RIP Marianne Faithful
Learning basic baião patterns on the kit.
Content or trigger warning: photosensitive folks should not watch. My lights started flickering during recording and flashes throughout the video. Apologies for that.
Marketplace has been my go to news show since 2006 and here’s host, Kai Ryssdal, answering why they didn’t pause their regular programming to respond to everything Trump has done, and I love his answer.
Had mine since April, 2010. It doesn’t turn on anymore, on my list of to-dos to try and revive it.
Yeah, a resolution condemning things Trump does, that’s going to make him pause and reflect. Keep on winning, Dems.
Democrats Move to Condemn Trump for January 6 Pardons politicalwire.com
A small hike yesterday to close off a highly bizarre week.
Netflix sent me notice about my rate increasing. While I could absorb the cost (and normally didn’t pay attention to the increases in the past) I decided on a whim to just cancel my account. They are clearly baller because there was no attempt to retain me (member since 2009), just good luck and thanks for the great years. 😂
When tech critics fail to ask why good services turn bad, that failure is just as severe as the failure to ask why people stay when the services rot.
I’m in Kansas City helping out a relative recover from a health issue. My wife sent me this awesome video of the kiddo trying his ice skates for the first time.
Also a Cymbals wiki.
Regardless of what happens to Tik Tok, a large number of people are taking a well deserved detox from the platform today.
From @gruber@mastodon.social: Google Search, More Machine Now Than Man, Begins Requiring JavaScript
The web would be better off if browsers had never added support for scripting. The web would be much faster; much better for its original purpose of delivering content to consume, not software to interact with; and much more secure and private.
One reason why I support NPR: their html-only version of their news site. I wish more sites did this.
Immigrants drive Nebraska’s economy. Trump’s mass deportations pledge is a threat
The town I live in has two primary employers: Tyson beef packing and a Walmart Supercenter. Trump (unsurprisingly) got north of 70% of the votes in the area.
Last January, the state’s economic chamber released a report saying Nebraska had no choice but to welcome immigrants to “address the workforce gap.”
Nebraska might need immigrants, but it also voted overwhelmingly for President-elect Donald Trump, who has threatened to carry out mass deportations of people living in the U.S. illegally.
RIP David Lynch. I hope that he, every day, once a day, gave himself a present. Like Agent Cooper said.
I’m visiting a relative who is battling a health issue. She has cable tv, which I haven’t watched or had access to in 20 years and there it is: a commercial with Tony Hawk peddling a supplement to combat the side effects of statins he is on.
It has been an Anthrax kind of day.
Monday is the first day back to work after a couple of weeks off. Naturally the little one can’t sleep (he hasn’t been feeling well to be fair), so he and I are hanging out on the couch. Gonna be a rough morning for both of us.
Little guy is kicking off the new year with heavy congestion, cough, and sore throat. Bringing out the big guns to make a canja de galinha.
Beautiful day spent outside with my family.
I fell asleep in a bad mood on the couch and woke up at about 2 am. I just spent the last couple of hours listening to the latest The Talk Show episode with Kagi founder/CEO Vlad Prelovac. Kagi has been rock solid for me and this episode confirmed a lot of my assumptions on their product approach.
Greetings from central Nebraska in December.
I am truly fortunate to have amazing co-workers. The environment we work in has been challenging in the most unhealthy of ways but this week I got to spend the week in Austin and have personal connections with people I have only known via Zoom.
Frost, with occasional child at the window
I clearly haven’t reached gen z with my YouTube drum videos.
