I wake up, in what amounts to some kind of haze. I’ve never been much of a morning person, so usually it takes an hour or so to just get back to cogent thought. If I have nothing urgent to do (work, or commuting to work, or the sporadic brunch appointment), I’ll shuffle downstairs, plop onto the couch, and throw on the television. What do I watch? Who cares. It doesn’t matter. So I fire up Hulu with Live TV, the modern equivalent of cable, and see what is airing live. Turns out, these days, it’s nothing....
Continue reading...August 2025
In the Garage
Garage season brings a smile. The bay door is up and the back door is propped open with a lawn bag of branches trimmed off the hedge earlier in the week. The openness allows a nice cross breeze as I sit here in a lawn chair, enjoying the shade, and looking out at the street and the bright hot sunlight. There is a soft hum coming from the mower battery charging, which is interrupted by the loud cars driving bye at steady clip. Rakes and shovels line one wall. Old skis, a golf bag, and kids bikes...
Continue reading...From occupied DC
How does it feel to live in an occupied city? Well, it fucking sucks, man. How does all this feel? It fucking sucks, man. In case you’re unaware because you’ve been living under a rock for the past week or so, our so-called commander-in-chief decided that the capital (capitol) city is such a hornet’s nest of criminal activity that it is a national emergency that he had to surge the troops or whatever the fuck he is thinking on any given sundown. It’s all bullshit. This whole administration is bullshit. Don’t worry, though: it’s all a distraction....
Continue reading...Plumbing the series of tubes
Did the internet somehow break while I was away? Did something change in the past 30 or so years since the internet went mainstream? Because there are a couple of weird undercurrents happening right now, in earnest, with great urgency, that seem to suggest that maybe something changed about the internet that really needs fixing. First, for some reason, laws requiring age identification are sweeping not just around the US, but globally. Why now? Well, at least in the US, the Supreme Court changed its mind and said it’s okay now. Sure, fine, whatever, they’ve been doing...
Continue reading...Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated
We’re not dead, I promise! Some of us just went on vacation and have spent the last week trying to catch up on what’s been happening on the internet. Wouldn’t want to be redundant or duplicative, you know? Luckily, it seems nothing of note has happened in the past few weeks. Certainly not Trump firing the stats person at Labor because Trump doesn’t like stats, or Trump moving around nukes because of something a nobody said, or, well, you get the picture. Nothing of note happened while we were gone because we were not around to note...
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