I know we said we would do less link-blogging, but we didn’t say we would do no link-blogging. We used to do the Morning Constitutional, which was a daily roundup of news stories we found important/interesting, and Till the End of the Day (yes, this is a Kinks reference), which was more a dump of things we found during the day that we thought were cool. We bagged the Morning Constitutional for the return of the blog partially because it was a ton of work, but mostly because all the news now is behind paywalls, and that’s...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Maybe Not Tonight by Lime Garden
A day late because the scheduler broke. Anyways, just a pretty good song.
Continue reading...The Postal Service (not the band)
I went to the post office today. No, this isn’t the beginning of some Bukowski book, it’s just a thing I did. I had the day off, so I could actually get to the post office to send out some things that needed to be sent when one isn’t actually at work during the Postal Service business hours. I love the Postal Service, but as much as I hate to say it, damn is the post office a goddamned depressing place. Like, what if you took the classic stereotypical 1980s DMV and made it worse. It’s counterfactual:...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: hollyweird by aja monet
This week a cool one from aja monet. Here’s her writing about the song.
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Penny in the Lake by Ratboys
Today’s is from Ratboys, from their new record Singin’ to an Empty Chair.
Continue reading...Towards a smarter home, part 7: Pulling the thread
A happier one this time. In the early but far-too-recent Wild West days of the smart home, manufacturers used a wide variety of protocols and platforms, most of which were proprietary, and largely none of which were inter-operational. As time moved on, the devices landed on being at least minimally operational with the bigger platforms that arose: Amazon, Google, and, to a much lesser extent, Apple. Some required Internet service, some required a (proprietary of course) hub, while a few allowed local control absent an external device or phone home. Meanwhile, a few standard protocols started being...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: All the People by Chinese American Bear
This week’s song is brought to you because it has puppets. It’s from Chinese America Bear’s upcoming album “Dim Sum & Then Some,” due out May 8, 2026.
Continue reading...How to watch the Super Bowl
Let’s see if we can get some SEO juice for the blog here on what is the most pointless post on every website and blog every year. You can watch Super Bowl LX on February 8, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. ET, on NBC and streaming on Peacock. Time: It’s at 6:30 ET. Channel: This year it’s on NBC Streaming: Yup, on Peacock Got it? It’s pretty simple. I hope you didn’t try to use ChatGPT to figure it out. Now that I have your attention, did you know that the U.S. Customs and Border Control is absolutely...
Continue reading...Hump-Day Song of the Week: Circles by Large
This week’s is a dreamy one from Large, off their upcoming record Marine Life.
Continue reading...Towards a smarter home, part 6: Let there be lights (exclusions apply)
Well, that was annoying. Where we left off, I had a running installation of Home Assistant with most of my devices running well on it, and a few other server applications humming along pretty well. Time to install some new devices. One thing I wanted to do right away was smarten my porch light. The ability to turn it on and off both from anywhere in the house and remotely would be extremely useful, especially during the winter dark times. There have been a good number of times that the light was off when I returned home...
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