In boring normal life doings, the dumb Rider lawn mower is still acting iffy, despite the oil/oil filter change, despite the new battery. I’ve ordered a carburetor/solenoid kit, so hopefully that fixes it. The thing is like ten years old, and parts do wear out. I’ve also got some … | Continue reading
I feel like I am fairly fortunate. So far, I mostly manage to avoid joint pain. I sort of have a knee thing that comes up for like a day every couple of months, but its not terrible and I probably just sat on it funny. I do feel it when I over exert, like recently dealing with wa … | Continue reading
I honestly don’t remember a ton about Y2K other than it was a thing. Its actually a little odd because I have always been into technology so it feels like a subject I would have cared about. But then, maybe knowing about technology helped me to understand the problem.and how fixa … | Continue reading
I am not going to even start trying to understand the goofy naming conventions for this like. There are some smaller Blokees and I think some larger, or at least, fancier ones. I think. Regular Transformers are not that better about long goofy names though either. Anyway, Blokees … | Continue reading
I am not really a “fashion person” at least I don’t think, and I kind of though, “I have no idea what 2000s fashion even is”. But then I did some image searches and it turns out I do know what 2000s fashion is, because in typical fashion, I have apparently not really evolved much … | Continue reading
Hey look, another post that was vaguely pre teased by the MS Paint post. Mixtapes! Sure, I had CDs when I was making mix tapes, but my old Isuzu Trooper only had a cassette deck. Come to think of it, the Mustang I had after only had a cassette deck too. I had a silly tape adapter … | Continue reading
So, I suspect, and hope, that this is just going to become a regular rotating event, especially since the Droid Dex now lists a Mister Bones Mythic as well. Basically, every few hours, there is “some kind of event”. Because if not, its been horribly done. So, Droid Tycoon is well … | Continue reading
Off the top of my head, I can’t even come up with a 90s cartoon, though I am sure I watched them. The 90s were much more of my whole “wannabe weeb” phase, which I mentioned during my VHS post of this little series. Inspired to some extend by the SciFi Channel’s Saturday Anime ser … | Continue reading
Putting the C in NIS Edition, or something. Last week I think I mentioned maybe going to a local music expo thing. I almost didn’t, but decided to check it out a bit that evening. The girls were working at the shop, so why not. It was… interesting, but kind of dull by myself. The … | Continue reading
I kind of thought about doing a srs bns joke where I go into the mechanics of how torrents work. Or maybe one where I just talk about heavy rainfalls and how much I dislike them versus nice light showers. But that seemed silly, and boring, so instead I will just, sort of follow t … | Continue reading
I kind of basically already wrote about my cats a few years ago during Blaugust. Not much has changed, really. I suppose instead I could just give a more general, state of the pets address. The sad update, Scarlett is no longer with us. She had been dealing with kitty diabetes fo … | Continue reading
Or, I did four months of Duolingo Chess so you don’t have to. I have a long ass streak on Duolingo. This involves doing it, every day. Am I learning? Mi español es un poco bueno, posiblemente…o posiblemente no. But I am not here today to discuss Spanish, I am here to talk Chess. … | Continue reading
Its Day 6! Also PS, I am still pre writing these out. Just, in the groove, pounding silly nonsense while the muse is here. Today’s topic is MS Paint. The simple drawing program included with Windows. A program I used to use to make labels for VHS tapes in. Among other things. Eve … | Continue reading
Oh boy, a topic I actually can talk about! VHS tapes. I had a pretty big VHS obsession going on in the 90s, both purchased tapes and recorded tapes. Hell it may have indirectly had an influence on why I work sort of indirectly with TV these days. It definitely is partly responsib … | Continue reading
If I had very little to say about Digital Pets, I have even less to say about Glow in the Dark stars. Because I never had that in any way that impacted me to even think about it. I could instead write about Sailor Moon Fan Sites, but that’s just a weird meme thread I decided to r … | Continue reading
Welcome to Day 3, the topic today is of course Sailor Moon Fansites. Or maybe its “Unprecedented times.” I think there is probably a meme for this somewhere. Oh wait, here it is. Aside from the “before 40” bit. Because technically I am like, right on the edge of Millennial and Ge … | Continue reading
Weee, what a pain of a week, literally. On Monday it rained, not long, but very heavy. We have had small water events in the basement, but it mostly just runs to the floor drain in the less finished half and maybe I have to throw down some towels on the more finished half. This r … | Continue reading
Day two of this month long writing challenge, how long shall I last?! Actually, this one could maybe be short. Because its “Digital Pets.”. I was never really into Digital Pets, I guess? I had a Digimon Digivice, but I don’t think I ever had a real Tamagotchi. On the other hand, … | Continue reading
Today’s topic, 90s Websites. I can, definitely attest to this one, I spent a lot of the 90s online. Hell, I have spent a lot of my life online. But I also ran some 90s websites. Back before wordpress and social media and micro-posting. There was not even a place to share. We didn … | Continue reading
Get ready for a month of daily posts! Seriously, I have already written all most some of them. I came across this random Bluesky Skeet that was reposted by someone I follow. All of the topics seemed pretty doable and maybe interesting. Also, depending on how you slice it, I am te … | Continue reading
Early this year, Hasbro started a collab line with the NFL. A line of football helmets that transform into football player styled robots. That’s “American Football”, in case the MFL part didn’t make that obvious, though they also recently announced a similar line for Non-American … | Continue reading
I’m not sure what makes for a “good choice” for a Fortnite music collaboration, but I can say Laufey feels like a very different choice for sure. Like Metallica, sure, Lady Gaga, ok, sure, she’s got that crazy style and all going, Karol G, uh… sure, Gorillaz, absolutely, Sabrina … | Continue reading
Its an exciting week, as people keep mentioning, in the US, it was April 15th, which is known to all, far and wide as… my wedding anniversary. It was a big one, 20 years. We… didn’t really do anything, for a variety of reasons, mostly just, she doesn’t do well going out to eat or … | Continue reading
Welcome to my reviewish write up on the debute album Come Closer from Tomora. Tomora is a joint side project from Tom Rowlands of the Chemical Brothers and Aurora. The name is a portmanteau of their names, Tom-(Aur)ora, Tomora. It features a lot of vocals from Aurora, but its muc … | Continue reading
I want to just preface this review/commentary, right up front, that this game is no longer available on Steam. I have no idea about any other platforms or physical releases. Also probably notable, I have only watched maybe 2 episodes of Star Trek Prodigy, and I don’t remeber them … | Continue reading
I had an amusing moment with Amazon. And it happened again earlier today. I was ordering my Omeprazole, and it says it will come tomorrow. OR, for $3 more, it will come tomorrow. I had a previous order already coming, but it seems the shipping times were not related because I mad … | Continue reading
As I post this Season 3 follow up to my Season 1 and 2 Stranger New Worlds post, I want to take a moment to make no one noticed I forgot to do the same for Season 5 of Lower Decks. No one noticed right, thought so. Anyway, this one has been out for a bit and I only just got aroun … | Continue reading
I didn’t feel like I had anything to write about this week, but I kind of do, not that anyone really cares either way. Music I was killing time the other day while my daughter was at an appointment and went in the Salvation Army store nearby. I got a bit lucky I think because the … | Continue reading
So, I mentioned at the end of my Aurora in Roblox post, I wanted to try some other, hopefully better maps. After skimming the list, I decided on this, Sonic the Hedgehog themed map. Also, I think they are called Obbys for some reason. Anyway, it looked better than a lot of the ot … | Continue reading
I’ve tried a few times to sort of, understand Roblox. It reminds me of Fortnite, which I like, and it’s sort of a virtual world, which I enjoy, so it feels like I could at least be able to be into Roblox a little. I think a lot of my hangup with it has been that the avatar custom … | Continue reading
Its the end of the season, which kind of stinks because it means I am out of new Trek. I suppose I could watch some old Trek. I have never watched Enterprise before, maybe I’ll look into that. S01E08 – The Life of the Stars The previous SAM centered episode was decent, but kind o … | Continue reading
Nothing special or exciting going this week, just the usual hobby nonsense. Video Games I have been looking for a more entertaining mobile game lately, the key being, it needs to be something I will actually play. I have a bad habit of “This looks meat” installing things, then no … | Continue reading
On the last episode of TWIT, Harry McCracken, a fairly regular panelist and The Technologizer, was a guest and mentioned he had used Claude Code to update an old game he had made in BASIC as a web version using Claude Code. He wrote about it here. Anyway, It gave me the idea of b … | Continue reading
I have to say up front, I have never watched this show at all. I do have several of the toys from it, but I have no idea what the show is like or how these characters act here compared to the show. That said, IMDB tells me all of the voice cast is different anyway. Also, from wha … | Continue reading
Lets go ya’ll. Music Yesterday was hashtag Bandcamp Friday again. I squeezed out a bit for a bit. Hayley Williams has a new band, Power Snatch, that released an EP a few weeks ago. I picked it up. I saw another blogger mention these remix soundtracks of Chrono Trigger and Super M … | Continue reading
Welcome to part 2 of a series of posts where I haphazardly ramble on about Star Trek Starfleet Academy. This week covers episodes 5 through 7. It was going to go through episode 8 but it turns out there are only 10 episodes in the season, and the numbers work out better if I chop … | Continue reading
Yeah its been a hot minute, whatever. Lets do some catch up. Maybe I will secretly slip those old posts in as if they were always there at some point. In general life stuff, I had a fun Valentine’s day going to a local Ice sculpting show. I should throw together a gallery for tha … | Continue reading
I have made it pretty deep into this game now, though it has no real goal or end game, and I thought it might be worth sharing some random things I have picked up that were not necessarily obvious, or I missed because, like a lot of folks, I mostly skip tutorials. Basically, some … | Continue reading
I wrote a whole post on this show before watching it that I never bothered posting. It was basically, “People are bitching about the show without watching it, so I will “not bitch”… “anti-bitch”? … whatever, about the show, without watching it. In the end, it felt like pointless … | Continue reading
Is Marvel even still relevant anymore? They keep throwing out random shows like they are. Its not really clear where, if anywhere, Wonder Man fits in the “big picture”, he may even just be a random one off since this show is branded Marvel Spotlight. Werewolf By Night was also a … | Continue reading
I’ve picked up yet another “Cozy Game”, because this is apparently my nee favorite game genre. Palia, Infinity Nikki, Animal Crossing Pocket, probably a few others I have forgotten. Funny enough, despite several attempts, I can’t get into the big name game of this genre, Stardew … | Continue reading
Claude is pretty great for creating code, but sometimes you have to actually look at the code. I have blogged quite frequently about my Microblog project. It started as a simple script that just ran on a timer with a manually filled queue, then it pulled from my shared RSS reader … | Continue reading
McDonald’s has recently brought back Changeables to it’s Happy Meal toy line up. This is technically the 4th set of these with the previous sets being released in 1987, 1989, and 1990. So, thirty five years ago. Seeing as these are technically Transformers, they are popular with … | Continue reading
Part of the point of these dumb little entries is to be a bit motivating to you know, actually at least pretend to give a shit about things. But Jesus fuck its hard these days. I mean, have you seen the state of, just everything. Ten days into 2026 and the fucking gestapo thugs a … | Continue reading
I had a little unexpected project recently with my car. And one that went better than fixing the window, which just failed and resulted in a returned part and a window that no longer functions. I was adjusting the blower setting on the air conditioner and there was a stiff turn b … | Continue reading
I was a bit skeptical on Max Battles at first, but I find now, I really like them. They feel like raids with better mechanics, and they are just more interactive than just, throwing a ball. The design also feels right enough that the proper team make up can seriously make or brea … | Continue reading
Ok, lets start the new year off running, so I can sputter out in a day in classic fashion. This year is going to be great. Right? Right? … Ok, its, very very likely going to be terrible. I had a fairly productive Saturday today, I swapped out the ancient bathroom fan for a nicer, … | Continue reading
Its that time of year, when everything rolls over and everyone does wrap up and summary posts. I have done my music wrap up every year for a while now. I did it monthly for a bit but it didn’t change enough to be interesting to write about. Hell, it honestly doesn’t change much t … | Continue reading