I want the nice looking beverage fridge I get ads for, but I don’t want a wine fridge. I want a “34F ice cold Diet Coke” fridge.

I don’t want lukewarm Diet Coke, but aesthetic.

Art deco coffee

Happiness

Six years ago, Elsa and I went to The Senator in Baltimore where she got to watch Die Hard for the first time.

Last night, we went to a Regal in Battery Park where she saw The Fifth Element for the first time.

What I’m saying is she has really needed more Bruce Willis in her life.

I’m not sure there have been four simultaneous issues where the right thing to do is so clear and our incoming government is wrong on all four at once.

• We must support Ukraine agains Russian invasion
• Israel is murdering Palestinians with impunity and support.
• Climate change is a serious, immediate threat
• Trans rights are human rights. Just fucking respect people.

I don’t think there’s any gray area left for any of these issues. Israel as a broader matter comes the closest, but the fact that Israel is obliterating Palestine with the intent to permanently foreclose on a two state solution is not in question.

Whether we’ve entered the end of America’s leadership on the international stage as a matter of projected force, I do not know. But whether we’ve absolutely failed the moral leadership test? There’s no question.

I often have more than one email address on a mailing list. I’d like to unsubscribe with one of those email addresses. But from iOS, it seems quite hard to see which of my email addresses the email was sent to since they are both a part of my contact. Any tricks?

We could have chosen the world where everyone feels safe to use the bathroom in the US Congress, but instead we chose one where one Representative will be unsafe from her colleagues.

Intolerance and hatred, almost certainly performative intolerance and hatred, are now the values being rewarded.

Can’t believe I’m saying this, but Marjorie Taylor Greene is threatening me with a good time.

I think working class was always a dumb euphemism, so I’m not surprised it’s lost all meaning.

Today, working class is basically “needs an income”, which is almost everyone. Middle class just means “I encounter people richer than me.”

I’ve always been a little sad that I couldn’t come up with a good name for my blog. So far, I’ve settled for a good URL.

Great news for Baltimore City— we’re finally going to tax vacant property at a higher rate.

Here’s my current closet layout. The vertical box represent a corner– I get an L-shape of our shared U-shaped closet.

After going through my clothes, I have quite a few open spots I need to organize a bit better.

What’s funny is that Elsa still finds this hopelessly disorganized, at least partially due to the fact that I do not organize my hung clothing at all. While they’re separated somewhat by “casual” and “formal”, within “casual” I have no color, type, or seasonality organizing. It’s all just hung up, and I can see everything just fine anyway.

TIL: Micro.blog API really doesn’t like it when you put a large SVG in-line in your post versus using the <object> syntax with an already uploaded file.

How is it almost 2025 and my Mac still collects all of my iMessage notifications that I long saw on other devices?

Anyone know if Shawn Blanc is doing ok? Tools and Toys hasn’t had new post in two months and his personal site hasn’t had a blog post in a year (I was checking to see if Tools and Toys was shutting down).

Also, anyone have any good recommendations for a site like Tools and Toys?

Having the largest Patagonia store here in Baltimore is great. I found a tremendous winter coat in the outlet section for greater than 50% off. It was “irregular”, but myself, Elsa, and an employee couldn’t identify anything off– which the employee said was virtually always true.

Every time I see one of my posts on Mastodon or Bluesky with an inline link and not OpenGraph I start to think OpenGraph was a mistake. It works well when the point of a post is to link somewhere else, but is terrible when using an inline link like hypertext intended.

It’s beating a dead horse, but being punished for things out of your control feels unfair whether at home, at work, or in politics.

You know, if Trump wants to cap credit card interest, why not pay day loans? Jail bond? And you know, there’s this agency that the GOP absolutely loves, the CFPB, that probably would be a great way to accomplish this work…

I’ve made the mistake of looking at the property taxes for homes that cost 30-50% more than my home in parts of this county I really like and realizing how easy it would be to move.

I think Robert Jackson Bennett might be my favorite author?

Does anyone else say “that’s enough” out loud when stopping a YouTube video that’s going way long and repetitive to pad out its run time? No, just me?

I see people outraged on the internet all the time about things which simply do not register for me at all. There’s something wild about someone absolutely unhinged about a thing you don’t (and even when pointed out, wouldn’t) think twice about. I’m thinking a lot about that post election.

I’ve made it down to two unread items in my RSS reader for the first time in forever. Tomorrow is going to be RSS 0 day, I can feel it.

This was an adorable jalopy parked by the gym.