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Jul 24, 2024: Today, after a typical barrage of dad jokes during a break from playing with my kids, my niece told me I am saved in her phone as “Joe Ross …

Jul 22, 2024: Linked Links: Google Docs Can Import and Export Markdown by Michael Tsai Maybe I’ll use Google Docs more often now that it can copy/paste and …

Jul 19, 2024: I never found Letterman funny, and he comes off as mean and a little bigoted in this clip with the late, great Richard Simmons. But Simmons has a ton …

Jul 17, 2024: Everyone who has ever traveled by airplane has at least one infuriating story, including me. But when I missed a scheduled flight on American Airlines …

Jul 5, 2024: Oral Argument for Hachette Book Group, Inc. v. Internet Archive – CourtListener.com This oral argument before the 2nd Circuit about the legality of …

Jun 28, 2024: Sure, Elon, I’ll go right ahead and disable my privacy related extensions…

Jun 21, 2024: Laurens Hof, writing in Episode 73 of his Last Week in Fediverse newsletter: What makes the situation with rumours of Mastodon leaking private …

Jun 19, 2024: Louisiana classrooms now required by law to display the Ten Commandments | CNN Politics I haven’t looked into yet, but my first thought is that this …

Jun 17, 2024: 🦎 What are some good dinosaur apps and games to learn and play with your kids on iOS? I’m happy to pay for good apps, I just want to avoid scams and …

Jun 12, 2024: 🔗 Rich Idiot Tweets Nick Heer has a great post about the vapid coverage of vapid Elon Musk, but this bit from the end of Heer’s post struck me …

Jun 4, 2024: Now that Spotify’s family plan costs $20/month I don’t have much incentive not to switch to YouTube Music, which comes with the YouTube …

Jun 3, 2024: ⌨️ A quick MS Word tip: Press control + shift + F9 to remove all hyperlinks in a selection of text. You may need to include the Fn or equivalent key …

Jun 1, 2024: Oliver & Company, 1988 Watched on Saturday June 1, 2024.

Jun 1, 2024: Alito's intellectual honesty

I’m in a weird headspace about the Supreme Court’s right wing wearing their partiality on their sleeves. I’m supposed to be mad about it, …

May 24, 2024: TenBlueLinks.org shows you how to make Google’s old school, AI-free search filter, called, and this is true, Google Web, the default. I’m not a fan of …

May 18, 2024: 🪶 This is only my opinion, but it is one I strongly hold: Tom Bombadil is equal parts omnipotence and ADHD.

May 15, 2024: Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire, 2024 Watched on Tuesday May 14, 2024.

May 13, 2024: My Neighbor Totoro, 1988 - ★★★★★ (contains spoilers) This review may contain spoilers. We watched this with the kids for Mother’s Day and they loved it. We were worried some of the characters would look …

May 12, 2024: 🔗 Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors Tripp Mickle, Brian X. Chen and Cade Metz report at The New York Times that: The …

May 7, 2024: 🔗 Does the Statute of Limitations Ever Apply in Legal Malpractice? Hey look, my employer has a blog about the kind of work I do, and I wrote a thing …

May 5, 2024: I wore transitions (™️?) lenses for a year and half in my late thirties and no one close to me loved me enough to punch me in the face and force me to …