Friday is the big ove, but my goal is to get my home office in a workable state by tonight so I can work from the new house starting tomorrow. I’m 80% there but need to finish my desk setup and some networking problems.

Fuck Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox and anyone else involved in the cruel way they canceled valid grants and harmed many researchers and their families (including mine). What happened to all the money that was supposed to go to those grants?

I just about lost it in the car tonight when I opened the app for my grocery store to double check that it would still be open when it told me to check out its new AI assistant. I’m sure somebody worked really hard to add this feature nobody outside of some executive wanted, but I’m sick of it.

Happy year of the horse! I’m looking forward to displaying my Year of the horse Optimus Prime when I have a place to display things again.

I’ve been playing with different Linux distros on my old laptop. I’ve been enjoying Bazzite for the game support, but I want to try and see if I can use this for more day to day stuff. Installing ZorinOS now, then I might try more traditional distros like Mint.

Don’t want to get too far ahead of myself, but I have to post about it somewhere. We are now under contract on a house and hope to close mid-March. Lots of stuff to do, but we are so excited and happy it’s happened so fast.

Always respect the parking chair. I just learned that it’s not just a Pittsburgh thing. Chicago does it too and calls it “dibs.” Comic by @nathanwpyle.bsky.social

Welp, finally got off my butt this week and began the process to find a house here in NY. The inventory isn’t very high where we want to live, but we have a few months before our apartment lease is up. Crossing fingers that we find something and the process isn’t too frustrating.

So if when talking about the new NFL helmet Transformers and wanting to get one, and my wife casually says I should get them all, she’s not able to get upset that I now have all four, right?

Found out that my 97 year old grandmother passed away in her sleep earlier tonight. We were expecting it, but didn’t know how soon it would be. I’m glad 2025 will soon be over. Hope 2026 is going to be better for everyone than 2025 was.

This year instead of Star Wars, the kiddo wanted to time Back To The Future with midnight. We started it at 10:19 and lightning should hit the clock tower at midnight. We will see.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted here. This is a recent picture I took of a fox that came within 10 feet of us on a hike in Rocky Mountain National Park near Alberta Falls. The photo was taken with my Nikon Z50 and touched up with Lightroom on my phone.

I haven’t had this much fun watching a Memphis Tigers football team in years. Our last few teams have been great, but this team is just so good and does not let up on the gas. We need to run up scores like this and make it clear that we are the best team in the American. #gotigersgo

Watching @scottniswander.bsky.social destroy Ben Shapiro’s Superman review on a purely factual, comic history basis was something I needed today. youtu.be/Fs6q3FDFlFc?...

Early Alt Mode this week because @yakk0.org isn’t used to not working last minute! Enjoy our talk about the @skybound.bsky.social Transformers Kickstarter! www.transmissionspodcast.com/2025/04/alt-...

The other day my wife looked at the pond in the park nearby and exclaimed “why are the Canadian geese still here?!?” Without missing a beat I responded “tariffs.” It took a few seconds for her to recover from the amazing response. Or she was trying to recover from a groan. Either way it’s a win.

Tried the new @plex.tv mobile app yesterday and immediately forced quit on it. What the hell is that? It's too busy. Too many steps to get to my stuff. The old app wasn't perfect, but it was usable.

Did my duty. Hope Crawford pulls through. Lots of people at my voting location.

I feel like it’s been April Fools Day since January 20th because I can’t believe what is happening to this country is actually happening.

Look at this and the red states impacted. It’s going to be interesting watching the fallout of this. Personally, as someone that works for a university that is heavily hit by this, and married to a researcher who’s livelihood is dependent on grant funding I’m still trying to not panic over it.

Partially checked off a bucket list item today when we took a short detour and visited Metropolis, IL. I wish we had more time to spend as it was just a “jump out of the car, take some photos, and get back on the road” stop. As a lifelong Superman fan, this was so cool. I will be back one day.

Is this the number 0 or the letter O? The @ncaa.bsky.social March Madness app on Apple TV doesn’t make any distinction when logging into your tv provider. It’s the letter O BTW. I tried half a dozen times with a zero before figuring this out.

Living with my ADHD brain is like my thoughts are butterflies and if I don't catch them they're gone. Also my butterfly net has a big hole in it. It came up as I was talking with my wife & started to say something, then we talked about something else and I had no idea what I was going to bring up.

Somebody on the #Transformers Cyberworld team is giving us the deep cuts qe crave.

I was the guest on a fun new DC podcast called The Monitor Tapes, all about Crisis on Infinite Earths! My episode was all about the Flash and it was a really fun time. Check it out at https://brickcrisis.com/2025/02/tmt-tape-2-the-flash/ or on your favorite podcast directory. @themonitortapes.com

Another day (not) at the office.

Snoopy is not a fan of his new fake Crocs, but his feet don’t hurt from the ice any more so he deals with it.

I’m a “dire threat to the American people” when I don’t have my ADHD meds. Everyone (especially me) is much happier when I’m on them.

I don't know what movie they watched. Captain America: Brave New World was a lot of fun, and a thriller that reminded me of Tom Clancy stories. Some great acting between Ford and Mackie. It's up there with Winter Soldier as my favorite MCU movie.

I woke up with a migraine today and after forgetting my ADHD meds and nothing to do, my brain decided it was time to work on organizing and tagging a bunch of audiobooks I got on Humble Bundle years ago. And to find complicated ways to do it. Well, it's halfway done and my brain is satisfied now.

I have no idea about who anyone was in the halftime show, but it was entertaining. The production efforts going into it were amazing.

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

Honest question. If republicans say they are textualist in reading the constitution, why are they supporting executive orders at all? I know it’s been accepted as a power forever, but where in the constitution does it say that’s even a thing?

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

REP. OMAR: “This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like.” SEN. MURPHY: “Let’s call it what it is - a constitutional crisis.”

We try to keep politics out of our transformers podcast but unfortunately couldn’t this week. I feel like we handled it as best as we could, and stuck to the news itself, but I worry for the comic industry. https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-books-set-to-rocket-in-price-next-week-over-tariffs/

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Warren is the ranking member on the Senate Banking Committee. Wyden is the same on the Senate Finance Committee. They need to go to the Treasury building with crews from CNN and NBC and demand to be let in. As soon as they're not, hold a press conference right there and explain what DOGE is doing.

My current #homelab project is cleaning up the network mess where my fiber comes into the house. Top down is my new Unifi Cloud Gateway Ultra, a TL-SG105E switch, then a TL-SG108PE switch. The other 10" rack I did has 2 mini PCs & another SG108PE. This time I put it together in tinkercad first.

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Signal Boost: All U.S. federal government websites are already archived by the End of Term Web Archive Let people know, download your own copies. Don't let this digital book burn continue. #Feds #Health #WHO #CDC #AMA #USPHS #FDA #NIH #NCHS #PCORI

It’s probably a good idea to remind people in the US military that you do not have to obey an unconstitutional order. The oath is to the constitution, not the president.

I am officially out of fucks to give when talking politics to Facebook, where the majority of my right leaning family are. I need them to see how the person that they elected and are in love with is directly hurting my family. I’m sure it will go no where but I’ve had it.

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From Clay Bennett)

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

I have started a spreadsheet with all my physical network ports, what they connect to, and what default VLAN they are in. I should have done this years ago when I started playing with VLANs. Shame it took a new router to get me to do it.