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Sep 20, 2023: Dear Lawyers Still Manually Numbering Paragraphs: Stop it. Here’s a tutorial: Place your cursor where you intend to begin the numbered section …
Sep 19, 2023: 🎮 Bluey: The Videogame, for real life?! Yup. https://youtu.be/S-PYqMxXKKk
Sep 16, 2023: ⌚ Audio recordings are an overlooked way of keeping memories with your kids. Mine are both under 4 and, while pointing a phone camera at them often …
Sep 4, 2023: ⚖️ Okay maybe I'm just a hopelessly biased defense lawyer but can anyone read this and tell me with a straight face that the plaintiff didn't set this …
Sep 4, 2023: ⁉️ I’m curious: has anyone else recently seen excessive outgoing #DNS requests on their network from #Wyze cameras? This was a known issue a while ago …
Sep 2, 2023: 🎸 I’ve played an acoustic guitar for and with my two kids since my oldest was born a few years ago, but today I plugged an old electric of mine into …
Aug 31, 2023: 🤢 It's not a great headshot. I look so... unfamiliar with the "Smile!" command. And thanks to a moment of poor judgment, and Gravatar, it'll be all …
Aug 26, 2023: ⚠️ So I’m going to do a real blog post about this when I find the time, but today I discovered that my router’s admin panel is accessible via a …
Aug 24, 2023: 🐎 Julia Glassman, writing at The Mary Sue (with major #spoilers for the newest batch of episodes): What makes this show so great is that it isn’t …
Aug 20, 2023: Sherlock Holmes giving serious Nardwuar vibes in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle📚: My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my …
Aug 19, 2023: 😠 I’m looking at the Be Our Guest dinner as my wife and I finalize our plans for #Disney World and I need someone to tell me why the menu at one of …
Aug 17, 2023: ⚖️ From a report at Law Dork by its proprietor, Chris Geidner: Starr issued an “administrative stay” on Thursday that will last for 30 days while he …
Aug 16, 2023: Introducing Quicklinks.lol The other day, er, morning, er, very early morning, I posted about a little project I did instead of sleeping called Quicklinks. It’s …
Aug 15, 2023: 😑 So if one had, hypothetically, selected all of the files in the .txt/.markdown notes folder in their iCloud Files all, and mistaken the “duplicate” …
Aug 15, 2023: The Web Worth Paying For I was listening to Celeste Headlee interview Anil Dash on the latest episode of the Slate podcast What Next: TBD, and Dash said something about the …
Aug 13, 2023: Grounds For Sculpture.
Aug 13, 2023: Rat’s Restaurant.
Aug 10, 2023: So, 40 commits later, you can star my insomnia on GitHub. I should have been cleaning, or sleeping. Instead, I made a webpage. Then I made a second …
Aug 8, 2023: 💻 The MacBook Air I'm posting this from is older than I'll admit in polite company, so I've been eyeing the new 15-inch Air, and today Amazon is …
Aug 7, 2023: 👍 Apropos of my earlier post about considering migration to a different Mastodon server: Notes from a Mastodon migration - Erin Kissane's small …
Aug 7, 2023: 🚆 Right now I do ActivityPubs primarily from mastodon.social. But I’m researching migration and reading about other folks’ experiences. I love omg.lol …
Aug 6, 2023: 💬 So the Gummi Bears show from 1985-1991 was both something I think I saw in its entirety during its original run (I was born in 1983), and something …
Aug 5, 2023: Avon-by-the-Sea Beach.
Aug 4, 2023: Author and actor Miranda Keeling posted this on Mastodon, where she frequently posts interesting fragments of conversation she overhears in everyday …
Aug 4, 2023: I saw The Toaster Museum linked to over at Hacker News and immediately thought of John Siracusa (@siracusa). Here’s some great context for why I …
Jul 31, 2023: Associated Humane Societies.
Jul 30, 2023: I have some more Bluesky invite codes. But I’m 40 and married, so I don’t just hand a code to the first internet user that smiles at me. Bluesky …
Jul 25, 2023: Top Gun: Maverick, 2022 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) This review may contain spoilers. Sure, it’s a couple hours of Tom Cruise being paid millions of dollars to do stunts literally everyone else in the …
Jul 25, 2023: Threatening to take away your customers’ fake merit badges if they don’t pay more isn’t a business. It’s barely a grift. It’s how a lonely bully …
Jul 21, 2023: Obviously this is incredible, full stop. But if you’re trained in the craft and the composers, this must be one of the most delightful things you’ve …
Jul 21, 2023: 🍿 Prey, 2022 - ★★★★ (contains spoilers) This review may contain spoilers. A Predator movie is only as good as it's protagonist. The dialogue can mostly suck, as it does here. The CG effects …
Jul 17, 2023: One bit of Casey Newton’s latest Platformer piece, on how Threads can survive the calm after the storm, must have many social media pros searching …
Jul 15, 2023: I need Mrs. Meyers to answer for the fact that her “Compassion Flower” handsoap scent has me routinely smelling like I think Axe body spray is a …
Jul 15, 2023: Kaya’s Kitchen.
Jul 15, 2023: Avon-by-the-Sea Beach.
Jul 15, 2023: I was going to treat reddit like Facebook, visiting every 1 or 2 months to see what was going on. But reddit leadership are so hostile to the most …
Jul 15, 2023: 💬 💬 Okay, I'm trying again to see if I can set it up so my updates on status.lol are imported to my Micro.blog and syndicated out from there.
Jul 15, 2023: Elon Musk is the answer to the question: What if we gave MRAs, incels and wannabe MAGA Big Deals™ billions of dollars and Peter Thiel’s cell …
Jul 12, 2023: List of Indie Dev Sales Events Matt Corey put together a list of developers holding sales in an indie software version of Amazon’s Prime Day: Below, …
Jul 10, 2023: Mark Frauenfelder, writing at Boing Boing: A recent study of sleep loss and depression found that one night of total sleep deprivation generally …
Jul 10, 2023: Firefox address bar modifiers - the tilde.institute wiki: The address bar has become our entry point to the internet these days. Firefox in its …
Jul 9, 2023: Breakfast at Monmouth Junction Kitchen
Jul 6, 2023: I’m trying out a new cross-posting method, this time using the #RSS feed for a new “status” category in Micro.blog to cross-post to other services, …
Jul 6, 2023: I guess we’re supposed to shit on Threads. Skepticism is valid. But they already collect data from Instagram users. And you can always deactivate or …
Jul 4, 2023: My daughter shushed me while we watched Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” today and I’ve never been more proud of anything than I was when she told me, …
Jul 4, 2023: Neil Gaiman liked a post of mine on Bluesky. It was actually a re-post of one of his own posts, and he’s famously interactive with folks on social …
Jul 2, 2023: This was supposed to post to my Microblog via OwnYourSwarm but I don’t know how to set up my theme etc. to make it look like a checkin and I’d …
Jul 2, 2023: The early nerd gets the… something. I’m tired.
Jul 2, 2023: 🎧 “The One” by Taking Back Sunday (2023) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s good. I’m happy it’s good. It came from something sad: “This song came from a riff that bassist Shaun Cooper wrote the day he lost his …
Jul 1, 2023: 📷 Found my old Fringe hoodie while putting some stuff away. It’s pretty beat up, but a great reminder that it was one hell of a good show.
Jul 1, 2023: I do not want spoilers but I would appreciate anyone seeing Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny giving me a 👍🏻 or 👎🏻. I’m going to see it in the …
Jun 30, 2023: The Supreme Court has struck down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness in Biden v. Nebraska (PDF). I haven’t read through the entire …
Jun 30, 2023: Narwhal dev declining to answer whether he made a deal with Reddit is him confirming he made a deal, as is Reddit’s line that they don’t disclose …
Jun 26, 2023: SkyBridge is a server that connects Mastodon to Bluesky, enabling the use of some Mastodon-only apps with your Bluesky account. Today I noticed that, …
Jun 25, 2023: There are so many wonderful #iOS apps for Mastodon1, but Ivory is still my favorite. Just need it to add quote posts so I can point my #ADHD Eye of …
Jun 24, 2023: Do you realize how much of Live Aid Freddie Mercury spent playing air guitar? Just one of the true gods of rock, air guitaring for what must have been …
Jun 23, 2023: 📚 Finished: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980), ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Yesterday I finished reading The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams. ️Maybe not as ruthlessly original as, well, the original, but …
Jun 21, 2023: Now I have three Bluesky invites. Let me know if you’re interested!
Jun 14, 2023: CEO Steve Huffman’s bumbling, slow-motion destruction of reddit would be a huge loss to collective knowledge on the web. Without the ability to append …
Jun 10, 2023: My 3-year-old just asked me if Mark Hoppus is me on this video of Blink 182 playing I Miss You at Coachella 2023.
Jun 8, 2023: I took this photo tonight while leaving work at 18th and Market Streets in Philly. It doesn’t really show how thick the air was, and it’s only …
Jun 7, 2023: Jeri Ryan, the actor who plays Seven of Nine on various Stars Trek, favorited a post of mine on Mastodon today. That’s it. That’s the whole blog post.
Jun 3, 2023: “Lawyers’ vile emails exposed” Sometimes I write a long, angry blog post about a thing, fully intending to post it all for the world to see, but then …
Jun 3, 2023: It’s a whole vibe.
Jun 2, 2023: Oldest Search - Search for the oldest result on internet This is one of those things I just love about the internet, a fun, simple thing, done well. …
Jun 2, 2023: I verified myself on nostr which required logging into cpanel, creating a json file, editing my .htaccess, and using a CORS tester. It was exhausting. …
May 27, 2023: Markdown images are an anti-pattern | daverupert.com Dave Rupert doesn’t see a place in Markdown for images, and I agree. Just use an img tag. …
May 22, 2023: Craig Hockenberry, announces ‘Blank’ for Apple tvOS I’m happy to announce the release of a new tvOS app called Blank. It turns your …
May 22, 2023: Mac Gmail client Mimestream reaches 1.0 Jason Snell, writing at Six Colors: If you’re a Gmail user, Mimestream will be a revelation. Since it was …
May 22, 2023: I have two Bluesky invites if anyone is interested. However, I’m only considering requests from people who will swear never to call posts on …
May 22, 2023: Moon, 2009 - ★★★★★ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (5 out of 5 stars) This is the last one for today, I promise. Another rewatch, Sam Rockwell’s performance puts this movie on a level with …
May 22, 2023: Annihilation, 2018 - ★★★★ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4 out of 5 stars) I can confirm in watching this movie again that it is ambitious, original and has a fully committed cast. If you like …
May 21, 2023: The Menu, 2022 - ★★★ ⭐️⭐️⭐️ (3 stars out of 5) I don’t regret watching this and I would certainly recommend it to certain people, but I’m not sure I’ll ever need to watch …
May 21, 2023: I’ve been playing around with using OwnYourSwarm and the idea of posting only certain checkins publicly on my Micro.blog. If anyone has any experience …
May 21, 2023: D&R Canal.
May 21, 2023: Checked in at D & R Canal @ Kingston
May 20, 2023: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023 - ★ ⭐️ (1 star out of 5 Wouldn’t watch again, wouldn’t recommend The story was incoherent except as a forced setup of Kang and of passing of the …
May 15, 2023: Camp Taylor. Checked in at Camp Taylor. A campfire in the daylight. (@ Camp Taylor Campground, NJ, USA)
May 15, 2023: Justice Gorsuch, during #SCOTUS oral arguments in Counterman v. Colorado, displaying a kind of intellectual dishonesty that must have had Alito …
May 14, 2023: Castle in the Sky, 1986 Watched on Sunday May 14, 2023.
May 14, 2023: Checked in at Camp Taylor. Another night, another shot of the sky through the trees (@ Camp Taylor Campground, NJ, USA)
May 13, 2023: Checked in at Camp Taylor. Camping with some family to celebrate my upcoming ██th birthday.
May 13, 2023: I love the big overlap in the user communities at omg.lol and Micro.blog. There’s something about both platforms that draws a certain kind of geek and …
May 13, 2023: The sky through the trees (@ Camp Taylor Campground, NJ, USA)
May 10, 2023: Neil Gaiman announced season 2 of Good Omens on Bluesky today. I enjoyed season 1 which, though it had its faults, was a really pleasant display of …
May 9, 2023: Currently reading: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams 📚 I’m reading this one with the kids at bedtime. I definitely do a bit …
May 6, 2023: Please stop inviting heads of state to Bluesky ⟶ The Verge’s Elizabeth Lopatto reports on Bluesky’s refusal, for now, to allow national leaders on the …
May 6, 2023: Mandibles, night-blooming jasmine, and in-utero memories. These are the things a great Nic Cage interview is made of.
Apr 30, 2023: If You Build It I’ve been poking around Bluesky and it seems like they’ve really opened up the gates over there. I’m seeing far more familiar names and avatars. And …
Apr 29, 2023: As I said on Bluesky itself: This is… not a good idea at all…
Apr 28, 2023: 🎧 "It’s a Pleasure to Meet You" by Motion City Soundtrack You are not alone We’ve all had our battles with darkness and shadows I’m here to let you know It’s a pleasure to meet you Today is …
Apr 23, 2023: I’m trying out cross-posting from Micro.blog to Bluesky. Come & say hi if you’re over there. There are more people there all the time, but there …
Apr 19, 2023: For and Against Bluesky Point against Bluesky: Already it’s recommending I follow crypto bros, as if no one who works on this app has ever read my bio, which states, in …
Jan 16, 2023: App recommendation: Workflowy Workflowy is easily one of my favorite #productivity apps. I’ve been using it for years for work and personal stuff and it fits my brain. It’s great …
Nov 22, 2021: Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer, 2018 Turned this off in the first ten minutes
Sep 27, 2021: Riders of Justice, 2020 - ★★★★ It both is and is not the movie you think it is, and both in the best way.
Aug 24, 2021: FUMC Ideas Sunshine Pieces Daniel Isn’t Real Near Dark Don’t Look Now Next Door Enter the Void High Tension Gaia The Greasy …
Aug 24, 2021: Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness, 1986 - ★★ Awful… awfully wonderful
Aug 14, 2021: CODA, 2021 - ★★★ Awful family places burden of their livelihood on daughter for her entire life and finally decides to let her be her own kid as she leaves for …
Aug 13, 2021: Black Widow, 2021 - ★★★ It’s worth a watch for the chemistry between the sisters - you don’t see a lot of effective portrayals of sisterhood in action movies - and David …
Aug 6, 2021: The Suicide Squad, 2021 - ★★★★ A lot of people love this movie for the same reasons a lot of people hate this movie. It simultaneously shamelessly indulges in the same clichés and …
Jul 31, 2021: Don't Look Now, 1973 - ★★★★½ The non sequitur implementation of the ending cost half a star but the film is visually stunning and narratively bold. I can’t say what movies clearly …
Jul 27, 2021: Starry Eyes, 2014 - ★★★ Watched on Tuesday July 20, 2021.
Jul 27, 2021: The Peanut Butter Solution, 1985 - ★★★ You will not know where it’s going until it gets there.
Jul 27, 2021: FUMC History The films watched by the FUMC, in order. Martyrs The Peanut Butter Solution Starry Eyes Cigarette Burns Hereditary
Jul 27, 2021: Cigarette Burns, 2005 - ★★★ Watched for the FUMC.
Jul 27, 2021: House, 1977 - ★★★ Well you should all watch it once. Watching it alone was disorientating and left me wishing I had someone to share the experience with but it was a …
Jul 24, 2021: A Quiet Place Part II, 2020 - ★★★★★ I try to be stingy with 5 stars but this movie deserves it. The writing, direction, acting and SOUND DESIGN are as good as the first and in some areas …
Jul 23, 2021: C'est la Vie, 2016 - ★★★★ I watched a few of his shorts tonight but this was my favorite.
Jul 23, 2021: Beau, 2011 - ★★★ There’s so much more to be told here.
Jul 23, 2021: The Strange Thing About the Johnsons, 2011 - ★★★ Yes it’s disturbing but there’s nothing supernatural about it.
Jul 21, 2021: Martyrs, 2008 - ★★★★ Watched on Wednesday July 21, 2021.
Jul 21, 2021: Come and See, 1985 - ★★★★ Brutal and unrelenting, once is enough, but it’s also necessary.
Jul 19, 2021: Near Dark, 1987 - ★★★★ It’s worth a watch despite the lame performance of the male lead. Henricksen and Paxton are wonderful, and Bigelow’s makes the thing a visually …
Jul 17, 2021: The Amusement Park, 1975 - ★★ These are all things I have seen happening to Oder folks. It’s a sad sad movie whose true horror is the inevitability that we may all face one or more …
Jul 15, 2021: Sunshine, 2007 - ★★ The star power is impressive, with Michelle Yeoh and Chris Evans and Cillian Murphy and Rose Byrne. The story is Event Horizon light and not one of …
Jul 15, 2021: Gunpowder Milkshake, 2021 - ★★★ Watched on Thursday July 15, 2021.
Jun 5, 2021: Furious 7, 2015 Watched on Friday June 4, 2021.
Jun 5, 2021: Fast & Furious 6, 2013 Watched on Thursday June 3, 2021.
Jun 5, 2021: Fast Five, 2011 Watched on Wednesday June 2, 2021.
Jun 5, 2021: Fast & Furious, 2009 Watched on Tuesday June 1, 2021.
Jun 5, 2021: 2 Fast 2 Furious, 2003 Watched on Saturday May 29, 2021.
Jun 5, 2021: The Fast and the Furious, 2001 Watched on Friday May 28, 2021.
Apr 22, 2021: Synchronic, 2019 - ★★★ As usual, this directing duo puts an interesting new spin on a very old kind of story. It’s a worthy addition to the time travel category.
Apr 16, 2021: Sound of Metal, 2019 A stunning movie. I don’t know how well it portrays being deaf, but it moved me with its portrayal of being someone who can hear who suddenly starts …
Apr 16, 2021: Parasite, 2019 - ★★★★ I can’t remember when I watched this but it was a while ago. It was incredibly strange and disturbing and worth watching if those things don’t scare …
Feb 8, 2021: The Lighthouse, 2019 - ★★★★ Buy the ticket, take the ride, smell the farts, be disturbed and left with a lot of questions and a day or so of your inner monologue speaking like a …
Feb 8, 2021: Earwig and the Witch, 2020 - ★ Abrupt ending, animation not great, decent first draft of a story and movie at best
Jan 17, 2021: Promising Young Woman, 2020 - ★★★★ Everyone woman should watch it once. Every man should watch it two or three times. I dinged it a star because there’s a part that’s hard to watch …
Jan 15, 2021: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, 2019 - ★★★★ It simultaneously puts every cynical fight you ever may have had about Mr. Rogers to bed an also manages to humanize him by showing that he was not …
Jan 10, 2021: Hope Gap, 2019 - ★★ Depressing but it has heart. Ending sucked.
Jan 9, 2021: Save Yourselves!, 2020 - ★★★ It’s worth watching but the end was huh?
Jan 5, 2021: Togo, 2019 - ★★★★ This was surprisingly true to the facts I could find. It’s hard to maintain a couple hours of mostly one man yelling “GOOD DOG” at running dogs, but …
Jan 2, 2021: Wild Mountain Thyme, 2020 - ★★★ I guess, based on what the critics say, I’m not supposed to admit I liked this movie, but fuck it. I’ve spent a hundredish minutes on far, far worse …
Dec 30, 2020: Ad Astra, 2019 - ★★★ Brad Pitt was very good in a role I don’t think anyone would expect him to excel in. Beyond that it’s not a great movie and bafflingly underused Ruth …
Dec 26, 2020: Wonder Woman 1984, 2020 - ★ Oof. That did not go well.
Oct 12, 2020: Hubie Halloween, 2020 - ★★½ It was exactly what I thought it would be. Don’t review this thing like it’s suppose to change cinema forever. Watch it like your favorite musician is …
Oct 9, 2020: Midnight Special, 2016 - ★★★ Great bones but a criminal underuse of Kirsten Dunst, overuse of Adam Driver, who is great but whose plot is muddled and doesn’t really justify his …
Sep 12, 2020: One Cut of the Dead, 2017 - ★★★★ Despite how it looks at first, it’s not a horror movie but it’s absolutely worth a watch, especially if you like indie movies. I won’t ruin it by …
Sep 1, 2020: The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019 - ★★★★ Great performances from the main dudes and the main lady, but the end was too abrupt
Aug 26, 2020: Project Power, 2020 - ★★★ The actor that plays Robin is really good. Her hoodie being Robin colors is an nice touch. It’s worth watching once.
Aug 23, 2020: Host, 2020 - ★★★½ Perfectly paced and does the horror via video call thing very well.
Aug 13, 2020: Jurassic Park, 1993 - ★★★★★ Still a great watch all these years later.