Never get involved in a land war in Asia

This morning I jolted awake from some nebulous dream that ended with someone yelling “HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS!”

I got the Hail Mary package deal. The movie was fun and we really enjoyed it and then my teenager detailed all the things that were different from the book and speculated what he would have put in or left out, and why, to adapt it to screen. Highly recommend.

“The verdict has forced those inside the companies to grapple with the fact that many outsiders do not view them as favourably as they have come to view themselves.”

Owls. In. Towels. ❤️🦉❤️

Why is European whole milk yogurt so creamy and delicious while American whole milk yogurt is weirdly bland or like eating chalk?

Maybe I am the only one but I mostly love my Mac Cheese Grater. I use the pci slots for 4TB solid state drives and it’s so quiet I stopped having to put the computer in a server closet to record cello. I say “mostly love” because Apple started messing things up on the Mac Pro with each new OS

RIP Mac Pro

Alas, it hasn’t happened yet. It will. Someday. Meanwhile, spring is happening in my garden at last. 🌱🌱

Imagine if you will, you’re driving in traffic and you see a bunch of people pushing their cars around instead of driving them. That’s what it’s like for the rest of the world watching Americans and their “health insurance”. Suffering for no benefit

I admit I’ve been running the numbers. It would cost less for us to live in Quebec, the highest taxed Canadian province, or even in England. When you add the cost of health insurance to taxes, it costs more to live in Vermont. I’m lucky to have these other choices but I don’t want to move.

I learned about the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire from the great artist and amateur historian Melora Creager

“While the internet was busy debating whether an artist should be punished for allegedly using AI, the legislative architecture ensuring that no artist would ever be meaningfully protected from the institutions that profit from it was being handed to Congress without fanfare.”

I have a lot to say about this but the gist is🖕

OMG. Purchased instantly

Stuck to the carpet in attack mode

Well done, Parisians 🙌🙌🙌🙌

I like this summary of the Omnishambles à la Douglas Adams

Can no one stop him?

Thou shouldst not render thy website unseen, for a visitor's biscuits be disabled.

Happy Single Parent Day! Treat yourself and take a few minutes to put your feet up on the couch.

Life was cheaper in the 90s. $10 would buy a huge bag of fruit & veg at the civic center farmers market. I could make rent playing Bach in BART stations. There weren’t subscriptions or health ins that is a mortgage. Restaurants were off limits except for noodle shops/taquerias but there were lots

Happy first day of spring from my weather station

The 10th Crusade

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Half kiss me, I’m half Irish ☘️

Evil Knieveling Allowed

1995 🤯😳

The entire history of modern tech has hinged on Bait and Switch. Lure people into platforms, hook them, and then, once alternative platforms have been destroyed, change the terms.

Ah, an email from the waste disposal company that due to rising oil prices they will be adding a fuel surcharge fee starting the next billing cycle. The cascade of price increases begins.

20 years ago, Jeff Rusch made a logo for the maker of my cello, Robert Brewer Young. It’s since been stamped into 126 cellos and I don’t know how many more violins

Me, Ariège and his maker, Robert Brewer Young

I’m glad The Deranged Toddler With Nuclear Codes did not completely blow up the world while I was in England but can’t say I’m thrilled to be back.

In my fantasy life, I live here

Timeline cleanse: the mechanism for letting small dogs through the fence next to a stile on a footpath in Dorset

Add to the increasingly long list of things I’m p*ssed at this administration for open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

The open source community lost an important member recently. Robert Kaye, aka mayhem, was the founder, inspirator and motivator of MusicBrainz. We published a short memorial to him on our blog. mixxx.org/news/2026-02...

Oh this is terrible news! I enjoyed quite a few late-night conversations about music metadata with Robert, usually involving really delicious chocolate. Rest in mischief!

Thank you @atrupar.com!

Happy International Rescue Cat Day to my loves, Francie and Marcel. I'm obviously a big advocate for rescue animals but FIV+ cats have a special place in my heart. If anyone ever has questions about caring for FIV kitties I'm always happy to answer. 1/2

Picture this yelled by a little boy as he stomps across a lego town built collaboratively by the other kids in his kindergarten and that is actually what we have in command of the largest military on earth, apparently

Minnesota would like a word.

Every time

I would like some checks and balances please

I’m worried about what is coming climate wise. But meanwhile, I have had the best winter of my adult life, skating all over frozen Lake Champlain

Here is my void cat on this weird #caturday judging me as I get out the power drill to attempt a house project

I’m going back to bed.

I have no words

Opened the windows of my studio to get some fresh air and it was not so fresh. I assumed at first it was the smell of weed. Not weed. The skunks have awakened from their winter torpor.🦨