This dude was born in 1979. He's only in his mid 40s. I'm older than him and he looks ten years older than me.

I haven’t heard any trumpets sounding from the east yet, but just in case I wanted to state for the record that Gronk should be in the booth and Brady should be at the Fox NFL Sunday desk

I don’t think the people who stumbled all over themselves to follow an antichrist when he appeared are the best predictors of when the Rapture happens, but I guess the blasphemy of presuming to know the mind of god goes along with all of that

I'm genuinely in shock, I can't even say. For 30+ years, I'd get a song snippet in my head that I didn't even remember hearing. I didn't know the words, just a few bars of the melody so I couldn't search for it. I found it by accident this morning looking for something else

Last year, I documented my experience going to a dual-boot set-up for Linux after deciding to hop off the WIndows train. I posted an update with where I'm at now (spoiler: still using linux) paulie.cool/tech/posts/l...

I found some old signed papers from when I was 18 while going through some stuff in the garage today, and I laughed when I saw my signature. I used to spell out my entire name. Over the years it got shorter and simpler and now I literally just sign the letter P because who cares at this point

Didn’t see anyone mention “The Great Waldo Pepper” as a good movie to watch in the aftermath of Redford’s death. It was the closest to a cult classic among a lot of the crowds I ran with back in the day. Check it out, it’s a great movie set during the early years of American aviation

I’m gonna have to expand my “Time to Favre” metric to non-Packer games I guess. He just got name checked in this Bills game (TTV is how long it takes for a commentator to mention Brett Favre in a Packers game. It’s rare for them not to)

My god, 1995 was such a banner year for tech. Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today. I remember downloading this and using it for a few months before moving to Japan and being off the net for awhile, but I have fond memories of it. FRAMES!

Watching again and they’re back in a proper arena, so it must’ve been an anomaly

I've been overhauling my website the last several weeks and it's finally in a state to deploy it. I've still got some things to touch up & more things to add, but it's usable No more Wordpress, Javascript, or anything else for that matter. Just straight HTML/CSS edited in a text editor paulie.cool

All those people who've said, "You know it's fake right" over the years about professional wrestling are suddenly confused by the supposed good guys in the establishment media cutting promos to praise a slain heel

The free speech absolutists love it so much they want to keep it all for themselves

It perfectly bookends the period with the Matrix. Something dry recitations of history can’t express are the amalgamations of fantasies and ideas that existed in the imaginations of different subcultures, and these films capture them in a way that many recognize as "true" even if they’re not factual

Hackers was released in the USA 30 years ago today. Dullards will tell you the movie is dumb and unrealistic, but it's got style and it's more a fantasy of how hackers imagined themselves, mixed with a heaping helping of good old-fashioned 90s techno-utopianism and a great soundtrack

“80% of our users were born on January 1, 2000. Weird.”

Finished the last two episodes of Strange New Worlds and I think they finished fairly strong. Great Ortegas episode. Good Kirk/Spock stuff for the slash writers. Felt like the last episode could’ve been a two-parter. The Pike/Batell sequence merited a full episode

Not that I'm a piece of shit who'd be targeted, but if I catch a stray memed-up bullet, I hope it's at least something funny that I know about. Bad enough to be killed, but to be so out of touch I wouldn't even understand the meme that took me out would be adding insult to injury

Sometimes it feels like our entire economy revolves around the ability to serve ads

Sometimes the sudden, unbidden memories are good ones. My mind for whatever reason dredged up the late, lamented Suck Dot Com from the depths of memory. One of the highlights of the early web. You can still access some of it through the Wayback Machine web.archive.org/web/19961220...

I haven’t watched AEW Dynamite in forever, but I’m seeing it now and it looks like the old AEW Dark. Small studio, small crowd. They used to be in arenas. Is this the norm now?

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I’ve read some obituaries with great pleasure”

Not that any of this matters anymore, but in the old republic the Department of War was just the Army. The Navy was separate. The DoD was created by merging them together, creating the joint chiefs as well as the Air Force. The new name isn’t a return to pre-1948, it’s just a rebrand

Last night, I dreamt that I rapped the entirety of the Humpty Dance while I was moving around a fly ass club that looked like it was out of a movie or something. It maintained cohesion through the entire song. It was amazing Most fun I've had in a dream in awhile

I can't emphasize how shocked I am by the radio propagation today. I'm transmitting 17-19 watts *at most* on a magnetic loop antenna inside my house, surrounded by hellacious RFI, and I've made contact with two operators in Japan today on 10M. Just an amazing couple of days of surprises

I don’t know what’s happened but suddenly the east coast is on fire for me the last couple of days on 10M (I can never make reliable contact with them at night on 20/40M, it’s mostly the Pacific Northwest). Oddly, everywhere west of the Mississippi is quiet. I even made contact with Cuba today

So the latest episode of Strange New Worlds is fun, but two things: - Vulcans aren't genetically logical; it's a discipline - The show seems to have transformed into just doing bits and gags, while sacrificing the strong character work and heart that provided depth amidst the silliness

Watched Thunderbolts and I guess they made a superhero movie about depression

The first computer my family had was a Laser128 EX that my Dad got at Sears. It was an Apple IIe/c compatible. So many dot matrix banners made from The Print Shop lol The first one I actually bought was an IBM Aptiva. It was a complete package, including the monitor & speakers

This week’s SNW had some potential but I think it suffered from providing a pat “rah-rah” answer to the primary question on which the episode turned instead of leaving it for the viewer to answer. I’m also biased against the “documentary” gimmick in general, so I wasn’t really digging it overall

New Wolf Alice album is out. This one has a "cleaner" sound than some of their previous work, but it's great and in sync with the times

The whole F1 score has a bit of a Daft Punk vibe to it, but it would also fit as music to a PS2-era racing game. Just overall great synth music

Went and saw the F1 movie and it's great and fantastic and all that, but its score and soundtrack is killer. I was wondering out loud at the end who did the score and then Hans Zimmer's name scrolled up on the screen. Of course. Of course it was him.

I'd almost forgotten what it was like to read something that was sober and informative, rather than the usual yelling to get attention or emotional manipulation of social media

lol in a way, censorship can be interpreted as damage to the network and people will find ways to route around it

Boats bathed in golden light Taken at Kuhio Beach, Oahu with me phone

The semicolon, welcoming me back like the prodigal son after years of using the em dash

In last night's Adventures in Radio, I made contact on FT8 with someone in Spain (I'm in the LA area) and they responded, but couldn't complete the QSO because whatever window that had briefly opened abruptly shut. It's amazing, since I'm transmitting at 15W on a magnetic loop antenna

Soundgarden knew what was up

My wife & I finished a Buffy run (she’s saw it long ago, I only know it through cultural osmosis) and I have two immediate thoughts: Season 2 is the best How Buffy is treated by her friends after she returns induces legit rage Cordelia is the stealth best character I had three thoughts

This is a legit idea. You could use different actors for Bond and the format would force a singular, self-contained story with no expected continuity. It’d also hopefully force narrative creativity (and some fun) due to the technology of the different time periods

Anson Mount looks like someone familiar on this week’s Strange New Worlds, but I can’t quite put my finger on it

This is a pretty long earthquake

Had an Eastern European dude tell me, “That’s not how you pronounce your name.” I was like, my man, that’s *exactly* how I pronounce my name. I’m not from the Old World; I have no affiliation with it or sentiment for it. I’m just an American who inherited this wacky alphabet soup.

The Matrix, but instead of a shared reality created by intelligent machines who use you for your energy on a dead planet, you're trapped in an ecosystem on a dying planet created by billionaire dorks to serve ads and use you for your data so they can buy more yachts & expand their doomsday compounds

This man’s impact on model building can’t be understated. My absolute favorite model kits and paints are Tamiya. RIP

One of the few nice things from living all over the country while growing up was our stay in the Chicago area and my first baseball game, which was a Cubs game. I watched them on WGN both there and elsewhere as I grew up and Sandberg was one of my favorite players. A fantastic ballplayer. RIP

This is from 2008. No theming, no building wraps, and lots of frustrated residents because the nerd thing is going on