Welp. My 50th trip around the sun is complete. It’s always fun to hear from family and friends to celebrate the beginning of another orbit. 🎂
I’ve wondered about the gap bisecting a building here in town. It looks neat, but it seems it would hurt the functionality of a covered pick-up/drop-off area when it’s raining. I figured I was missing something — but nope. It creates a waterfall right where folks are getting in and out of cars.
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 🍿
”Music! Fighting! Sausages!”
- 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” 🤣
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) — 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 🍿
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! :root { --yt-aspect-ratio-16-9: 56.25%; --yt-bg-black: #000; --yt-play-button-bg: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.8); --yt-play-button-bg-hover: rgba(255, 0, 0, 1); --yt-play-button-icon: #fff; --yt-overlay-bg: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); --yt-overlay-text: #fff; --yt-focus-outline: #e53935; --yt-play-button-width: 68px; --yt-play-button-height: 48px; --yt-play-button-border-radius: 12px; --yt-focus-outline-width: 3px; --yt-focus-outline-offset: 4px; --yt-transition-duration: 0.
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 — 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 🍿
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 🍿
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 — 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. :root { --yt-aspect-ratio-16-9: 56.25%; --yt-bg-black: #000; --yt-play-button-bg: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.8); --yt-play-button-bg-hover: rgba(255, 0, 0, 1); --yt-play-button-icon: #fff; --yt-overlay-bg: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); --yt-overlay-text: #fff; --yt-focus-outline: #e53935; --yt-play-button-width: 68px; --yt-play-button-height: 48px; --yt-play-button-border-radius: 12px; --yt-focus-outline-width: 3px; --yt-focus-outline-offset: 4px; --yt-transition-duration: 0.2s; --yt-transition-timing: ease-in-out; } .
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 I’m working on and the site I’m 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.
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 folks—cyclists at least—are 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 7º.... Yikes! Time to dig out the winter gear...
They did it—Alleluia!
https://lifehacker.com/tech/microsoft-added-shortcut-for-em-dashes