Longlegs is a comedic drama about an autistic FBI investigator revisiting her childhood trauma.
Nicolas Cage plays a religious schizophrenic dollmaker—an exact description of my own mother.
Does the dollmaker make the dolls? No, he shuffles doll parts around…

Hello! It’s been a wild month with the new job and commuting and brat summer, which means more time actively doing things and less time to contemplate the next big navel gazer of an article. I’m tired on the train to work and tired on the way back, client…

I made a little update to the site today to fix how browsers were loading files needed by other files. The custom font I use and the random quote in the header loads in slightly faster now because the browser is downloading all the files it needs at the same…

Syncing Obsidian over iCloud is a lot less painful now that iOS 18 is out. I can individually set folders in iCloud to stay downloaded, and setting this on the Obsidian folder had great results: Obsidian now takes 15.11s to become interactive on a cold open…

Some wild stuff has surfaced in my RSS reader this week about WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg’s corporate-but-very-personal war with WP Engine, full of absolutely S-tier corporate maneuvers.
I could hear the tiny *squelch* of braincells dying within my…

Picked up The Way Things Work (David Macaulay, rev. 2023) and Thing Explainer (Randall Munroe, 2015), along with Matthew Inman’s new game Horrible Therapist.
The Way Things Work holds a special place in my heart. I checked out the 1988 edition from the library…

Last month we went to a Moth Story Slam at Fitzgerald’s and had a great time. I’ve been listening to the podcast off and on for years and it was fun seeing how these things play out in person. The theme was comeback stories, the storytellers couldn’t use…

Over the past year I’ve been engaging with the email spammers who live in my junk folder. The legion of virtual assistant spammers who make throwaway gmails were getting downright noisy, so I decided to brighten their day with a random effin’ birds image—whichever…

My favorite part about this photo didn’t make itself known until I was exporting it for this post: whoever painted the door last took care to paint around the sticker.
The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group would like you to know that the little plastic…

Leaving Mastodon and Bluesky earlier this year was a great decision and I don’t regret it one bit—except for the part where some of my friends don’t blog at all and I miss them terribly. But that’s okay because the intense doomscrolling burnout continues…

I’m attempting Advent of Code this year using Go. It took me three attempts to solve the first puzzle, but I got it!
Surprisingly the tricky part wasn’t the number crunching for the answer, but reading the numbers from disk and putting them in their respective…

Yikes what an absolute month. Anyway:
We’re nearing the end of the year and I feel Something Looming. Here’s 200 Earth Impact Craters Mapped by Size and Age for no reason in particular.
I learned about the Kansas City cave cars and I think we should fill…

This was tough. I started with bufio to read the file like I did for day one, but fmt.Sscanf() did not like the variable line lengths. encoding/csv worked great for this, but because the return type and structure are different I had to refactor everything…

Like last year, these are my most-played tracks and albums on Lastfm.
Top 10 tracks “Cogito” by Akusmi “ride around” by Goat Girl “tcnc” by Goat Girl “words fell out” by Goat Girl “Always / Never” by STRFKR “Armatron” by STRFKR “It’s The Squeeze” by Dog Race…

This took forever to solve (19 distracted evenings) and it came down to forgetting to break the loop on the first successful level removal with the “Problem Dampener” enabled. Without the break it would just keep finding good level combos in the same report…

Went looking for the MST3k version of Santa Claus Conquers The Martians based on recommendations from friends and Tedium, and I forgot that they made all the classic episodes available for free on their own streaming site. Just need an email address to make…

I tried to record myself narrating a blog post for funsies, but the recording had a lot of ugly interference in the background. I narrowed it down to the switch on the back of my Blue Snowball, which was loose and sometimes lost contact. Even worse, when…

Look, I haven’t been excited about a movie in a long time. Even as I write this the day after viewing I’m still SO pumped. Bobby P. of Team Edward fame, Steven Yeun from Invincible, Parasite director Bong Joon-ho, Mark Ruffalo(!), SPACE and the philosophicals…

When did I start calling it zoup? I have no idea. Why I call it zoup is clear though: it’s just so fun to say. You try it: make zoup from a can or go all out and make your own big happy steaming pot of zoup, and then call out in the worst German accent you…