the Astros. This game recap, and many more memories from this season are in the SABR book released earlier this year sabr.org/latest/sabr-....

The control panel harness arrived this morning, and Donkey Kong is back in the rotation (Don't judge my gameplay, I'm plying one-handed)

My Friend Heather has a show at the Crow's Nest gallery on Peaks Island. This is my favorite photo from Heather's show www.instagram.com/hboody/

I'm hosting an island arcade party/barbecue on Peaks Island on Saturday, and just received this shipping notification for the missing Donkey Kong control panel harness There is no such thing as an arcade emergency, but I hope it gets here Friday. Donkey Kong is my all-time favorite game

You can buy a pristine version of this old Corgi Juniors Mercedes 280 SL car off eBay for less than $10 plus shipping Or you can do this I celebrate this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti98...

October 11, 2025 is a milestone in comedy history. Not only is it the 50th anniversary of the 1st SNL, today is also the final new Dr. Demento show. After 55 years, Barret Hansen is hanging up his top hat. Please go to drdemento.com to hear his all time demented top 40 countdown special.

I'm overdue for a #Conradsarcade post I rewired my Donkey Kong cabinet. It had a modern switching power supply and the harness was a hacked-up rat's nest I installed an original linear power supply and rewired the cabinet with a new harness. Here's what I got: www.youtube.com/shorts/YVdHF... 1/2

I find Odd Tinkering's videos entertaining and relaxing. I often watch them before I got to bed He lovingly and obsessively restores everything from eleventy one year old toasters to this flood damaged Atari 2600 www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7ET...

Finally fired Android and switched to an iPhone 17 Max Pro. This is after 10+ years using Android phones: I had a Google Nexus in 2015 The final straw was the endless Gemini popups that are difficult or impossible to disable in Android. Disabling Apple Intelligence a piece of cake on iPhone

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It’s going to be a fantastic match, tomorrow! #womensworldcuprugby #canadavsengland #goCanadago 🇨🇦

Anyone in Maine can get the Covid-19 vaccine without a prescription at CVS. I saw this on the Maine subreddit, and haven't seen mentioned anywhere else I just got mine today (plus the flu vaccine) at CVS in Portland. Appointments were wide open www.cvs.com/immunization...

I'm in an Irish Pub in Amsterdam Schipol airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston. They just played Barrett's Privateers Unexpectedly hearing about a broken man on a Halifax pier in Amsterdam is pretty awesome

This photo is epic His name is Strumpfel. Of course it is

Hey Seattle #Mariners fans, If you're going to Tuesday's game, please get there by 6:25, you'll hear me sing the anthem.

One of my favorites was when Don Orsillo and Jerry Remy discussed a lunar eclipse. Don thought that was when "the sun crosses in front of the moon." www.mlb.com/redsox/video...

Cleanse your timeline with the most wholesome Velvets cover ever. Worth watching all the way through.

My wife saw Guided Voices on our Spotify shortcut playlist today and thought they were a religious band I played her Game of Pricks A minute and 33 seconds of punk pop perfection "And I've never asked for the truth, but you owe that to me." www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjZ6...

Tonight is going to be a blast! @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social

Random photo from my garage arcade

We nicknamed a guy The Human Rain Delay. Every meeting he attended automatically became 45 minutes longer. He made speeches and kept trying to re-open previously decided issues. He quoted the Simple Sabotage Manual #2 and #6 chapter and verse Time dilated and @thomdaley.net‬ and I hated him (1/X)

I was talking to some friends this week about growing up in Southie and Dorchester, and I mentioned the Bellflower Street Fire I lived on Bellflower Street from ~1971-1976. This photo was taken in 1965. The arrow points to my bedroom in the triple decker that me and my 3-generation family lived in

I'll tweak this one: quote post with a lesser-known cover that is superior to the original I'll start: Different Drum, sung by Matthew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs I'll reply with the previous versions www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRO5...

*same troll, during Gardens Aglow.

Did someone mention Thomas Danbo's trolls? This one's in the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay www.mainegardens.org/events-exhib...