I was out until 1AM yesterday digging out my family's cars. I got into one of them to back it out of the giant drift that had formed around it, and Spotify started autoplaying when I turned the car on. Sub-zero, by Action Bronson. It's not a simulation, it's a video game, and Tim Schafer is […]

For #tunetuesday, the theme is #mynameis: songs with a person's name in the title. This is "Alex Chilton" by The Replacements. The band was such a fan of Chilton's music that they wrote a song about him. Apparently the chorus is what the singer said to Chilton the first time he met him. He was […]

There's part of me that thinks that dudes with snowblowers are peak masculinity. Walking around in brutal conditions, helping neighbors by casually throwing hundreds of pounds of snow with big loud machines.

Watched two cars spin out driving back and forth between Davis and Union Squares this morning. Be safe out there #boston

Walking into Dunkin Donuts in the middle of a 2 foot snowstorm, ordering a "large iced black" in my thickest accent

This new hell is Certified Fresh

I gotta say the whole heat pump thing is cool right up until the point where you're worried about losing power and not sure if your backup furnace is lit.

Two things I really don't like are: Cards Against Humanity, and the culture of internet self-diagnosis. So of course I pull this at the office holiday Yankee Swap.

https://www.amazon.com/Hoozo-Android-6000mAh-Touchscreen-Bluetooth/dp/B09K73G4YN I found one of these in my basement leftover from my old startup. Any suggestions on what I should do with it? I could try to root it and boot it but I'm not sure what I could run on it or what use it could be...

I have a Washburn Rover travel guitar that I really want out of my house. It's got some warping in the neck, so Guitar Center doesn't want it. It's definitely a junky guitar but might be repairable, and if you just want something to play around with, I'd be happy to give it away for free […]

Hello from Nashoba Valley Ski Area where it will take me longer to compose and post this message than it will to finish this run. Great learn-to-ski area, though! #skitheeast #icecoast

I'm going skiing at Nashoba Valley on Sunday and I'm looking at these trail names like... But then I went and looked up what Nashoba means and it's apparently a Choctaw word? Where the hell did Nashoba Valley get its name? Does anyone know?

Feels weird to be posting Incubus for #funkychickenfriday but Anti-Gravity Love Song is still one of my favorites: https://youtu.be/rT7aDgdPDYQ My college band and I used to jam on this for like an hour. So much fun.

When I was working on VR projects it was social suicide to badmouth the whole "Metaverse" idea, but man, I sure feel vindicated now: https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too

There's a faction in Twilight Imperium that has an ability where they may spend trade goods to treat all Law cards as blank for a turn. Whoever put that faction into the TI4 Async Discord bot really nailed the wording here. It do be that way sometimes.

Some days I just sit and think, "you know, you never have to worry about merge conflicts with drywall. A miter saw doesn't stop working if someone screws up your Dockerfile..."

I took a look in my fridge today and saw that I had a jar of sauerkraut, half a large sausage, half an onion, and a couple of mushrooms, so I said fuck it, I'm making stew. I'm pretty sure that's how the original sauerkraut stews were made, too.

Finally, the tyrant has been usurped, and the War on Christmas can end.

Is there a Mastodon client for Android that has quick access to different Lists? It's a feature that I really want to use more but both Tusky and Megalodon make it really hard to just flip to a new list. It should be like 2 taps max, no interstitial screens. #mastohelp

This week turned into turbo-crunch at work and between that and everything else going on, I kinda miss my flu-isolation in Puerto Rico.

Man, late nights at the office hit real different when you have a kid at home.

ROCK SALT - Mood is somber, but being around our neighbors maybe blocks the bastards from grinding us down, yeah? Almost 50 and sunny Thursday, cloudy & cooler Friday, all highs in the 40s. Rainy Sat afternoon and sporadic drizzle Sun. Recharge your battery, build community: your lively […]

It's #tunetuesday and this week's theme is #kingsqueensjacksjokers, so here's 3's and 7's by Queens of the Stone Age: https://youtu.be/BgVfjXA_QY0

I have a Zojirushi NL-AAC10 rice cooker that recently went kaput on me. It randomly shuts off in a way that makes me feel either a battery is dying or a capacitor needs replacing. Either way I got an upgrade for Christmas and I think it would be really cool if someone was interested in reviving […]

Happy new year, or as they say in China: 年年油魚 #food #fish #happynewyear

#puertorico, I love your island, I like your people, I like your rums, and I like your food, but someone's really got to explain to me why the hell "mojo" is not, you know, mojado. I ordered some carne frita con mojo and got some delicious fried pork with onions, but, like, sauce??

Is there a show with a worse pitch-to-execution ratio than Beat Bobby Flay? I've been watching this for ten minutes now and nobody's thrown a single punch at him.

Came down with the flu the first day I was here, which is just stellar. Hopefully some asopao de pollo can fix me up.

I'm staying on the beach in Puerto Rico and there's an old dude who's spent all morning switching back and forth playing his trumpet and playing chess with his buddies as they come by. How do I get his life?

Whenever you meet someone new, ask them what they're most excited about right now. Everyone interesting is excited about something right now, and they'd probably love to tell you about it.

Listening to the DJ on WERS talk about "this great old band I discovered and just had to listen to all their songs. They have a big discography going back a long time..." and it's My Morning Jacket. 💀 #music #ohnoimold

Framingham, MA really needs to apply for a Geographical Indication. There are millions of these things sold every year and the town gets zero revenue from it. It's robbery.

Nas and DJ Premier dropped a new album, Light-Years, this weekend. In case you were wondering after the King's Disease series, I can confirm that Nas has run out of gas. It's time to go back and wait for another 10 years for a good Nas album. #music

I know using Spotify is a moral failing but does anyone know how to get these podcasts out of my feed? I just want to listen to music, not 34 mid-wit takes on the latest Trump crisis.

I wonder if anyone has been disciplined at work for verbally abusing their AI tools yet.

In the _Starfleet Technical Manual_ , there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar […]

It's really great knowing nice people who know how to make things. One of my former tenants comes through my neighborhood regularly and every once in a while he'll just drop off a bottle of homemade limoncello for us. I usually get him back with some hot sauce or pickles. It's lovely.

TIL my coworker called "Cory" is actually named Coriander, and I think that's just a really cool name.

I'm getting dinner tomorrow with two old friends from the game industry and I'm already wondering if it wouldn't be so bad to get back in...

Free idea if you, like me, have like 3 lbs of turkey that you can't eat in the next two days before it goes off: shred it, mix it with a sauce, and make a tray of enchiladas with it. The sauce I made was blended black beans and onions. Then filled […] [Original post on social.foolish.computer]

Two things that went really well with this year's apple pie: 1. I macerated the apples in a cup of sugar and some spices for 24 hours to draw a ton of moisture out. (I don't really like pre-cooking the apples and this kept the inside of the pie reasonably dry) 2. I reduced the juice that came […]

Everybody in the office today: #rto #corpolife

Happy Quadratic Relation Remembrance Day to all my fellow novice pie-makers. Today we must pause and remember that an 9-inch pie tin is 50% larger than an 8-inch tin. May your reflections be meaningful and your pies be delicious.

I'm looking for a room to rent all day on 12/6 for a mega boardgame day with some friends. Requirements are basic: big table, chairs, climate controlled, enough room for 6 people. Any suggestions #somervillema #cambridgema #arlingtonma?

The only thing I don't like about pumpkin spice lattes is having to convince myself that it's OK to enjoy them whenever I order one.

I just discovered a last minute bug that happened because of Linux's "middle-click to paste anywhere" feature. Frustrated, I looked up how to turn it off, and mostly found things like "Well, there are actually multiple clipboards. There's one for X11, and one for Gnome, and one..." NO ONE […]

Can anyone into #woodworking tell me if the root ball of a tree is good wood to work with. I just unearthed the stump of an old dead apple tree and I'm either going to trash it or give it away to a woodworker.

With all the Epstein/Trump stuff coming out, and all the whitewashing of it that *will* be coming out, I wish I could find this stand-up bit I once saw: "He's right, technically. Him sleeping with a 15 year old doesn't make him a pedophile, it makes him an ephebophile. Ephebophila is attraction […]

My daughter has (to my knowledge) never watched a Mickey cartoon, nor ever seen a Disney movie. Today she asked for "Minnie Mouse hair" (just two buns) and her "Elsa dress". Congratulations to the rotten soul of Walt Disney. You won this battle.

Is a single LP-length song a valid submission for #tunetuesday? #isthisemo is about posting songs that make you feel sad emotions, and Mirror Reaper by Bell Witch is one of the saddest pieces of music I know of: https://bellwitch.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-reaper Most of Bell Witch's music is […]