Went hiking with my wife and son today in 65 degre...

Prime rib tonight. Never made it before, thankfull...

I have so much fun with this little guy.

The 5 yo got his first tooth fairy visit this week...

Billy Corgan speaks with Chazz Palminteri and go d...

Looks Like We Can Finally Kiss the Metaverse Goodb...

My new job requires me to be in the office 3x per ...

Difficult to believe, 30% of the people in my town...

Another older drum cover video snippet, Falling to...

A couple of weekends ago I went to Kansas City for...

Testing the new micro.blog video feature. Video is...

Tinted glass

I have just completed my fourth week in my new job...

Reading about the Principles of Calm Technology fr...

via Coté: “Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes...

My sleep cycle has been a little all over the plac...

My mother-in-law bakes 6-8 of these sourdough loav...

"It's not profitable" (smiles)

Today marks the last week I file for my weekly une...

RIP, D'Angelo

Gloria Estefan Tiny Desk Concert 🔥🔥

Beautiful October day, 80 degrees, breezy. Oh, and...

Thanks, LinkedIn.

Anika Nilles drumming with Rush is such a badass m...

Living Color still sound fucking amazing, Cult of ...

I have no clue why I'm writing this and wtf are these three fingers for?

The Nebraska Telephone Company Building in Lincoln...

Give me the titanium iPhone mini as the next air.

This. From Taegan Goddard’s Politcal Wire. W...

Posted a YouTube short of my drum cover of Shout b...

The drum community simply does not talk about Rich...

Quiet morning. Got my coffee brewed up. Tasty. The...

Wow, the iPhone Air doesn’t have stereo spea...

This Luiza Brina Tiny Desk performance is outstand...

Upgrading my backup phone to ios 26. My Mac is sti...

Spin Doctors cover Purple Rain (yes, that Purple R...

Tweaked my back a week or so ago, it was almost he...

Keeping it slow

Inflation and, you know, getting laid off.

My iPhone 13 mini is at 93% battery health. And st...

I sniff an Apple global MVNO in the near future.

This is really good and honestly I will keep payin...

Huh….did not have Atlassian buying The Brow...

Guess I’m gonna try to audition to be Pearl Jam’s ...

The little, seemingly innocuous, questions ChatGPT...

Let’s take it from the top.

My wife and I decided to pony up for COBRA health ...

The state of Nebraska really does not want anyone ...

Had some fun tonight playing a drum cover of The W...

So many devices.

My wife took this wonderful photo of our son durin...

I listened to this Wood Brothers album about 10 ti...

Engineering momentum, with occasional job searching

Following specific YouTube channels in my RSS read...

“Chinese Democracy” by Guns ‘n&r...

Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast keep...

There are a handful of albums I really play on rep...

Reading about the social features The Verge are bu...

The Verge, really doubling down on blogging as the...

A reminder that the hyped math of AI productivity doesn't add up

Green bean fort. Courtesy of my wife and son 📷

🎵 I recorded a snippet of my one of my attempts to...

Pretty amazing: The first 100% effective HIV preve...

Unboxing

Today I learned that eggplant is, botanically spea...

I have now hit that milestone where I’ve had to in...

I thought that working on my CV was going to be st...

A History of Mac Settings via @taoofmac.com @rcarm...

Thinking of Ozzy and playing Sinatra’s &ldqu...

Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert should bring their...

I’ve had the CD since I was 18 or something....

I feel compelled to divert my subscription money a...

Tip o' the hat to the companies that list which st...

For when coffee inevitably becomes more expensive....

Well stated, sir. Dare Obasanjo (@carnage4life@mas...

Jesus. This is tight. .embed-container { position:...

I guess I’m continuing my “we are not ...

Hour 5 of slow cooking some baby back ribs at 225....

Man, Matt Cameron left Pearl Jam. I wonder what hi...

Momma bird feeding her babies amongst a group of p...

The boy crawled into our bed around 3 am. I’m cert...

Scrolling through LinkedIn is kind of silly.

Inevitable

Well, the job market is…interesting.

We are not a serious people

Joan Westenberg (@Daojoan@mastodon.social) People...

I’m such an introvert I can’t even tal...

A delightful calendar app by @cassidoo.co: PocketC...

He should have died, but he had a whiskey instead.

Practicing for my last day of work.

Jason Gorman What makes LLMs work isn’t dee...

Getting a layoff notice as World War III starts di...

P.S. Learnings makes you sound like a damn clown....

Liquid Glass:

This all day. I bust out into a cold sweat every t...

Allowing myself some space to slow down.

Currently listening: You can hear their friendship...

This clown car we’re all on definitely did n...

Years from now, someone will uncover that the self...

“Written without AI” is the new &ldquo...

Airplane, with occasional cancer.

We should all double down on TACO. Just like we sh...

I am salivating over these kits and fortunately th...

Two poignant pieces I’ve been reading over a...

Clouds trying to get me while I was riding my bike...

My new Canopus (amazing drum company from Japan) s...

“Agentic” is something I want to see w...

Today’s bounty.

Currently listening to the best movie soundtrack e...

First dust bowl like storms, now fuel shortages, i...

Well, that was scary.

My son, when we’re putting him to bed:

Rice cookers are great, but one should still learn...

Nice finish to a long ass day.

Matt Cameron breaks down his drum parts on Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun"

Trump tightens control of independent agency overseeing nuclear safety

Learning a stupid drum part for my stupid mental health and my stupid hands and stupid feet are being stupid

A reminder. It’s the Stupid, Stupid

Really good interview with Mike Bordin, drummer of...

Outshined, with occasional sunshine when she's gone

TV is on while I wait for my car repair. I haven’t...

📷 The HTC U11 had a good camera as well (still hav...

Cleaning up my photos and found some shots taken w...

The Light Phone III. A little box of moonlight, with occasional bugs

Man, Clem Burke. Rest in Peace.

Turned off all notifications, minimized my home sc...

A quiet day outside with my wife and kid.

American Brexit

Priorities.

I finally feel liberated from my retirement accoun...

The likelihood of my pre retirement years succumbi...

Vultures

✅ Groceries ✅ Food for the week prepped and cooked...

The Light Phone III is the most interesting phone ...

Per my previous post, you can pretty much validate...

Joan Westenberg captures a lot of what has been on...

Today I played with my boy. Puzzles, racing, match...

Apparently ssa.gov website is only running during ...

Shutting down the government would have just accel...

The news ping pong cycle is the definition of insa...

Playing drums to a Peter Erskine drumless track

The political equivalents of this tragic headline ...

Nothing new, the GOP are cruel, full stop. Departm...

Currently listening: .embed-container { position: ...

Deleted: Realized I am falling into the trap of pr...

This, so much, this. Hello non-technical people. J...

Some geese, on a frozen pond.

More of this please New “WikiTok” web app allows i...

As a music listener, I want to press play on a pur...

Think I will take the train next time. Trump Vows ...

The amount of attempts being made to sign in to my...

Dan Sinker explains why we have to write it down. ...

Never heard of this service but seems like a clean...

I decided months ago to really shore up our emerge...

RIP Marianne Faithful .embed-container { position:...

Learning basic baião patterns on the kit. Content ...

Marketplace has been my go to news show since 2006...

Had mine since April, 2010. It doesn’t turn ...

Yeah, a resolution condemning things Trump does, t...

A small hike yesterday to close off a highly bizar...

Netflix sent me notice about my rate increasing. W...

Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by vent...

I’m in Kansas City helping out a relative re...

Also a Cymbals wiki.

Cymbalsmiths of the world

Regardless of what happens to Tik Tok, a large num...

From @gruber@mastodon.social: Google Search, More ...

Immigrants drive Nebraska’s economy. Trump&r...

RIP David Lynch. I hope that he, every day, once a...

I’m visiting a relative who is battling a he...

It has been an Anthrax kind of day. youtu.be/XphUU...

Monday is the first day back to work after a coupl...

Little guy is kicking off the new year with heavy ...

Beautiful day spent outside with my family.

I fell asleep in a bad mood on the couch and woke ...

Greetings from central Nebraska in December.

I am truly fortunate to have amazing co-workers. T...

Frost, with occasional child at the window

I clearly haven’t reached gen z with my YouTube dr...

Decided to start watching one Bruce Willis movie e...

The Weekly Notepad: Dec. 1 - 7

My hopes were pretty low on trying this NA bourbon...

Finally played a little today. I started listening...

The habanero is the perfect pepper.

The Weekly Notepad: Nov. 25 - 29

One reaps what one sows.

The pie photography tonight is on point.

The Daylight DC1 arrived! Excited to put it throug...

It’s not even December yet but my mind is ta...

My friends made a nice song, I think you’ll ...

I appreciate that Bluesky is growing. I occasional...

I’ve been fairly introspective over the elec...

I’ve resorted to just have the election live...

Moving to a small town in Nebraska after so many y...

So…The Home Depot has a life sized animated...

Things I’ve Been Doing This Week

At the end of the day… Eradicate this phr...

No, the machinists did not make Boeing a piece of shit

Twice in one year.

A single site was responsible for 60% of our IV fl...

2024 continues to be…weird.

I look at my 4 year old boy and I find it incredib...

I had no idea that UsaFacts.org was a thing nor th...

Thoughts on the iPhone 13 mini after two days: blo...

Summer Top 5 NA Beer List

I am first in line to celebrate the demise of twit...

Man, this hits hard. Arstechnica and AnandTech wer...

I haven’t recorded in a bit. Was futzing around wi...

Glad to see Apple are finally selling the refurbis...

During these next few weeks my focus is going to b...

Poser.

Dave Abbruzzese, Pearl Jam drummer for the Vs. and...

I’ve been going down a Pearl Jam rabbit hole...

Purple corn, with occasional flowers.

How Far the Song has Fallen from the iTunes Tree

Man, I sure miss Bowie.

Today I posted a Stone Temple Pilots drum snippet ...

My go-to beer is the Run Wild IPA from Athletic Br...

Summer, signaling its beginnings.

I’ve been enjoying posting little short snippets o...

Frozen fruitcicles

Friday last week, we installed the pedals on my so...

I posted another drum cover short on YouTube. Jimm...

Trying this out, my first YouTube short playing dr...

Incredibly disappointed I missed Godzilla Minus On...

My (other) tribe

I’ve discovered an excellent new blog, arun....

I am this close to some day capturing a lightning ...

It’s so silly, but I love that Call and Oates is s...

Lots of jumping and rolling in the grass today.

Wild asparagus, with occasional grapes.

Playing drums to a loop for giggles, it’s be...

I appreciate marveling very much

The iPad I want isn’t here yet. But my compl...

Steve Jobs: It’s in Apple’s DNA that technology a...

The clouds yesterday put on quite a show 📷

If the internet went away tomorrow, I think we wou...

Patience

Committed myself to using Arc browser on my Mac fo...

Day 6: Windy #mbapr

Day 2: flowers 📷

Kite, with occasional symphony

Watched “Dune part 2” yesterday. In honor of one o...

Not sure where I first saw this, I finally read th...

This is still a great book and such a fun operatin...

Listening to this Teresa Esguerra interview (drumm...

Fixed my 1Password issues with Safari on mac OS by...

I’ve been keeping up with my drum playing re...

Verizon: Your bill is due. Me: I can't log in to p...

I have a large phone, but c’mon Apple!

Waiting for the Sandhill Cranes to arrive

Tomorrow, Mario starts preschool. This milestone s...

Summer can’t come soon enough. This was taken in A...

When I was a kid, Ruben Blades was a staple on the...

Improvisational duet between drums and gen AI: Jo ...

Switched over all of my lines from Verizon to Visi...

I generally don’t download lots of apps on my phon...

Make no mistake, Karen Carpenter was a master at p...

You know what? The sunflowers and the grasses are...

When I first began my PM journey, I felt this imme...

I setup Starlink in September of last year and I a...

Bending Time

“What are all of those pipes?”

This is what brought me over to micro.blog from Ma...

Japan’s Only Cymbal Manufacturer Such a love...

Regarding 1Password and Safari, it definitely is w...

In praise of buttons www.nubero.ch/blog/009/

Lately, 1password and Safari have not been getting...

I just discovered that there is a text version of ...

Is That a Drum Studio in Your Pocket?

The amount of hurdles Apple puts you through to bu...

The Evolution of the Trap Set lecture by Winton Ma...

Highs of -4 degrees in a few days. Painful.

I’ve been using my watch + AirPods as my &ld...

Icy fog

2024, with occasional introductions Hello, and tha...

After two and a half years, Covid strikes the hous...