📝 The other night I was telling them to go to sleep and I was tired and probably more harsh than I needed to be. And my 5yo daughter looked directly into the windows of my soul and said “You’re just an old man who doesn’t know what he’s doing.” 🤪
🔗 Merlin Mann writes in On Chasing the Right “Zero.” about the widely misunderstood idea that defined a part of his career:
Put to best use, Inbox Zero is merely a philosophical practice of learning to be parsimonious about which and how many inputs we allow into our lives–and, then, to responsibly but mindfully tend to those inputs in a way that is never allowed to hinder our personal commitment to doing the work that really matters to us.
🔗 Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.
Juliana Kim at NPR:
So, Park booked his flight and spent his final days in the U.S. — playing one last round of golf with his friends, savoring Hawaii’s famous garlic shrimp, and enjoying time with his children and 85-year-old mother.
" I have to accept the fact that this is probably the last time I’ll see her," he said.
Any government, any official, and any voter who supports this is a national disgrace.
“Never, ever install a developer beta on your only phone!” I tell everyone who asks 🤪
My kids, three and five years old, are asking about comics. Give me your family-friendly recommendations!
#comicbooks
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Craig Federighi as nervous as he was in this interview where Joanna Stern asked difficult but predictable questions about why, so far, not even artificial intelligence has been able to render Siri mildly useful.
🔗 The WSJ Editorial Board found the unanimity of some recent “culture war” SCOTUS decisions surprising. But it’s not: the liberal justices tend to be principled, while the conservatives tend to torture the Constitution for predetermined ideological outcomes.
(Full article here)
It’s sad that Pocket is shutting down, and more sad that the spammy “discovery” nonsense Mozilla shoehorned into it, as far as I can tell as a Trojan horse for ads, is going to stick around in some form.
If you like the Drafts app by Agile Tortoise, check out this action I published to use your draft text to search the TestFlight beta tracking website departures.to.
Cheers to @FloGroh, whose open URL in current line action I adapted mine from (and who has a ton of other awesome Drafts actions).
When Billy Eichner likes your comment on his TikTok and then replies with a ❤️, you post that shit on your blog so when your kids are grown, after their reverence for you has been eroded by the knowledge that you were only ever just a dude, yes a dude who loved them infinitely, but also a dude who, like most other parents, didn’t really ever have a clue what he was doing, anyway, you post that shit so after that, there is a place for them, together with all of posterity who have the eyes to see, to gather and bear witness to your meager but enduring glories.
See also: Jeri Ryan favorited a post of mine in 2023.
Alito’s dissent from the Supreme Court’s recent benchslapping of Trump is a preview of the kind of subservient drivel we will see more often if a majority of SCOTUS persists in placing country above king. I predict Trump will eventually declare he is bound only by the decisions of Alito and Thomas…
I added a page to my site that lists the URLs necessary to add common search engines to your browser, including several Google Scholar searches that lawyers, law students, and other folks may find useful. Let me know if you find any bugs or typos.
My wife is beautiful and brilliant and I’ve never deserved her, but also her shopping lists, usually written on random envelopes, look like they’re torn from House of Leaves.
Trump is intentionally and unapologetically empowering child predators. And, by extension, so is every person who voted for him. That is not an opinion. It is an irrefutable fact.
The Electric State, 2025 - ★★★
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Note: The phrase “sad weirdos” is aimed, with love, at fellow users of Letterboxd, where this review was originally published. I know I’m supposed to shit on this movie with the rest of you sad weirdos who watch things we hate for two straight hours. And sure, you could have done much better giving Neal Blomkamp $10 million and a long weekend to make this. And sure, I could have written better dialogue, especially for the sibling interactions at the supposed heart of the movie, on an all-night instant coffee bender.
Disc golf dino
Perplexity ❤️ Ben Shapiro, I 🗑️ Perplexity
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Trishla Ostwal, writing for AdWeek about Perplexity’s sponsorship of right-wing jackass Ben Shapiro: The deal, structured as an annual partnership for 2025, marks Perplexity’s first native ad integration with a media outlet. It’s not just that Perplexity chose to advertise with one of the loudest anti-American voices in the country, it’s that they chose to make this their first native ad integration with any media outlet. I wondered, after reading the AdWeek piece, what Perplexity would have to say about Shapiro.
Gin Blossoms can still rock it out, and Follow You Down was one of the first songs I recorded from the radio to make a mix tape.
I hope Facebook’s executive team are investing in some quality knee pads… 🔗 bloomberg.com
Craig Ferguson: I’m So Happy, 2024 - ★★★½ (contains spoilers)
Saturday, February 15, 2025
This review may contain spoilers. The big laughs come and go, but I’m just a sucker for Craig Ferguson so I was smiling the whole time I watched I’m So Happy, available in full on his YouTube channel. I thought his mini-rant about context and not filming on phones was well done, especially because, in context, his “attack” on young millennials lands well in that context (though, at 41, I'm an elder millennial, so who really knows), and he extends a few olive branches qualifying the more critical stuff.