Working audio for Saturday worship so being a good Lutheran by enjoying a German beer to prepare my heart, mind and liver.
Watching: Death by Lightning S1E2, Party Faithful šæ
āBeers! Fighting! Sausages!ā
- Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur
Pluribus Apple TV Series Gets Humorous ‘Bloodsong of Wycaro’ Book Tie-In
Will Carol record the audiobook version? Dr. Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD did the narration for his “The You You Are” š¤£
Paramount Skydance is working on a new Star Trek movie
Are we going to have a third timeline?!
My son is at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) āĀ the world’s biggest gathering of people who like to hit things with sticks. It’s been fun to follow social media around the conference. I’m sure it’s a pretty different vibe from the technology conferences I’ve been to.
Planning to watch: Death by Lightning Season 1 šæ
Have been a long-time fan of Candice Millard’s books and checked Amazon to see if she has one I haven’t read, and only a week ago a brand-new limited series came out on Netflix based on one of her books. I can’t wait to watch it!
Nailed it
It’s hard to cheer for billionaires, but it’s impossible not to get excited for scientists and engineers who create something that does exactly what it was designed to do. Congrats to everyone at Blue Origin. That was awesome!
Casey’s pizza is gold, I guess.
Cancel Shenanigans
I’ve been a subscriber to Font Awesome at $99/year for about a decade. I considered canceling and they reduced my annual fee by $20 āĀ forever. That now shows up as a “Loyalty Discount”. What the heck is up with that?! I’m only considered loyal after I’ve threatened to leave? 
Watched: Zero Dark Thirty šæ
I saw The Hurt Locker, but after House of Dynamite, I realized that I had never watched this. I didn’t realize how messy the operation at Bin Laden’s compound was, with a downed chopper and all. I felt like I was watching Black Hawk Down. I figured it was some added drama for the movie, but it appears to be what really happened.
Watched: A House of Dynamite šæ
Felt silly when I discovered this was on Netflix. With all I’ve heard about it, I was sure it was in theatres. Saying that I “enjoyed” it seems a little inappropriate – but it was a good enactment of the decisions that would need to be made in a very tight time window.
November 2025 Auroras
UNL Percussion Ensemble ā Fall 2025
The percussion studio at the University of Nebraska had a great program the other night. Unfortunately, the streaming/video/audio in their new building isn’t performing at the level of the musicians.
Chrome Split-View
Not as full-featured as the split windows in Arc, but a very welcome addition. I hope they might add the option to have more than two in the future. At work, I like to have a split tab with calendar and mail, then a split tab with the ticket Iām working on and the site Iām editing. When I run my radio nets, I like to have the script, my list of stations that call in regularly, the weather and the time all available.
Chrome's New 'Split View' Is Now My Favorite Way to Use the Internet
Reading news on NetNewsWire. Posting via MarsEdit. I feel like I’ve been to the future and I’m back to get a hug from 2005.
@mrwilson I used to enjoy that it was the service that everything else was built to talk to; also, that it was a sort of social media, showing me what all of my friends were up to. Increasingly, it seems they are making it more difficult, if not impossible, to interface with their data. At the same time, more and more folksācyclists at leastāare utilizing RideWithGPS.
Doing radio support for a run this weekend and at the start (kickoff? step-off?), the feels-like temp is going to be 7Āŗ.... Yikes! Time to dig out the winter gear...
They did itāAlleluia!
https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-added-shortcut-for-em-dashes
Palabra jot
What is more full of false hope than a document whose name ends in "FINAL"?
@bigzaphod my daughter was kind enough to go with me to see it at the theatre and somehow fell asleep through most of it soā¦ maybe not as violent and exciting as I thought it was š
Mac user that needs a code editor? You can't beat Nova, and it's having a rare sale. Get 40% off for the next couple of weeks: https://nova.app/buy
I had a Virtual Boy when I was like 20 for a few days. I ended up returning it because it was uncomfortable/awkward to play, couldn't be enjoyed with anybody else and was expensive āĀ that said, I remember thinking that the games were fun and the 3D effect was neat. I'll definitely have to give this a try! https://www.theverge.com/nintendo/777032/nintendo-switch-virtual-boy-games
Who wants a vomiting backpack?!
@DeniseG and I've been seeing people trying to do the math and thinking that it might not be enough. I'm not so excited about the beer āĀ but I wouldn't say no to an irish coffee in November. :-)