whatever grabs my attention
A couple years ago, I started seeing ads for “cell phone booster” antennas for cars and trucks around the off-roading/4×4 world as a way to stay connected while out in the middle of nowhere, but I was deeply skeptical. How much better could your phone signal be after paying a few hundred bucks for a …
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Last night as I was driving home on a sheet of frozen rain I saw some teens hooning it up in some parking lots and woke up this morning to find every big parking lot in town has these perfect donut-shaped burnouts in them. I had to pull over and stop to take this shot …
(I posted this on Mastodon but I might as well share here in the off chance any Googlers still read blogs) It’s utterly bonkers in the year 2022 you can’t embed a YouTube video directly in a Google Doc. Each time I’m working on a draft blog post for a client I take a screenshot …
I love seeing how people do things on the edges of what is possible. In this case, how people make a living off being viral/popular on any social network. Most networks don’t have direct mechanisms to pay users, so instead people have to improvise all sorts of other ways to try and make a living …
My old pal Dinah posted this today: It’s kind of an amazing stat: just 1.5 million solar installs in a state with nearly 40 million people is responsible for 10% of all electricity generated statewide. I can’t read the reference as it is behind a paywall, but that’s an encouraging and incredible stat. For a …
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I just uploaded the newest episode of Stepside, which is our last show of this year plus it’s also our holiday spectacular, aka we didn’t have an agenda or plans and about 3/4ths of the hour is Joel sweating through his next truck purchase, which he’s already been sweating over for a year. I think …
I had no idea the Muppet Christmas Carol movie I’ve probably seen a dozen times over the last 30 years was missing a key scene. It’s covered well in this video: Having watched the video it’s clear the movie makes SO MUCH MORE sense with the scene added. I remember seeing this the first time …
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A few months ago, I read this post by Cory Doctorow about how shitty tech always tends to move upwards from the most marginalized groups to the more privileged and it’s a thought technology that has stuck with me. I’ve rolled it around like a smooth beach pebble in my hand for weeks and weeks …
Said the Gramophone is one of my favorite old school blogs that’s focused on music. I wouldn’t say music is absolutely vital in my life, but I do like to hear new bands and go to shows occasionally, but ever since I left college I basically have no time to keep up on new music. …
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The other day I realized (at least in Oregon) there’s a verified checkmark in real life that’s important, and it’s the one you find on exempt license plates on government vehicles. There’s no way for a civilian to get one, so they’re only found on official cars and trucks. Most often they start with a …
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