The family slept long enough on Christmas morning that I started a Project while I waited — the long-overdue proper sorting of the albums, which had been all jumbled since we moved.

Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, stepped into a war with the Cabal on Mars. So let's get to taking out their command, one by one. Valus Ta'aurc. From what I can gather, he commands the Siege Dancers from an Imperial Land Tank just outside of Rubicon. He's well protected, but with the right team, we can pu

Having had coffee and my Cheerios, I will now turn the volume up a few ticks every fifteen minutes that the rest of the family continues to sleep in.

Something in a library update broke this (don't renv me; I'm riffing). So: Update some other libraries. Hmm, no. Update R. Reinstall all libraries. No, still broken. Write around where I _think_ the error is. No. Oh, no, now I see it. Fixed, one minute later. Classic R troubleshooting.

This album is so good. Seeing Darlingside live was a highlight of the year.

I've updated my last.fm stats thing for 2025. It's a little faster, for some definitions of faster, has bespoke and minimalist error checking, and will build some fun shareable images of your favorite new artists as well as overall favorite artists of the year. deardestiny.shinyapps.io/tuneR/

I did not need this Wet Rat Winter alert, thanks, though, King Co. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Let's gooooo

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

Gothmas on KEXP is really killing it, this morning, just FYI everybody.

THIS IS IMPORTANT

Would you look at this absolute weirdo mushroom

Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT

Lotta purple on the radar. I’m just sitting here listening to the reassuring occasional sound of the sump pump letting me know that the basement isn’t flooding.

When we sold a home a year and a half ago, I removed the front door smart lock from my account and walked away. _This week_ I got an email from August customer service asking for permission to assign it to the new homeowner, and it hit me just how contingent ownership of smart devices really is.

Had these samosas and this soup from a Himalayan place for lunch. Pretty darn satisfied with my choices today.

Why yes, I will listen to this new live Nick Cave album at high volume at my desk this morning, and I'm not even collating. open.qobuz.com/album/xgyd7d...

People are asking [nobody is asking] if I’ll update my last.fm stats thing for 2025, and will it still be a kludgy Shiny app, and the answer is yes and yes, as soon as I finish goosing my numbers.

Sometimes, if I wistfully say “more pumpkin pie would be nice,” another pie appears.

Checking in on the sunbeam puppy. Can confirm, there was a sunbeam.

Surfing other people’s Thanksgiving playlists while I wait for Pie Time. (Ps, still have a couple of Quobuz two-month codes, friends)

This generated garbage is referenced as Fig 1. "general methodology." Whole paper is scienceslop. What a fucking embarrassing time.

San Dimas High School football rules

As these ads appear everywhere in my workspace, I don’t understand the pitch, genuinely. Do I want to hire an artist who can’t describe her own vision? Do I want to be an analyst who hasn’t read the research, or hire that analyst? I sure as hell don’t want to read an analysis that nobody wrote.

The value of knowledge is in having done the work. The value of research is in having done the research. The value of a summary is in having summarized the information. The value of writing is in having done the writing.

For my senior high school yearbook photos I had to put on an open back smock thing that was supposed to look like a tuxedo on the front, too.

I am crying with joy at how good the chorus of this is.

Got some good tacos today, everybody.

Mods are asleep, post crows.

Kringles Korner is a go.

I was not prepared to see a rat catch a bat out of the air. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

HS teacher was reupholstering a chair with her rx glasses off, couldn’t get the big staple gun to fire, pressed it to her chest for leverage and sunk a half inch staple into her breastbone. She shouted at her husband “You loaded the staples backwards!” (She had a lot of good self-injury stories)

Looking up migraine-tinnitus relationship for reasons, and aaah 3d bar chart jump scare in this 2015 article!

🎉 Katie Wilson’s gonna be mayor and the newspaper’s comments section is very angry.

RideShare is back! Thanks to a (likely temporary) auth workaround. C'mon, Peloton, you'll get so much love from an official oauth flow. #hobbyshinyapps #rstats

Thomas gave them two chances and they couldn’t get it done. Dang.

How do you not mark literally everybody on a corner when you have more guys than the other team?

Any pals interested in a couple months trial of Qobuz?

If the wrapper's not ript, you must acquit

I know they say you shouldn’t ever use die charts, but I think this is a good application.

Bummer. Peloton maybe killed the API? RideShare … dead?

These mailers supporting the Harrell campaign, funded by — I guess — big construction guys? Sure are dark and mean-spirited. No wonder he’s getting his ass kicked.

a trans girl in college committed suicide days ago amid discrimination against her easily tied to this administration’s policies. npr and other media should cover that too

The sign is up, it’s real: El Rinconsito in my part of town. I’m going to get so many tacos!

Mods are asleep, throw the ball!

The attacks during this campaign have been far more personal and negative (and misleading) than we were expecting. The good news? Seattle voters don’t seem to be buying it. The more the mayor attacks me, the more voters look at him skeptically.

It's probably the least awful thing about the whole video, but I'm personally laughing a lot at the Uptoown platform sign.

I just made an amazing discovery that is bringing me some small joy: Magnets actually stick to the front of my new refrigerator. This is like finding a coelacanth in the trunk.

The contempt this government has for us is breathtaking. There's a set of people who work for the federal government whose job this week is to put this shit on the White House web site. They found the photos, wrote the text, and published to prod. bsky.app/profile/just...

Somewhere there's a statement of work with line items like "demo and haul away east wing" and I really want to know who signed it. Where'd they store the furniture, portraits and artifacts of 80 years of use? Did the white house photographer take pictures beforehand?