Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1397
Getting way too emotional at a Ride show and listening to an old album by a band called Space Needle.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1396
A Christmas list of almost useless, but shockingly useful things that I bought, mostly imported from China, mostly purchased on Amazon or from a social media ad, mostly with made-up brand names.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1395
Digging trenches for fiber I am so manly. Cool ditch-digging tools. Gary He's McAtlas. Saint Etienne's new album. Peter Jackson headed back to Middle Earth? The fate of the USDS as a cypher for how full of it Elon is these days. Visiting friends.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1394
Girl Scout cookies are coming, maaan. turkey bone broth ramen, ramen packs, CVS Aetna can fuck right off, BRMC, Spotify Wrapped is BS, Walmart stuff, more griping about AI.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1393
Internet "negativity" and the United Healthcare CEO, Bluesky's revolutionary trust and safety, bummer about the PBC though, and the investors, it's heated slipper season, greenhouse and pump house cold weather update
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1392
Rick's three laws of ad-supported products, Walmart and Vizio, Advertising was Silicon Valley's first enshittification victim, not just the means, Chagos Islands cecessation, Kites are fun, Sinead
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1391
Way too much about Tolkien and the Lays of Beleriand, there probably oughtta be a Tolkien LLM god help me, a city in the Amazon with 2 million people, some greenhouse improvements, a runny nose.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1390
Getting back into the groove after the holidays, laying 10g fiber between the houses, finishing building a miter saw stand, PWEI, Plex nonsense, I am not great at vacations. Kids acting like popcorn.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1389
A quick thanksgiving edition thanking you guys, the readers.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1388
An old friend SV pilled, gardening and carpentry and networking chores, Thanksgiving prep, interest rates are never going down, huh.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1387
Walmart has sensory-reduced hours now. Ned's Atomic Dustbin, the silent petty wars that bookkeepers wage behind their executives backs, a question about 12-pack placement
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1386
Off label zit cream, a shout-out to wiki updaters, Cormac McCarthy, the lifelong endurance of love affairs, Magnetic Fields on Tiny Desk, Figures on a Beach at Alaskan dances in the 90s, my awesome new Chinese phone case, the DOJ's whiff on Google, intervening in your partner's parenting.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1385
Wolf coyotes, ranking tape, garbage Instagram ad timers, help me find these widgets somewhere other than amazon, Blackstone Jersey Mike and brand equity, a terrifying highball, Elon won't let me delete my Tweets, Swans, Julie Christmas, really all over the place today.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1384
Four types of people who work with money and how they are all very different and we mix them up at our peril, Talk Talk, my unending setbacks trying to work with Plex. An ode to my readers' civility.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1383
Godspeed and Alan Sparhawk at an old mill, except Godspeed cancelled and it was crazy. Walmart run, tons of gardening and networking chores, Gregor Samsa, Dune, Godzilla.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1382
Jane is sick, primer on Bluesky for newbies, organizing monthly expense, a dream of a self-hosted streaming playlist service, Bro that's not important you just like hugs.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1381
LIziqi is back, Unifi VPN offerings, Gargoyles sunglasses went out of business in 2022, TSA renewal existentialism, click inflation in UX, poetry shit
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1380
Slowdive at a shitty club, Wisp, getting old, ice cream cones, being depressed, MSNBC will be gone by 2024, gotta read an entire book of poetry, the journey to help Jane be more kind.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1379
More political processing, Unifi setup, insulating the pump house, a new music idea I'm working on, Gavin Friday's techno tendancies.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1378
Six Organs of Admittance, the kids are all right, where one does their best thinking, a new idea to work on, California needs to fix its vote counting, lets wait on the quarterbacking.
Good Morning. Hello. How are you? #1377
I’m switching to Buttondown to escape Substack and pondering uncomfortable truths about fascism and voters.