When I was 8, I was playing skee ball at an arcade. I had $2 in quarters in a small cup on the railing while I played.

Another kid and his brother came by and started talking to me. While the one kid distracted me, the other stole my cup. Once I realized what happened my older brother and I flagged the security guard. We found the kids holding the same cup (pretty distinctive because it came from another spot on the boardwalk) with exactly $2 in it.

The security guard couldn’t do anything because I didn’t actually see them take it. I still remember the kids grin when he realized he got away with it.

$2 30+ years later and I’m still tilted about it. That one interaction warped my view of people my entire life.

This is what worked for me. I never saw the appeal until I started seasoning it with other things. I’ll put a thin layer of avo, salt, lime, garlic powder, paprika on sandwiches instead of mayo and it’s incredible.

And a user replaceable battery!

Installed a package from an opensource repo

Better Off Ted ended way too soon

That only lasts so long. My kids do their own thing, I do my own thing, and we do things together. I love hanging out with them and enjoying our shared interests. I know someday they won’t want to/be able to spend that time together, so I take advantage while I can.

Modern corpo playbook.

1. Go too far with something wildly unpopular on purpose
2. Everyone complains
3. Dial it back slightly
4. “We won!”

Bug-a-salt is the key. It’s especially satisfying when you snipe one out of the air.

Just saw Clicks launched a new phone with Niagara launcher as the default. Physical keyboard, expandable storage and a headphone jack too.

I play so much Balatro considering I barely know what I’m doing.

Nintendo is a blight on this earth and must be abolished.

Awesome!

… we’ll never hear about this again.

Not a farm, but I’d like to open a coffee shop or bistro type place someday. The kind of place where people in my neighborhood can meet up to chat and grab a really good sandwich, not just stare at their laptops.

It was cancelled after season 2. They never got to reveal who the father was.

Only if you have a work visa. Don’t want foreigners stealing crow work.

At least in the case of my phone I had to put 11 back on to unlock the bootloader because OnePlus removed the ability to do it in their version of 12. Screw those guys.

Straight from the playbook. Announce something terrible, then back off with something bad. Everyone calls it a win.

See: Wizards if the Coast, Unity

I really like when British people impersonate an American accent.

I give small monthly donations to three things:

• Wikipedia
• EFF
• Internet Archive

I kinda miss my BlackBerry.